Ensuring a steady demand for high-assay low-enriched uranium is one of the two main challenges to achieving sustainable production of the material, Orano has said in response to a US Department of Energy request for information.

Two Indian engineering companies - Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and Larsen & Toubro - have held "flagging off" ceremonies for steam generators destined for installation at Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors.
 

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation plans to begin operations later this year at its Pilot Fuel Manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, subject to regulatory approvals. The facility will process feedstock uranium powder into TRISO fuel particles and subsequently produce the company's proprietary FCM fuel in multiple kilogram quantities.
 

The US Department of Energy has set its strategic plans to secure a clean energy supply chain. For nuclear, DOE's goals are to enable continued operation of existing US nuclear reactors, enable deployment of advanced nuclear reactors, develop advanced nuclear fuel cycles and maintain US leadership in nuclear energy technology.

Counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items are present in operating US nuclear power plants, a special inquiry by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Inspector General has found.
 

GE of the USA has agreed to sell part of GE Steam Power's nuclear power activities, including Arabelle steam turbines, to France's EDF.

A cargo ship carrying materials and equipment for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant - including the reactor pressure vessel for unit 2 - has arrived from Russia at the construction site on the southern coast of Turkey.

Bruce unit 7 has become the first nuclear power reactor in the world with installed capability to produce the medical radioisotope lutetium-177. The isotope, which is used in the treatment of cancers such as neuroendocrine tumours and prostate cancer, will be produced from ytterbium targets irradiated in the reactor.

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed memorandums of understanding with ten Polish companies for cooperation on the potential deployment of AP1000 nuclear power plants in Poland and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe.

Lessons learned through the COVID-19 pandemic have enabled Kazatomprom's assets to operate throughout recent events in Kazakhstan. The overall impact of the recent period of unrest on the company's business has been minor, but pandemic-related supply chain challenges remain a concern, it said.

Ukraine's Energoatom would like to license Westinghouse's AP1000 technology after the initial five units that are already being planned, the company's CEO, Petro Kotin, said in an interview with EnergoBusiness magazine. Energoatom is currently weighing up its options for suppliers to its programme.

Main components for India's Kudankulam unit 6 are being manufactured in Russia. Construction of the VVER-1000 reactor officially began one month ago.