Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited and Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore and identify suitable sites in India's Gujarat sta...

Ownership of the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset, England - which was permanently shut down four years ago - has transferred from EDF Energy to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ...

Westinghouse and the University of South Carolina are partnering to create a multidisciplinary nuclear workforce development programme to support US fleet deployment of AP1000 plants. Meanwhile, the N...

A group of Polish business people have invested a total of PLN500 million (USD128 million) in SGE’s plans to build fleets of small modular reactors in Poland, the UK and elsewhere in Europe. &n...

"As nuclear energy expands globally, success will depend on our ability to learn faster, collaborate more deeply and translate insight into action," said World Association of Nuclear Operato...

A tunnel boring machine has finished digging a 620-metre tunnel which will form part of Hinkley Point C's system for returning fish to the sea.  ;

Scaling-up nuclear capacity remains one of the major challenges for the global nuclear industry, and Polina Lion, chief sustainability officer of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, outl...

A 20-year power purchase agreement signed by tech giant Amazon will enable Constellation to add 190 MW of capacity and extend the operating life of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland i...

A USD120 billion framework agreement to build six Westinghouse AP1000 units and two of South Korea's APR1400 units in the USA has been outlined by the US Department of Commerce.  ;

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev to discuss further life extension options for the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, as well as options for new nu...

The successful partners have been identified for a new delivery framework, valued at up to GBP3.6 billion (USD4.8 billion), for asset care and asset creation activities at the UK's Sellafield site...

The Government of Saskatchewan has released a plan that establishes a goal of having at least 2,600 MWe of nuclear generating capacity online in the Canadian province by 2050.  ;

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a construction permit for the Tennessee Valley Authority's planned GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX‑300 small modular reactor at the Clinch River site. &nbs...

A licence application has been submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission by General Matter for its proposed commercial uranium enrichment facility in Paducah, Kentucky.  ;

As the Dutch Senate approves an amendment to the Nuclear Energy Act, allowing a possible life extension of the Borssele nuclear power plant beyond 2033, the government said it has reached an agreement...

Polish construction engineering firm Polimex Mostostal has been selected by Bechtel to deliver, assemble and commission two large-scale assembly halls as part of the project to construct the country&#...

The new Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant unit 7 has achieved a self-sustaining controlled nuclear chain reaction and is at its minimum controllable power level.  ;

The UK is seeking to translate its position in fusion research into industrial and commercial leadership, with government, industry and the UK Atomic Energy Authority highlighting the need to develop ...

Taiwan's nuclear regulator has completed its review of Taipower's plans for the restart of the Maanshan nuclear power plant, which was submitted earlier this year.  ;

First concrete was poured for the nuclear island of Bailong Nuclear Power Plant's unit 2 at 18:27 on Sunday 27 September.  ;

The US regulator, together with the Department of Energy Office of Energy Dominance Financing, has issued an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact for environmental effects fro...

The Mining Convention for the Madouela project formalises a framework agreement announced in August and triggers the process to discontinue international arbitration proceedings over the project in Ni...

Construction of the 214,000-square-foot building which will house the TX-1 advanced nuclear fuel facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has been completed.  ;

A series of recommendations have been made to mitigate the denial or delay of transport of radioactive materials which nuclear power plants, hospitals, industries and researchers rely on.  ;

Czech company Škoda JS has been chosen as sole supplier of control rod drive mechanisms for Rolls-Royce SMR's future small modular reactors.  ;

The Province of Ontario has announced the signature of more than CAD3 billion (USD2.1 billion) worth of contracts for the refurbishment of four units at Ontario Power Generation's Pickering plant ...

The US Trade and Development Agency has signed an agreement with Turkey's state-owned nuclear development enterprise TÜNAŞ to fund technical assistance to create the regulatory, institutional...

The Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium and Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe have agreed the main commercial and legal terms of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract that will deliver Poland&#...

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's bill paving the way for a return to nuclear power in Italy after four decades was passed in the Senate by 81 votes to 51, with seven abstentions.  ;

As the European Industrial Alliance on SMRs says it is now assessing a second round of applications, Nuward's CEO has said that it aims to start construction of the first of an initial fleet of 10...

EDF subsidiary Cyclife announced the Chinon A nuclear power plant dismantling project has reached a major milestone with the validation of the contractual strategy for dismantling the Chinon A2 plant&...

As fuel loading begins at Rajasthan Atomic Power Project unit 8, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has started geotechnical investigations for the next two units at the plant. Meanwhile, fuel loa...

Unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant in China's island province of Hainan has entered commercial operation. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors being constructed as...

A feasibility study of four cooling tower options for Slovenia's proposed JEK2 new nuclear project has proposed a natural draft cooling tower of between 193 metres and 198 metres.  ;

Tests to check the integrity of the containment structure have been completed at unit 5 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (H...

China's aim to achieve the commercial utilisation of fusion energy by 2050, and the benefits to be gained from international collaboration, have been set out at Fusion for the Future: Enginee...

Pre-payments under the contract will support Centrus's ongoing expansion of its uranium enrichment capacity, with deliveries of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to support Antares' adva...

Nine industry associations participating in the Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference in Paris have reaffirmed the industry's commitment to advancing the peaceful use of nuclear technology and c...

Seven packages containing low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste have been shipped after processing from the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management.  ;

Holtec Nuclear Corporation is postponing the initial public offering it announced in July, due to market conditions. The company's CEO has said market concerns about the AI sector have played a pa...

The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have informed ministers of the changes they have already made or intend to make in order to speed up the licensing process for new nuc...

Unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant in China's island province of Hainan has entered commercial operation. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors being constructed as...

A number of collaboration agreements have been announced between US and UK partners aimed at accelerating the commercial deployment of nuclear fusion power plants around the world.  ;

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has directed UK regulators to begin the Generic Design Assessment of the X-energy Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, after completing reviews o...

Westinghouse says the completion of zero-power high-temperature criticality testing for the microreactor, which saw it reach criticality at 663 degrees Celsius, is a defining milestone in the programm...

The European Investment Bank is to invest up to EUR40 million (USD46 million) in Finland's small modular reactor company Steady Energy, whose LDR-50 reactor is designed specifically for ...

China Atomic Energy Authority has launched the Global Network for SMR Innovation with the aim of supporting small modular reactor technology progress, standards and deployment "helping make nucle...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has released its annual projections of future energy demands and nuclear power capacity - and suggested in its 'high case' scenario that by 2060 there co...

The global uranium sector is responding to growing interest in nuclear capacity expansion, according to the latest assessment by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agen...

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company has said it will withdraw applications for regulatory reviews of units 3 and 4 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture after an independ...