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Brazil's Eletronuclear said that Friday afternoon, November 11, notched the restart of concrete pouring at the Angr 3 nuclear plant construction project at the Angra facility on the country's coastline about 70 miles south of Rio de Janiero.

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said this week it had completed development of a remote virtual training simulator has can teach technicians how to use lasers and plasma to cut underwater reactor vessel internals (RVI) to decommission nuclear power plants.

Rolls-Royce said this week that it had been selected as the preferred nuclear technology provider for the newly formed Solway Community Power Company which plans to bring a small modular reactor system (SMR) to West Cumbria.

The Steam Generating Team (SGT), a joint venture between Framatome and United Engineers & Constructors, Inc. (United), has successfully completed the steam generator replacement project at Watts Bar Unit 2. Framatome has announced.

In a mid-October event, ROSATOM Director General Alexey Likhachev attended a ceremony in Bangladesh to mark the completion of installation of a reactor vessel at Rooppur NPP Unit 2.

The Biden-Harris Administration announced this week a $1.5 billion bump in funding for the country's national laboratories, including close to $500 million for Oak Ridge near Knoxville, Tennessee, and $150 million for the Idaho National Laboratory that was announced in October.

Ontario Power Generation has submitted the first tranche of its application for a license to construct a small modular reactor plant, which would be a first for Canada.

TerraPower and GE-led joint venture Global Nuclear Fuel–Americas, announced an agreement to build a Natrium Fuel Facility at the site of GNF-A’s existing plant site near Wilmington, North Carolina.

Finish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said an investigation into the cause of cracks found in the Olkiluoto 3 EPR (OL3) feedwater pumps a week ago would continue in “several laboratories.”

Welding of the pearlitic part of the reactor coolant pipeline has been completed at the Kursk NPP-2 construction project, Russian nuclear powerhouse Rosatom said Tuesday.

Holtec International said Wednesday they had signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Škoda Praha and Hyundai Engineering and Construction (HDEC) to advance the planning for construction of SMR-160s in the Czech Republic.

Modular nuclear plant developer NuScale said this week that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards had issued a letter supporting an NRC staff decision on the company’s methodology for Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) size determination. The committee said the NuScale methodology was acceptable.

X-Energy subsidiary TRISO-X LLC, this week broke ground and began construction activities on North America’s first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility at a site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has completed a £10m ($11,2 million) extension of its Materials Research Facility (MRF) at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire.

Six years late and with costs ballooning from an original estimate of $14 billion to more than $30 is close to paying off at the Vogtle Plant expansion project as Georgia Power said Wednesday that fuel loading had begun for the Unit 3.

Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power Company said Wednesday that special inspections had verified the integrity of Sendai Nuclear Power Stations Units 1’s core components, the inspections prerequisites for license extensions.

Press Release Cameco Corporation (“Cameco”) and Brookfield Renewable Partners (“Brookfield Renewable”), together with its institutional partners (“the consortium”), are forming a strategic partnership to acquire Westinghouse Electric Company (“Westinghouse”), one of the world’s largest nuclear services businesses.

Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said Tuesday it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cwmni Egino to support their development of a new small scale nuclear project in North Wales.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a meeting deigned to address concerns over the Zaporzhzhia Nuclear Power Plant which sits in a Russian-occupied war zone in Ukraine.

The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency remains both vigilant and engaged in negotiating safety protocols for Ukraine’s war-threatened Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, learning this week that Ukrainian operators plans to restart Unit 5 to produce heat and steam for the plant itself.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, this week issued a call for proposals for the fourth round of its Canadian Nuclear Research Initiative (CNRI).

Long-term partners Westinghouse Electric Company and Ansaldo Nucleare have signed a new cooperation agreement designed to foster development of the next generation nuclear power plant based on lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) technology, the companies announced this week.

U.S. nuclear power service giant Westinghouse Electric Company said it extended its reach in Poland by signing Memoranda of Understanding with 22 different companies there.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) today announced that its operating and maintenance subsidiary, Nawah Energy Company (Nawah) has successfully started up Unit 3 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, located in the Al Dhafra Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

In Byuykecili of the Mersin Province in Turkey, the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 2 of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction site has been installed, said operations manager Akkuyu Nukleer.