Cease and desist order on water use reinstated
The Nevada state engineer has reinstated a cease and desist order barring DOE from any further use of water for the drilling of bore holes at Yucca
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Criticality wasn't possible in 2006 event, NFS says
There was not enough high-enriched uranyl nitrate solution to have gone critical, even if it hadn't leaked from a glovebox onto the floor, Nuclear Fuel Services President/CEO
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DOE cost range on Yucca rail spur puts high-end estimate at $3 billion
The cost of constructing a 319-mile rail spur to Yucca Mountain could cost the DOE repository program between roughly $1.7 billion and $3.1 billion, according to a
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DOE issues draft on assistance program
Funding constraints could force DOE to delay implementation of a pilot program aimed at testing a technical and financial assistance program for states and Indian tribes through
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Deal on Russian SWU could be set by year-end, Commerce official says
Moscow and Washington could have an accord in place by the end of the year on lifting the current limits on US imports of Russian SWU, a
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Dutch intelligence reconstructed Khan's suspected access to plans
Dutch intelligence officers in the mid-1970s were able to reconstruct when and where Pakistani metallurgist Abdul Qadeer Khan is believed to have gotten access to design blueprints
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Exelon, NRC investigate fuel pellets, detectors unaccounted for at Dresden
Exelon Nuclear and NRC inspectors are trying to find out what happened to two fuel pellets and 99 in-core detectors that were last known to be in
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Franco-Libyan MOU might be Areva's ticket to Libyan uranium
Areva hopes to profit in the near term from the memorandum of understanding signed July 25 in Tripoli by the French and Libyan heads of state by
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Golan to leave Yucca project for Stanford post
DOE's Paul Golan will step down from his post as the principal deputy director of the Yucca Mountain repository project to become the federal site manager of
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Inhofe attacks Clinton's hearing request
Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma turned the tables last week and claimed that it was Senator Hillary Clinton, not the Republicans, who failed to ask the
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NAC-MPC amendment 5 takes effect
NRC confirmed the July 24 effective date of a direct final rule making changes to the NAC-MPC spent fuel storage system. Amendment 5 revises the technical specifications
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NRC clarifies stance on Holtec Hi-Star 180
NRC found Holtec International's April 11 revised application to certify the Hi-Star 180 spent fuel transport cask was "a substantial improvement" over an earlier submittal and found
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NRC holds off hiring for Yucca review
NRC is not yet hiring specialized staff to review a DOE repository license application "that might not come," NRC Chairman Dale Klein said this month. Speaking July
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NRC issues partial SER on Magnastor
NRC staff sent NAC International the promised partial safety evaluation report, or SER, July 24, documenting the areas in which the staff was able to reach safety
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NSG not prepared to quickly respond to US pressure on exemption for India
The Nuclear Suppliers Group, NSG, has not made any preparations thus far to quickly process a US request to award India an exception to nuclear trade rules,
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Nuclear agreement with Russia has 'no surprises,' US official says
The recently initialed US-Russian accord on civilian nuclear cooperation contains "no surprises" and is "basically like most of our other agreements" on nuclear cooperation, a State Department
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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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RAI imminent on shipping VSC-24
A request for additional information, or RAI, on EnergySolutions' bid to obtain transport certification for 48 loaded VSC-24 spent fuel baskets in the TS125 transport cask was
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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Sellafield Ltd. renews its fleet in preparation for HLW return
Sellafield Ltd. is gearing up its operations to return high-level waste from UK reprocessing activities to Japan in 2008 and on July 23 announced the ordered of
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TN, FP&L to look again at amendment needs
Transnuclear Inc. and Florida Power & Light will take another look at plans to amend the Nuhoms-32PTH spent fuel storage system after NRC staff identified scheduling issues
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Two Hi-Storm amendments near completion
Technical issues have largely been resolved and NRC is now focused on the wording of draft licensing documents for two amendments that would boost the allowable heat
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US, India agree on nuclear pact
The US and India formally announced July 27 they had reached accord on an agreement for nuclear cooperation, breaking a long-standing logjam on one of the steps
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Urenco 'not enthusiastic' about plan to set up gas centrifuge plant in Iran
Neither Urenco nor the three Urenco countries are keen to support a proposal floated beginning last year to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis in part by setting
