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• Areva: no need to repeat MOX trials

  Areva has refuted claims that its MOX nuclear fuel assemblies failed in-core tests essential to the US program to use the fuel, which would be made in part from dismantled nuclear weapons. Posted Aug 06 2008, 12:56 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, MOX

• Contracts for new US Areva plants

  Two contracts have been awarded related to new Areva facilities in the USA. One concerns an environmental study of an enrichment plant; the other, detailed engineering of sintering furnaces for a MOX plant. Posted Jul 23 2008, 12:21 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, MOX

• Final contract for US MOX

  A $2.7 billion final contract has been signed for the US facility to recycle weapons-grade plutonium into reactor fuel for power generation. Shaw Areva MOX Services is carrying out the construction. Posted May 27 2008, 12:16 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Shaw Group, MOX, SRS

• EPZ applies to use MOX fuel at Borssele

  EPZ has applied for government permission to use mixed-oxide fuel in the Borssele nuclear power plant. The company also wants to "improve its use of recycled uranium," which it has been loading into Borssele for the past few years. Posted May 09 2008, 11:59 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: MOX

• Areva to supply MOX fuel for Takahama units

  Areva of France has signed a contract for the supply 16 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for use in units 3 and 4 of Kansai's Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan. The fuel assemblies will be produced at Areva's Melox facility. Posted Apr 28 2008, 01:10 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Japan, MOX

• Go-ahead for Ohma

  J-Power are to begin construction of the Ohma nuclear power plant in May this year, now they have official authorization for the boiling water reactor which is to run on a full-MOX fuel load. The company said low-emissions nuclear power would lower its impact per unit of electricity. Posted Apr 23 2008, 11:15 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: MOX