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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.

Nuclear power specialist Holtec International said it had submitted the second and final part of a an application with the Department of Energy to move forward on a $7.4-billion plan to produce small modular reactors. The application concerns expansion of one plant and construction of another that would allow the company to produce SMRs “in large numbers."

Teollisuuden Voima Oyj, operator of Finland’s Olkiluoto nuclear power plant said the removal of a damaged fuel element from Unit 1 had been completed and that full power was expected to be restored this week.

California-based Kairos Power, moving forward with development of a fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR), said Tuesday it would work with Ohio-based chemical engineer firm Materion, to create a molten salt purification pant to produce coolant for future molten salt reactors.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) in Britain said the license application for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk had not quite made the grade with "two outstanding matters which require resolution prior to the formal granting of a license."

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Bechtel company to manage and operate the nation’s only deep underground repository for nuclear waste: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the engineering giant said.

In the People's Republic of Bangladesh, construction crews have completed the concrete layering of the the containment dome at the Rooppur nuclear power plant's Unit 1 reactor, Russian plant builder Rosatom has said.

The Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) has issued a permit for the construction of the El-Dabaa NPP Unit 1, Russia's nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom announced.

Bruce Power this week said it had signed on Cambridge-based BWXT Canada Ltd as part of its "Made In Ontario" program with a contract valued at $130 million ($99.7 million U.S.). The contract comes under its major component replacement initiative that will involve fabrication and supply of replacement feeders for Bruce Power’s reactor units 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8,

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said this week that the country's government at its highest levels had revamped its energy goals including an escalation of its dependence on nuclear energy from a current level of 27.4 percent to 30 percent by 2030.

With the aim of fast, safe, economic, scaled production, British industrial giant Rolls-Royce this week announced it had arrived at a shortlist of locations for the first of three small modular reactor factories it will need to produce its 470MWe power units.

NASA, in partnership with Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has selected Westinghouse Electric Company to provide an initial design concept for a fission surface power system that could be ready to launch to the Moon by the end of the decade.

Petrozavodsk branch of AEM-Technologies has started to assemble pipe spools of reactor coolant pipeline (RCP) for power unit No. 7 of Tianwan NPS under construction in China, said Atomenergomash, the machine engineering division of Rosatom State Corporation and Karelian regional Branch of the Russian Engineering Union.

French nuclear utility and procurement agency EDF said this week it had used the fifth Polish-French nuclear energy symposium in Oltarzew, Poland, to sign 5 new cooperation agreements with Polish companies.

Canada’s Bruce Power broke new ground in isotope production, the company said this week, by producing Lutetium-177 in a commercial nuclear power plant.