In the next two years Ukraine will create a reserve of fuel for its nuclear power plants, which is supposed to provide one year worth of fuel. A reserve of this kind is sometimes seen as one of the ways...
January 2008 Archives
According to an AP story, Egypt will begin taking bids for its first nuclear power reactor in February. Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Energy Bodman visited Egypt, where he promoted, among other things, the U.S. GNEP initiative....
Platts Nuclear reports that Russia and the United States will sign an amendment to the 1992 agreement that regulates export of Russian enriched uranium to the United States later this week: The amendment [...] would, among other things, set new...
On January 28, 2008 Russia delivered the final shipment of fuel to Iran. According to the reports, the fuel has enrichment from 1.6% to 3.62%. The final shipment was reported to be of 8.6 MTHM. Previous delivery took place on January...
Ukraine is moving to build a spent fuel storage facility on its territory. According to a press report, the national company, Energoatom, will submit draft legislation to the parliament by the end of 2008. The facility is expected to accomodate up...
On January 26th, 2008 Russia delivered the seventh of the eight planned shipments of nuclear fuel for the Bushehr reactor, bringing the amount of fuel there to 77 tonnes. Previous delivery took place on January 24th....
Following a similar move by the U.K., France pledged to support an exception for India from the rules of the Nuclear Suppliers Group that prohibit nuclear trade with the country that has not submitted all its nuclear installations to the IAEA...
According to a RBC News report,Russia wants to raise the price it charges Ukraine for taking its spent fuel back by about 18% in 2008. Accoring to the report, "It cost $372 to ship a kilogram of spent fuel in...
Russia's TVEL corporation raised the price of fresh fuel it is suppling to Ukraine by about 20% in 2008, according to Ukrainian sources. In a separate development, Russia was reported to ask a higher price for spent fuel takeback....
Since I started tracking fuel shipments to Iran, I guess I have no choice but continue. The sixth shipment was reported to take place today with two more scheduled in the comning two weeks. As I understand, there were conflicting...
According to a Word Nuclear News report, the U.K. is ready to support "an appropriate India-specific exemption to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) guidelines". France will apparently follow and Russia has never had any objections to opening nuclear trade with...
The fifth fuel shipment was reported to take place on 22 January 2008, just two days after the fourth one....
On January 20, 2008, Russia delivered another 11 tonnes of fuel to the Bushehr reactor. Previous delivery took place two days earlier - on January 18, 2008....
On January 18, 2007 Russia delivered the third batch of fuel to the Bushehr plant in Iran. This batch was reported to include 11 tonnes of fuel. The first and second deliveries took place on December 16, 2007 and on december...
China wants Areva to supply its spent fuel reprocessing technology as well as nuclear power reactors. An AP story quotes a source as saying that "The contract will not come into effect unless Areva agrees unequivocally to transfer this (nuclear fuel...
Rosatom reports that TVEL signed an agreement with the Atomic Energy Institute in Sverk, Poland, about supplying the Maria research reactor there with 36%-enriched HEU fuel. The fuel is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2008. On...