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Bush-Putin statement pledges increased effort on nuclear issues
The US and Russia this month announced "a new format for enhanced cooperation" on nuclear energy and nonproliferation, pledging to work together to promote the global expansion
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DOE: Certification as early as September
DOE has told a special NRC board that it might certify its repository-related documents in an electronic database as early as September 27 but that it plans
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EC official calls for countries to site HLW geologic repositories
European Commission Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs July 3 urged European countries to get on with siting and developing geologic repositories for high-level nuclear waste and not await
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ESA's latest draft statutes would shrink advisory committee
The advisory committee for the EU's nuclear fuel supply agency would go from its current 75 members to fewer than 60 under the latest draft revision of
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GAO dupes NRC into issuing materials license to fake company
Using little more than a post office box address and toll-free telephone and fax numbers as a front for a fictitious company, congressional investigators pretending to be
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Holtec, NRC discuss Hi-Star 60
Holtec International plans to ask NRC by the end of August to certify a new spent fuel transportation cask, Hi-Star 60, company officials told NRC staff July
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IAEA role in Lerch case might result in second mistrial, Germans warn
IAEA validation of evidence for German courts, in lieu of original evidence and testimony, could result in a second mistrial of German engineer Gotthard Lerch, accused of
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Impact of terrorist attack on Yucca must be fully assessed, Loux says
The process NRC used to conclude that any terrorist attack on a spent fuel storage facility at Diablo Canyon would not have a significant impact is "inadequate"
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KAP seeks fuel cycle role with Westinghouse
Kazatomprom, or KAP, could become the fuel cycle partner of Westinghouse, thanks to its proposed purchase of 10% of the US vendor from Toshiba, the Kazakh state-owned
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NRC review of Hi-Star 180 on hold
NRC has decided it will only begin a technical review of Holtec International's application to certify the Hi-Star 180 spent fuel cask for transport after the company
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NRC sets schedule for Hi-Storm 100U
NRC will begin its technical review of Holtec International's April 27 revised application for an underground version of the Hi-Storm 100 spent fuel storage system July 27,
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New spent fuel shipping container would be more efficient, Navy says
The US Navy has prepared a draft environmental assessment that it says supports a proposed switch to a new shipping container system for aircraft carrier spent fuel
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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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Political strife puts strain on Areva uranium operations in Niger
Uranium mining interests in Niger, notably those of Areva but also Chinese activities, have come under severe tension as a Tuareg rebel movement, the Nigerien Movement for
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Prairie Island to seek TN-40 changes
Nuclear Management Co. met with NRC staff June 28 on its plan to amend Prairie Island's site-specific dry spent fuel storage license to accommodate higher enrichment, burnup
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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Spot market headed for period of volatility?
There appears to be some continuing downward pressure on the spot price of uranium, as more sellers show signs of being willing to drop their prices in
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Suez subsidiaries receive contracts for work on new GB II SWU plant
Areva's Societe d'Enrichissement du Tricastin, or SET, subsidiary has awarded five contracts totaling Eur 110 million (US$151.6 million) for work on the new Georges Besse II centrifuge
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Test package for TN-40 transport license
Transnuclear Inc. sent NRC test data in late June on the impact limiters it proposes to place on TN-40 storage-only casks at Prairie Island to make the
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US-Russia nuclear pact initialed, but faces hurdles in Congress
The initialing of a US-Russia agreement for bilateral nuclear cooperation this month marks an important step toward bringing that pact into force, but significant political obstacles still
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Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
Other Uranium Pricing Indicators
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Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
Platts Forward Uranium Indicator
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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Spot uranium price expected to continue climbing for several years
Many market analysts still say they believe that the spot price of uranium will continue to rise over the next several years until more real production comes
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Publication Date: JUN 2007
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Areva launches bid to take over uranium producer UraMin
Areva on June 15 launched a friendly bid to take over UraMin, which holds uranium rights in three African countries.
