Nuclear fuel

Nuclear Fuel

Westinghouse Accident Tolerant Fuel in US Licensing ‘First'

In a first for the USA, the country's nuclear regulator has approved an increase in the burnup limit for Westinghouse's Encore accident tolerant fuel de…

Uranium Project

Agency Sees Progress and Challenges for EU Fuel Supply Chain

Deliveries of natural uranium and other nuclear services to the EU, including imports from Russia, increased in 2023 as utilities continued to diversify their s…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Heysham 2 Nuclear Plant to Support Hydrogen Production for Zero-Emission Asphalt

Heysham 2 power station. (Credit: EDF Energy)Nuclear fuelled industry is coming a step closer to reality with a project that will supply hydrogen to an asphalt …

Nuclear Technology

Oklo Signs Preferred Supplier Agreement With Siemens Energy

The Oklo team in discussion with Siemens Energy on the industrial steam turbine at Siemens Energy’s Houston office. Credit: Oklo / Business Wire.Oklo, a U…

Nuclear Fuel

Westinghouse Starts Production of Adopt Fuel Pellets

Westinghouse has produced the first of its nuclear fuel pellets that contain higher enrichment levels than what is currently used in commercial reactors. The Lo…

Nuclear waste

Lithuania Narrows Search for Repository Site

Lithuania has identified 77 potential locations for its planned geological repository for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. A final decision o…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Rosatom Starts Implementation of Fuel Supply Contract to India for Kudankulam Units 3 and 4

ROSATOM starts implementation of fuel supply contract to India for Kudankulam units 3 and 4. (Credit: The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM.)TVEL Fuel Com…

Nuclear Fuel

Framatome to Supply Fuel for Slovak VVER Reactors

Slovak utility Slovenské elektrárne has signed a contract with France's Framatome for the long-term supply of nuclear fuel to the VVER-440 rea…

Nuclear Fuel

BWXT Considers Locating Triso Plant in Wyoming

BWX Technologies Inc has signed a cooperation agreement with the Wyoming Energy Authority to evaluate locations for a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel productio…

Nuclear Fuel

VVER Fuel Reliable in Flexible Power Output Tests, Says Rosatom

Experiments to test the impact of load following on VVER-1200 fuel show it "did not have a significant impact on its main characteristics", Russia's nuclear…

Nuclear Fuel

Dummy Fuel Loaded Into First New Unit at Kursk II

Preparations for testing of the reactor plant equipment at the new VVER-TOI reactor at Kursk II nuclear power plant continue with the loading of simulated fuel …

Nuclear waste

Canadian Town Declares Willingness to Host Repository

The Township of Ignace in north-western Ontario has become the first community to confirm its willingness to move forward to the next phase of the site selectio…

Nuclear Technology

Fuel Assemblies With 3D-Printed Bottom Nozzles Tested

Four lead test assemblies supplied by Westinghouse featuring 3D-printed bottom nozzles have been used at Southern Nuclear's Farley nuclear power plant in Al…

Nuclear Fuel

US to Start Buying up to $2.7 Billion in Domestic Nuclear Reactor Fuel

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm speaks during an interview with Reuters in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Douglas/File Photo Purc…

Nuclear Equipment

Manufacture of Onkalo Buffer Installation System Completed

The system that will be used to transport and install the bentonite filling between disposal capsules and the bedrock within Finland's planned underground u…