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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission"The Red Book indicates that global identified recoverable uranium resources amounted to 7,934,500 tonnes as of 1 January 2023.This represents all “reasonably assured and inferred” uranium resources that could be recovered at market prices ranging from $40 to $260 per kilogramme of elemental uranium (KgU), equivalent to $15 to $100/lb triuranium octoxide (U3O8). U3O8, also known as yellowcake, is a type of uranium concentrate powder used to produce fuel for nuclear power reactorsCompared to the total reported in the 2022 edition, this represents an increase of less than 0.5%. Post-Covid Expenditure On The RiseAccording to the Red Book, worldwide domestic exploration and mine development expenditure has increased dramatically after a period of decline due to poor market conditions and the Covid-19 pandemic.Annual expenditure reached $800m in 2022. Preliminary data for 2023 suggests a further increase to $840m. Production, meanwhile, increased 4% between 2020 and 2022 and the report suggests the increase will continue in coming years.The Red Book Warned, however, that the establishment of new production centres could face significant lead times due to today’s “risk-averse investment climate” and complex and lengthy regulatory processes in many uranium mining jurisdictions.“Geopolitical challenges and technical difficulties in developing new mines and milling facilities may further compound the situation,” the Red Book said. “As a result, efforts must begin immediately to ensure adequate uranium supplies are available in the medium term.”Globally, Australia continues to dominate the world’s uranium resources with a share estimated at between 24% and 28%, followed by Kazakhstan with 14% and Canada with 10%.Sixty eight percent of Australia’s uranium resources, and 17% of global identified resources, are attributed to a single site, the Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia, where uranium is mined as a co-product of copperKazakhstan remained by far the world’s largest producer, at 43% of global production. Kazakhstan’s production alone in 2022 amounted to more than the combined production from Canada, Namibia, Australia and Uzbekistan, respectively the second, third, fourth and fifth largest producers of uranium that year. Governments And Corporations Turning To NuclearJust six countries accounted for 90% of the world’s uranium production in 2022, and nine countries accounted for 99%, with Russia, Niger, China, and India the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth largest producers.Potential resources increased in China, Namibia, Niger, Turkey and the US, primarily resulting from exploration activities.Governments and big corporations alike are increasingly looking to nuclear as a low-carbon and reliable source of baseload power.At the Cop28 climate conference in Dubai in 2023, 25 countries signed a pledge to triple nuclear generation capacity by 2050.Companies such as Microsoft and Amazon are also increasing their investments in nuclear power, as they bet on the technology to support the build out of new powerful data centres designed to run artificial intelligence systems.The International Energy Agency said in January that nuclear energy had entered “a new era”, with interest at its highest level since the oil crises in the 1970s. Annual investment in nuclear increased by almost 50% over the three years from 2020, it said.The Red Book said this potential soaring demand must be accompanied by investments in mining the metal used in nuclear fuel. Nuclear capacity will jump by 130% by 2050 compared to 2022 levels under the high-growth scenario in the report."<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a><a href="https://www.nucnet.org/news/nuclear-boom-means-world-needs-to-invest-in-new-uranium-mines-says-red-book-4-2-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nucnet.org/news/nuclear-boom-means-world-needs-to-invest-in-new-uranium-mines-says-red-book-4-2-2025</a>

Jan HaverkampThe new Red Book on uranium resources is out. <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> energy is not a <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainable</a> resource. If nuclear demand grows, "Beyond 2050, [...] cumulative uranium requirements would surpass 100% of the current total identified resource base in the highest cost category by the 2080s under high demand or by the 2110s under low demand." <a href="https://birdsite.miisu.net/users/iaeaorg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@iaeaorg</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/oecd_nea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@oecd_nea</a> <a href="https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_103179/uranium-2024-resources-production-and-demand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_103179/uranium-2024-resources-production-and-demand</a>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Day eleven: ☢️💧“About 90% of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> generation capacity the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coalition</a> proposes to build would not have access to enough water to run safely, according to a report commissioned by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LiberalsAgainstNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiberalsAgainstNuclear</a>.The report authored by Prof. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AndrewCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndrewCampbell</a>, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ANU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ANU</a>) , assessed nuclear energy’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> needs and the available <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/supply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#supply</a> across the seven sites where the Coalition has proposed new reactors.”“Well done Angus”If you remember the member for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Hume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hume</a> is insisting the Federal Government if the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LNP</a> wins election will purchase, run and make a profit using nuclear power. No mention of locations of power generation sites (I assume existing sites) nor is there any mention of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/geological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geological</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/enviromental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enviromental</a> or <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> disposal studies.<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberal</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gas</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coal</a> <<a href="https://theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/not-enough-water-available-for-coalitions-nuclear-proposal-to-run-safely-report-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/not-enough-water-available-for-coalitions-nuclear-proposal-to-run-safely-report-finds</a>>

Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺Iran said Tuesday a new nuclear deal could be agreed with the United States provided Tehran's longtime adversary shows sufficient goodwill in upcoming talks, as Israel warned of military action if talks drag on. Tara Kangarlou, journalist, academic and author of the 'Heartbeat of Iran', says that "the message of Iran is that they are ready to engage with the Trump administration", adding that "they have no other choice". <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvcMx16j_g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvcMx16j_g</a>

enochmm[Energía a granel] "Lo del antinuclear", con CRISTINA ROIS #82 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energiaAGranel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energiaAGranel</a> <a href="https://podcastaddict.com/energia-a-granel/episode/195953626" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://podcastaddict.com/energia-a-granel/episode/195953626</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electricodad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electricodad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcastcastellano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcastcastellano</a>

Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺FRANCE 24's international affairs commentator Douglas Herbert looks ahead to the upcoming negotiations between the US and Iran, as Iran's top diplomat on Tuesday warned US President Donald Trump to put aside a military option, saying that Tehran will never accept "coercion." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1Q4NEgFCo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1Q4NEgFCo</a>

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission"The first large-scale equipment - the feedwater reserve tank - has been placed within the turbine building of unit 3 at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant."<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a><a href="https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/in-pictures-akkuyu-3-conventional-island-equipment-delivered" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/in-pictures-akkuyu-3-conventional-island-equipment-delivered</a>

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission"Indian engineering company Larsen & Toubro has dispatched the fourth of eight steam generators intended for units 5 and 6 at the Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka State.With the dispatch of the component - about 24 metres in length, with a diameter of about 4 metres and weighing more than 200 tonnes - from its A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex in Hazira, Gujarat, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) said it has now "completed the delivery of a set of four steam generators (SGs) for one unit for the indigenously developed 10x700 MWe Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor Fleet Programme".Steam generators are heat exchangers used to convert water into steam from heat produced in a nuclear reactor core. In PHWRs, the coolant is pumped, at high pressure to prevent boiling, from the reactor coolant pump, through the nuclear reactor core, and through the tube side of the steam generators before returning to the pump.The previous three steam generators for Kaiga 5 and 6 were delivered to the construction site between August 2024 and early February this year."The fourth SG has been dispatched nine months ahead of the contractual schedule, while the full set of four SGs has been delivered in 45 months," L&T noted. "Setting a global benchmark, the first of the lot was delivered in just 33 months." Anil V Parab, director and senior executive vice president at Heavy Engineering and L&T Valves, said: "L&T Heavy Engineering's nuclear team continues to be the industry trend-setter. Our large talent pool, trained in robust nuclear quality culture, ensures consistent first-time-right execution and globally benchmarked deliveries. This accomplishment is in alignment with the Honourable PM's Viksit Bharat 2047 vision of achieving at least 100 GWe nuclear power generation."Kaiga 5 and 6 will be the first of ten Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) to be built using a fleet mode of construction to bring economies of scale as well as maximising efficiency, which have been given administrative approval and financial sanction by the Indian government. Excavation works for the units began in May 2022.Two 700 MWe PHWR units have already been built at Kakrapar, in Gujurat, and are already in commercial operation, while another, Rajasthan unit 7, was connected to the grid last month and is expected to begin commercial operation later this year."<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a><a href="https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fourth-steam-generator-for-new-kaiga-units-completed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fourth-steam-generator-for-new-kaiga-units-completed</a>

MediaFaro News DigestThe World surpasses 40% clean electricity with Europe leading as a 'solar superpower'.The world generated more than 40% of its electricity from low-carbon sources in 2024, for the EU it's 71%.Solar energy is soaring in a targeted race to build an entirely clean electricity system. Solar in the EU almost doubled in the three years to 2024 to account for 11% of electricity.<a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250408-the-world-surpasses-40-clean-electricity-with-europe-leading-as-a-solar-superpower?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediafaro.org/article/20250408-the-world-surpasses-40-clean-electricity-with-europe-leading-as-a-solar-superpower?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</a><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/SolarPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPower</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Hydropower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hydropower</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WindPower</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Emissions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a>

