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The day’s nuclear news in brief, updated through the day.

  1. Wyoming signs up for fast-track federal permitting

    Wyoming has become the tenth state to align its permitting with the federal FAST-41 process, which covers uranium mining.

  2. Urenco starts first commercial LEU+ production in the West

    The New Mexico enrichment plant has filled its first cylinder of uranium enriched to between 5% and 10% U-235.

  3. Bruce Power takes unit 5 offline for a 30-year life extension

    Unit 5 is the fourth of six Bruce reactors to go through a major component replacement.

  4. Saltfoss heads to the NRC with a floating molten salt plant

    The Danish developer formerly known as Seaborg wants to license barge-mounted reactors in the US.

  5. Turkey and South Korea sign nuclear financing pact

    Korea’s export-import bank will work with Turkey’s state nuclear company on funding new plants.

  6. Last Energy, Radiant and Antares clear DOE safety steps

    Three companies in the Reactor Pilot Program passed Department of Energy authorization milestones in October.

  7. Poland applies to start early works at its first nuclear site

    PEJ wants to begin preparatory construction at Lubiatowo-Kopalino ahead of a full construction permit.

  8. Centrus ships first new Oak Ridge centrifuge to Piketon

    It is the first of more than 11,500 machines planned for the Ohio enrichment plant’s expansion.

  9. Dow’s X-energy plant in Texas nears a construction permit

    The NRC has completed its safety review of the four-unit Xe-100 plant at Seadrift.

  10. NRC caps contested licensing hearings at 6 to 18 months

    A final rule sets deadlines for contested reactor licensing hearings for the first time.

  11. Westinghouse to study an AP1000 for Slovakia’s Bohunice site

    A six-month front-end engineering study will produce a first schedule and budget for the new unit.

  12. Deep Fission signs Kansas power deal after short-seller attack

    The borehole reactor developer is targeting 150 MW in Parsons, Kansas, by 2028.

  13. Constellation lines up a $5bn DOE loan for reactor uprates

    The conditional loan would add 1.1 GW from 15 reactors at eight existing plants.

  14. US Navy picks Radiant’s Kaleidos for Naval Weapons Station Crane

    It will be the Navy’s first shore-based advanced microreactor and Indiana’s first power reactor.

  15. OPG’s Origin Nuclear to run Poland’s SGE fleet of UK SMRs

    A planned joint venture would operate 14 BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites.

  16. The Nuclear Company proposes a 6.6 GW AP1000 campus in Kentucky

    Prosperity One would be larger than any nuclear plant now operating in the US.