The Canadian province has updated its critical minerals list to include uranium and issued a request for proposals for uranium exploration and research in areas with known uranium deposits after repealing legislation that banned uranium exploration and mining.

The US Department of the Interior has announced it will expedite the permitting review of Anfield Energy's Velvet-Wood mine in Utah under newly established emergency procedures, with a completion timeline of 14 days for an accelerated environmental review by the Bureau of Land Management.

Infrastructure company Costain has been selected by Urenco to carry out the front-end engineering design for the UK's first high-assay low-enriched uranium advanced fuels facility.

Global Laser Enrichment has begun large-scale demonstration testing at its Test Loop facility, which will take the SILEX laser enrichment process to Technology Readiness Level 6.

Russia's nuclear fuel company TVEL has said it is ready to work with Belarus to extend the time between fuel reloading at the country's first nuclear power plant to 18-24 months.

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.

BWX Technologies, Inc has acquired 97 acres of land in Oak Ridge with plans to establish advanced centrifuge manufacturing capability that "will support the establishment of a reliable, long-term domestic supply of enriched uranium, an essential component for the nation’s defence".

A seven-year agreement to supply natural uranium concentrate for the Czech Republic's ČEZ 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 World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2025 conference.

The US Department of Energy 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.