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The keel-laying ceremony for the first Arctic-type Nuclear Floating Power Unit (NFPU) with RITM transport reactor vessels has taken place at the shipyard in China, Russian state-owned nuclear power Rosatom said Tuesday.(read more)

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved of plans for an antiterrorism facility to protect Tokyo Electric Power Company’s No. 6 and No. 7 reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa complex in Niigata Prefecture, media reports say.(read more)

A polar crane was mounted in design position at Akkuyu NPP Power Unit No. 1, said Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear power corporation of Russia.(read more)

Fuel channel installation is complete on Unit 3, culminating a lengthy and complex work series resulting in the completion of the reassembly of the reactor core, Ontario Power Generation said this week (August 15).(read more)

At the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People's Republic of Bangladesh (the general designer and general contractor being ROSATOM’s Engineering Division) the concreting work started at the inner containment dome of the reactor building at power unit No. 2.(read more)

Canadian small modular reactor developer Terrestrial Energy (TE) said this week it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Invest Alberta to formally assert their cooperation in promoting the company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor technology for the provincial government.(read more)

Rosatom officials along with counterparts from Turkey held a dedication ceremony in Buyukeceli this week to kick off the construction start of the Akkuyu Unit 4 in what will be the country’s first nuclear power facility.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company and SE NNEGC Energoatom this week announced a partnership that would bring 60 Ukrainian students to the United States for graduate level hands-on training on AP1000 plant technology, the large plant model designed by Westinghouse.(read more)

The first contract awarded as part of the Program and Project Partners new goods and services agreement has been awarded to Ansaldo Nuclear, based in Wolverhampton, the government nuclear development site said. The contract will see key connections installed between existing and new facilities at Sellafield.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load nuclear fuel and begin operation at Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia, the first reactor to reach this point in the agency’s combined license process.(read more)

After extensive testing and refurbishment, the first active shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell to Sellafield has been completed using the NDA’s Type B Gemini container fleet following a multi-million pound refurbishment, UK Sellafield said this week.(read more)

U.S. small modular reactor developer Last Energy has signed a letter of intent with project manager DB Energy and with an economic developer in Poland, the Legnica Special Economic Zone, to tie them together to build a 10-reactor SMR power plant in southwestern Poland.(read more)

Romanian utility Nuclearelectrica said it had contracted SNC-Lavalin Group member Candu Energy for engineering and design services connected to refurbishing the Unit 1 reactor at the Cernadvoda Nuclear Power Plant.(read more)

Sellafield ‘s Magnox Reprocessing Plant took its final feed of spent fuel just before midnight on Sunday 17 July 2022, Sellafield UK said.(read more)

Nuclear power specialist Holtec International said it had submitted the second and final part of a an application with the Department of Energy to move forward on a $7.4-billion plan to produce small modular reactors. The application concerns expansion of one plant and construction of another that would allow the company to produce SMRs “in large numbers."(read more)

Teollisuuden Voima Oyj, operator of Finland’s Olkiluoto nuclear power plant said the removal of a damaged fuel element from Unit 1 had been completed and that full power was expected to be restored this week.(read more)

California-based Kairos Power, moving forward with development of a fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR), said Tuesday it would work with Ohio-based chemical engineer firm Materion, to create a molten salt purification pant to produce coolant for future molten salt reactors.(read more)

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) in Britain said the license application for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk had not quite made the grade with "two outstanding matters which require resolution prior to the formal granting of a license." (read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Bechtel company to manage and operate the nation’s only deep underground repository for nuclear waste: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the engineering giant said.(read more)

In the People's Republic of Bangladesh, construction crews have completed the concrete layering of the the containment dome at the Rooppur nuclear power plant's Unit 1 reactor, Russian plant builder Rosatom has said.(read more)

The Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) has issued a permit for the construction of the El-Dabaa NPP Unit 1, Russia's nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom announced.(read more)

Bruce Power this week said it had signed on Cambridge-based BWXT Canada Ltd as part of its "Made In Ontario" program with a contract valued at $130 million ($99.7 million U.S.). The contract comes under its major component replacement initiative that will involve fabrication and supply of replacement feeders for Bruce Power’s reactor units 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8,(read more)

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said this week that the country's government at its highest levels had revamped its energy goals including an escalation of its dependence on nuclear energy from a current level of 27.4 percent to 30 percent by 2030.(read more)

With the aim of fast, safe, economic, scaled production, British industrial giant Rolls-Royce this week announced it had arrived at a shortlist of locations for the first of three small modular reactor factories it will need to produce its 470MWe power units.(read more)

NASA, in partnership with Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has selected Westinghouse Electric Company to provide an initial design concept for a fission surface power system that could be ready to launch to the Moon by the end of the decade.(read more)

