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Curtiss-Wright Corporation and X-energy announced that they have signed a preferred strategic supplier agreement to advance the design and deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 advanced Small Modular Reactor (SMR).

Framatome announced this week it had completed installation of the first 3D-printed, stainless steel fuel component at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, operated by Vattenfall in Sweden. In collaboration with KSB SE & Co. KgaA, the ATRIUM 11 upper tie plate grids were designed, manufactured, and installed in Forsmark Unit 3 for a multi-year irradiation program.

The Westinghouse Electric Company’s Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Hopkins, South Carolina, has been given a renewed operating license that extends their mission through 12 September 2062.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded a safety review of Romania’s process for selecting the site of the country’s planned Small Modular Reactor (SMR), which could become the first SMR built in Europe, the UN's atomic energy task force said.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday released a report showing that hundreds of U.S. coal power plant sites could convert to nuclear power plant sites, adding new jobs, increasing economic benefit, and significantly improving environmental conditions.

In a meeting in Karpacz, Poland, officials from U.S. small reactor developer NuScale Power LLC and Poland’s KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (KGHM) signed the first Task Order and a Statement of Commencement to begin work under the Early Works Agreement (EWA) signed by the companies in February 2022.

British industrial Rolls-Royce SMR said it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Czech nuclear engineering and manufacturing firm Škoda JS to work towards small modular reactor plants in both and beyond the Czech Republic.

Atommash, AEM-Technologies, JSC Branch in Volgodonsk (part of Rosatom Machine Building Division - Atomenergomash) has completed welding of the steam generator heads for Kudankulam NPP Power Unit No. 5, the company said.

Southern Company subsidiary Southern Nuclear said this week it had notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of its intent to seek subsequent license renewal (SLR) for both units at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, located in Baxley, Georgia.

Mexico’s Secretary of Energy Rocio Nahle Garcia, with support from the National Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, has authorized a 30-year extension for the operating license for Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station’s Unit 2.

The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA) has issued the license for the construction of two power Russian-designed Generation III+ VVER-1200 reactors at the Paks II nuclear power plant site.

The keel-laying ceremony for the first Arctic-type Nuclear Floating Power Unit (NFPU) with RITM transport reactor vessels has taken place at the shipyard in China, Russian state-owned nuclear power Rosatom said Tuesday.

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved of plans for an antiterrorism facility to protect Tokyo Electric Power Company’s No. 6 and No. 7 reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa complex in Niigata Prefecture, media reports say.

A polar crane was mounted in design position at Akkuyu NPP Power Unit No. 1, said Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear power corporation of Russia.

Fuel channel installation is complete on Unit 3, culminating a lengthy and complex work series resulting in the completion of the reassembly of the reactor core, Ontario Power Generation said this week (August 15).

At the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People's Republic of Bangladesh (the general designer and general contractor being ROSATOM’s Engineering Division) the concreting work started at the inner containment dome of the reactor building at power unit No. 2.

Canadian small modular reactor developer Terrestrial Energy (TE) said this week it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Invest Alberta to formally assert their cooperation in promoting the company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor technology for the provincial government.

Rosatom officials along with counterparts from Turkey held a dedication ceremony in Buyukeceli this week to kick off the construction start of the Akkuyu Unit 4 in what will be the country’s first nuclear power facility.

Westinghouse Electric Company and SE NNEGC Energoatom this week announced a partnership that would bring 60 Ukrainian students to the United States for graduate level hands-on training on AP1000 plant technology, the large plant model designed by Westinghouse.

The first contract awarded as part of the Program and Project Partners new goods and services agreement has been awarded to Ansaldo Nuclear, based in Wolverhampton, the government nuclear development site said. The contract will see key connections installed between existing and new facilities at Sellafield.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load nuclear fuel and begin operation at Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia, the first reactor to reach this point in the agency’s combined license process.

After extensive testing and refurbishment, the first active shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell to Sellafield has been completed using the NDA’s Type B Gemini container fleet following a multi-million pound refurbishment, UK Sellafield said this week.

U.S. small modular reactor developer Last Energy has signed a letter of intent with project manager DB Energy and with an economic developer in Poland, the Legnica Special Economic Zone, to tie them together to build a 10-reactor SMR power plant in southwestern Poland.

Romanian utility Nuclearelectrica said it had contracted SNC-Lavalin Group member Candu Energy for engineering and design services connected to refurbishing the Unit 1 reactor at the Cernadvoda Nuclear Power Plant.

Sellafield ‘s Magnox Reprocessing Plant took its final feed of spent fuel just before midnight on Sunday 17 July 2022, Sellafield UK said.