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission"The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look at the steps that make up the cycle, the major players and the potential pinch-points.The nuclear fuel cycle starts with the mining of uranium ore and ends with the disposal of nuclear waste. (Ore is simply the naturally occurring material from which a mineral or minerals of economic value can be extracted).We talk about the front end of the fuel cycle - that is, the processes needed to mine the ore, extract uranium from it, refine it, and turn it into a fuel assembly that can be loaded into a nuclear reactor - and the back end of the fuel cycle - what happens to the fuel after it's been used. If the used fuel is treated as waste, and disposed of, this is known as an "open" fuel cycle. It can also be reprocessed to recover uranium and other fissile materials which can be reused in what is known as a "closed" fuel cycle.The World Nuclear Association's Information Library has a detailed overview of the fuel cycle here. But in a nutshell, the front end of the fuel cycle is made up of mining and milling, conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication. Fuel then spends typically about three years inside a reactor, after which it may go into temporary storage before reprocessing, and recycling before the waste produced is disposed of - these steps are the back end of the fuel cycle.The processes that make up the fuel cycle are carried out by companies all over the world. Some companies specialise in one particular area or service; some offer services in several areas of the fuel cycle. Some are state-owned, some are in the private sector. Underpinning all these separate offerings is the transport sector to get the materials to where they need to be - and overarching all of it is the global market for nuclear fuel and fuel cycle services.How do they do it?Let's start at the very front of the front end: uranium mining.Depending on the type of mineralisation and the geological setting, uranium can be mined by open pit or underground mining methods, or by dissolving and recovering it via wells. This is known as in-situ recovery - ISR - or in-situ leaching, and is now the most widely used method: Kazakhstan produces more uranium than any other country, and all by in-situ methods.Uranium mined by conventional methods is recovered at a mill where the ore is crushed, ground and then treated with sulphuric acid (or a strong alkaline solution, depending on the circumstances) to dissolve the uranium oxides, a process known as leaching.Whether the uranium was leached in-situ or in a mill, the next stage of the process is similar for both routes: the uranium is separated by ion exchange. Ion exchange is a method of removing dissolved uranium ions from a solution using a specially selected resin or polymer. The uranium ions bind reversibly to the resin, while impurities are washed away. The uranium is then stripped from the resin into another solution from which it is precipitated, dried and packed, usually as uranium oxide concentrate (U3O8) powder - often referred to as "yellowcake".More than a dozen countries produce uranium, although about two thirds of world production comes from mines in three countries - Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia Namibia, Niger and Uzbekistan are also significant producers.The next stage in the process is conversion - a chemical process to refine the U3O8 to uranium dioxide (UO2), which can then be converted into uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas. This is the raw material for the next stage of the cycle: enrichment.Unenriched, or natural, uranium contains about 0.7% of the fissile uranium-235 (U-235) isotope. ("Fissile" means it's capable of undergoing the fission process by which energy is produced in a nuclear reactor). The rest is the non-fissile uranium-238 isotope. Most nuclear reactors need fuel containing between 3.5% and 5% U-235. This is also known as low-enriched uranium, or LEU. Advanced reactor designs that are now being developed - and many small modular reactors - will require higher enrichments still. This material, containing between 5% and 20% U-235 - is known as high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU. And some reactors - for example the Canadian-designed Candu - use natural uranium as their fuel and don’t require enrichment services. But more of that later.Enrichment increases the concentration of the fissile isotope by passing the gaseous UF6 through gas centrifuges, in which a fast spinning rotor inside a vacuum casing makes use of the very slight difference in mass between the fissile and non-fissile isotopes to separate them. As the rotor spins, the concentration of molecules containing heavier, non-fissile, isotopes near the outer wall of the cylinder increases, with a corresponding increase in the concentration of molecules containing the lighter U-235 isotope towards the centre. World Nuclear Association’s information paper on uranium enrichment contains more details about the enrichment process and technology.Enriched uranium is then reconverted from the fluoride to the oxide - a powder - for fabrication into nuclear fuel assemblies.So that's the front end of the fuel cycle. Then, there is the back end: the management of the used fuel after its removal from a nuclear reactor. This might be reprocessed to recover fissile and fertile materials in order to provide fresh fuel for existing and future nuclear power plants.Who, where and whenThat's a pared-down look at the processes that make up the front end of the fuel cycle - the "how" of getting uranium from the ground and into the reactor. But how does that work on a global scale when