The Japanese government has pushed for the reuse of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in the country’s nuclear reactors, but utilities that finance the reprocessing have not funded those operations since fiscal ...

The U.S. Department of Energy contracted Shaw AREVA MOX Services LLC to design, construct, and operate a Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina ...

The Japan Electric Power Development Co Ltd (J-Power) has signed an agreement with Global Nuclear Fuel Japan (GNF-J) for the supply of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for use in the Ohma nuclear ...

The Borssele nuclear power plant in the Netherlands has started generating electricity for the first time with mixed oxide (MOX) fuel supplied by Areva. Dutch utility EPZ was licensed in 2013 to load ...

Why is the U.S. intent on imitating one of Fukushima’s scariest flaws? Last August, workers at Japan’s now infamous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant loaded the first batch of mixed-oxide fuel, or MOX, ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: The Orano group has signed two MOX fuel manufacturing contracts with the Japanese industrial company MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.) for a total of 64 ...

MOX is a controversial and rarely used fuel, except in France and a handful of other countries, usually because of proliferation concerns. While some plans to fabricate MOX from weapons-grade ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Orano has signed a contract with Japan's NFI (Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd) for the fabrication of 32 MOX fuel assemblies for the Takahama 3 and 4 reactors ...

France's Orano has signed two mixed-oxide fuel manufacturing contracts with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for a total of 64 MOX fuel assemblies for use in two Japanese nuclear power reactors. A ...

Recently, the House Appropriations Committee approved a $30.4 billion FY2014 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, including a $320 million provision for construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel ...