Newly finalised plans to transfer US Department of Energy (DoE) depleted uranium into the civil nuclear fuel cycle for re-enrichment will see the Paducah enrichment plant continue to operate for an extra year.

More than 1300 steam generator tubes have now been plugged at Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in California as the utility continues to investigate the cause of excessive wear in some of the tubes. It is not yet known when the two-unit plant will resume operation.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided to allow uranium captured in water treatment filters to be processed by uranium recovery operations - without the need for any licence amendment.

Progress Energy has put back its nuclear new build plans by three years while requesting increased rates to finance the project. The Levy development should allow Florida to avoid becoming overdependent on currently cheap gas for power generation.

Projected costs for ongoing uprates at four Florida Power and Light nuclear units have increased by over half a billion dollars - but will still save customers around $3.8 billion in fossil fuel costs over the long term, the utility claims.

Construction of unit 2 at the Watts Bar nuclear power plant will continue after the board of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) accepted a revised cost estimate for the project. The expected completion date of the project has now slipped to 2015.

An Ohio-based public power supplier is now interested in taking a minority interest in Santee Cooper's share of the two new reactors under construction at the VC Summer plant in South Carolina. A wholesale electricity supplier in Mississippi is already discussing buying into the new units.

A $1.3 billion contract to manage and operate the US Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for up to ten years has been awarded to Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC.

Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Company are to collaborate to secure federal funding for the development and licensing of Westinghouse's Small Modular Reactor (SMR).

Mineral exploration company Quaterra Resources and the governing body of Mohave County in Arizona have filed a joint lawsuit against the US government in an attempt to overturn the withdrawal of federal lands from mining.

Citizens of two Colorado towns are raising funds to restore the iconic sign from their old drive-in movie theatre: the Uranium Drive-In.