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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.

Japan's first ever nuclear power reactor to use mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies is now operating at full capacity, fuel supplier Areva has announced. Kyushu's Genkai 3 was loaded with the fuel fabricated from uranium and the plutonium recovered from previously used nuclear fuel in October....

Improvements in performance following the takeover of operations by a new 'parent body organization', has led the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to conclude that the Sellafield MOX Plant should continue operating.

[Japan Today, 15 October] Kyushu Electric Power Co today began loading mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel at unit 3 of its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga prefecture, Japan, in preparation for the first ever use of the fuel in the country. It is expected to take about five days to load the fuel. The operation...

The loading of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel into the third reactor of the Genkai nuclear power plant in Japan is set to begin on 3 October, ahead of the first ever use of the fuel in the country.

Areva has signed a contract to supply 40 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for unit 2 of Chugoku Electric Power Co's Shimane nuclear power plant in Japan. MOX consists of a mix of uranium and plutonium oxides, recovered from used nuclear fuel. Under the terms of the contract, the MOX fuel will be...

Tennessee Valley Authority is to negotiate the trial use of MOX nuclear fuel in its power reactors as part of the US-Russian agreement to dispose of weapons plutonium. Trials in the past were carried out at Duke Energy's reactors.

Japanese plans for 16-18 reactors to be using mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2010 have been put back by five years, the country's Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPCO) has announced.

A consignment of UK-manufactured mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel originally destined for Japanese power plants but never used because of concerns about quality control data is to be reprocessed in France.

[Japan Today, 17 April; Bloomberg, 16 April] Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) plans to start construction of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel plant at Rokksaho in November. The company has said it is aiming for a startup date of 2015 for the plant, revising the date of 2012 specified in an earlier construction...

The Japan Electric Power Development Co Ltd (J-Power) has signed an agreement with Global Nuclear Fuel Japan (GNF-J) for the supply of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for use in the Ohma nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

Performance has picked up at the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP), as engagement begins with the site's new parent body consortium. Workers at SMP recently celebrated the completion of 24 fuel rods in one day.

The contract for MOX reactor fuel to be used by Duke Energy has lapsed and must now be renegotiated. Project owner NNSA said other utilities were interested in using the fuel, made in part from unwanted US nuclear weapons.

The shipment of mixed-oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel from France to Japan has started. Workers at Cherboug, France began loading containers the fuel early on 5 March.

Companies have confirmed that a shipment of mixed oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel from Europe to Japan is being prepared, although the exact departure date has not yet been announced.

France's Areva has signed a contract to supply 32 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for use in units 3 and 4 of Kansai Electric Power Co's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui prefecture, Japan. The contract was signed between Areva's Melox SA, to fabricate the fuel, and Nuclear Fuel Industries...

Areva has refuted claims that its MOX nuclear fuel assemblies failed in-core tests essential to the US program to use the fuel, which would be made in part from dismantled nuclear weapons.

Two contracts have been awarded related to new Areva facilities in the USA. One concerns an environmental study of an enrichment plant; the other, detailed engineering of sintering furnaces for a MOX plant.

A $2.7 billion final contract has been signed for the US facility to recycle weapons-grade plutonium into reactor fuel for power generation. Shaw Areva MOX Services is carrying out the construction.

EPZ has applied for government permission to use mixed-oxide fuel in the Borssele nuclear power plant. The company also wants to "improve its use of recycled uranium," which it has been loading into Borssele for the past few years.

Areva of France has signed a contract for the supply 16 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for use in units 3 and 4 of Kansai's Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan. The fuel assemblies will be produced at Areva's Melox facility.

J-Power are to begin construction of the Ohma nuclear power plant in May this year, now they have official authorization for the boiling water reactor which is to run on a full-MOX fuel load. The company said low-emissions nuclear power would lower its impact per unit of electricity.