Civilian nuclear industry Category

Jun 03, 2013: Switzerland's 2012 plutonium holdings

May 24, 2013: Enrichment plant in Paducah to close

May 13, 2013: Japan's nuclear regulator to suspend Monju reactor

Apr 26, 2013: Areva to build reprocessing plant in China

Apr 25, 2013: Rokkasho reprocessing plant unlikely to start before 2014

Apr 23, 2013: Civilian plutonium swap increased the amount of UK owned plutonium

Mar 29, 2013: Areva launches commercial production at Georges Besse II North enrichment plant

Jan 14, 2013: U.S. Department of Energy sets strategy for dealing with spent fuel

Nov 23, 2012: Russia declares its 2011 civilian plutonium holdings

Nov 13, 2012: Civilian plutonium in Belgium in 2011

Oct 30, 2012: United States declares its 2011 non-military plutonium stock

Oct 29, 2012: Russia launches HEU production line

Oct 29, 2012: Germany declares its 2011 plutonium and HEU stocks

Oct 03, 2012: Japan's 2011 civilian plutonium declaration

Oct 03, 2012: No changes in China's civilian plutonium in 2011

Sep 25, 2012: U.S. regulators issue license to GE-Hitachi for laser enrichment plant

Aug 09, 2012: UK civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011

Aug 09, 2012: French civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011

Aug 09, 2012: Switzerland declares civilian plutonium holdings for 2011

Jul 13, 2012: United Kingdom takes ownership of German plutonium in title swap

Jun 27, 2012: United Kingdom to explore alternatives to use of MOX in light-water reactors

Jun 07, 2012: U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority publishes oxide fuel strategy

Jun 07, 2012: Georges Besse enrichment plant ceases production

May 20, 2012: Kazakhstan offers Ulba as a site for IAEA fuel bank

Feb 24, 2012: United Kingdom to look at alternatives to MOX

Feb 06, 2012: India's prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) to go critical early 2013

Jan 31, 2012: Another malfunction at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant

Jan 26, 2012: Blue Ribbon Commission released its final report

Jan 18, 2012: Russia commissions dry storage facility in Zheleznogorsk

Jan 03, 2012: Japan starts operating new centrifuges

Jan 02, 2012: Japanese mislead about spent fuel reprocessing costs

Dec 19, 2011: Belgian-Chinese MOX deal is put on hold

Dec 02, 2011: United Kingdom plans to convert its civilian plutonium to MOX

Nov 26, 2011: Some details of India's nuclear program

Nov 14, 2011: Russia's civilian plutonium in 2010

Oct 17, 2011: Mongolia ends discussions of spent fuel storage

Oct 12, 2011: Japan's civilian plutonium holdings in 2010

Oct 11, 2011: Belgium declares is 2010 plutonium holdings

Oct 11, 2011: France declares its 2010 civilian plutonium and HEU stocks

Sep 26, 2011: International Panel on Fissile Materials releases report on management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors

Sep 20, 2011: Switzerland's civilian plutonium in 2010

Sep 20, 2011: U.S. non-military plutonium in 2010

Aug 18, 2011: United States announces details of the American Assured Fuel Supply

Aug 03, 2011: Closure of Sellafield MOX Plant Announced

Aug 02, 2011: High-level waste shipments from Sellafield to Japan continue

Jul 29, 2011: Draft report of the Blue Ribbon Commission

Jul 26, 2011: New Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines for the export of sensitive technologies

Jul 21, 2011: China's experimental fast reactor connected to the grid

Jul 20, 2011: Details of the plan to store spent fuel in Mongolia

Jul 15, 2011: Japan considers shutting down Monju fast-breeder reactor

Jul 11, 2011: Germany plutonium and HEU stocks in 2010

Jul 08, 2011: China declares first separated civilian plutonium

Jun 28, 2011: United Kingdom declares civilian plutonium and HEU holdings in 2010

Jun 11, 2011: Power outage damaged six centrifuges at USEC plant

May 10, 2011: Conflicting reports about spent fuel disposal in Mongolia

May 10, 2011: Russia begins shipments of Mo-99 to Iran

May 09, 2011: Questions raised about safety of the U.S. MOX plant

Apr 20, 2011: Rosatom confirms it will not bring foreign-origin spent fuel to Russia

Apr 11, 2011: U.S. MOX program wanted relaxed security at the weapon-grade plutonium facility

Apr 04, 2011: New Russian-built enrichment plant in China begins operations

Mar 23, 2011: Tenex and USEC sign LEU supply contract, discuss enrichment facility in the U.S.

