US-based NuScale Power Corporation and MillenniTEK Advance have reached a manufacturing milestone by fabricating the first-of-its-kind boron-oxide pellets for NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR).

Swedish nuclear startup Blykalla has applied to the Swedish government for a second commercial advanced nuclear reactor park. The proposed facility, at Untra in Tierp municipality (Uppsala County), ...

Japan’s Chubu Electric Power Co has admitted to intentionally falsifying 14 construction and expense reports. The fraudulent claims concern the ongoing decommissioning of units 1&2 reactors at its ...

Preparations have begun for concluding contracts for the manufacture of equipment for Russia’s planned Primorsky NPP – the main elements of the reactor compartment, turbine hall, melt trap and other ...

Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco – Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico) has authorised a three-year operational extension for ...

Rapid progress is being made at Russia’s Leningrad NPP. The first tier of the internal containment for unit 8 (also known as Leningrad-II unit 4) has been installed almost a month ahead of schedule.

Installation of the VVER-1200 reactor pressure vessel into its design position at Unit 2 of Egypt’s El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (Credit: Atomic Energy 2.0) Two additional reactors are being planned ...

Rendering of UNITY-3, a first-of-its-kind breeding blanket test facility (Credit: Kyoto Fusioneering) Japanese fusion technology company Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) is relocating its US headquarters from ...

A massive influx of jellyfish into the pumping stations of the Gravelines NPP in northern France has led to the shutdown of units 2, 3 and 4 and a reduction in power output at unit 1 – all 900 MWe ...

US-based fusion and isotopes company SHINE, with a platform serving the nuclear fuel recycling market, is working with GE Vernova to develop a modernised and more efficient system to track used fuel ...

The executive meeting of China’s State Council has approved Phase I of the Xuwei nuclear power project in Jiangsu province developed by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), along with four other ...

A major turbine island modernisation project is underway at Finland’s Loviisa NPP. The project will be implemented in phases during annual outages between 2026 and 2028. The modernisation project will ...