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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted Terrestrial Energy USA a financial aid package to assist the company's licensing program for the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) plant with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Westinghouse Electric Company made an announcement today regarding the signing of a contract with Dominion Energy. The contract entails the design, manufacturing, and delivery of Replacement Steam Generators for the Surry Nuclear Power Station located in Virginia.

Collaboration among four powerhouses in the energy industry, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), and Synthos Green Energy (SGE) is expected to bring about significant developments in small modular reactors (SMR).

Outside containment concreting has been completed 45 days ahead of schedule at the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the general designer and general contractor Rosatom announced this week.

U.S.-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a developer of fourth-generation gas-cooled microreactors, and Urenco USA, operated by Louisiana Energy Services LLC, announced an enrichment services supply agreement as part of the fuel supply program for USNC’s Micro-Modular Reactor.

Texas-based energy company Vistra Corp. said this week it had come to a definitive agreement to purchase Energy Harbor Corp, which will merge their nuclear and retail businesses by forming a subsidiary called Vistra Vision.

Nuclear fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation said this week it had successfully completed work under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) voucher program.

U.S. based Orano Decommissioning Services said this week it was putting into effect two of its patents (US 9,728,287 and US 9,984,780), allowing it to to achieve a time-accelerated decommissioning at the Crystal River 3 accelerated decommissioning project.

The director of Iran's director of the Atomic Energy Organization (AWOI) announced the country is building a 2,000 MWE nuclear power plant in the Khuzenstan province, relying on technology developed in Iran, according to a news report.

Constellation Energy, the largest producer of carbon-free energy in the U.S., said this week it would invest $800 million in new equipment to increase the output of its Braidwood and Byron Generating Stations in Illinois by approximately 135 megawatt.

The inner dome for unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant was successfully hoisted into place on Feb 21, in South China's Hainan province, marking the Hualong One unit's shift from the construction stage to the equipment installation stage, the China National Nuclear Corporation said this week.

Westinghouse Electric Company announced today it has filed a Notice of Intent to submit key licensing reports for the eVinci microreactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for joint review

Rolls-Royce SMR said Poland’s Industria had selected the company as its choice to collaborate on the deployment of small modular reactors in the country.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said its staff have completed the final supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on SHINE Medical Technology, LLC’s, application for a license to operate a medical isotope production facility in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Britain’s Sheffield Forgemasters has signed an MOU to collaborate with Holtec Britain on the development of components for its scaled-down SMR-160 reactor.

The Russian-designed Akkuyu nuclear power plant in southern Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea, relatively close to the border with Syria, has not been damaged by the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that came with repeated aftershocks, said Rosatom, the general contractor for the project.

Estonian nuclear energy company Fermi Energia has selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy as its potential small modular reactor supplier after accepting tenders from three firms, including U.S. based NuScale and Rolls-Royce from the United Kingdom.

After recently shutting down one of Belgium's six remaining nuclear reactors the federal government is now considering extending the operation of the three oldest reactors.

On Tuesday, January 31, Unit 2 of the Tihange nuclear power plant in Belgium was disconnected from the grid, making it the second of the country’s reactors to succumb to Belgium’s phase out law.

Slovenske elecktrarne said Tuesday this week that technicians at the Mochovce Nuclear plant connected it’s Unit 3 to the grid for the first time, taking the reactor up to 20 percent power in an ascension exercise after a series of prescribed tests.

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) on Wednesday announced an ambitious business partnership that expects to have a completed BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor in place at Canada’s Darlington Nuclear Power Plant by late 2028.

Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) present at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) inform that powerful explosions have been occurring outside the facility in recent attacks, the UN watchdog agency said.

French nuclear service giant Framatome and Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) announced Thursday they intended to form a joint venture to manufacture commercial quantities of Tri-structural Isotropic (TRISO) particles and Ultra Safe Nuclear’s proprietary Fully Ceramic Micro-encapsulated fuel.

Robotic technology developed by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) could soon play a significant role in safeguarding spent nuclear fuel across the globe, the agency said.

Talen Energy subsidiary Cumulus Data ("Cumulus") announced today that it has completed key milestones in the construction of Phase 1 of its flagship 475-megawatt zero-carbon Susquehanna data center campus located in northeast Pennsylvania.