Petrozavodsk branch of AEM-Technologies has started to assemble pipe spools of reactor coolant pipeline (RCP) for power unit No. 7 of Tianwan NPS under construction in China, said Atomenergomash, the machine engineering division of Rosatom State Corporation and Karelian regional Branch of the Russian Engineering Union.(read more)

French nuclear utility and procurement agency EDF said this week it had used the fifth Polish-French nuclear energy symposium in Oltarzew, Poland, to sign 5 new cooperation agreements with Polish companies.(read more)

Canada’s Bruce Power broke new ground in isotope production, the company said this week, by producing Lutetium-177 in a commercial nuclear power plant.(read more)

The Nawah Energy Company, operators of the first multi-unit nuclear power plant in the Middle East, have received an operating license for the third unit if the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the United Arab Emirates, the plant’s owner has announced.(read more)

The state of Maryland's Energy Administration (MEA) has announced a study initiative to determine the potential for siting an Advanced Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in the state partnering X-energy and Frostburg State University (FSU), both based in Maryland, to collaborate on the project.(read more)

U.S. Orano subsidiary Orano TN Americas SeAH Besteel Co., Ltd., announced completion and delivery of the first dual-purpose used nuclear fuel dry storage cask manufactured for a U.S. utility by the SeAH Besteel Nuclear Shop in Gunsan, South Korea.(read more)

Atommash AEM-Technologies JSC Branch, a manufacturing division of Rosatom - Atomenergomash said this week it had completec constuction of the reactor core barrel for Unit No.7 of the Tianwan nuclear power station.(read more)

Technicians began removing nuclear waste from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo at the Sellafield Site in Britain, the government program said last week.(read more)

The first concrete was poured for a nuclear steam supply project at the Tianwan nuclear power plant in Lianyungang city, in East China's Jiangsu province, began on May 27, the China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company and Ukrainian nuclear power utility Energoatom announced the signing of a major fuel and nuclear expansion agreement this week, including supplying all nuclear plants in the country with fuel and increasing the number of AP1000 Westinghouse-designed reactors planned for Ukraine from five to nine units.(read more)

News agency Reuters reported this week that a government memo in India claims construction of Unit 4 at the Kakrapar power plant in the state of Gujarat near the country’s western coast is more than a year behind schedule.(read more)

Media reports indicate that the governor of the mountainous Shimane Prefecture in western Japan has approved of the restart of unit 2 at the Chugoku Electric Power Company’s Shimane nuclear power plant.(read more)

The fourth and final steam generator for the Kursk Phase II Unit 1 reactor has been set in place, the installation carried out by the Kursk Branch of Energospetsmontazh JSC, Rosatom said on June 6.(read more)

U.S. engineering group Jacobs has designed and built a robotic tool to obtain crucial information about the state of a damaged nuclear power reactor at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.(read more)

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said Lithuania’s national program for managing radioactive waste and for decommissioning demonstrated a commitment to safety, although areas of improvement were also noted.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Thursday it had combined forced with Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) to jointly participate in global development of AP1000 power plant opportunities.(read more)

Sellafield Ltd. in Britain said that it would close down the aging Magnox plant with its final reprocessing to take place in July 2022. This would have the Sellafield site, "enter a new era of clean-up and decommissioning," the government program said.(read more)

Nuclear fuel service company Orano said recent inspection of stored used nuclear fuel in the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s (SONGS) Advanced NUHOMS dry storage system revealed no corrosion concerns on the stainless steel canisters placed in storage nearly 20 years ago.(read more)

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded two Prototype Other Transaction contracts to Ultra Safe Nuclear and to Avalanche Energy to demonstrate the next generation of nuclear propulsion and power capacities for flights into the last frontier - outer space.(read more)

Bruce Power’s Bruce A generating station will see all four operating units (Units 1-4) removed from service for its planned Vacuum Building Outage (VBO), beginning May 9.(read more)

Tractebel has just signed a contract with Centre national d'équipement de production d'électricité (CNEPE), Électricité de France (EDF)’s engineering centre located in Tours, France, to contribute to the development of the NUWARD small modular reactor (SMR) project.(read more)

French nuclear services group Framatome said Thursday that it had been awarded a contract to perform a specialized reactor vessel mitigation technique on four United States nuclear power plants.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Sweden announced Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB to ensure long-term fuel supply to the majority of the nuclear reactors in Sweden which are operated by Vattenfall.(read more)

Finland’s nuclear power company Fennovoima said this week it had terminated contracts with Rosatom for engineering, procurement and licensing activities for the Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant project, citing increased risk of delays due to the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.(read more)

Finish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has said the start of “regular electricity production” at Unit 3 of the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant had been postponed for some time in September this year, a push back from the previously expected transition date of late July.(read more)