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The World Nuclear Transport Institute (WNTI) has appointed Peter Bryant as chief executive officer from March 2025. The London-based group said Bryant will represent members’ interests internationally whilst leading WNTIs growth, development and influence ...read more

An International Atomic Energy Agency team provided 15 recommendations and suggestions to further improve safe long-term operation (LTO) at the Borssele nuclear power station in the Netherlands including that the plant should complete the development ...read more

Sweden’s Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has approved a safety report for an expanded final repository for short-lived radioactive waste at Forsmark, paving the way for construction to begin within weeks. Nuclear fuel management company SKB had said ...read more

Canada has chosen a site in northern Ontario for a planned deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel following a 14-year selection process, the country’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) said on 28 November. The decision means the ...read more

The US and Lithuania have signed an agreement in Washington to cooperate in the development of the Baltic country’s nuclear power programme and a potential introduction of small modular reactors (SMRs), a statement by the US Department of Energy (DOE ...read more

The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) has been installed at the nuclear island of the Haiyang-4 nuclear power plant in Shandong province, eastern China, the State Power Investment Corporation (***) said. Haiyang-4 is a 1,161-MW CAP1000 pressurised water ...read more

French nuclear energy group Framatome and Argentina’s state-run Nucleoelectrica have signed an agreement to conduct a pre-feasibility study for producing Lutetium-177, a medical isotope critical in cancer treatment, at Argentina’s nuclear power plants ...read more

Brazil’s National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) has approved the long-term operation of the Angra-1 nuclear power plant to 2044, extending its life to 60 years, with operator Eletronuclear planning to invest $550m (€524m) in the facility. The request ...read more

Professor Hamid Aït Abderrahim, a leading figure in Belgian nuclear research, has been honoured with the International Nuclear Societies Council (INSC) Global Award for 2024. Professor Abderrahim has been instrumental in driving innovation and sustainable ...read more

The 13th and final rail shipment carrying vitrified high-level nuclear waste (HLW) reached an intermediate storage facility at the Philippsburg nuclear power station site in central Germany on 20 November, French nuclear fuel cycle company Orano said ...read more

A major refurbishment project at Unit 1 of the Darington nuclear power station in Ontario, Canda, has been completed five months ahead of schedule, station owner and operator Ontario Power Generation (OPG) said. Darlington-1, an 878-MW Candu pressurised ...read more

Thailand’s nuclear regulator is to look into the legal aspects of a small modular reactor programme as the southeast Asian nation prepares for nuclear deployment The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) expects to sign an agreement with the Office for ...read more

Vietnam’s prime minister Pham Minh Chinh has told the National Assembly in Hanoi that his government had asked authorities to restart nuclear power projects, according to local press reports. Chinh said this was to “ensure enough power for fast and ...read more

Energonuclear, a subsidiary of Romania’s state nuclear power company Nuclearelectrica has signed a key contract for the construction of two new units at the Cernavodă nuclear power station. Energonuclear signed the first phase of the engineering, procurement ...read more

Japan’s nuclear watchdog has formally prevented the Tsuruga-2 nuclear power plant in the country’s north-central region from restarting, the first rejection under safety standards that were revised after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The Nuclear Regulation ...read more

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed an agreement to expand their cooperation in nuclear energy as part of efforts to unlock investments in a low-carbon future. The ...read more

Cold hydraulic testing has been completed on the primary and secondary circuits of Unit 1 of the Sanao nuclear power station in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) said. During cold testing the reactor ...read more

Fission power and nuclear fuel recycling company Oklo has received letters of intent and is partnering with two major data centre providers to deliver up to 750 MW of nuclear power for data centres across the US. The California company, backed by Sam ...read more

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is considering support for Poland’s project to build its first commercial nuclear power station with a loan of 4 billion zloty (about $979m, €920m). The interest was confirmed in a letter of ...read more

US president Joe Biden’s administration is setting out plans for the US to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, with demand climbing for the technology as a round-the-clock source of carbon-free power. Under a roadmap unveiled on 12 November , the ...read more

Japanese regional utility Chugoku Electric Power has told the Nuclear Regulation Authority that it plans to restart Unit 2 at its Shimane nuclear power station in Shimane Prefecture, southwest Japan, on 7 December. If the restart goes ahead, it will ...read more

Texas A&M University has proposed offering land at its Rellis campus in Bryan, north of Houston, for the testing and construction of small modular nuclear reactors in a bid to help address power supply issues in the state. The university would ...read more

Great British Nuclear (GBN) said it had started detailed negotiations on 11 November with the final four shortlisted bidders into the UK’s small modular reactor (SMR) programme. The four companies, GE Hitachi, Holtec, Rolls-Royce SMR and Westinghouse ...read more

Construction workers at the Akkuyu nuclear power station being built by Russia’s state nuclear corporation in Turkey have completed the concreting of the dome of the outer containment shell of the Unit 1 reactor building. Two tower cranes, six concrete ...read more

A nuclear advisory group created by the legislature in the US state of South Carolina is pushing for a study into restarting construction on a pair of nuclear power plants mothballed seven years ago as part of a failed nuclear power plant expansion. ...read more