Nevada claim wrong, DOE says
DOE does not plan to later switch to a so-called "real assessment" of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, as Nevada has claimed, DOE said this
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Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
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Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
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Pretoria unlikely to extradite Wisser after his plea in Khan network case
South Africa has no plans to extradite Gerhard Wisser, an engineer sought by Germany in connection with Libya's former uranium enrichment procurement program, or to provide other
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Russia's Angarsk international enrichment center open for business
Russia's International Uranium Enrichment Center began formal operation September 5 with registration of the joint stock company that owns it, Nikolai Spasskiy, deputy head of the Russian
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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Sellers show restraint as spot U price drifts lower
The spot uranium price appears to be anchored for the moment at $85 a pound U3O8, the price that both TradeTech and Ux Consulting are reporting in
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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South Africa names Lerch as key in Libyan enrichment plant effort
The government of South Africa on September 11 told the IAEA Board of Governors that Gotthard Lerch, a German engineer whose 2006 trial on export control charges
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South Africa seeks partners willing to share enrichment technology
South Africa is seeking to set up a centrifuge uranium enrichment facility with international partners on the basis of sharing enrichment technology, a senior South African nuclear
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Syria, IAEA ignore US media reports that Israel attacked nuclear site
Syria and IAEA member states, meeting in Vienna last week, brushed off US media reports that Israel conducted an air strike that destroyed nuclear infrastructure in Syria
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US UTILITY FUEL COSTS FOR 2006
US UTILITY FUEL COSTS FOR 2006
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US UTILITY FUEL COSTS FOR 2006 US UTILITY FUEL COSTS FOR 2006
US UTILITY FUEL COSTS FOR 2006 US UTILITY FUEL COSTS FOR 2006
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12% of companies surveyed have approval to trade U futures
Only 12% of companies surveyed by Ux Consulting said they had approval to trade uranium futures. However, with 15% of respondents saying they were in the process
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Almelo Treaty parties won't permit snap sales by Urenco shareholders
Members of the Joint Committee for the Treaty of Almelo have spelled out that they will not permit Urenco shareholders to sell their Urenco shares unless it
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Australia-India uranium commerce won't violate treaty, officials say
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer believes that the export of uranium from his country to India under IAEA safeguards would not constitute a violation of the South
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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DOE picks Savannah River to house non-pit plutonium from other sites
The US Department of Energy has chosen the Savannah River Site in South Carolina as the place to consolidate surplus "non-pit" plutonium from across the department's complex,
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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DOE: Court ruling doesn't halt all Yucca drilling
DOE told Nevada last week it plans to continue some bore hole work at Yucca Mountain, saying it will need to use roughly 286,000 gallons of water,
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Expanded GNEP membership will attend Vienna meeting
About two dozen countries are expected to attend a meeting of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, or GNEP, scheduled for September 16 in Vienna, according to officials
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Holtec designs AP1000 storage racks
Holtec International said last week it has signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Co. to design spent fuel storage racks for Westinghouse's AP1000 reactors. The racks will
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Holtec sends Hi-Star 60 cask to NRC
Holtec International applied to NRC August 30 for a certificate of compliance, or COC, for the Hi-Star 60 transportation cask. Similar in design to the Hi-Star 100
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Kazatomprom sets goals higher for U production, pursues nuclear cycle
Kazatomprom plans to mine 18,700 metric tons of uranium by 2015 and 27,000 mt U by 2025, according to Mukhtar Dzhakishev, president and CEO of the Kazakh
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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NRC cites USEC for QA glitch at American Centrifuge Plant
NRC has issued a notice of violation to USEC for a quality-assurance issue at its American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, but both the company and the
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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NRC commission votes to release documents on NFS, BWXT facilities
The NRC commissioners voted unanimously August 31 to ease the agency's tight restrictions on releasing documents on facilities operated by Nuclear Fuel Services and BWX Technologies.