much of the world's uranium is produced in countries that do not (yet) use nuclear power? And that brings us to: the market.The players in the nuclear fuel market are the producers and suppliers (the uranium miners, converters, enrichers and fuel fabricators), the consumers of nuclear fuel (nuclear utilities, both public and privately owned), and various other participants such as agents, traders, investors, intermediaries and governments.As well as the uranium, there is also the market for the services needed to turn it into fuel assemblies ready for loading into a power plant. And the nuclear fuel cycle's international dimension means that uranium mined in Australia, for example, may be converted in Canada, enriched in the UK and fabricated in Sweden, for a reactor in South Africa. In practice, nuclear materials are often exchanged - swapped - to avoid the need to transport materials from place to place as they go through the various processing stages in the nuclear fuel cycle.Uranium is traded in two ways: the spot market, for which prices are reported daily, and mid- to long-term contracts, sometimes referred to as the term market. Utilities buy some uranium on the spot market - but so do players from the financial community. In recent years, such investors have been buying physical stocks of uranium for investment purposes.Most uranium trade is via 3-15 year long-term contracts with producers selling directly to utilities at a higher price than the spot market - although prices specified in term contracts tend to be tied to the spot price at the time of delivery. And like all mineral commodity markets, the uranium market tends to be cyclical, with prices that rise and fall depending on demand and perceptions of scarcity.The spot market in uranium is a physical market, with traders, brokers, producers and utilities acting bilaterally. Unlike many other commodities such as gold or oil, there is no formal exchange for uranium. Uranium price indicators are developed and published by a small number of private business organisations, notably UxC, LLC and Tradetech, both of which have long-running price series.Likewise, conversion and enrichment services are bought and sold on both spot and term contracts, but fuel fabrication services are not procured in quite the same way. Fuel assemblies are specifically designed for particular types of reactors and are made to exacting standards and regulatory requirements. In the words of World Nuclear Association's flagship fuel cycle report, nuclear fuel is not a fungible commodity, but a high-tech product accompanied by specialist support.Bottlenecks and challengesUranium is mined and milled at many sites around the world, but the subsequent stages of the fuel cycle are carried out in a limited number of specialised facilities.Anyone unfamiliar with the sector might wonder why all the different stages of mining, enrichment, conversion and fabrication are not done at the same location. Simply put, conversion and enrichment services tend to be centralised because of the specialised nature and the sheer scale of the plants, and also because of the international regime to prevent the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.Commercial conversion plants are found in Canada, China, France, Russia and the USA.Uranium enrichment is strategically sensitive from a non-proliferation standpoint so there are strict international controls to ensure that civilian enrichment plants are not used to produce uranium of much higher enrichment levels (90% U-235 and above) that could be used in nuclear weapons. Enrichment is also very capital intensive. For these reasons, there are relatively few commercial enrichment suppliers operating a limited number of facilities worldwide.There are three major enrichment producers at present: Orano, Rosatom, and Urenco operating large commercial enrichment plants in France, Germany, Netherlands, the UK, USA, and Russia. CNNC is a major domestic supplier in China.So the availability of capacity, particularly in conversion and enrichment, can potentially lead to bottlenecks and challenges to the nuclear fuel supply chain. Likewise, interruptions to transport routes and geopolitical issues can also potentially impact the supply of nuclear materials. For example, current US enrichment capacity is not sufficient to fulfil all the requirements of its domestic nuclear power plants, and the USA relies on overseas enrichment services. But in 2024, US legislation was enacted banning the import of Russian-produced LEU until the end of 2040, with Russia placing tit-for-tat restrictions on exports of the material to the USA.The fabrication of that LEU into reactor fuel is the last step in the process of turning uranium into nuclear fuel rods. Fuel rods are batched into assemblies that are specifically designed for particular types of reactors and are made to exacting standards by specialist companies. Most of the main fuel fabricators are also reactor vendors (or owned by them), and they usually supply the initial cores and early reloads for reactors built to their own designs. The World Nuclear Association information paper on Nuclear Fuel and its Fabrication gives a deeper dive into this sector.So - that’s an introduction to the nuclear fuel cycle - and we haven't even touched on the so-called back end, which is what happens to that fuel after it has spent around three years in the reactor core generating electricity, and the ways in which used fuel could be recycled to continue providing energy for years to come."<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a><a href="https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-a-guide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-a-guide</a>

