Nuclear fuel cycle
The two companies have agreed to design a dedicated uranium hexafluoride deconversion line at Copenhagen Atomics' Copenhagen fuel facility, closing what the Danish developer calls the final gap in its molten salt reactor fuel supply chain.
China General Nuclear has finished loading 177 fuel assemblies into the San'ao unit 2 reactor core, marking a key commissioning milestone for the Hualong One plant in China's Yangtze River Delta region.
Kazakhstan's president has directed development of a century-long strategic uranium reserve, while the country's nuclear power plant pipeline expands with contracts signed and a second plant confirmed for China National Nuclear Corporation.
First American Nuclear Co and South Korean contractor Hyundai E&C have elevated their EAGL-1 collaboration from a framework agreement to a binding master service agreement, covering constructability reviews, engineering consulting, and potential EPC participation.
Urenco USA has begun commercial production of low-enriched uranium-plus at its National Enrichment Facility in New Mexico, following regulatory authorisation granted in September 2025 to enrich uranium up to 10% U-235.
The US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has selected eight recipients under its HORNIG programme, committing funds to develop transuranic-bearing fuels for advanced and Gen IV reactors with the aim of shortening qualification timelines and strengthening domestic fuel supply chains.
BWX Technologies' fuel subsidiary has secured a multi-year commercial contract with Antares Nuclear to produce TRISO fuel at its Lynchburg, Virginia facility, with an initial allocation of 1 metric ton uranium and provisions to scale with deployment needs.
Centrus has dispatched the first centrifuge manufactured at its Oak Ridge facility to its Piketon, Ohio enrichment plant, marking a concrete step in a multi-year programme to establish commercial-scale HALEU production capacity in the United States.
Framatome has inaugurated a EUR 30 million pilot facility in Paimboeuf, France, to apply chromium coatings to zirconium alloy cladding tubes for nuclear fuel assemblies, with industrial qualification targeted by end-2026 and series production planned for early 2027.
The Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal has sharply narrowed its investigation zone for a permanent high-level radioactive waste repository, reducing the area under active consideration from roughly one quarter of Germany's total land surface to less than 5% within a single year.
Nuclear fuel assemblies manufactured at Russia's Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant have been delivered to the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant's second unit and placed in specialised storage, marking a new supply-chain milestone for Bangladesh's first nuclear power project.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a final environmental impact statement supporting a construction licence for Global Laser Enrichment's proposed laser-based uranium enrichment plant near Paducah, Kentucky.