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It was just over a year ago, Bruce Power said Wednesday, that the curtain was raised on its Major Component Replacement Project with the start of its Unit 6 refurbishment.

Unit 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP with the BN-800 reactor has resumed operations after its recent refueling, which was the first time the reactor has been refueled with only assemblies loaded with MOX, uranium-plutonium fuel, making another substantial step towards operating the reactor with only MOX fuel.

A U.S. patent was awarded to Czech research teams that developed a polycrystalline-diamond coating that is intended to reduce corrosion and, by doing so, extend the life of fuel rods in nuclear power plants during standard and emergency circumstances.

U.S. modular power plant developer NuScale Power said this week it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant - New Build Plc (KNPP-NB) to consider deploying NuScale’s innovative small modular reactor (SMR) technology at the Kozloduy power plant location.

Using nuclear propulsion technologies to support a human mission to Mars in 2039 will require NASA to pursue an "aggressive and urgent technology development program," according to a new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Russian’s nuclear supervisor Rostechnadzor announced that its chairman, Alexey Aleshin, on February 10, signed a license for Siberian Chemical Combine to construct the world’s first experimental demonstration power plant with a lead-cooled fast neutron reactor.

Westinghouse Electric Company and Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant signed a VVER-1000 nuclear fuel licensing contract for the Kozloduy power plant in Bulgaria, the U.S. company announced.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given a green light to a 1.6 percent reactor capacity increase for Duke Energy Carolinas' three Oconee reactors located near Seneca, South Carolina.

Nuclear supplier and service firm Framatome said this week it had signed a contract to upgrade a component of the instrumentation and control (I&C) system for the two units of Exelon’s Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant on the western shores of Chesapeake Bay.

--Press Release-- WizNucleus and Energy Northwest (EN) are bringing together years of technology and development expertise to create a cyber security software application to yield regulatory requirement efficiencies for nuclear energy facilities and other critical infrastructure.

With confirmation from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan – site of the 2011, post-earthquake nuclear power plant disaster – the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations said in early February that advances in drone technology showed viable promises for post-accident mapping and monitoring.

French nuclear service business Framatome said in early February that its GAIA Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) technology recently completed its first 18-month fuel cycle at a nuclear power plant in the United States.

Unit 5 of China's Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, the world's first demonstration project to adopt China's indigenous Generation III nuclear power technology Hualong One, also known as HPR1000, was put into commercial operation, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced on January 30.

After deliveries to more than 25 regions across Europe, our Advanced Doped Pellet Technology doped pellets are one step closer to U.S. commercialization, Westinghouse announced this week.

French utility EDF announced Wednesday that the price tag for Hinkley Point C under construction in Somerset, England, had risen by about $605 million and the completion date for Unit 1 had been pushed back to June 2026.

It took less than a day in office for President Joe Biden to reverse the previous administration's stand on the Paris climate change accord and revoke the federal permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The first power unit of Belarus NPP of the newest III+ generation with VVER-1200 reactor was brought to 100 percent rated power level on January 12, Rosatom announced.

The Darlington Refurbishment Project has completed a significant milestone with the successful separation of the Unit 3 reactor and its systems from the three remaining operating units at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management has successfully completed the hot commissioning testing phase of operations at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), the agency announced.

Portland, Oregon-based, small modular reactor developer NuScale Power and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) said they had executed agreements to facilitate the development of the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), which will deploy NuScale Power Modules™ at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Ten years following the first concrete pour for Kakrapar Unit 3, the reactor approved in April 2007 has been connected to the grid in India, the Department of Atomic Energy said.

The UK Space Agency said it had signed a research contract with Rolls Royce to study nuclear power as a more plentiful source of energy, capable of making possible deeper space exploration in the decades to come.

From the placement of the two-million-pound roof of the Vogtle 4 shield building to receipt of the first nuclear fuel assemblies for Unit 3, Georgia Power touted a list of construction accomplishments at the Plant Vogtle expansion project.

A new power plant equipment tranche departed Russia on December 29, 2020 with equipment headed for the Kudankulam NPP,. Rosatom announced.

Rosatom director general Alexei Likhachev in late December announced the nuclear power giant had signed an agreement with the Autonomous Republic of Sakha-Yakutia that opens the door for a small nuclear power plant developed for land-based applications.