Mar 15, 2011: Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I

Mar 10, 2011: U.S. plutonium disposition program: Uncertainties of the MOX route

Feb 25, 2011: Sellafield radioactive discharges: Breach of international convention in normal operation

Feb 22, 2011: Japan shuts down last centrifuge cascade in Rokkasho

Feb 11, 2011: Sellafield Product & Residue Store received first batch of plutonium

Feb 10, 2011: Plutonium to MOX: "Repeating Mistakes of the Past"

Feb 10, 2011: UK Separated Plutonium Management - A New Sellafield MOX Plant?

Jan 19, 2011: South Africa considers joining the Angarsk center

Jan 12, 2011: Reprocessing in China: Separating fact from fiction

Jan 11, 2011: U.S.-Russian 123 agreement enters into force

Jan 10, 2011: China declared no civilian plutonium in 2008 and 2009

Jan 06, 2011: India starts new unsafeguarded reprocessing plant

Jan 06, 2011: Cadarache: Waste drums with plutonium content way off-limit

Dec 27, 2010: NRC issues safety report for Savannah River MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility

Dec 22, 2010: U.S. non-military plutonium in 2009

Dec 21, 2010: Successful hot test of China's pilot reprocessing plant

Dec 17, 2010: Monju reactor is unlikely to start until 2014

Dec 14, 2010: Areva inaugurates the Georges Besse II enrichment plant

Dec 09, 2010: U.S.-Russian 123 agreement on nuclear cooperation passes U.S. Congress

Dec 03, 2010: IAEA approves NTI-supported fuel bank

Dec 01, 2010: Russia created nuclear fuel reserve

Nov 29, 2010: Further delay for India's breeder reactor

Nov 17, 2010: Spent fuel of the BN-350 reactor moved to secure storage

Nov 05, 2010: Germany declared its 2009 plutonium and HEU holdings

Nov 04, 2010: Japanese utilities increase their stake in Georges Besse II enrichment plant

Oct 29, 2010: Mongolia to join the International Uranium Enrichment Center

Oct 25, 2010: Argentina reopens its Pilcaniyeu uranium enrichment plant

Oct 25, 2010: China is believed to operate indigenous enrichment plant

Oct 11, 2010: Future supply of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons in doubt

Oct 07, 2010: Belgium authorities and French GDF-Suez set for MOX fuel technology transfer to China

Oct 06, 2010: Japan's civilian plutonium stock as of December 2009

Oct 05, 2010: Ukraine is a full member of the International Uranium Enrichment Center

Sep 30, 2010: Russia will build enrichment plant in China ahead of schedule

Sep 13, 2010: Belgium declares its 2009 civilian plutonium stock

Sep 09, 2010: Rokkasho plant extracted no plutonium in 2009

Sep 08, 2010: Less than 4% of French nuclear fuel "recycled", NGOs calculate

Sep 08, 2010: Fuel "recycling" a myth, a French report involuntarily demonstrates

Sep 08, 2010: Report: Long-term plans to develop an FBR based plutonium economy in France is not demonstrated

Sep 08, 2010: France: Official plan admits problems with management of uranium and plutonium

Sep 08, 2010: France's 2009 declaration of civilian plutonium and HEU

Sep 03, 2010: Accident at the Monju fast breeder reactor

Sep 01, 2010: Another delay for Rokkasho reprocessing plant

Aug 30, 2010: Rosatom set to manufacture MOX fuel at Zheleznogorsk

Aug 24, 2010: Rosatom may build an enrichment facility in the United States

Aug 23, 2010: Third reactor in Japan to use MOX fuel

Aug 20, 2010: Los Alamos repackages Russian-origin plutonium-238

Aug 16, 2010: United Kingdom's declaration of civilian plutonium and HEU in 2009

Aug 16, 2010: Russia's civilian plutonium in 2009

Jul 30, 2010: United States and India sign an agreement on reprocessing

Jul 21, 2010: China's experimental fast reactor went critical

Jun 29, 2010: URENCO begins enrichment in the United States

Jun 11, 2010: BN-600 license may be extended to 2025

Jun 09, 2010: Plans to expand enrichment at Angarsk put on hold

Jun 02, 2010: It's time to give up on breeder reactors

May 29, 2010: End of reprocessed uranium exports to Russia?

