Archive: Civilian nuclear industry

  1. Spent fuel reprocessing at Mayak in 2024
  2. UK calls the plan to build nuclear waste storage facility "unachievable"
  3. General Matter leases a site in Paducah from the Department of Energy
  4. Reprocessing line in Zheleznogorsk begins operations
  5. Russia produced first 10th-generation centrifuges
  6. Zelenogorsk enrichment plant completed modernization
  7. Construction of BN-1200M reactor at Beloyarsk NPP
  8. Centrus has produced 900 kg of HALEU
  9. Rokkasho costs rise again
  10. US executive orders aim to reinvigorate the nuclear industrial base
  11. Global Laser Enrichment begins demonstration testing
  12. U.S. promotion of nuclear power during the Biden administration
  13. Civilian plutonium declarations for 2023
  14. UK takes ownership of Italian separated plutonium
  15. United Kingdom plans to immobilize civilian plutonium
  16. New EU regulations on Euratom safeguards
  17. Spent fuel reprocessing in Russia in 2016-2024
  18. China starts construction of a third demonstration reprocessing plant
  19. Urenco USA to receive approval to enrich uranium to 10%
  20. Second reprocessing line in Zheleznogorsk
  21. Rosatom plans to build new BN-type reactors
  22. ASP Isotopes to provide HALEU to TerraPower
  23. US Department of Energy selected companies to work on HALEU enrichment
  24. Urenco started expansion of the US enrichment plant
  25. France's Orano to build an enrichment plant in Oak Ridge
  26. Japan's Rokkasho reprocessing plant delayed until at least 2027
  27. Russia to supply MOX fuel for China's CFR-600 reactor
  28. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2023
  29. United States seeks to boost domestic enrichment capacity
  30. Framatom to provide HALEU metal for TerraPower
  31. Russian laws prohibit military use of HEU supplied to China
  32. UK supports URENCO to build HALEU production facility
  33. Framatome to produce LEU fuel for Germany's FRM-II reactor
  34. Global Laser Enrichment is authorized to load UF6 in the test laser enrichment loop
  35. 2022 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  36. France to produce tritium for nuclear weapons in EDF civilian nuclear reactors
  37. China started operation of two new enrichment plants in 2023
  38. URENCO to expand capacity of the Almelo enrichment plant
  39. US Department of Energy requests proposals for HALEU deconversion
  40. Orano to increase capacity of the George Besse 2 enrichment plant
  41. US Centrus starts production of HALEU
  42. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2022
  43. TerraPower and Centrus to cooperate on HALEU
  44. URENCO to expand its enrichment capacity in the United States
  45. URENCO plans to expand the Gronau enrichment plant in Germany
  46. Japan's plutonium utilization plan delayed again
  47. 2021 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  48. Tenth centrifuge cascade is added at the Resende plant
  49. The 8th shipment of MOX fuel from France to Japan
  50. BN-800 reactor is fully loaded with MOX fuel
  51. Troubles with France's plutonium fuel program
  52. Magnox reprocessing plant completed operations
  53. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2021
  54. United States removed plutonium from the IAEA laboratory
  55. Brazil to install new centrifuges cascades at the Resende plant
  56. United States to send small quantities of fissile materials to the IAEA
  57. Shipment of MOX fuel from France to Japan
  58. 2020 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  59. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2020
