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…

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant this morning lost all external electricity for the seventh time since Russia’s invasion began, the director general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael…

North American nuclear engineer Westinghouse yesterday unveiled plans to manufacture a small modular reactor (SMR) by the end of this decade. Called the AP300, it would be an ultra-compact version…

A joint venture of three American companies BWX Technologies, Fluor and Amentum, have won a 10-year contract with a ceiling of $45bn for environmental management operations at the decommissioned Hanford…

The 1.6GW Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor began producing electricity yesterday, 18 years after the project broke ground and €8bn over its original €3bn budget. OL3 is the largest nuclear…

Hungary and Russia have reached a new agreement to add two VVER-1200 reactors to the Paks nuclear power plant, the Budapest Business Journal reports. The agreement modifies the original contract…

Russia’s state-owned nuclear engineer Rosatom has received permission from Egypt’s nuclear regulator to build a third reactor at the El Dabaa site on the Mediterranean coast, World Nuclear News reports. …

A Westinghouse-Bechtel team this week met with 55 Czech companies to discuss the engineers’ bid to build nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. The Westinghouse-Bechtel team is one of three…