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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public comment on its environmental review of proposed cleanup work at the former Northeast Church Rock uranium mine in New Mexico.

A strong domestic industrial base is vital to enable US companies to compete overseas, nuclear industry executives told President Donald Trump at a meeting on 12 February.

The uranium market started to show recovery in 2018 but prices and the long-term contracting market are still not sufficient to restart idled production capacity, Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel said yesterday.

A ceremony has been held to mark the loading of the first fuel into unit 4 at South Korea's Shin Kori nuclear power plant.

While commissioning of some of the equipment and technological systems within the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement (NSC) progresses, many of the systems are now in operation.

The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) of the Netherlands has completed the irradiation testing in the High Flux Reactor of a new type of metal.

The first Russian-made experimental nuclear fuel assemblies based on accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) for light water reactors have been loaded for testing into the water loops of the MIR research reactor.

The French nuclear industry has today signed a strategic contract with the government and unions, covering the period 2019-2022.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has completed an environmental assessment clearing the way for the fabrication of high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel for advanced nuclear reactors at the INL.

The Lost Creek in situ leach (ISL) uranium project has produced a cumulative 2.7 million pounds U3O8 (1039 tU) since beginning operations in 2013 and could ramp production up within six months, Ur-Energy said yesterday.

Entergy Corporation has completed the sale of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee to subsidiaries of NorthStar Group Services, which will decommission the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station site.

A panel set up as a forum to provide community input into matters related to the decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has recommended that the two-unit plant be decommissioned within ten years of its 2025 shutdown.