Ukraine continues its efforts to diversify nuclear fuel supply. Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB signed a contract with Energoatom to supply 630 fuel assemblies (estimated to fuel three VVER-1000 reactors for five years) in 2011-2015. Energoatom expects that it will complete...
March 2008 Archives
Energoatom announced that it reduces the number of spent fuel shipments that it will send to Russia in 2008 from six to four. Earlier, it planned five shipments of VVER-1000 fuel and one of VVER-440 fuel. According to Energoatom, Russia...
Speaking about Russia's plans to build enrichment facilities abroad, a representative of Rosatom mentioned that Russia will add another 0.5 million SWU/year facility to the three (with total capacity 1.5 million SWU/year) it has already built in China....
In a wave of enthusiasm that followed the signing of a U.S.-Russian agreement that will make it easier for Russia to sell enrichment services in the United States, Rosatom expressed interest in building a centrifuge enrichment facility in the United...
Confronted with a substantial increase in the price of fresh fuel supplied by Russia, Ukraine is trying to create a reserve of fuel for its nuclear stations and to diversify the fuel supply. Energoatom, the Ukrainian operator of nuclear plants,...
According to a report in The Washington Post, the U.S. administration pulled back from signing an agreement on nuclear cooperation (usually known as a 123 agreement) at the last moment last month (most likely, it was expected to be signed...