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Britain's Office of Nuclear Regulation has completed Step 3 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the UK HPR1000 design, and taken the decision to progress to Step 4 of the GDA, the agency said.

French nuclear power service company said it had been awarded the contract to dismantle two stainless steel interim storage pools at the Marcoule site in south-east France in a deal worth several million euros.

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said this week that Egyptian technicians had arrived at the Kursk II Nuclear Power Station to begin training that will be applied to Egypt's new El Dabaa NPP.

The country’s 80,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, stored now in 35 states at 121 sites, will not be headed to Yucca Mountain after all, President Trump said in a tweet this week.

Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin said Tuesday it had been awarded four contracts by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, to conduct assessments and computer code upgrades at the Wolsong site in Korea.

The first of the 33 transports scheduled for the transfer of about 5,600 drums, containing resin and radioactive sludge, started from the Caroso nuclear power plant (Piacenza) at the Bohunice plant in Slovakia for their treatment and conditioning.

Japanese manufacturers have completed construction of the first 360-metric ton D-shaped toroidal field coil for the ITER Tokamak project in France. The massive field coil will be shipped from the port of Kobe to France on an ocean voyage expected to take eight weeks, starting in early March.

The top technical officer for Britain’s engineering giant Rolls-Royce said this week that the company would focus on small modular reactors, which he expected would be operational in the UK within nine years.

The Kursk NPP-2 evaporative cooling tower will become the tallest one in Russia, with its height being 179 meters -- a bit taller than 587 feet, the plant said on Monday.

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM)said that renovations are underway to prepare a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to process a high-dose portion of the on-site uranium-233 inventory, enabling to convert the material into a disposal-ready form.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has confirmed that coolant is leaking from the pipes that maintain the underground ice wall at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster site.

Orano TN has completed the transfer of 296 used nuclear fuel assemblies from a U.S. reactor’s wet storage pool to the onsite dry storage Independent Spent Fuel Storage Facility (ISFSI) using eight NUHOMS EOS 37PTH heat-tolerant canisters to securely store the used fuel in eight EOS Horizontal Storage Modules (HSM), the company said.

Westinghouse Electric Company said this week that it had signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria to migrate the current Ovation platform-based information and control (I&C) systems at the plant's units 5&6.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) announced this week that it has been selected as a subcontractor by Atkins Energy Germany GmbH to participate in the decommissioning of RWE’s prototype boiling water reactor in Lingen, Germany.

The Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor) issued a new license for the right to operate Unit 1 of Rostov NPP, Rosatom has announced.

Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) today announced that lead test assemblies utilizing its ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad Accident Tolerant Fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon Generation’s Clinton Power Station in Clinton, Illinois.

The U.S. Department of Energy said it had chosen the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, as the site for a planned major new nuclear physics research facility, an electron collider that will cost between $1.6 and $2.6 billion to build.

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has entered into two significant cooperation agreements with complementary organizations in the past two weeks, first signing an agreement with an academic group and then one with Energy China.

NuScale Power announced Tuesday it has submitted an application for a pre-licensing vendor design review in Canada for its small nuclear reactor.

German utility EnBW has permanently shut down its Philippsburg 2 reactor to comply with the country’s nuclear phase-out plan, putting the company in a position to have to import electricity to meet demand

On paper, the fear of global warming should have a positive impact on the nuclear power industry, but figures from 2019 show the output from the greenhouse gas emissions-free industry dropped slightly during the year.

Let's catch up on videos of staggering milestones at the Planty Vogtle construction site in Waynesboro, Georgia.

In 2019, the Russian NPPs set a new record in terms of electric power output – over 208.7 billion kWh

With the first barring speed of one rotation per minute, Russian utility Rosenergoatom said in late 2019 that technicians had achieved a milestone with the initial activation of the turbine for the 2nd VVER-1200 power block under construction at the Leningrad NPP

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday said it would issue an early site permit to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for construction of a small modular reactor (SMR) facility at the Clinch River Site.