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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NRC finalizes Diablo Fonsi
NRC issued a final finding of no significant impact, or Fonsi, August 31 that concluded a potential terrorist attack on the Diablo Canyon independent spent fuel storage
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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NRC sets schedule for TN-40 transport
NRC notified Transnuclear Inc. last month that its application for NRC certification of the TN-40 storage system for transport now appears to contain the necessary information to
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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NRC, TN to discuss Nuhoms RAIs
Transnuclear Inc. will meet with NRC staff September 19 to discuss a request for additional information, or RAI, the agency issued August 29 on TN's proposed amendment
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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OPPD takes dual path to cask loading in order to ensure full-core reserve
Facing the possible loss of full-core reserve in the Fort Calhoun spent fuel pool in late 2009, the Omaha Public Power District is pursuing dual paths to
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
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Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Quad Cities orders more Hi-Storm 100s
Holtec International said last week that Exelon has ordered 20 additional Hi-Storm 100s overpacks and MPC-68 canisters for use at Quad Cities. Under the new contract, Holtec
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Reactor uranium requirements lower as utilities decrease assay levels
World uranium requirements for reactors in the period up to 2010 are generally lower on current assessments than the World Nuclear Association's assessment of two years ago,
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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Shutdown of Russian reactors on schedule, despite labor shortage
The project to shut down Russia's three remaining plutonium production reactors is on schedule, in spite of a labor shortage at the Zheleznogorsk site that houses one
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Singh coalition tries to finesse challenge to safeguards negotiation
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his United Progressive Alliance, UPA, set up a grievance panel last week to try to defuse a challenge by four leftist parties
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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Spot price appears to have stabilized at $85-$90/lb
The psychological impact on the market of the recent DOE auction of 200 metric tons uranium as UF6 appears to have waned with both buyers and sellers
Publication Date: SEP 2007
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ASN licenses 18-month cycles in EDF's 1,450-MW units
Electricite de France will begin loading a new fuel type into its 1,450-MW-class N4 reactor series this fall, following generic approval of the so-called Alcade dossier that
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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DOE must stop borehole project, Nevada says
DOE would have to show "good faith" and stop using water for a borehole drilling project at Yucca Mountain before Nevada would be willing to work with
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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DOE signaling flexibility on key elements of GNEP
DOE is contemplating changes in several parts of its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, in areas such as the initial size of a planned reprocessing facility and the
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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DOE to use cask once after expiration date
NRC declined last month to grant a one-time extension to the expiration date for the M-130 package that DOE's Office of Naval Reactors uses to ship spent
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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EDO OKs TN-68 amendment
NRC's acting executive director for operations last month approved a direct final rule adding an amended version of Transnuclear Inc.'s TN-68 dry storage system to NRC's list
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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European Council might not approve dual-use export rules until 2009
Because of major differences over how to interpret European Union trade law, the European Council is not likely to agree on changes proposed by the European Commission
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Holtec resubmits Hi-Star 180 application
Holtec International sent NRC a revised application for the Hi-Star 180 spent fuel transportation cask August 17. The revision addresses issues NRC staff raised after conducting an
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Holtec wins Perry contract
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. has awarded a contract to Holtec International to provide cask systems for spent fuel dry storage at Perry, Fenoc said August 21. The
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Is bottom near in current spot price slide?
Analysts were divided last week over how much further the spot price would slide before hitting bottom and rebounding. Some analysts said the price might drop over
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Localized corrosion work not done, board says
DOE studies that screened out localized corrosion of waste packages did not replicate actual repository conditions because they failed to include organic material in the dust studied,
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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NRC commissioners ask staff to decide if new waste rule needed
NRC commissioners have asked staff to determine whether a new rulemaking on waste confidence is needed and that assessment, according to some sources, could have staff pondering
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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NRC considers releasing NFS, BWXT documents
Documents that have been withheld from the public on the Nuclear Fuel Services and BWX Technologies fuel fabrication facilities would be released, if the NRC commissioners approve
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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OPPD, NRC to meet on Fort Calhoun
Omaha Public Power District officials will provide NRC staff a report September 4 on the current status of their plans to transfer Fort Calhoun spent fuel into
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
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Pakistan civilian fuel cycle plan linked to NSG trade exception
Efforts by Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission, PAEC, to obtain governmental approval and funding to set up a dedicated fuel cycle infrastructure for its nuclear power program, are
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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South Africa warned to go easy in proposed U market intervention
A prominent South African uranium producer warned last week that if the Pretoria government intervened unfairly in uranium markets to ensure sufficient uranium for domestic use, producers
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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South African policy envisions domestic enrichment, Pu recycle
The Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa will have to spend "several hundred million rand" to upgrade its existing fuel cycle infrastructure in the near term, and
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Staffing changes in SFST
David Pstrak on August 6 assumed the position of chief of the rules, inspections and operations branch in NRC's Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, SFST.