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Australia leaving option open to permit U exports to India
The Australian government has not yet decided whether Australian producers may export uranium to India should a US-India nuclear agreement enter into force, Australian officials said last
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Current Uranium Pricing Indicators (US$/lb U308)
Current Uranium Pricing Indicators (US$/lb U308)
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ESA panel seeks simpler roadmap for nuclear material contracts
Members of the Euratom Supply Agency's advisory committee on June 8 failed to approve a proposed roadmap for how the agency will handle different types of nuclear
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European researchers, industry differ on urgency of P&T
Advanced reprocessing and/or waste conditioning technologies should be implemented as soon as possible if they are to have a "relevant" impact on the safety of the long-term
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Fission products key
Von Lensa's presentation previewed results obtained by the organizations in the context of Red-Impact, a three-year project launched under the European Commission's sixth framework R&D program in
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Fuel market players looking for responses to high U prices
An open uranium fuel market that clears rapidly, is free from distortion with early warning signals on price, and has transparent pricing based on financial futures is
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Holtec drops convection bid in high-heat cask
Holtec International is revising the thermal analysis supporting amendment 4 to the Hi-Storm 100 spent fuel cask system, dropping its attempt to obtain credit for convection in
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House appropriators rebuke DOE on H Canyon reprocessing
The House Appropriations Committee this month approved a fiscal 2008 spending bill that cuts or reallocates funding for the Savannah River Site's H Canyon reprocessing facility and
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House panel pushes interim storage, says no fuel at decommissioned sites
House appropriators this month directed DOE to develop a plan to take possession of spent nuclear fuel now stored at decommissioned reactor sites, saying that would reduce
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Keystone group has 'little confidence' DOE will meet repository schedule
Members of a special Keystone Center nuclear energy fact-finding group said in a report issued last week that they have "little confidence" that DOE's existing schedule for
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Licensing issues seen as looming large in prospects for GNEP
Putting in place an effective licensing regime for DOE's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership program is likely to be the biggest challenge in bringing the fuel cycle initiative
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Marathon's Mt. Gee project targets 1,000 mt of uranium a year by 2012
Marathon Resources Ltd., assisted by technology from Chinese investors, has set preliminary targets to produce roughly 1,000 metric tons of uranium a year for about 15 years
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NAC moving ahead on Magnastor
NAC International is moving toward resubmitting its Magnastor spent fuel storage system for NRC review and approval. The parties will meet June 20 to discuss the vendor's
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NRC issues orders to stand-alone Isfsis
NRC recently issued new orders to the operators of four independent spent fuel storage installations, or Isfsis, requiring fingerprinting and criminal background checks for any individuals who
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New French waste review board will submit report by end of June
Members of France's new waste management scientific review commission, the Commission Nationale d'Evaluation, or CNE, have been working intensively since May 31 to produce their first report,
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New program aimed at boosting uranium production in Ukraine
Ukraine has launched a program to boost uranium production and is taking steps to pave the way for increased foreign investment. A near-term priority is to start
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OPPD to discuss crane upgrades with NRC
The Omaha Public Power District will meet with staff in NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation June 28 to discuss the analysis being done to determine whether
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Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
Secondary SWU Market Price Estimate (US$/SWU)
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Spot uranium price rise may be slowing
The spot price of uranium was expected to rise last week in response to two auctions of uranium material. But the rise was expected to be moderate,
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Staff changes in SFST
Nader Mamish has been tapped to take over Bill Ruland's role as deputy director for licensing and inspection in NRC's division of spent fuel storage and transportation.
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TVEL lands first UK fuel contract
TVEL has landed its first fuel supply contract in the UK, according to the Russian nuclear fuel supplier and British Energy, which will buy the fuel made
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Thorp gears up for restart as reprocessing position clarified
As the UK's Thorp oxide fuel reprocessing plant started gearing up this month to restart after a 26-month outage, UK officials sought to clarify the reasoning behind
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U market undersupplied to 2025, official says
World uranium production fell 5% in 2006 despite a 92% spot price increase, according to Scott Melbye, Cameco's vice president for marketing and trading.
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UK says MOX deliveries at risk to overseas customers
Mixed-oxide fuel deliveries to overseas reprocessing customers are "at risk," the UK government's Department of Trade and Industry, DTI, said in a public consultation document issued June
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Areva launches Comurhex II project, studies new Repu facility
Areva last month formally announced the launch of a 610-million-euro (US$823 million) project to build a new uranium conversion complex to replace aging facilities at its production
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Bellows, bearing stress led Japan to abandon squat gas centrifuges
Problems Japan experienced in manufacturing steel gas-centrifuges featuring bellows, and concerns about bearing stress and rotor balancing, led Japan since the 1990s to develop thinner carbon fiber
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Bush-Putin meeting may signal US-Russian civilian nuclear pact
There is a good chance that a US-Russian agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation will be ready to be signed when the two countries' leaders meet in July,
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Combining LWRs, fast reactors and ADS called best P&T option
A waste transmutation system building on synergies among LWRs, fast reactors and accelerator-driven systems, or ADS, would be optimal for Europe in terms of waste reduction and
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