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In the first of a two-part special report from the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2025 conference held this month in Canada, Claire Maden reports on the opportunities and challenges facing players across the entire fuel sector.

Framatome has inaugurated a new workshop at its site in Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme department of southeastern France, dedicated to the fabrication of fuel for research reactors and targets for medical isotopes.

A seven-year agreement to supply natural uranium concentrate for the Czech Republic's ÄŒEZ is described by Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom as "a significant expansion of its presence in Europe".

Westinghouse Electric Company's lead test assemblies with LEU+ fuel have been loaded into Unit 2 of the Vogtle nuclear power plant - a first for such fuel in a commercial reactor in the USA.

JSC Dalur, part of Rosatom, has completed construction and commissioning of facilities at the pilot industrial site and shipped the first batch of uranium product from the Dobrovolnoye deposit in the Kurgan region of Russia.

It is a time of great opportunity for nuclear - but fuel cycle players must work together to seize the moment and make sure the fuel cycle is ready to support a global tripling of nuclear energy. This was the message from the opening session of the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2025 conference.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has made conditional commitments to five advanced reactor developers to receive the first allocations of high-assay low-enriched uranium from its HALEU Availability Program.

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look at the steps that make up the cycle, the major players and the potential pinch-points.

Brazil's National Nuclear ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Commission has given an extendable 40-year authorisation for the operation of the Complementary Dry Storage Unit for Spent Fuel at the Angra nuclear power plant site.

BWX Technologies, Inc's new facility in Lynchburg has been built with support from local and state tax grants and will be home to the company's Advanced Technologies business unit.

Westinghouse and Urenco have signed a long-term fuel enrichment agreement under which Urenco will provide enrichment of high-assay low-enriched uranium to Westinghouse for five years of deployment for the company's eVinci microreactor.

Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical characteristics of the VVER-S reactor with MOX fuel.