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Uranium Project
Niger to Nationalize Somair Uranium Venture Operated by France’s Orano
On Thursday, Niger’s government revealed plans to nationalize the Somair uranium joint venture, previously operated by French nuclear fuels company Orano,…
Uranium Project
Orano Begins Production of LEU+ Transport Cylinders
Orano, a global nuclear energy company, announced the start of serial production for ten 30B-10 cylinders designed to transport uranium hexafluoride enriched up…
Uranium Project
EU Funding for French Enrichment Plant Expansion
The European Investment Bank and Orano have signed a loan agreement for EUR400 million (USD434 million) to partly fund the project to extend the Georges Besse I…
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
French-Japanese MOX Fuel Recycling Studies Expanded
A MOX fuel assemblyJapan's Federation of Electric Power Companies has announced that a total of 400 tonnes of used nuclear fuel, instead of the originally p…
Mongolia
Mongolia Reaches Deal for $1.6 Billion Uranium Mine With France’s Orano
Mongolia said on Friday it had reached a preliminary agreement with France’s Orano Mining Group to develop a long-anticipated uranium mining project worth…
Uranium Project
Orano Seeks Arbitration Over Niger Mining Licence
The French company has opened international arbitration proceedings against the State of Niger following the withdrawal of its mining licence for the Imouraren …
Nuclear Fuel
Orano Signs Japanese MOX Fuel Contracts
MOX fuel assembly (Credit: MHI)The Orano group has signed two mixed oxide (MOX) fuel manufacturing contracts with the Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries …
SMR
Niger Seizes Control Of Somaïr Uranium Mine
France’s Orano has said that the Nigerien authorities have taken operational control of the Somaïr uranium mining company in which which it is the ma…
Nuclear Reactor
Orano Contracted To Make Mox Fuel For Japanese Reactors
France's Orano has signed two mixed-oxide fuel manufacturing contracts with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for a total of 64 MOX fuel assemblies fo…
Metal
Nigerien Authorities In Control Of Somaïr Operations - Orano
The French company, said it has "for several months" been warning of "interference" that the group has been suffering in the governance of SOMAÏR, of which…
Nuclear Equipment
Orano Completes Repatriation Of Waste To Germany
The 13th and final rail shipment carrying vitrified high-level nuclear waste (HLW) has reached the site of Germany’s intermediate storage facility in Phil…
Nuclear waste
Orano Completes Return Of Nuclear Waste To Germany
Between 1977 and 1991, contracts for the treatment of used fuel were signed by Orano with German utilities EnBW, PreussenElektra, RWE and Vattenfall.These contr…
Nuclear Technology
Orano Starts Construction Of Thorium-228 Facility
Orano subsidiary Orano Med has laid the foundations for its Advanced Thorium Extraction Facility plant in Bessines-sur-Gartempe in Haute-Vienne, western France.…
Nuclear Reactor
Orano Prioritises Niger Employees As Financial Situation Worsens
Days after Mining Minister Ousmane Abarchi said that Niger was actively seeking to attract Russian investment in natural resources including uranium, Orano has …
Nuclear Reactor
US Awards Contracts to Process HALEU Fuel for High-Tech Reactors
An employee walks near used nuclear fuel in a storage pool at the Orano nuclear waste reprocessing plant in La Hague, near Cherbourg, France, January 17, 2023. …

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Niger to Nationalize Somair Uranium Venture Operated by France’s Orano

Orano Begins Production of LEU+ Transport Cylinders

EU Funding for French Enrichment Plant Expansion

French-Japanese MOX Fuel Recycling Studies Expanded

Mongolia Reaches Deal for $1.6 Billion Uranium Mine With France’s Orano

Orano Seeks Arbitration Over Niger Mining Licence

Orano Signs Japanese MOX Fuel Contracts

Niger Seizes Control Of Somaïr Uranium Mine

Orano Contracted To Make Mox Fuel For Japanese Reactors

Nigerien Authorities In Control Of Somaïr Operations - Orano

Orano Completes Repatriation Of Waste To Germany

Orano Completes Return Of Nuclear Waste To Germany

Orano Starts Construction Of Thorium-228 Facility

Orano Prioritises Niger Employees As Financial Situation Worsens

US Awards Contracts to Process HALEU Fuel for High-Tech Reactors