Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has signed a 10-year enriched uranium supply contract with US-based nuclear fuel supplier Centrus Energy Corporation. The contract follows the signing of a Letter of Intent a year ago.

Energy Fuels Inc expects shipments of ore from its Pinyon Plain Mine in northern Arizona to the White Mesa Mill in southern Utah will restart in February following the signature of an agreement with Navajo agencies on the transport of uranium ore along federal and state highways crossing the Navajo Nation.

GoviEx Uranium is forecasting production from the Muntanga project in 2028, and envisages a quick start-up from shallow open-pit mining operations.

Uranium production at the Kazatomprom-Cameco operation was suspended on 1 January but has now resumed, the joint venture partners have announced.

The third cycle of tests of MOX fuel in the MIR research reactor is to begin following the successful completion of the second phase of the programme which aims to substantiate the safety of MOX fuel for use in VVER-type reactors.

Orano has announced it is lodging a second arbitration procedure against the State of Niger following its loss of operational control of SOMAÏR, the operator of the Arlit uranium mine.

The agreement between the Orano Group and the Mongolian government for the development and operation of the Zuuvch Ovoo uranium mine has been signed at a ceremony in Ulaanbaatar.

Heathgate Resources affiliate Grants Energy is eyeing uranium production from the Grants Precision ISR project, 20 miles from the community of Grants, in the early 2030s.

The Ulba-FA LLP fuel assembly plant, which produces nuclear fuel for Chinese nuclear power plants, has reached its design capacity of 200 tonnes of low-enriched uranium in the form of fuel assemblies.

Sweden should remove its prohibition on uranium mining to allow it to be exploited like other natural resources regulated under the Minerals Act, a government inquiry has concluded.

Production operations at the Lance project have officially commenced after a five-year hiatus, with the first dry yellowcake product expected in March.

The French company has opened international arbitration proceedings against the State of Niger following the withdrawal of its mining licence for the Imouraren project in June.