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• High-level waste sets sail for Japan

  The first consignment of solid highly active waste belonging to Sellafield's Japanese customers has started its journey back to Japan from the UK. The waste arose from the reprocessing of those customers' used nuclear fuel at Sellafield. Posted Jan 22 2010, 04:55 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Sellafield, Japan, fuel, waste, reprocessing, Used Fuel Recycling, ship

• Final HEU return from Turkey

  The last "significant" amount of highly enriched uranium (HEU) research reactor fuel in Turkey has now been returned to the USA for secure storage, the US National Nuclear Security Administration has announced. Posted Jan 20 2010, 10:44 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Turkey, fuel, HEU, nnsa, National Nuclear Security Administration, nuclear, highly enriched uranium

• Reprocessed uranium Russia-bound

  A shipment of uranium recovered from fuel previously used in European nuclear power reactors is en route from Sellafield to Russia for processing into new fuel. Posted Jan 05 2010, 10:25 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Russia, UK, Sellafield, fuel, europe, nuclear, power, energy, shipment, reprocessing, thorp

• Delays at Japanese fuel cycle plants

  Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd has announced a postponement to the start of construction of its mixed oxide (MOX) fuel plant and a delay in installing new centrifuges at its enrichment plant. Posted Dec 14 2009, 10:37 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: MOX, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd, fuel, enrichment, construction, delay, centrifuge, mixed oxide fuel

• Imouraren uranium stake for Kepco

  South Korea is to take an interest in African uranium to secure supplies as it makes nuclear power the dominant source of electricity . Posted Dec 11 2009, 06:29 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Uranium, Africa, South Korea, fuel, KEPCO, nuclear, imouraren

• Initial GB-II cascade undergoing tests

  Testing of the first centrifuge cascade has begun at the Georges Besse II (GB-II) uranium enrichment plant in southern France, Areva announced. The cascade is scheduled to start operating by the end of this year. Posted Dec 10 2009, 11:08 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Uranium, Georges Besse II, Georges Besse II uranium enrichment plant, fuel, enrichment, centrifuge

• South African fuel supply contract for Westinghouse

  Westinghouse has been awarded a $30 million contract by South African utility Eskom to supply fuel for the Koeberg nuclear power plant near Cape Town between late 2011 and 2015. Posted Dec 03 2009, 11:20 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Westinghouse, Eskom, South Africa, contract, fuel, agreement, koeberg

• Approval for Russia's fuel bank

  A stockpile of nuclear fuel is to be set up in Russia under IAEA auspices in an effort to increase security of supply. Posted Dec 01 2009, 11:29 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Uranium, Russia, fuel, storage, international atomic Energy Agency, bank

• Czech enrichment contract for Areva

  Czech utility CEZ has signed a 15-year contract for uranium enrichment services with Areva for its two Temelin reactors. Posted Nov 17 2009, 10:49 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Uranium, Czech Republic, fuel, enrichment, cooperation, CEZ, temelin

• Safeguards frustration

  Inspectors still have lots of questions for Iran, even after full access to the newly revealed enrichment facility at Qom. Meanwhile, the country is being slow to agree a fuel deal and Syria is ignoring questions on its programs. Posted Nov 17 2009, 10:33 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Iran, Syria, fuel, enrichment, Politics, inspectors, qom

• Contract for Ignalina waste repository

  A consortium led by France's Areva has been awarded a contract to design a near-surface repository for low- and intermediate-level waste at Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant. The facility will be modelled on a French repository. Posted Nov 02 2009, 11:41 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Lithuania, France, fuel, waste, intermediate level, ignalia, low level

• Step up in cooperation

  International nuclear inspectors are now at Qom, the newly disclosed uranium enrichment site in Iran. The departure of the inspectors from Vienna was confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 24 October, as was a positive reaction to plans to meet Iran's needs for research reactor fuel. France, Russia and the USA have all approved a scheme to provide 19.5% enriched uranium to a reactor used, among other things, to make medical isotopes in Tehran. The uranium will be taken from Iranian stocks enriched to less than 5% and further enriched in Russia before being made into finished reactor fuel in France. Iran is still to give its final approval for the plan, which the IAEA hopes will come soon and "signal a new era of cooperation." Posted Oct 26 2009, 12:40 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Uranium, Russia, Iran, France, fuel, reactor, international atomic Energy Agency

• EU-South Korean deal to benefit nuclear power sector

  The European Commission has unveiled details of how a new trade agreement between South Korea and the European Union will benefit the nuclear energy sector. The deal should boost trade in equipment and fuel inputs in both Europe and South Korea. Posted Oct 22 2009, 09:41 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: South Korea, European Commission, fuel, agreement, trade, cooperation, equipment, EC

• Ukraine to sign Russian fuel supply contract

  [RIA Novosti, 21 October] Ukraine expects to sign a long-term contract for Russian nuclear fuel supplies before the end of 2009, according to Natalya Shumakova, the Ukrainian deputy energy minister. Ukraine's current contract with Russia's TVEL runs out next year. "Our position is that it should be signed as soon as possible," she said. The contract was to be signed in October, Shumakova said, but was delayed. She did not give a reason for the delay. Vasily Konstantinov, vice president of TVEL, previously blamed the delay on Ukrainian authorities. Energoatom is the national electricity generator in Ukraine, which uses 15 reactors planned in the Soviet era for almost half of the country's electricity generation. It has longstanding contracts with Russia's TVEL for fuel supply but has recently signalled that it will be unable to make the advanced payments required by contract. Posted Oct 22 2009, 08:12 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Russia, Reactors, Ukraine, TVEL, contract, fuel, supply, energy minister

• Temelin to use only Russian fuel from 2010

  [Reuters, 20 October] Czech utility CEZ will immediately switch to nuclear fuel supplied by TVEL of Russia for its two-unit Temelin nuclear power plant in 2010, instead of phasing in its use as previously planned, according to CEZ spokeswoman Eva Novakova. As a result, CEZ will lose money on the unused fuel that it has already bought from Westinghouse, which was originally contracted to supply fuel for the two VVER-1000 reactors. In May 2006, CEZ awarded TVEL a ten-year contract for the supply of fuel for the units. CEZ said that the Russian fuel would boost the output of the reactor, making it more cost efficient. "The unused fuel will certainly be a loss, but on the other hand it will be compensated by being able to increase the output of the reactor," according to Novakova. CEZ had considered using both types of fuel temporarily at Temelin but decided that option would be far more complicated than simply not using the Westinghouse fuel. Posted Oct 20 2009, 11:01 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Russia, Czech Republic, TVEL, fuel, reactor, CEZ, nuclear, power, supply, vver-1000