• Millennium on hold• Expansion for Nichols Ranch• Westinghouse fuels Vattenfall units• Slovakia bans uranium mining• Dewey-Burdock stay lifted
• Duke to sell surplus fuel• Uranium One in Kazakh litigation• Early end for conversion agreement• Forte acquires Slovak assets• Rare earths MoU for Greenland
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More than half of the 1533 fuel assemblies have been removed from the storage pond of Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 and transferred to a central storage pool on the site. The remainder should be removed by the end of the year.
Ukraine's national electricity utility Energoatom has extended its nuclear fuel supply contract with Westinghouse through to 2020. The country primarily sources its nuclear fuel from Russia. 48.jpg "Columbia_Generating_Station_(NRC)_48")
US utility Energy Northwest will be facing a bill of up to $3 million to process a public information request relating to its 2012 purchase of depleted uranium from the US Department of Energy._64x48.jpg "UF6 cylinders on truck Halifax (Truckfax - Mac Kackay) 64x48")
Port authorities are investigating how four cylinders containing enriched uranium hexafluoride were dropped during unloading operations at Halifax in Canada's Nova Scotia.