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  • AREVA Affirms No Need to Restart MOX Tests

    Recently a pair of antinuclear groups issued a misleading press release calling in question the results of trials of MOX (mixed oxide) fuel lead test assemblies (LTAs) at Duke Energy’s Catawba nuclear power plant . The groups suggest that the tests failed—this is not true. The tests provided AREVA with...
    Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-08-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-27-2008

  • Areva signs $2.7B construction contract for MOX plant at SRS

    U.S. Department of Energy is funding the project which has global significance AREVA announced this week that its joint venture Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed an agreement for  construction of the Mixed Oxide ( MOX ) Fuel Fabrication Facility at...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-25-2008

  • Re: Shaw wins $2 billion pact

    From Shaw... Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC Signs Final Construction Contract Modification for Department of Energy's MOX Facility BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2008--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) announced today that Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC has signed a modification to its contract...
    Posted to Nuclear Suppliers (Forum) by Highrad on 05-23-2008

  • Shaw wins $2 billion pact

    From: 2theadvocate.com The Shaw Group landed one of the biggest construction contracts in its history Thursday when the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Shaw $2 billion in nuclear fuel work at a South Carolina facility. The award came in a contract modification to construction work Shaw and AREVA Group...
    Posted to Nuclear Suppliers (Forum) by Highrad on 05-23-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-09-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-28-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008
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