Archive: Civilian nuclear industry

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