Bellona reports that Rostechnadzor announced today its approval of a spent fuel shipment from Hungary. Spent fuel of the VVR-SM research reactor in Budapest is expected to be brought to Russia later this year. It is not clear if the...
September 2008 Archives
The Bush administration decided to withdraw the agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation (123 agreement) with Russia from Congress. This move was expected and may, in fact, help the agreement in the long run - it did not have a chance...
The Nuclear Suppliers Group approved a Statement on Nuclear Cooperation with India (armscontrolwonk.com has a discussion of earlier drafts), which lifts restrictions from nuclear trade with the country. The approval was part of the U.S.-India nuclear deal process. To begin...
The power reactor in Bushehr will not be ready to begin operations in 2008, as it was planned. After a visit of a high-level delegation of Atomstroyexport to Bushehr, Iran announced that the reactor would start in 2009. UPDATE 09/08/08:...
The last Russia's plutonium production reactor, ADE-2 in Zheleznogorsk, will indeed be shut down earlier than it was originally planned (in 2010). Construction of the replacement heat-generating plant in Zheleznogorsk is expected to be completed in the fall of 2009,...
During his visit to Zheleznogorsk, Sergey Kiriyenko, the head of Rosatom, announced the plans to build a large spent fuel storage and reprocessing hub in Zheleznogorsk. The first part of the plan includes completion of the spent fuel storage facilities...
USEC has estimated that its American Centrifuge Plant project would cost $3.5 billion. The lead cascade of the plant being built in Piketon, Ohio, will consist of 50 AC100 machines. The cascade is expected to be operational by the end...