May 26, 2010: Switzerland's civilian plutonium in 2009

May 21, 2010: U.K. opens storage facility at Sellafield

May 10, 2010: U.S.-Russian 123 agreement on nuclear cooperation resubmitted to Congress

May 09, 2010: Japanese fast breeder reactor Monju restarted after 14-year shutdown

Apr 28, 2010: Japanese daily Asahi slams breeder reactors

Apr 16, 2010: UK begins return of high-level waste to foreign customers amid uncertainty about its own plutonium

Apr 10, 2010: BN-600 fast reactor to operate until 2020

Mar 29, 2010: AREVA signs MOX fuel fabrication contract with Japanese utility

Mar 29, 2010: IAEA and Russia signed a fuel bank agreement

Mar 23, 2010: U.S. civilian plutonium in 2008

Mar 16, 2010: USEC began operations of a lead cascade at American Centrifuge Plant

Mar 15, 2010: Japan outlines plans for use of plutonium in its 2010 research program

Mar 02, 2010: Status of Japan's MOX fuel program

Feb 22, 2010: A French documentary on nuclear waste

Feb 18, 2010: Poor safety record at Sellafield plutonium facilities

Feb 17, 2010: History and status of fast breeder reactor programs worldwide

Feb 14, 2010: India's first fast breeder reactor delayed

Feb 06, 2010: Civilian plutonium stocks in France 1994-2008

Feb 05, 2010: Tritium production and recovery in the United States in FY2011

Jan 29, 2010: Blue Ribbon Commission will examine fuel cycle

Jan 25, 2010: URENCO outlines expansion plans

Jan 22, 2010: Uranium gas leak at enrichment facility in Germany

Jan 21, 2010: BN-800 expected to begin operations in 2014

Jan 21, 2010: Improvements of the MPC&A system at Mayak

Jan 19, 2010: Ellen Tauscher outlines U.S. policies on nuclear fuel cycle

Jan 14, 2010: Nuclear cooperation agreement between France and India enters into force

Jan 13, 2010: Ukraine is finally joining the Angarsk center

Dec 21, 2009: French Prime Minister offers reprocessing technology to China

Dec 11, 2009: Repair work completed on waste disposal site at La Hague

Dec 04, 2009: French nuclear cooperation with India to cover reprocessing

Nov 27, 2009: IAEA approves Russian fuel bank proposal

Nov 22, 2009: Large discrepancy in amount of plutonium at shutdown French MOX plant

Nov 01, 2009: Euratom Supply Agency 2008 annual report details use of plutonium

Sep 28, 2009: Expansion of enrichment capacity in Angarsk

Jul 06, 2009: Moscow summit yields little visible progress on nuclear cooperation

Jun 03, 2009: Rosatom signs another fuel contract in U.S.

May 26, 2009: Russia in talks about centrifuge plant in the U.S.?

May 26, 2009: Russia will sell enrichment services directly to U.S. utilities

May 04, 2009: Russia ships centrifuges to China

Apr 01, 2009: Obama-Medvedev statement notes civil HEU minimization, 123 agreement

