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A ceremony has been held to mark the start of concreting of the foundation plate for the second unit of Russia's Novovoronezh phase II nuclear power plant. The foundation plate of its twin, unit 1, has already been completed.

A joint venture company has been established by Luminant and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to support the construction of the latter's advanced pressurized water reactor at Comanche Peak in Texas.

France will start work on a second new reactor in 2012 at Penly. The new nuclear unit will be partly owned by oil and gas giant GdF-Suez. Enel and Total also look like likely investors.

The Jülich Research Centre in Germany has ordered a new supercomputer which will host applications for the European Union's fusion research program. The move comes after last week's European Commission decision to allow fusion researchers access to a European supercomputer network.

Sites will be nominated next week as being among the best for new nuclear power plants in the UK. Sellafield will be among them, linking it for the first time to new-build possibilities.

Axpo Group and BKW FMB Energy have filed framework permit applications for new nuclear units at Beznau and Mühleberg, a move the companies described as the "official starting shot" for replacing three reactors.

South Korea has signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Jordan and is expected to agree to conduct a feasibility study into reviving the Bataan nuclear power plant project in the Philippines.

[Bloomberg, 28 November; AFP, 1 December] Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said that the coal-dependent country could construct a nuclear power plant by 2020 in a drive to switch to a cheap and clean energy source. He said, "Poland wants to make a rapid decision on building a nuclear...

Exelon Nuclear no longer thinks GE-Hitachi's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is the best choice for its proposed new plant at Victoria, Texas, and is in discussions with reactor vendors to decide on an alternative.

Last year's isotope crisis left Canadian medicine "teetering on the brink of disaster" a report by nuclear medicine experts has said. It recommended new reactors in Canada to assure supply.

The AP1000 consortium has signed a $9.8 billion contract for two 1117 MWe AP1000 reactors at the existing VC Summer nuclear power plant site in South Carolina.

UK industry has the capability to provide the majority of a sustained programme of new nuclear power plants, the Nuclear Industry Association has concluded in a report published today.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) has announced that safety regulators are to start 'pre-project design review activites' on its ACR-1000 nuclear power reactor design in Canada. A memorandum of understanding was signed by AECL and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on 8 April, just one...

The AP1000 consortium of Shaw and Westinghouse has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Georgia Power for two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power station.

Shaw Group and Westinghouse have agreed with Progress Energy Florida to complete negotiations on an engineering, procurement and construction contract for two new reactors to be built in Levy County.

Another application was made today to build new nuclear reactors in the USA. The eighth such application, it could result in two new pressurized water reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in the southern state of Georgia.

Fennovoima announced on 11 March that it had agreed to acquire more than 200 hectares of land in the Karsikko and Laitakari areas in Simo, northern Finland. The consortium said that the land is sufficient for a potential nuclear power plant site and did not rule out the acquisition of additional land...

Nigeria's government has approved the technical framework for fast tracking the deployment of nuclear power plants for electricity generation in the country. However, the country is said to lack the regulatory framework and trained workers needed for such a programme.

Namibia has established a Uranium Stewardship Committee to help provide a legal framework for monitoring the country's uranium mining industry. It is also planning to develop a regulatory framework to enable it to embark on its own nuclear power programme in the future.

UniStar Nuclear Energy has awarded a contract to an Areva-Bechtel Power consortium to begin initial detailed design engineering of the US Evolutionary Power Reactor design. Executives expect to gain benefits from existing EPR construction projects in Finland and France.

Westinghouse has been awarded a contract worth some $200 million by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for equipment upgrades and support services for the completion of unit 2 of the Watts Bar nuclear power plant in Tennessee.

Companies involved in the push for new nuclear power in the UK reacted favourably to the government invitation to submit their plans for new build. Areva has announced that it wants to build four to six large reactors in the country.