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Russia’s state-owned nuclear power giant Rosatom said that the plug had permanently shut down the Leningrad 2 power plant two years after Leningrad 1 was shut down for the last time.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has commissioned Japanese experts to independently observe and document the collection of seawater, marine sediment, and fish samples from coastal waters in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

A new IAEA publication explores the role of small modular reactors (SMRs), around the globe, calling the plan to custom fit factory-built reactors into niche markets a potential game-changer in the challenge of lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Three minutes past noon on November 3., the first commercial nuclear reactor built in Belarus, Ostrovets 1, was connected to the grid, Russian industrial giant Rosatom announced.

Unit 5 at China's Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant reached a 'critical state' for the first time on Oct 21, indicating that the unit has officially entered a state of operation with power and has taken a significant step towards completion and commissioning.

The Leningrad II, Unit 2, also called Unit 6 to acknowledge the original four-reactor Leningrad plant, has been connected to the Russian grid and begun, as of October 23, its delivery of electricity to consumers.

French nuclear service company Altrad said it had been awarded a four-year contract by Magnox Limited to support decommissioning work at six sites in Britain.

Georgia Power has announced the completion of cold hydro testing for Vogtle Unit 3 at the company's nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Ga.

With $160 million appropriated to two matching grant nuclear projects, the time for dreaming and talking is over, the Department of Energy announced this week.

Russia’s state-owned nuclear conglomerate Rosatom said this week that the first elements for the reactor building safety system for Taiwan Nuclear Power Plant in China had been delivered.

Fortum and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have entered into a 3-year cooperation project to create an open source tool for techno-economic modelling of small modular reactor (SMR) projects.

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Eletronuclear to conduct engineering analyses critical to the safety, reliability and long-term life of the Angra 1 nuclear power plant in Brazil.

French nuclear service company Orano said it had signed several contracts valued at 150 million euros with French utility EDF to provide technical support for the EDF nuclear fleet.

The first of Koeberg nuclear power station’s long-awaited six new replacement steam generators arrived at the plant yesterday, Eskom said Wednesday.

GE Steam Power said Tuesday that it had completed a major steam turbine and generator outage at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania in only 30 days. The work was completed despite a scheduling setback blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday it has approved Critical Decision 1 for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project, a one-of-a-kind scientific user facility that would support research and development of innovative nuclear energy and other technologies.

Tenex-Japan Co., a subsidiary of TENEX (an organization of ROSATOM), entered into a direct contract with TEPCO Holdings Inc. to carry out a conceptual study in the field of handling radioactive zeolited at the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a review of the long term operational safety of Unit 3 at the Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Sweden.

Service-oriented Amentum, based in Germantown, Maryland, announced Monday that it had been chosen as the lead contractor to work with Fluor and Atckins, in a joint venture called the Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCC), to proceed, beginning October 5, to transition on the $10 billion Central Plateau Cleanup contract at the Hanford legacy site near Richland, Washington.

After 20 months of suspended operations, Hitachi Global said Wednessday it would "end business operations on the nuclear power plant construction project in the United Kingdom ("Horizon Project"), slated for Wales.

Two separate typhoons within a four-day span caused the shutdown of six nuclear reactors in Korea, a Korean newspaper reported.

Technicians at the Volgodonsk branch of JSC (AEM-technology) Atommash have begun work on the final stage of manufacturing of the reactor for Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkey.

San Diego-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems said Wednesday that it had delivered a design concept of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) reactor to power future astronaut missions to Mars for a NASA-funded study.

Russian state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said the core melt localization component, also known as the core catcher, had been delivered to the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction site in Turkey.