  60. China starts construction of the second CFR-600 breeder reactor
  61. 2019 civilian plutonium and HEU declarations submitted to the IAEA
  62. Decommissioning the reprocessing plant in West Valley, New York
  63. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2019
  64. Launch of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant is postponed until 2022
  65. BN-600 operating license extended to 2025, may be extended further
  66. India's prototype breeder reactor is delayed again
  67. Kazakhstan (almost) pulls out of uranium enrichment join venture with Russia
  68. New IPFM report on Britain's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP)
  69. 2018 civilian plutonium and HEU declarations submitted to the IAEA
  70. Final shipment of LEU arrived at the IAEA fuel bank in Kazakhstan
  71. Russia appears to expand the HEU production line in Zelenogorsk
  72. Japan's uranium enrichment plant in Rokkasho shipped little product since 2012
  73. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2018
  74. High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) production in the United States
  75. Silex Systems invests in the U.S. enrichment venture after all
  76. IAEA buys uranium for the fuel bank in Kazakhstan
  77. Sellafield's THORP reprocessing plant shut down
  78. Areva's Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility license withdrawn
  79. India's prototype breeder reactor delayed until at least 2019
  80. 2017 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to IAEA
  81. France believes reprocessing plant in China will begin operations in 2030
  82. Brazil adds centrifuges to its enrichment plant
  83. Japan's new policy on its plutonium stockpile
  84. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2017
  85. France and China continue to discuss reprocessing plant
  86. Japan approves a plan to decommission Tokai-mura reprocessing plant
  87. Silex pulls out of U.S. laser enrichment projects
  88. Second pilot reprocessing line in Zheleznogorsk
  89. Test run of a new reprocessing plant in Zheleznogorsk
  90. American Centrifuge Lead Cascade Facility to be decommissioned
  91. China adds new enrichment facility at the Hanzhong plant
  92. Diverging recommendations on Sweden's spent nuclear fuel repository
  93. China and France continue negotiations on reprocessing facility
  94. China begins construction of a pilot fast breeder reactor
  95. Rokkasho plant will not start until 2021
  96. More delays in India's breeder reactor program
  97. 2016 civilian plutonium reports submitted to IAEA
  98. Nuclear Safeguards Bill introduced to UK parliament
  99. British pledge to go it alone on safeguards implementation
  100. LEU fuel bank in Kazakhstan is inaugurated
  101. United Kingdom discusses implications of its departure from Euratom treaty
  102. List of U.S. nuclear facilities declared to the IAEA under Additional Protocol
  103. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2016
  104. Unprecedented evidence of eroded safety culture at La Hague plutonium facility
  105. United Kingdom takes ownership of some Spanish and German plutonium
  106. Georges Besse II enrichment plant reached full capacity
  107. Sellafield's Evaporator D Project - A Lesson for La Hague?
  108. Reprocessing plant at Mayak to begin reprocessing of VVER-1000 fuel
  109. Department of Energy to sell depleted uranium to Global Laser Enrichment
  110. Russia may supply uranium enrichment technology to India
  111. 2015 civilian plutonium reports submitted to IAEA
  112. Japan releases 2015 report on plutonium management
  113. World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2016 released
  114. Brazil to export enriched uranium from Resende to Argentina
  115. United States to supply small amount of HEU to China
  116. Proliferation assessment of third generation laser uranium enrichment technology
  117. Use of plutonium in MOX in the European Union
  118. IAEA fuel bank in Kazakhstan is set to open in September 2017
  119. GE-Hitachi to leave Silex joint venture
  120. American Centrifuge Project shuts down
  121. IPFM Report "Plutonium Separation in Nuclear Power Programs" in Chinese
  122. Argentina inaugurates its Pilcaniyeu enrichment plant (again)
  123. Another delay for the Rokkasho reprocessing plant
  124. Sellafield's ageing THORP plant flunks major foreign fuel reprocessing target
  125. Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
  126. 2014 civilian plutonium (and HEU) reports submitted to IAEA
  127. Russia launches commercial MOX fuel fabrication facility
  128. U.S. Department of Energy shuts down American Centrifuge Plant at Piketon
  129. India announces plans for starting construction of fast reactor fuel reprocessing plant
  130. Kazakhstan and IAEA sign agreement to set up LEU fuel bank
  131. Plutonium disposition in the United Kingdom - Immobilization option re-opened?
  132. Areva continues negotiations to build reprocessing plant in China
  133. United States grants advance consents rights to Korea for overseas reprocessing
  134. Advisory group recommends building dry storage facility in South Korea
  135. IAEA approves the LEU bank in Kazakhstan
  136. Kazakhstan approves an agreement with IAEA to create an LEU reserve
  137. U.S. president submits 123 Agreement with China to Congress
  138. Russia considers postponing construction of the BN-1200 breeder reactor
  139. Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
  140. Taiwan spent fuel reprocessing tender process suspended
