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Teams of nuclear safety and security experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are being stationed at Ukraine’s nuclear power plants (NPPs) and the Chornobyl site this week, the U.N.'s atomic industry watchdog said.

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said Thursday that the Kingdom was exploring options for harvesting and utilizing its own uranium for nuclear fuel, stating a variety of domestic supplies were available.

Georgia Power said it had pushed back its expected start date of Vogtle Unit 3, which had been expected to enter into commercial service in the first quarter of 2023.. The company now says initial criticality would be pushed back to February, while commercial service would not be attained until April.

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed an agreement with Ignalinos Atominé Elektriné (IAE) to dismantle the two RBMK-1500 nuclear power reactors at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania.

NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale) and Portland, Oregon-based small modular reactor developer NuScale said this week it had signed a contract for front-end engineering and design (FEED) work with Romania’s RoPower Nuclear.

Bangladesh on Tuesday refused waterway access to the Russian ship Ursa Major, which was delivering nuclear plant components destined for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Station construction site, The Maritime Executive has reported.

The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency this week released its third report on the progress and protocols of Japan’s plans to release treated water that has been contaminated at the disaster site of the Fukushima Diaichi Nuclear power plant.

The dome of the reactor building of Unit 3 has been installed in design position at Kudankulam NPP construction site at India's southern apex, general designer and general contractor Rosatom said.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has renewed the operating license for the Morris Operation Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) located in Grundy County, Illinois, according to the Federal Resister.

NuScale Power announced Tuesday that it would collaborate with Shell Global Solutions and other industry participants to seek a strategy for an economically optimized Integrated Energy System (IES) for hydrogen production using electricity and process heat from a future NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant.

Britain’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) confirmed Tuesday the government will take a 50 percent stake in the Sizewell C nuclear plant project, matching the financial commitment of EDF, which is a French, state-owned company.

Ukraine’s four operational nuclear power plant sites all have access to the national grid again following a complete loss of off-site power earlier this week, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday.

An International Atomic Energy Agency audit in Sweden found the country has a “comprehensive regulatory infrastructure” designed to keep its nuclear operations safe and secure.

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.