Centrus Energy Corp. has signed a new services contract with X Energy, LLC (X-energy) to proceed with the preliminary design of a facility to fabricate advanced nuclear fuel. The contract builds upon the companies’ prior contract, signed in March 2018, to complete a conceptual design of the facility. Businesswire.com

In a first for the UK nuclear industry, Magnox has announced that the Bradwell site in Essex, England has entered care and maintenance (C&M). Both of the nuclear power plant’s reactor buildings have been defuelled, decommissioned and covered in weatherproof cladding to create ‘safestores’ – with all intermediate level waste (ILW) packaged and safely stored on site. World-nuclear-news.org

In rural towns like Shikoku’s Ikata, the Japanese nuclear industry is making a quiet comeback. Japantimes.co.jp

Regular electricity production at the Olkiluoto-3 EPR unit under construction in Finland will begin in January 2020, a delay of about four months from the previous schedule, nuclear operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said today. Nucnet.org