Archive: Civilian nuclear industry

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