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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Framatome's request to allow its nuclear fuel facility in Richland, Washington, to manufacture TRISO fuel, while Lightbridge and QNI have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a framework for collaboration on the long-term supply of HALEU fuel.
 

The Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection, acting on behalf of the federal government, has approved an application from Framatome subsidiary Advanced Nuclear Fuels to expand its facility in Lingen for the production of fuel for VVER-1000 reactors. The approval is subject to strict conditions.
 

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev told reporters in Beijing that Russia and China both think "a century ahead" in developing nuclear energy, and said the Russian state nuclear corporation plans to "continue localising fuel fabrication technologies".
 

France's nuclear safety regulator has published its opinion on the safety features proposed by Paris-headquartered innovative nuclear energy company Newcleo for its planned French mixed-oxide fuel facility, concluding that the provisions adopted by the company for its safety approach are satisfactory at this stage.
 

X-Energy subsidiary TRISO-X has received a grant from the State of Tennessee of USD11 million to support the continued development of its fuel fabrication campus in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, including a potential second commercial fuel facility and a dedicated research and development centre.
 

Framatome has signed an eight-year nuclear fuel supply contract with Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj to supply fuel assemblies to the Olkiluoto 3 EPR.
 

The National Council for Mineral Policy in Brazil has established a working group to examine the contribution of the mineral sector, especially uranium, to the development of the Brazilian nuclear programme.
 

Italy's Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA has begun operations to re-encapsulate 64 uranium-thorium fuel elements currently held in the storage pool at the Itrec facility on the Rotondella site in the province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.
 

Advanced nuclear fuel developer Lightbridge Corporation has announced that the first batch of its fuel material samples have been successfully removed from Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor after undergoing irradiation.