The Czech Republic's ÚJV Řež has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR "aimed at deepening further cooperation in the implementation of small modular reactor technology in the Czech Republic and abroad". www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/rol...

Opening India's nuclear sector to private companies will create opportunities as well as strengthen energy security, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said ahead of the start of the session that'll see India's parliament consider new atomic energy legislation. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ind...

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved Taipower's report on the current condition of its decommissioned nuclear power plants, which concludes that the Kuosheng & Maanshan plants are "feasible for reoperation". www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/res...

Argentina has officially nominated the current Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations, for the years 2027 to 2031. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/arg...

The Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak project, designed to demonstrate fusion energy power generation in Japan in the 2030s, has reached its first key milestone, Starlight Engine and Kyoto Fusioneering have announced. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/con...

French molten salt reactor developer Stellaria has signed a pre-order agreement with data centre developer and operator Equinix to secure the first power capacity reservation on the Stellarium, the reactor that Stellaria plans to deploy starting in 2035. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/equ...

The Ontario government has approved Ontario Power Generation's plan to refurbish four Candu nuclear reactors at Pickering, clearing the way for a start to the execution phase of the project, subject to final regulatory approvals. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pic...

Spanish energy services group Grupo Dominguis Energy Services and South Korea's KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering have signed a collaboration agreement to expand cooperation in the Spanish and French markets, including in nuclear power plant maintenance. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/gde...

White House launches mission to harness AI - the Genesis Mission aims to use artificial intelligence to transform how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery, with nuclear energy as one of the areas of focus. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/whi...

Molten salt reactor developer Thorizon announced it has secured broad industrial and regional support in the Netherlands for the construction of Thorizon Pioneer, a nuclear demonstrator for next-generation molten-salt reactors. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/dut...

The first lead fuel assemblies have been manufactured by Framatome for the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company's Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE under a fuel supply agreement announced by the two companies in July. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fra...

Rongcheng has become the third city in China's Shandong Province to receive district heating from the Haiyang nuclear power plant, State Power Investment Corporation announced. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/hai...

Asian Development Bank to start investing in nuclear - the multilateral development bank has amended its energy policy, paving the way for it to support developing member countries that choose to pursue nuclear power. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/asi...

Terra Innovatum, developer of the SOLO micro-modular reactor, has signed a Letter of Intent with US technology firm Uvation to launch a 1 MWe pilot programme with a strategic option to scale up to 100 MWe. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/uva...

Rosatom to 3D-print equipment elements for SMR: Regulatory approval has been granted for the first components of an RITM-200 small modular reactor plant to be produced using 3D printing in Russia. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ros...

Canada's Bruce Power has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy Canada for new high-pressure steam turbines for its four Bruce A nuclear power plant units - which will increase their combined output by 125 MW. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bru...

Unit 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant has begun supplying electricity to the grid, China National Nuclear Corporation announced. The unit is the second of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned at the site in China's Fujian province. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chi...

A series of "radical, root-cause solutions" is required to simplify the UK's nuclear regulatory system in order to speed up the construction of new nuclear projects at a lower cost and on time, an independent taskforce has concluded. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/rad...

Brazil's National Nuclear Energy Commission says that a preferred site has been selected and the aim is for construction of the Centena radioactive waste repository to start in 2026, and be completed by 2030. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bra...

A to C: A concrete recycling plan for Sizewell www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/a-c...

Korea Electric Power Corporation and Emirates Nuclear Energy Company have signed an MoU to expand cooperation in advanced nuclear technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation to support the UAE's and South Korea's civil nuclear fleets. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/kep...

The governor of Japan's Niigata Prefecture has given his approval for the restart of units 6 and 7 at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/nii...

A keel-laying ceremony has been held for what will be the seventh of Russia's Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/kee...

Siemens Energy has signed a contract to design and deliver the power conversion system for Oklo's Aurora powerhouse reactors. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/okl...

The US Dept of the Army's selected 9 sites for potential deployment of microreactor power plants under the Janus Program + the Defense Innovation Unit has released an Area of Interest to solicit commercial solutions for advanced nuclear power technologies. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/us-...

Samples of enriched uranium-zirconium alloy fuel material are being irradiated in INL's Advanced Test Reactor as part of a Cooperative Research & Development Agreement between Lightbridge and INL. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/inl...

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright says the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has closed a USD1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Generation to help finance the restart of Three Mile Island unit 1, now known as the Crane Clean Energy Centre. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/con...

The Spanish government has forwarded Centrales Nucleares Almaraz-Trillo's request for an extension of the operating licence for the Almaraz nuclear power plant to the Nuclear Safety Council, which will advise on whether to grant the extension. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/reg...

The first unit at the El Dabaa nuclear power plant has had its reactor pressure vessel installed, following a ceremony which included speeches from the Egyptian and Russian presidents. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pre...

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd - agreement with Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited & Maharashtra Institution for Transformation paves way for future discussions on collaboration for setting up new nuclear power plants in the state. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/npc...

The first concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 3 at the San'ao nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang, marking the official start of construction of the third of six HPR1000 (Hualong One) reactors planned at the site. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/thi...

The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor is no longer under care-and-maintenance after the country's cabinet approved the decision to allow South Africa to further develop the technology and to transfer the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor company from Eskom to Necsa. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/sou...

A study conducted by strategic consultancy firm Roland Berger has confirmed that the small modular reactor proposed by Dutch offshore construction engineering contractor Allseas offers major strategic opportunities for the Netherlands. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/stu...

The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the reactor building of unit 1 at the Zhaoyuan nuclear power plant in Shandong province. It is the first of six HPR1000 (Hualong One) units planned for the site. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/con...

The continued operation of unit 2 at the Kori nuclear power plant until 2033 has been approved by South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission. The reactor has been offline since April 2023, when its original 40-year operating permit expired. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/kor...

Weeks after receiving its final construction permit from the State of Utah, Anfield Energy has broken ground at the Velvet-Wood Uranium-Vanadium Mine - first production could be as soon as 2026. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/anf...

The first complete assembly of accident tolerant fuel to operate in a commercial nuclear reactor has completed its second cycle of operations and has undergone testing before being loaded into Constellation's Calvert Cliffs plant for a third 24-month cycle. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/acc...

The tripling of global nuclear capacity by 2050 can be achieved, provided governments take immediate and sustained action to deliver on their own national targets for nuclear capacity, a report from World Nuclear Association concludes. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/tri...

Belarus has decided to build a third unit at its first nuclear power plant - and is also going to start surveys for a second plant which may be needed to meet future energy demands. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bel...

The UK government has announced that Wylfa on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, will host three Rolls-Royce small modular reactors. It said the site - where a Magnox plant is being decommissioned - could potentially host up to eight SMRs. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/uk-...

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British inertial fusion energy developer First Light Fusion and UK-based strategic consultancy Stonehaven have released a report outlining a roadmap for commercial fusion in the UK by 2035, which would beat the government's current 2040 target. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/uk-...