Swedish energy company Vattenfall has hired Vinci subsidiary Nuvia to decommission two reactors at its Ringhals nuclear power plant. Nuvia will take down unit 1, a boiling water reactor shut…

Rosatom aims to build the world’s largest fast neutron reactor at its Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant near Yekaterinburg, website Nuclear Engineering International reports. Plant director Ivan Sidorov said work on…

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel al-Sisi attended a virtual ceremony to mark the beginning of construction at the fourth and final reactor for the $25bn El…

London-based nuclear power start-up Newcleo is in talks with investors to raise up to €1bn to develop its generation IV small modular reactor powered by nuclear waste.  It would use…

The French government says it wants to build eight more nuclear reactors on top of the six previously announced. Energy transition minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told La Tribune Dimanche that more…

China’s State Council has given the green light for work to begin on two Hualong One reactors at the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong, and two more at the…

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Kaeri) and Hyundai Engineering have signed a memorandum of agreement aimed at winning export markets for its small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The agreement…

Germany’s centre-right parties have called for a reversal of the country’s anti-nuclear policy. Leading members of the CDU/CSU alliance and the liberal FDP want to restart decommissioned reactors and build…

French nuclear operator EDF aims to build nuclear reactors at a rate of up to 1.5 a year over the 2030s, its chief executive said. Luc Rémont made the comment…

Finnish Peikko Group, a supplier of specialist steel and concrete structures, has signed a contract to work with French contractor Bouygues Travaux Publics to develop a “steel concrete” construction method…

Sweden has set out a roadmap to build two large nuclear reactors by 2035 and 10 others by 2045, some of which may be of the small modular type. The…

Nuclear reactors come in three forms. The largest are the 700MW-plus units that power entire countries and are produced by a handful of national champions, the largest three being Areva,…

Norwegian nuclear start-up Norsk Kjernekraft has submitted a proposal to the country’s Ministry of Oil & Energy to build a power plant made up of small modular reactors (SMRs).

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has submitted its final bid to build a nuclear power unit in Czechia, the Korea Economic Daily reports. KHNP is up against French state-owned…

Bulgaria has decided to build two reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear power plant, Reuters reports. The new units will be based on US technology developed by Westinghouse and will add…

Work has begun on unit one of the $18bn Lianjiang nuclear power plant in southeast China’s Guangdong province. The announcement was made on Sunday by its owner, the State Power…

France’s competition watchdog has fined six companies a total of €31m for collusive tendering connected to work on the Marcoule nuclear site near Avignon. The companies affected, all of which…

The Central Asian state of Kazakhstan is planning to hold a referendum to decide whether to build its first nuclear power plant, Caspian News reports. The announcement was made by…