Nuclear News Roundup May 18, 2018 US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has written to Congress informing it that he has effectively ended the project to construct a mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The facility, about 70% complete, was intended to dispose of 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium by turning it into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors. World-nuclear-news.org The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has completed a three-year project to revamp its safeguards information technology system to be more effective in its work to ensure the peaceful uses of nuclear technology. IAEA safeguards are a set of technical measures to help prevent the non-peaceful use of nuclear material and technology . World-nuclear-news.org Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has signed or renewed cooperation agreements with counterparts from five countries: Belgium, France, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The organisation has previously signed such agreements with nuclear waste management organisations in Finland, South Korea and Japan. World-nuclear-news.org The High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands is now producing the medical radioisotope Xenon-133 (Xe-133). The move follows the successful collaboration between nuclear medicine company Curium and the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) to develop and install a production process for the isotope. World-nuclear-news.org
