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Russia’s Atomstroyexport has completed concreting of the inner containment domes for two of its overseas nuclear new-build projects, Akkuyu-1 in Turkey and Rooppur-2 in Bangladesh, parent company Rosatom said in two separate statements. The dome is ...read more

Slovak utility Slovenske Elektrarne and French nuclear equipment manufacturer Framatome have signed an agreement to cooperate on nuclear energy including working towards the development of a “100% European fuel design” for the EU’s Russia-designed VVER ...read more

Hungary has received European Commission approval to amend contracts awarded nine years ago to Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom for new units at the Paks nuclear power station in central Hungary, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday ...read more

Westinghouse and Bechtel will jointly form a consortium to design and build Poland’s first commercial nuclear power station in the northern province of Pomerania. An announcement on Thursday (25 May) said the two US companies had signed an agreement ...read more

Czech state power company ČEZ has announced a tender worth “billions of Czech koruna” to change the generators at the two-unit Temelín nuclear power station in the south of the country. According to ČEZ companies can apply for the contract until 9 ...read more

A group of 13 Japanese companies led by Onomichi Dockyard and Imabari Shipbuilding has invested $80m (€74m) in a project to build floating nuclear power plants, British energy startup Core Power announced. According to Core Power, floating nuclear ...read more

The Canadian province of Ontario should consider developing and executing a plan for new large-scale Candu nuclear power plants alongside a planned BWRX-300 small modular reactor at the Darlington site, where an existing site licence would speed up timelines ...read more

A team of specialists from South Korea has arrived in Japan to conduct an inspection of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station and meet officials to discuss conflicts over a plan to release treated but still slightly radioactive water into the sea ...read more

The lower half of the inner steel liner for the containment dome has been lifted into place for Unit 7 at the Tianwan nuclear power station under construction in Jiangsu province, eastern China. The dome is part of the reactor building’s physical protection ...read more

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has decided against lifting an order that forbids the movement of fuel at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station, which acts as an effective ban on the facility’s operation. The ban will remain in place ...read more

Four Danish companies have signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian state-owned corporations to potentially build a small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear facility on the island of Borneo that can produce one million tonnes of ultra-low emissions ...read more

The development of a nuclear workforce will be essential for the build-up of a nuclear industry supply chain in Poland, but a number of challenges remain related to personnel, according to Anna Talarowska, who chaired the European Nuclear Young Generation ...read more

US-based advanced nuclear power plant developer Oklo has announced sites for two commercial units in Southern Ohio. Oklo said it has signed an agreement with the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI) to deploy Oklo power plants that will ...read more

Italy-based nuclear company Ansaldo Nucleare and US-based Westinghouse Electric Company have completed the first testing campaign at the passive heat removal facility recently built at Ansaldo Nucleare’s plant in Wolverhampton, central England. The ...read more

Companies in the nuclear fusion industry spent over $500m (€462m) on their supply chain in 2022, a figure that is set to grow to over $7bn by the time a first of a kind plant is deployed. The nuclear fusion supply chain could potentially be worth trillions ...read more

US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with power company Dominion Energy to design, manufacture and deliver replacement steam generators for the of the twin-unit Surry nuclear power station in Virginia. Westinghouse and Dominion ...read more

A meeting of 16 European countries as part of a “nuclear alliance” shows that an ever-growing number of EU member states recognise that the bloc needs to support new reactors and renewables if it wants to decarbonise its economy, the director-general ...read more

South Korea has taken a major step towards the completion of two delayed power plants at the Shun-Hanul nuclear station with the start of production of the main components. The project to build two indigenous APR-1400 plants at Shin-Hanul, 330km from ...read more

The Russian-built Belarusian-2 nuclear power plant has been connected to Belarus’ power grid and has started producing electricity, Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom said. Integration with the grid took place on 13 May at 40% of full ...read more

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has formally approved Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (Tepco) plans for the release of treated water from its Fukushima-Daichi nuclear power station into the ocean. The plan, given initial approval last year, includes ...read more

A major decommissioning project is to begin five decades ahead of schedule to clean up and demolish four “blower house” superstructures at the Berkeley nuclear power station in Gloucestershire, southwest England. The blower houses circulated gas through ...read more

US chemicals company Dow and advanced nuclear reactor and fuel developer X-energy have chosen Dow’s UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for their proposed Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor nuclear project. The project is focused ...read more

Westinghouse Electric has submitted a pre-application regulatory engagement plan with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its AP300 small modular reactor as it aims for design certification of the “game-changing” technology by 2027. Westinghouse ...read more

Poland’s nuclear project company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) could be ready to announce two potential sites later this year for the construction of a second commercial nuclear power station. Michal Wierzchowski, PEJ strategy director, told the ...read more

The first of six nuclear power units being refurbished at the Bruce station in Ontario, Canada is set to be reconnected to the grid in the fourth quarter of this year after the “substantial completion” of the construction phase of the major component ...read more