| The dome of the containment building has been hoisted into place at the second unit of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in the UK. The milestone marks the end of the major civil engineering works on the plant's reactor buildings. |
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| EDF subsidiary Arabelle Solutions is to supply turbine island equipment for the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor project at the Darlington site in Ontario, Canada. |
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| Poland's Orlen Synthos Green Energy has signed a letter of intent with Canada's Ontario Power Generation to collaborate on a framework for the commercial development and operation of BWRX-300 reactors in Poland. |
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| The UK government announced plans to develop a National Policy Statement to unblock fusion energy projects, making the UK the first country in the world to develop fusion-specific planning rules. |
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| The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says two VVER-440 pressurised water reactors have been successfully removed and dismantled at Slovakia’s Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant, marking the end of the decommissioning project. |
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| The new gas centrifuge for separating uranium isotopes, which Russia's TVEL describes as a tenth-generation machine, is to undergo pilot industrial operation. |
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| Uranium mining operations have started at the McClean Lake project in Saskatchewan, Canada, using the Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction mining method, joint venture partners Orano Canada and Denison Mines have announced. |
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| The US Department of Energy has announced the start of a new pilot programme to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactors and strengthen domestic supply chains for nuclear fuel. |
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| The Czech Republic's ČEZ and UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR have signed an Early Works Agreement to start site-specific work for potential small modular reactors at the Temelin nuclear power plant. |
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| Bulgaria's Ministry of Energy and the US's Citi bank have agreed on a partnership to secure funding for the construction of two new units at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. |
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| Westinghouse plans to start construction of the first of ten new AP1000 reactors in the USA by 2030, interim CEO Dan Sumner told President Donald Trump at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy Summit and Expo in Pittsburgh. |
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| Framatome and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company have signed an agreement for the supply of nuclear fuel assemblies and engineering services for the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates. |
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| The first nuclear power unit at the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh is undergoing hot tests as the next stage of the commissioning process. |
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| US construction and engineering firm Kiewit Corporation has been selected by Oklo Inc as the lead constructor for its first commercial Aurora advanced fission power plant at the Idaho National Laboratory. |
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| Preparatory work designed to help extend the service life to 2036 has taken place at the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant’s unit 2 during its recent scheduled maintenance shutdown. |
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| Kairos Power has installed the reactor vessel for its third Engineering Test Unit, which is under construction in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The non-nuclear prototype will be used to pilot new manufacturing techniques and construction processes to lower the cost of building the company's commercial reactor. |
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| Westinghouse has announced it is to collaborate with Google Cloud to use artificial intelligence tools to streamline construction of new nuclear plants and enhance the operations of existing nuclear power plants. |
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| A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste within it. |
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| The National Audit Office has outlined delays of more than 10 years in the construction of Bulgaria's National Repository for Long-Term Storage of Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste. It also identified alleged public procurement irregularities. |
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| Italy-based micro-modular reactor developer Terra Innovatum Srl has signed a memorandum of understanding with Rock City Admiral Parkway Development in Illinois to host the first deployment site for its SOLO reactor. |
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| The reactor pressure vessel has been installed at unit 1 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning Province. It will be one of two CAP1000 reactors planned for the first plant, where two VVER-1200 reactors are also under construction. |
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| Exactly one year after construction began, China has produced its first barrel of natural uranium from its largest domestic project - the National Uranium No.1 demonstration project - in Ordos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. |
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| Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on nuclear energy, with both countries planning new large-scale and small modular reactors in the coming years. |
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| The inner containment dome has been installed at unit 6 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the first of two HPR1000 (Hualong One) units under construction at the site, where four CAP1000s are also planned. |
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| The European Commission is to invest EUR202 million (USD236 million) in the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator located in Granada, Spain, covering about 25% of the project's cost. The facility will test materials to be used in fusion power plants. |
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| The Uzatom Atomic Energy Agency, the Hungarian Foreign and Trade Ministry and MVM EGI have signed a protocol on agreements reached on cooperation relating to proposed nuclear energy projects in Uzbekistan. |
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