First fast reactor fuel safety tests in decades carried out at INL
Friday, 14 March 2025 TREAT: INL says the tests are the first of their kind anywhere in the world in over 20 years (Image: INL) Transient tests on a high-burnup…
Newcleo plans fuel development centre
Friday, 14 March 2025 (Image: Pininfarina) Newcleo said the FASTER (Fuel process Assembly Storage Training and Enhanced Reality) centre, which will not store or handle any radioactive materials, will play…
Laser-based fusion plant planned for Biblis site
Friday, 14 March 2025 (Image: Hessian State Chancellery) The MoU was signed on 13 March by the Hessian state government under the leadership of Minister-President Boris Rhein, Minister of Economic…
Posiva completes backfilling trial run at repository
Friday, 14 March 2025 The tunnel filling installation system (Image: Posiva) At the repository, used fuel will be placed in the bedrock, at a depth of about 430 metres. The…
Ukraine’s president signs law to facilitate the purchase of Belene equipment
Friday, 14 March 2025 The Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant. Only units 1 and 2 (left) are completed and in operation (Image: Energoatom) Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, backed the plan last…
INB signs contract with Internexco GmbH for conversion and enrichment of uranium
Friday, 14 March 2025 (Image: INB) An international tender was held for the contract, with the lowest price being the judgement criteria, subject to technical prerequisites being met, with Indústrias Nucleares…
Grid connections in Turkey and Bangladesh among Rosatom’s 2025 priorities
Thursday, 13 March 2025 (Image: Rosatom) In a speech in Sarov during a Rosatom information day, Alexei Likhachev said that in nuclear energy, the goal was to fulfil the national plan…
Orano, Navoiyuran agree to develop Uzbek project
Thursday, 13 March 2025 Navoiyuran produces around 7% of the world’s uranium (Image: Navoiyuran) According to the agreement signed by French nuclear materials group Orano and state-owned Uzbek uranium producer…
Start-up marks Alta Mesa acceleration
Thursday, 13 March 2025 The Alta Mesa central processing plant (Image: enCore) In-situ recovery – also known as in-situ leach – uranium operations use ion exchange (IX) circuits to collect…
Polish companies keen to participate in nuclear projects
Thursday, 13 March 2025 (Image: PIE) The survey – which the Polish Economic Institute (Polski Instytut Ekonomiczny, PIE) carried out in partnership with Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowych (PEJ) and the National…
