Archive: Civilian nuclear industry

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