Lingen - 23 July 2026: Lower Saxony has approved the expansion of the fuel assembly plant in Lingen operated by Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH (ANF), a subsidiary of the French nuclear group Framatome. Hexagonal fuel assemblies of Russian design may now be manufactured there. The decision was published on Wednesday, 22 July 2026, by Lower Saxony's Ministry for the Environment on behalf of the federal government and has triggered considerable political criticism because of the planned cooperation with Russian state-owned companies.ANF had applied to produce pressurized-water reactor fuel assemblies under ...
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