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Nawah, the operator of the unfinished four-unit Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, said Tuesday that startup of the first unit at the plant – the first nuclear power plant in the region – would be delayed again due to issues related to its “readiness” to operate the facility.

The United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Bahrain had signed its first Country Program Framework that formally initiates its interest in various priorities related to the transfer of nuclear technology and international cooperation.

South Carolina, a state with two multi-billion dollar nuclear power-related projects canceled in the middle of construction, is suing the federal government over the Department of Energy's abrupt decision last week to stop work an a facility that would have processed weapons-grade plutonium into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for nuclear power plants.

Britain's Office For Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said that French producer EDF Energy Nuclear Generation would keep the Huntington B Unit 3 reactor off line while studying the long-term safety implications brought on by the presence of new keyway root cracks in the reactor core.

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it will collaborate in the development of its EnCore Fuel, the revolutionary accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) design, with ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas (ENUSA) through a Frame Cooperation Agreement (FCA).

Chugging along at an average speed of 3.5 knots, the world's only floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, made it to the northern Russian port of Murmansk on May 17 after a three-week tow from St. Petersburg, where the 144-meters long ship was constructed, Rosatom said.

Chugoku Electric Power Company has applied to local city and prefecture governments for permission to apply for pre-start up inspections at Shimane 3, which is nearing completion.

Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) said Tuesday it had been awarded a long-term contract by Entergy Nuclear to continue to fuel its boiling water reactors.

The mixed-oxide fuel fabrication project at the Savannah River site in South Carolina has been officially canceled vis a vis a letter to Congress from Energy Secretary Rick Perry, reports indicate.The reaction from South Carolina has been vehement and swift.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said Monday that Dominion Energy has agreed to help fund efforts to bring the BWRX-300 small nuclear reactor to market.

Renewable energy could hit the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona with a fatal body blow, plant officials have said.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team conducting a safety review of the Republic of Congo's preparedness for a restart to its research reactor said that the country needed to upgrade safety protocol, training and technical infrastructure to meet global standards.

At the 2018 AtomExpo in Sochi, Russia, the head of Nigeria's Atomic Energy Commission (Nigatom) Simon Pesco Mallam said that Nigeria would have its first nuclear power plant up and running by the mid-2020s.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday that it had completed a three-year, $48.4 million project to revamp its Safeguards information technology system to be more effective in its work to ensure the peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

The Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) has selected Orano TN for the final offload of more than 900 used fuel assemblies contained in the pool of its Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Nebraska, Orano announced Thursday.

Sweden's Oskarshamn Unit 2, which was shuttered in December 2016, has entered the segmentation phase of dismantling, as of May 14, according to reports.

A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that 24 out of 60 nuclear power plants in the United States will be unable to cover operating costs over the next three years and that more plants are likely to close.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that a Pre-SALTO (Safety Aspects of Long Term Operations) team had completed a review mission of the Unit 1 reactor at the Angra Nuclear Power Plant in Brazil, noting that the plant operator had made progress in the field of managing an aging power plant and securing a safe future for continued operations.

--Press Release-- L3 MAPPS announced today that it has won a contract from ENGIE Electrabel to upgrade the Tihange Unit 1 full scope operator training simulator.

Maryland-based GSE Systems Inc. said Tuesday it had received two contracts from Chinese customers to commence in the second quarter of 2018 that have a total value that exceeds $4 million. The projects will continue over the next two years, the company said.

Uganda has taken another step forward in its pursuit of nuclear power for domestic generation, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the China National Nuclear Corporation that will promote the use of radioactivity for civil projects involving agriculture, medicine and manufacturing.

More than 700 specially manufactured tubes for the steam generators associated with the so-called CAREM project in Argentina – the Central Argentina de Elementos Modulares project – have been delivered to the construction site near the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, CONUAR announced last week.

Georgia Power on Thursday said that workers had placed the four main step-up transformers inside the Unit 4 transformer bays in the latest announcement of construction milestones at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia.

The British government has informed Hitachi Ltd that it would guarantee the loans required to build two new reactors at the Wylfa Newydd site in Wales, Japanese media are reporting, although no official announcement has been made.

Unit 4 at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan will be reactivated Wednesday with expectations that the reactor will return to commercial operations in early June, Kansai Electric Power said on Tuesday.