  141. Taiwan tenders spent fuel reprocessing contract
  142. Argentina announced restart of the Pilcaniyeu enrichment plant
  143. Launch of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant is delayed again
  144. Ukraine begins construction of centralized spent fuel storage
  145. Japan submitted its 2013 plutonium report to IAEA
  146. Tokai-mura reprocessing plant head-end to be shut down
  147. Russia's 2013 civilian plutonium declaration
  148. Japan's 2013 plutonium report
  149. Germany's 2013 report on civilian plutonium and HEU
  150. UK civilian plutonium and uranium stocks in 2013
  151. China has not separated any plutonium in 2013
  152. French civilian plutonium and HEU in 2013
  153. India delays launch of PFBR breeder reactor until March 2015
  154. 1,000 tonnes of THORP contracts abandoned since 1994
  155. Euratom safeguards in 2013
  156. UK decision to take over foreign plutonium raises safeguards questions
  157. Dutch reactor operating with MOX fuel for the first time
  158. Russian BN-800 breeder has reached criticality
  159. MOX fuel in Japan: Summary of shipments, use, and storage
  160. An error in Japan's civilian plutonium declarations
  161. Russia reports its 2012 civilian plutonium stock
  162. Japanese-French fast breeder cooperation
  163. Switzerland declares its 2013 plutonium stock
  164. U.S. civilian plutonium holdings in December 2012
  165. New agreement signed to advance Areva reprocessing project in China
  166. Sweden wants to transfer ownership of 834 kg of separated plutonium to the United Kingdom
  167. GLE will apply for license to build laser enrichment facility in Paducah
  168. China calls on Japan to return weapons grade plutonium to the United States
  169. U.K. plutonium re-use policy slammed in House of Commons report
  170. Nuclear train accident in Britain latest of a recent series
  171. United Kingdom remains undecided on plutonium reuse options
  172. Rokkasho reprocessing plant expects to begin operations in October 2014
  173. Japanese breeder Monju control room computer hacked
  174. Russia to return nuclear-powered container ship to service
  175. Consortium established to build European fast reactor demonstrator
  176. Last HEU-LEU program shipment to leave Russia
  177. Areva to produce MOX fuel for the Netherlands
  178. Japan reports its 2012 plutonium stock to IAEA
  179. China's 2012 civilian plutonium declaration
  180. Russia to supply HEU fuel for French research reactor
  181. China is building an indigenous enrichment facility in Hanzhong
  182. Japan's 2012 plutonium management report
  183. France declares its 2012 stocks of civilian plutonium and HEU
  184. Roadmap for ending plutonium separation in Japan
  185. Germany's 2012 civilian plutonium and HEU declaration
  186. China's centrifuges produced first enriched uranium
  187. United Kingdom declares its 2012 civilian plutonium and HEU stocks
  188. Lessons learned from Sellafield MOX Plant
  189. Switzerland's 2012 plutonium holdings
  190. Enrichment plant in Paducah to close
  191. Japan's nuclear regulator to suspend Monju reactor
  192. Areva to build reprocessing plant in China
  193. Rokkasho reprocessing plant unlikely to start before 2014
  194. Civilian plutonium swap increased the amount of UK owned plutonium
  195. Areva launches commercial production at Georges Besse II North enrichment plant
  196. U.S. Department of Energy sets strategy for dealing with spent fuel
  197. Russia declares its 2011 civilian plutonium holdings
  198. Civilian plutonium in Belgium in 2011
  199. United States declares its 2011 non-military plutonium stock
  200. Russia launches HEU production line
  201. Germany declares its 2011 plutonium and HEU stocks
  202. Japan's 2011 civilian plutonium declaration
  203. No changes in China's civilian plutonium in 2011
  204. U.S. regulators issue license to GE-Hitachi for laser enrichment plant
  205. UK civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011
  206. French civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011
  207. Switzerland declares civilian plutonium holdings for 2011
  208. United Kingdom takes ownership of German plutonium in title swap
  209. United Kingdom to explore alternatives to use of MOX in light-water reactors
  210. U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority publishes oxide fuel strategy
  211. Georges Besse enrichment plant ceases production
  212. Kazakhstan offers Ulba as a site for IAEA fuel bank
  213. United Kingdom to look at alternatives to MOX
  214. India's prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) to go critical early 2013
  215. Another malfunction at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant
  216. Blue Ribbon Commission released its final report
  217. Russia commissions dry storage facility in Zheleznogorsk
  218. Japan starts operating new centrifuges
  219. Japanese mislead about spent fuel reprocessing costs
  220. Belgian-Chinese MOX deal is put on hold
  221. United Kingdom plans to convert its civilian plutonium to MOX
  222. Some details of India's nuclear program
  223. Russia's civilian plutonium in 2010
  224. Mongolia ends discussions of spent fuel storage
  225. Japan's civilian plutonium holdings in 2010
  226. Belgium declares is 2010 plutonium holdings
  227. France declares its 2010 civilian plutonium and HEU stocks
  228. International Panel on Fissile Materials releases report on management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors
