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Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, said the plant would suspend incoming shipments for three weeks beginning January 7, so that maintenance tasks could be done.

The China General Nuclear Power Group and French subsidiary of EDF, Framatome, announced Friday that Unit 1 of Taishan nuclear power plant had become the world's first EPR to enter into commercial operation. The announcement was made at a press conference in Beijing.

Work on the reinforcing of the bed plate of the power unit No 2 reactor building has begun at Kursk NPP-2 ahead of the schedule set by Rosatom State Corporation, the Rosenergoatom subsidiary announced.

French nuclear power giant EDF has announced the first major concrete pour for the Hinkley Point C construction project in Somerset, England, that is expected to supply Britain with 7 percent of its electricity for 60 years once it is commissioned.

Oxford University spin-out company First Light Fusion said this week it would collaborate with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in a project designed to create a net gain in energy out of a fusion reaction.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that it had accepted the application for a subsequent license renewal for the Surry Power Station reactors located near Surry, Virginia.

Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said last week that the country would issue a tender in January seeking a financial partner that would help revive the twice-stalled Belene nuclear power plant project, according to a Reuters report.

The Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) said that it would begin decommissioning of Unit 1 at the Chinshan nuclear power plant directly following the expiration of its initial 40-year operations permit, which came to an end on December 6.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) said this week it had achieved a component milestone by dispatching its 40th steam generator (SG) to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).

Soaring costs have given Japanese builder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) second thoughts about leading construction of a four-unit 4500MWe nuclear power plant in the Black Sea region of Turkey in the Sinop province.

Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom said Thursday that the No. 1 reactor on the world's only floating nuclear power plant had been turned on and was running at 10 percent of its capacity.

Framatome said it had reached an agreement with Bruce Power underscoring an $18.7 million contract "covering a range of innovations and new activities."

Georgia Power announced today the latest milestones at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia – the placement of the third and final ring that comprises the Unit 3 containment vessel, and the placement of the fourth and final reactor coolant pump (RCP) for Unit 3.

Nuclear Development LLC reacted quickly to the failed closing of the deal to purchase the unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Power Planty in Jackson County, Alabama, filing a lawsuit complaining that the Tennessee Valley Authority sabotaged the deal.

The long-delayed start up for Unit 3 at Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP, an Areva-Siemens Consortium project, has been pushed back for another four months, the companies announced in a late November tweet.

South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Sung Yun-mo said the country would develop a comprehensive decommissioning plan to go along with the phase out of 11 nuclear power plants, which are targeted to close by 2030.

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) held a ceremony to mark the founding of the Research Center for Nuclear Fuels and Materials, in Beijing, on Nov 27, the company said.

Centrus Energy Corp. said Thursday it had signed a new services contract with X Energy, LLC to proceed with the preliminary design of a facility to fabricate advanced nuclear fuel. The contract builds upon the companies’ prior contract, signed in March 2018, to complete a conceptual design of the facility.

The British government said Thursday that the Magnox reactors at the Bradwell Site, in Essex, England, had entered a state known as ‘care and maintenance," which designate a stage in which the defueled power plants are to remain dormant for the next 65 years at rest while covered in a weather-poof cladding.

SNC-Lavalin and its joint venture partner Eclipse Automation Inc. have landed a $33 million production tooling contract to support Bruce Power’s fuel channel and feeder replacement (FCFR) project, the Canadian-based construction management company said.

Two RITM-200 reactors have been loaded onto the nuclear powered icebreaker Ural at the Baltic Shipyard, Rosatom announced in November. Employees of the shipyard and of Spetstyazhavtotrans, a Russian carrier of oversized cargo, loaded the reactors onto the second Project 22220 nuclear icebreaker, a first for the slipways.

Russian nuclear build corporation Rosatom has said the 168 metric ton core catcher body has installed in its permanent position under the reactor pit of Kursk-II Unit 1 in western Russia near the border with Ukraine.

Holtec International reported Tuesday that it had documented new record lows in curie content and heat load using multi-purpose canisters (MPCs) in HI-STORM vertical ventilated modules at numerous nuclear plant sites for both Pressurized Water reactors and Boiling Water Reactors.

NuScale Power said Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bruce Power L.P., Canada’s first private nuclear generator, to develop a business case to introduce NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR) technology to the Canadian market.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that the country would retreat from its previous energy target of closing down 14 nuclear power plants by 2025 and openly suggested the country would pursue construction of new units to maintain the energy plan’s target of 50 percent electricity derived from nuclear power.