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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to storage of spent nuclear fuel after attempts to push Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a permanent storage repository was withdrawn by the Obama administration.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.

Petrozavodsk Branch of JSC AEM-Technologies, a part of machine-building division of Rosatom State Corporation Atomenergomash, in conjunction with a Karelian regional branch of the Russian Engineering Union, has brought off the check fit-up of the first housing for the reactor coolant pump set (RCPS) intended for Akkuyu NPP, power unit No. 2 being under construction in Turkey.

Framatome on Monday announced the completion of its purchase of Rolls Royce Civil Nuclear Instrumentation and Control (I&C).

British industrial Rolls-Royce said this week that announced today that following an equity funding drive it had raised enough to establish the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business designed to "bring forward and deliver at scale the next generation of low cost, low carbon nuclear power technology.

U.S. small modular reactor developer NuScale in a joint statement with Romania's Nuclearelectrica, said the they had mapped out an agreement that would potentially site Romania as the first European country to undertake a modular reactor project, potentially involving 12 SMRs.

Turkish nuclear power regulators, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority Board, said it had agreed to issue a construction license for Unit 4 of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. The license was awarded to Akkuyu Nuclear JSC and signifies the official start of construction and installation work for the reactor.

French nuclear services giant Framatome said Tuesday it had delivered industry’s first nuclear 100 percent accident tolerant fuel assembly (ATF) to Exelon Generation’s Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, Maryland., building on its PROtect program that has completed preliminary tests in the United States and Switzerland.

The Palo Verde Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona, will be the site of a PNW Hydrogen LLC project designed to use the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station for hydrogen production with assistance from the Department of Energy.

U.S. nuclear fuel technology developer Lightbridge Ltd. announce the completion of work under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) voucher program to support the development of Lightbridge Fuel, in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Russia's state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom announced this week that the Elemash Machine-building plant, a fabrication facility of ROSATOM’s TVEL Fuel Company in the Moscow region, had successfully manufactured an experimental nuclear fuel assembly for the yet to be built RITM-200N reactor.

The Petrozavodsk Branch of AEM-Technologies has performed, along with Karelian Regional Branch of the Russian Engineering Union, a series of hydraulic tests on the first casing of the reactor coolant pump set (RCPS) intended for the second power unit of Rooppur NPP (People’s Republic of Bangladesh).

Russian state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding that concerns cooperation in the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes with the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) this week announced the completion of fuel loading in the Shin Hanul Unit 1 reactor, which is now primed to undergo operational tests as the final step before achieving status as a commercially viable reactor.

To avoid an energy crisis, Bangladesh is willing to build a second nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said this week in conjunction with a construction milestone reached at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant site, according to news reports.

Orano group announced the completion of the construction of the stable isotopes laboratory on the Orano Tricastin site.

Atommash, AEM-Technologies, JSC Branch in Volgodonsk (a part of the machine-building division of the Rosatom state corporation, has shipped reactor internals for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 2 unit, which is under construction in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the company announced.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday it had signed a definitive agreement with Spanish multinationals Iberdrola and Naturgy to acquire 50 percent of engineering companyTecnatom in a move the company says "advances the strategy to expand its technical nuclear outage, engineering, and digital services capabilities worldwide."