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Tentative Diablo vote scheduled
NRC's commissioners have tentatively scheduled an August 30 affirmation session on intervenors' request for a hearing on the supplemental environmental assessment of potential impacts from a terrorist
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Areva closes on UraMin as Niger contracts renewed
Areva successfully bought Canadian-listed junior miner UraMin, which has uranium rights in three African countries, July 30 when it gained more than 90% of the firm's shares
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Australia may be moving toward U exports to India
The Australian government has taken internal steps to prepare for the future opening of bilateral nuclear commerce with India, including possible exports of Australian-origin uranium, Australian diplomatic
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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EnergySolutions receives RAI on TS125
NRC last month sent EnergySolutions a 16-page request for additional information, or RAI, on the company's October 2006 request to amend the COC for the TS125 transportation
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Four teams to split $16 million for GNEP studies, DOE says
Four industry teams will split $16 million for studies supporting DOE's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, according to the department.
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Holtec amendment 5 to go to rulemaking soon
SFST received comments from Holtec International August 8 on an amendment that would boost the heat load in the Hi-Storm 100 spent fuel storage system to 36.9
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Holtec gets green light at Chernobyl
Holtec International said last week that it received authorization from the Chernobyl nuclear plant to proceed on the Chernobyl dry cask storage project, funded by a consortium
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Holtec replies to RAI on HB cask
Holtec sent NRC its response to an RAI August 3 on an amendment that would certify a cask for spent fuel transport from Humboldt Bay.
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Holtec wins contract in Korea
Holtec International said August 10 it has been selected to provide an on-site transport cask to KHNP, Korea's sole nuclear plant operator. KHNP will purchase the Hi-Star
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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House bill would move waste fee off budget
It's back. A congressional effort to move funding for the DOE repository program off budget resurfaced in the House this month when a bipartisan bill was introduced
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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IAEA-India reprocessing details could take years to negotiate
Assuming that the US and India agree in the future to terms of reprocessing US-origin spent fuel at a dedicated reprocessing plant in India under the US-India
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Indian Point amendment in rulemaking
NRC's Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, SFST, last week completed its work on an amendment allowing Indian Point-1 fuel to be loaded into the Hi-Storm
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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NAC resubmits Magnastor
NAC International sent NRC a retooled application last week for the Magnastor spent fuel storage system. Dated August 6, the cover letter asks NRC to complete the
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Nevada stance on LSN certification is wrong, DOE and NRC say
All material supporting DOE's repository license application won't be completed by the time the department certifies that a collection of repository-relevant documents are available for public inspection,
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Nuclear fuel manufacturer NFS exploring possible sale of company
Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. said last week it is exploring a possible sale of the 50-year-old Erwin, Tennessee-based company, which has been under the current private ownership
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
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Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
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Release of US-India text doesn't quell controversy over US rights
The US government this month released the text of the nuclear cooperation agreement it concluded with India in July, opening another round of scrutiny and debate for
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Spot price could drop below $100/lb U3O8
The spot price of uranium continued to drop as UK-based broker Tullett Prebon concluded its first physical uranium trade of 50,000 pounds U3O8 for September delivery at
Publication Date: AUG 2007
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Analysts unsure how far spot price will drop
With the spot price of uranium continuing to slide, there are differences among analysts about how low the price will drop before it once again rises, as
Publication Date: JUL 2007
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Antinuclear group launches attack on Comurhex plan for effluent
Areva's tentative plan for long-term storage of slightly radioactive effluents from the Comurhex UF4 conversion plant at Malvesi has drawn the wrath of the antinuclear scientists' group
Publication Date: JUL 2007
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Areva offer for UraMin set to close; would add 7,000 mt/yr
Areva's friendly cash offer of $2.5 billion for UraMin, which holds uranium rights in three African countries, will close July 30 and is expected to add about
Publication Date: JUL 2007
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Areva's top manager in Niger expelled amid rising rancor
Nigerien authorities expelled Dominique Pin, Areva's general manager in Niger, on July 25, according to African media reports confirmed July 26 by Areva in Paris.
Publication Date: JUL 2007
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Brach sees progress on burnup credit, SRP
Division of spent fuel storage and transportation director William Brach told NRC's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste and Materials, or ACNW&M, July 17 he expects to see
Publication Date: JUL 2007
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