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• Kazakh uranium output jumps in 2008

  Kazakhstan - the world's third biggest major uranium supplier, after Canada and Australia - reported a 28.5% increase in uranium production during 2008. The increase is in line with Kazakhstan's plan to become the world's leading uranium supplier. Posted Jan 15 2009, 12:06 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Uranium, Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Kazakhstan

• Brazil to start enriching uranium at Resende

  Industriás Nucleares do Brasil (INB) has been issued a temporary licence by the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) to start enriching uranium at its Resende plant. The plans should meet around 70% of Brazil's requirements. Posted Jan 15 2009, 11:44 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Uranium, Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Nuclear Fuel Services

• Do something with DU, says US watchdog

  The US Department of Energy has not done enough to find uses for the depleted uranium left over from uranium enrichment and should do more to avoid having to treat the entire inventory as waste, according to the department's own internal watchdog. Posted Jan 15 2009, 11:39 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Uranium, Nuclear Fuel, DOE, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Uranium enrichment

• Further delay for Rokkasho reprocessing plant

  [Japan Times, 1 November] The trial operation of the Rokkasho used nuclear fuel reprocessing facility is not expected to be completed in November, as scheduled, according to Isami Kojima, president of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL). The further delay has resulted from JNFL being required to submit an additional report to the government on a test it restarted in October to produce vitrified waste. The facility will produce vitrified waste by mixing high-level radioactive liquid waste with molten glass in a furnace. The government has asked JNFL to revaluate the vitrifying process and file an additional report because the incidence of metal chaff accumulating on the bottom of the furnace has increased. Kojima said that JNFL "will try our best to finish (the trial run) by the end of this year." Posted Nov 03 2008, 12:20 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd, Rokkasho

• Rez research reactor fuel returned to Russia

  Used fuel from the research reactor at Rez, Czech Republic, has been transferred by rail to Russia for reprocessing. The project was carried out under the 2004 Russian-US government agreement on cooperation in removing Russian-made nuclear fuel from research reactors to Russia. Posted Dec 10 2007, 10:08 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Russia, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Czech Republic