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Canada's Bruce Power said this week it had completed another harvest of Cobalt-60, a vital resource in supporting the global fight against the omicron variant by sterilizing billions of pieces of medical equipment used by frontline health care workers.

Blaming the global pandemic, French utility EDF has pushed back start up of the Flamanville 3 nuclear power plant by at least six months. EDF said Wednesday that fuel loading for the nearly completed unit would not be until the second quarter of 2023, a push back from the previous schedule of late this year.

On December 30, 2021, ahead of schedule, Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) handed over the package of documents to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) which are required for receipt of license for construction of El Dabaa NPP power units 3 and 4 (general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division).

The highest Center of Nuclear Technology Research and Development in the world by altitude, currently under construction by the Rosatom State Corporation in El Alto, Bolivia, has seen successful testing of its radiopharmaceuticals production line, Rosatom said this week.

Germany shuttered three nuclear reactors on December 31, closing down a combined 4254 MWe of capacity, leaving the country with three remaining nuclear plants, a move that challenges the country’s commitment to climate control goals in the name of national safety.

The K-3 Unit of Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan, the second overseas nuclear power unit adopting HPR1000 technology, finished first fuel loading on the last day of 2021, China National Nuclear Corporation said.

The first criticality of the EPR reactor installed at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland was achieved on 21 December, power utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced.

The concreting of the fifth tier of the inner containment of Unit 2 reactor building of Rooppur NPP (Bangladesh) was completed on December 24, Russian nuclear powerhouse Rosatom said this week.

Rosatom's fuel component TVEL Fuel Company has launched the new fabrication facility for manufacturing of TVS-K nuclear fuel for PWR reactors at the site of Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, one of the world’s major nuclear fuel enterprises, Rosatom announced.

Russia’s state-owned nuclear giant said December 20 that construction of Kudankulam Unit 6 began with the first foundational concrete pour for the reactor building in Tamil Nadu, India.

Britain’s nuclear industry processing and technology center Sellafield said that preparation work for returning high-level waste back to overseas customers has been completed.

French reactor business Framatome said this week it had been awarded the contract to upgrade the incore instrumentation systems for units 1 and 2 at Dominion Energy’s Surry Nuclear Power Station as part of its Subsequent License Renewal program.

Construction teams in Turkey have begun constructing the foundation slab for the pump station of Akkuyu NPP Unit 1., a Rosatom-led project with four nuclear plants planned.

Finland’s power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyi (TVO) said Wednesday it had sent its application in to the country’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority asking permission to start up the Olkiluoto 3 EPR power plant and to move forward with initial testing of the unit.

About 4,000 households in Haiyan county in Zhejiang province in Southern China, had the heat turned on this week (December 3) thanks to a demonstration project developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation.

Russia's state-owned nuclear power Rosatom said Tuesday that corporation delegates and Nicaraguan officials on December 7 signed a Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for cooperation on an array of nuclear technologies.

ROSATOM, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and French utility EDF signed a joint declaration of intent in Paris Wednesday to develop their long-term R&D collaboration in the field of civil nuclear power.

The U.S. Department of Energy on the last day of November launched a renewed effort to find a federal solution to storage of spent nuclear fuel after attempts to push Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a permanent storage repository was withdrawn by the Obama administration.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Wednesday, it had signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French utility EDF paving the way for Cobalt-60 radioisotope production in select Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) owned and operated by EDF in France.

Concrete pouring for the BREST-OD-300’s nuclear island’s foundation slab has been completed after a round-the-clock pour, Russian state-owned Rosatom Corp. has announced.

SNC-Lavalin Group said subsidiary Candu Energy had signed a 12-month, $8.4 million contract from Romanian firm, EnergoNuclear S.A., to provide engineering services during the preparatory stage of a precursor project to complete CANDU Units 3 & 4 in Romania.

U.S. nuclear power giant Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it had signed a contract with Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear utility Energoatom for procurement of “long-lead items for [Ukraine’s] first Westinghouse AP1000” reactor.

Russia's state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said that operational life extension projects at the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 2 in Armenia had been completed. The projects, which began in 2015, have extended the life of the plant

Unit 3 of the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan completed hot functional testing on Nov 4 ahead of schedule, the China National Nuclear Corporation announced last week.

China National Nuclear Corporation said this week that the No. 2 reactor of Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant in East China's Shandong province reached its first criticality on Nov 11.