Mar 06, 2009: Kuwait pledges 10 million to NTI fuel bank

Mar 03, 2009: IAEA approves India's additional protocol

Feb 27, 2009: The end of Yucca Mountain

Feb 27, 2009: Ukraine signs fuel supply contract with TVEL

Feb 25, 2009: Iran says it's still interested in Angarsk IUEC

Feb 24, 2009: Rosatom floating reactors plans

Feb 19, 2009: IAEA reports on Iran and Syria

Feb 17, 2009: Russia signs nuclear agreement with Mongolia

Feb 14, 2009: Cooperation on shared nuclear waste repository in Europe

Feb 11, 2009: Launch of Rokkasho plant delayed

Feb 11, 2009: TVEL will supply fuel pellets to India

Feb 10, 2009: Ukraine is joining Angarsk center

Feb 08, 2009: Areva to supply reactors, fuel, and uranium to India

Feb 06, 2009: Financing problems at the American Centrifuge Plant

Feb 05, 2009: GLE begins licensing process

Feb 05, 2009: Bushehr start date is uncertain

Feb 03, 2009: Areva to supply enrichment services to EdF

Feb 02, 2009: Large spent fuel repository planned for Krasnoyarsk region

Feb 02, 2009: India signs safeguards agreement

Jan 29, 2009: MOX fuel shipment to Japan prepared

Jan 26, 2009: U.S. Supreme Court rules that enriched uranium is "goods"

Jan 16, 2009: Enrichment plant in Resende to begin operations

Sep 08, 2008: U.S. withdraws 123 agreement with Russia from Congress

Sep 06, 2008: NSG approves nuclear trade with India

Sep 04, 2008: Bushehr reactor will not start in 2008

Sep 04, 2008: Rosatom plans for Zheleznogorsk

Sep 03, 2008: USEC American Centrifuge Plant to cost $3.5 billion

Aug 29, 2008: Construction of spent fuel storage facility in Zheleznogorsk to resume

Aug 28, 2008: 123 agreement in danger

Aug 27, 2008: No centrifuge safeguards in Angarsk

Aug 27, 2008: Rosatom took control over nuclear icebreakers

Aug 20, 2008: Ukraine considers fuel fabrication

Aug 07, 2008: UAE supports NTI fuel bank

Aug 05, 2008: MOX fuel controversy

Aug 04, 2008: U.S. donates $50 million to fuel bank

Jul 29, 2008: Massive subsidy to Rosatom

Jul 02, 2008: Mayak plans expansion of reprocessing

Jun 30, 2008: Mayak wants to build a MOX fabrication plant

Jun 26, 2008: Kudankulam fuel shipments completed

Jun 23, 2008: Cameco joins the Silex project

May 25, 2008: Areva signs contract to build MOX fuel fabrication facility

May 23, 2008: Russia and China sign enrichment deal

May 21, 2008: Accelerated downblending: Domenici amendment

May 13, 2008: U.S.-Russian agreement on nuclear cooperation

May 10, 2008: AREVA will build an enrichment plant in Idaho

Apr 30, 2008: GE-Hitachi plans to build a Silex plant in U.S.

Apr 19, 2008: Failure of GNEP strategy

Apr 16, 2008: Japan is cautious about Angarsk

Mar 31, 2008: Ukraine fuel supply between TVEL and Westinghouse

Mar 30, 2008: Ukraine is holding back its spent fuel due to raising cost

Mar 16, 2008: Russia will continue supplying centrifuges to China

Mar 11, 2008: Russia may build a centrifuge plant in the U.S.?

Mar 02, 2008: Ukraine tries to diversify fuel supply

Mar 01, 2008: U.S.-Russian agreement on nuclear cooperation stalled

Feb 28, 2008: Norway pledges $5 million to a fuel bank

Feb 12, 2008: Russian-Indian agreement on Kudankulam

Feb 06, 2008: Armenia joins Angarsk center

Feb 06, 2008: Angarsk will be under IAEA safeguards

Feb 01, 2008: Russia and the United States signed a uranium agreement

Jan 30, 2008: Ukraine to create fuel reserve

Jan 28, 2008: U.S. and Russia to sign a uranium enrichment deal

Jan 28, 2008: Russia delivers fuel for the Bushehr plant in Iran

Jan 27, 2008: Ukraine is building spent fuel storage facility

Jan 24, 2008: Russia raises the cost of spent fuel takeback

Jan 24, 2008: Price of Russian fuel for Ukraine

Jan 15, 2008: China wants reprocessing technology from France

Dec 16, 2007: Russia begins shipment of fuel to Iran

Nov 19, 2007: U.S.-Russian agreement on plutonium disposal