  229. Switzerland's civilian plutonium in 2010
  230. U.S. non-military plutonium in 2010
  231. United States announces details of the American Assured Fuel Supply
  232. Closure of Sellafield MOX Plant Announced
  233. High-level waste shipments from Sellafield to Japan continue
  234. Draft report of the Blue Ribbon Commission
  235. New Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines for the export of sensitive technologies
  236. China's experimental fast reactor connected to the grid
  237. Details of the plan to store spent fuel in Mongolia
  238. Japan considers shutting down Monju fast-breeder reactor
  239. Germany plutonium and HEU stocks in 2010
  240. China declares first separated civilian plutonium
  241. United Kingdom declares civilian plutonium and HEU holdings in 2010
  242. Power outage damaged six centrifuges at USEC plant
  243. Conflicting reports about spent fuel disposal in Mongolia
  244. Russia begins shipments of Mo-99 to Iran
  245. Questions raised about safety of the U.S. MOX plant
  246. Rosatom confirms it will not bring foreign-origin spent fuel to Russia
  247. U.S. MOX program wanted relaxed security at the weapon-grade plutonium facility
  248. New Russian-built enrichment plant in China begins operations
  249. Tenex and USEC sign LEU supply contract, discuss enrichment facility in the U.S.
  250. Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I
  251. U.S. plutonium disposition program: Uncertainties of the MOX route
  252. Sellafield radioactive discharges: Breach of international convention in normal operation
  253. Japan shuts down last centrifuge cascade in Rokkasho
  254. Sellafield Product & Residue Store received first batch of plutonium
  255. Plutonium to MOX: "Repeating Mistakes of the Past"
  256. UK Separated Plutonium Management - A New Sellafield MOX Plant?
  257. South Africa considers joining the Angarsk center
  258. Reprocessing in China: Separating fact from fiction
  259. U.S.-Russian 123 agreement enters into force
  260. China declared no civilian plutonium in 2008 and 2009
  261. India starts new unsafeguarded reprocessing plant
  262. Cadarache: Waste drums with plutonium content way off-limit
  263. NRC issues safety report for Savannah River MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  264. U.S. non-military plutonium in 2009
