A site has been selected, and design work is under way on a processing plant with a capacity of 11,000 tonnes of uranium oxide per year, according to Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
 

Eight nuclear fuel technology projects have been selected to receive a share of up to USD50 million of federal funding under a US Department of Energy programme to support R&D to deliver TRU fuel technologies.
 

Framatome has inaugurated a chromium-coating industrial pilot facility dedicated to the industrialisation of its PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel technology at its manufacturing plant in Paimboeuf in western France.
 

The commercial agreement covers an initial tonne of TRISO fuel for Antares Nuclear's microreactors, which could be increased as deployment requirements evolve to support Antares's advanced reactor programme.
 

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom says that the initial fuel load for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant's second unit has been delivered.
 

Westinghouse has announced a USD1 billion investment in the first new fleet-scale nuclear fuel factory to be built in the USA in more than 50 years, at the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Hopkins, South Carolina.
 

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has signed an agreement with Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik to manage used nuclear fuel from the former research reactors at Halden and Kjeller.
 

The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment aims to achieve first criticality in 2027, with the US Department of Energy approving cost-shared funding under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
 

Innovative nuclear energy company Newcleo has inaugurated its EUR10 million (USD11 million) advanced nuclear fuel engineering, testing and training centre located in Chusclan, in the Gard department in southern France.