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…

China has offered to build a nuclear power station in Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The plan, according to Saudi officials familiar with the matter, is…

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni said this week that Russia and South Korea would build two nuclear power stations in his country, the Anadolu news agency reports. He told the G-25…

China’s State Council, the country’s highest government body, this week approved the construction of six reactors at three nuclear power stations in the east of the country, World Nuclear News…

The French government, which last year announced its intention of adding eight EPR reactors to the national fleet before 2027, has chosen Bugey nuclear power station as the site of…

A Russian submarine designer is working on a submersible nuclear power unit that can dive to a depth of 400m and provide energy to remote Arctic settlements, reports Strana Rosatom,…

Turkey has entered into talks with China, Russia, and South Korea on possible deals to build the country’s second and third nuclear power plants (NPPs), and with the US and…

The Canadian province of Ontario has begun pre-development work with nuclear operator Bruce Power to build the first nuclear reactor in the country in a generation. It’s planned for the…

Korean contractor Samsung C&T has teamed up with US company NuScale to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) in Romania, business website Pulse reports. The two will work with Texas…

China’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear power reactors that would provide electrical power to islands on the South China Sea have been suspended over security concerns, the South…