CBC Top StoriesTrump claims U.S. starting direct talks with Iran on nuclear program U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Monday that the United States and Iran were poised to begin direct talks on Tehran's nuclear program, but a senior Iranian official said any negotiations would be indirect with Oman acting as intermediary. <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/negotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#negotiations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#World</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-us-iran-nuclear-talks-1.7504156?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-us-iran-nuclear-talks-1.7504156?cmp=rss</a>

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸Stuff like this could've eased my heavy treatment years ago, so I'm super hyped to see it being developed. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cancer</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a>---How Nuclear Waste Became a Miracle Cancer Drug - Kyle Hill <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUCykP7heI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUCykP7heI</a>

Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. will hold direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program, while warning the Iranians they would be in “great danger” if the talks don’t succeed in persuading them to abandon their nuclear weapons program. FRANCE 24's Saeed Azimi reports from Tehran. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSJf1LOGGAU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSJf1LOGGAU</a>

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> anuncia conversaciones directas con <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ir%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Irán</a> sobre el <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> a “casi el máximo nivel”<a href="https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-04-07/trump-anuncia-conversaciones-directas-con-iran-sobre-el-programa-nuclear-a-casi-el-maximo-nivel.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-04-07/trump-anuncia-conversaciones-directas-con-iran-sobre-el-programa-nuclear-a-casi-el-maximo-nivel.html</a>

Flipboard News DeskU.S. President Trump says his administration has been holding “direct talks” with Iran and that a “very big meeting” will be taking place this Saturday. Read more from @Axios@flipboard.com <a href="https://flip.it/zClIul" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/zClIul</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiddleEast</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diplomacy</a>

McDonald_69'We thought it was the end of the world': How the US dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966In 1966, the remote Spanish village of Palomares found that the "nuclear age had fallen on them from a clear blue sky". Two years after the terrifying accident, BBC reporter Chris Brasher went to find what happened when the US lost a hydrogen bomb.<a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250404-how-the-us-dropped-nuclear-bombs-on-spain-in-1966" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250404-how-the-us-dropped-nuclear-bombs-on-spain-in-1966</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bomb</a>

Alo Japan<a href="https://www.alojapan.com/1240026/methane-gas-detected-above-permissible-levels-at-osaka-expo-venue/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.alojapan.com/1240026/methane-gas-detected-above-permissible-levels-at-osaka-expo-venue/</a> Methane gas detected above permissible levels at Osaka Expo venue <a href="https://channels.im/tags/asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asia</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biz</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapanBroadcastingCorporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapanBroadcastingCorporation</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/nhk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nhk</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NhkWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NhkWorld</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NHKWORLDPREMIUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHKWORLDPREMIUM</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NhkWorldTv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NhkWorldTv</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NHKWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHKWorld</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Osaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Osaka</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/OsakaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OsakaNews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/PublicBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicBroadcaster</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RadioJapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioJapan</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#world</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#大阪</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA%E5%BA%9C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#大阪府</a> Methane gas at levels that could explode has been detected at the 2025 World Exposition site in Osaka City, western Japan. The Japan Association for the 2025 World Expo has pledged to tighten…

Pyrzout :vm:China ha comenzado la producción masiva de baterías nucleares, con una duración de 50 años, sin necesidad de recarga, y que se convierten en cobre al final de su vida útil <a href="https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/04/china-bateria-nuclear-50-anos-sin-recargar.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/04/china-bateria-nuclear-50-anos-sin-recargar.html</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/bater%C3%ADa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#batería</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a>

Jon PENNYCOOKAs long as you're happy waiting 50 years before the journey time is cut by half (I'm sceptical)'Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half'<a href="https://futurism.com/nuclear-fusion-rocket-cut-time-mars-half" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://futurism.com/nuclear-fusion-rocket-cut-time-mars-half</a>'The firm is hoping to achieve fusion in orbit for the first time in 2027, a moonshot plan that could put far-flung destinations in our solar system within much easier reach — if everything goes perfectly according to plan, at least.'<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusion</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NuclearFusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearFusion</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a>

Gif's ArtidoteBritain's Chernobyl Disaster<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKgov</a> lied about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sellafield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sellafield</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> accident in 1957 blaming workers instead of systemic failure.They lied then, they lie now. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EconomicBreakdown</a> is systemic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> = eating itself.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#press</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoverUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoverUp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Declassified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Declassified</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EatTheRich</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/8wFX0PXgbps?si=jH-nDQG3zPgmvTIm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8wFX0PXgbps?si=jH-nDQG3zPgmvTIm</a>

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