  265. Successful hot test of China's pilot reprocessing plant
  266. Monju reactor is unlikely to start until 2014
  267. Areva inaugurates the Georges Besse II enrichment plant
  268. U.S.-Russian 123 agreement on nuclear cooperation passes U.S. Congress
  269. IAEA approves NTI-supported fuel bank
  270. Russia created nuclear fuel reserve
  271. Further delay for India's breeder reactor
  272. Spent fuel of the BN-350 reactor moved to secure storage
  273. Germany declared its 2009 plutonium and HEU holdings
  274. Japanese utilities increase their stake in Georges Besse II enrichment plant
  275. Mongolia to join the International Uranium Enrichment Center
  276. Argentina reopens its Pilcaniyeu uranium enrichment plant
  277. China is believed to operate indigenous enrichment plant
  278. Future supply of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons in doubt
  279. Belgium authorities and French GDF-Suez set for MOX fuel technology transfer to China
  280. Japan's civilian plutonium stock as of December 2009
  281. Ukraine is a full member of the International Uranium Enrichment Center
  282. Russia will build enrichment plant in China ahead of schedule
  283. Belgium declares its 2009 civilian plutonium stock
  284. Rokkasho plant extracted no plutonium in 2009
  285. Less than 4% of French nuclear fuel "recycled", NGOs calculate
  286. Fuel "recycling" a myth, a French report involuntarily demonstrates
  287. Report: Long-term plans to develop an FBR based plutonium economy in France is not demonstrated
  288. France: Official plan admits problems with management of uranium and plutonium
  289. France's 2009 declaration of civilian plutonium and HEU
  290. Accident at the Monju fast breeder reactor
  291. Another delay for Rokkasho reprocessing plant
  292. Rosatom set to manufacture MOX fuel at Zheleznogorsk
  293. Rosatom may build an enrichment facility in the United States
  294. Third reactor in Japan to use MOX fuel
  295. Los Alamos repackages Russian-origin plutonium-238
  296. United Kingdom's declaration of civilian plutonium and HEU in 2009
  297. Russia's civilian plutonium in 2009
  298. United States and India sign an agreement on reprocessing
  299. China's experimental fast reactor went critical
  300. URENCO begins enrichment in the United States
  301. BN-600 license may be extended to 2025
  302. Plans to expand enrichment at Angarsk put on hold
  303. It's time to give up on breeder reactors
  304. End of reprocessed uranium exports to Russia?
  305. Switzerland's civilian plutonium in 2009
  306. U.K. opens storage facility at Sellafield
  307. U.S.-Russian 123 agreement on nuclear cooperation resubmitted to Congress
  308. Japanese fast breeder reactor Monju restarted after 14-year shutdown
  309. Japanese daily Asahi slams breeder reactors
  310. UK begins return of high-level waste to foreign customers amid uncertainty about its own plutonium
  311. BN-600 fast reactor to operate until 2020
  312. AREVA signs MOX fuel fabrication contract with Japanese utility
  313. IAEA and Russia signed a fuel bank agreement
  314. U.S. civilian plutonium in 2008
  315. USEC began operations of a lead cascade at American Centrifuge Plant
  316. Japan outlines plans for use of plutonium in its 2010 research program
  317. Status of Japan's MOX fuel program
  318. A French documentary on nuclear waste
  319. Poor safety record at Sellafield plutonium facilities
  320. History and status of fast breeder reactor programs worldwide
  321. India's first fast breeder reactor delayed
  322. Civilian plutonium stocks in France 1994-2008
  323. Tritium production and recovery in the United States in FY2011
  324. Blue Ribbon Commission will examine fuel cycle
  325. URENCO outlines expansion plans
  326. Uranium gas leak at enrichment facility in Germany
  327. BN-800 expected to begin operations in 2014
  328. Improvements of the MPC&A system at Mayak
  329. Ellen Tauscher outlines U.S. policies on nuclear fuel cycle
  330. Nuclear cooperation agreement between France and India enters into force
  331. Ukraine is finally joining the Angarsk center
  332. French Prime Minister offers reprocessing technology to China
  333. Repair work completed on waste disposal site at La Hague
  334. French nuclear cooperation with India to cover reprocessing
  335. IAEA approves Russian fuel bank proposal
  336. Large discrepancy in amount of plutonium at shutdown French MOX plant
  337. Euratom Supply Agency 2008 annual report details use of plutonium
  338. Expansion of enrichment capacity in Angarsk
  339. Moscow summit yields little visible progress on nuclear cooperation
  340. Rosatom signs another fuel contract in U.S.
  341. Russia in talks about centrifuge plant in the U.S.?
  342. Russia will sell enrichment services directly to U.S. utilities
  343. Russia ships centrifuges to China
  344. Obama-Medvedev statement notes civil HEU minimization, 123 agreement
  345. Kuwait pledges 10 million to NTI fuel bank
  346. IAEA approves India's additional protocol
  347. The end of Yucca Mountain
  348. Ukraine signs fuel supply contract with TVEL
  349. Iran says it's still interested in Angarsk IUEC
  350. Rosatom floating reactors plans
  351. IAEA reports on Iran and Syria
  352. Russia signs nuclear agreement with Mongolia
  353. Cooperation on shared nuclear waste repository in Europe
  354. Launch of Rokkasho plant delayed
  355. TVEL will supply fuel pellets to India
  356. Ukraine is joining Angarsk center
  357. Areva to supply reactors, fuel, and uranium to India
  358. Financing problems at the American Centrifuge Plant
  359. GLE begins licensing process
  360. Bushehr start date is uncertain
  361. Areva to supply enrichment services to EdF
  362. Large spent fuel repository planned for Krasnoyarsk region
  363. India signs safeguards agreement
  364. MOX fuel shipment to Japan prepared
  365. U.S. Supreme Court rules that enriched uranium is "goods"
  366. Enrichment plant in Resende to begin operations
  367. U.S. withdraws 123 agreement with Russia from Congress
  368. NSG approves nuclear trade with India
  369. Bushehr reactor will not start in 2008
  370. Rosatom plans for Zheleznogorsk
  371. USEC American Centrifuge Plant to cost $3.5 billion
  372. Construction of spent fuel storage facility in Zheleznogorsk to resume
  373. 123 agreement in danger
  374. No centrifuge safeguards in Angarsk
  375. Rosatom took control over nuclear icebreakers
  376. Ukraine considers fuel fabrication
  377. UAE supports NTI fuel bank
  378. MOX fuel controversy
  379. U.S. donates $50 million to fuel bank
  380. Massive subsidy to Rosatom
  381. Mayak plans expansion of reprocessing
  382. Mayak wants to build a MOX fabrication plant
  383. Kudankulam fuel shipments completed
  384. Cameco joins the Silex project
  385. Areva signs contract to build MOX fuel fabrication facility
  386. Russia and China sign enrichment deal
  387. Accelerated downblending: Domenici amendment
  388. U.S.-Russian agreement on nuclear cooperation
  389. AREVA will build an enrichment plant in Idaho
  390. GE-Hitachi plans to build a Silex plant in U.S.
  391. Failure of GNEP strategy
  392. Japan is cautious about Angarsk
  393. Ukraine fuel supply between TVEL and Westinghouse
  394. Ukraine is holding back its spent fuel due to raising cost
  395. Russia will continue supplying centrifuges to China
  396. Russia may build a centrifuge plant in the U.S.?
  397. Ukraine tries to diversify fuel supply
  398. U.S.-Russian agreement on nuclear cooperation stalled
  399. Norway pledges $5 million to a fuel bank
  400. Russian-Indian agreement on Kudankulam
  401. Armenia joins Angarsk center
  402. Angarsk will be under IAEA safeguards
  403. Russia and the United States signed a uranium agreement
  404. Ukraine to create fuel reserve
  405. U.S. and Russia to sign a uranium enrichment deal
  406. Russia delivers fuel for the Bushehr plant in Iran
  407. Ukraine is building spent fuel storage facility
  408. Russia raises the cost of spent fuel takeback
  409. Price of Russian fuel for Ukraine
  410. China wants reprocessing technology from France
  411. Russia begins shipment of fuel to Iran
  412. U.S.-Russian agreement on plutonium disposal