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…

The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) said yesterday that it had contacted the government of Turkey to propose the construction of four reactors with a total power output of 5.6GW,…

Japan plans to bring seven dormant nuclear plants back online this year and to start building a new fleet of state-of-the-art reactors to meet its energy needs. The move comes…

The Netherlands’ Council of Ministers has approved plans for two new reactors, with the country’s only existing plant at Borssele in Zeeland as the preferred location, VRT News reports. The…

Iran broke ground on a nuclear power plant in the country’s southwestern Khuzestan region on Saturday, state news agency PressTV reports. The Karun plant will be located on a 50ha…

Bids from US-Canadian engineer Westinghouse, France’s EDF and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have been shortlisted for a nuclear plant in Dukovany, in the southeast of the Czech Republic.…

Russian shelling over Saturday and Sunday resulted in 12 direct hits on structures at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom said yesterday. Experts from the…

Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom poured the first concrete on Saturday (19 November) for the second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first. Egypt’s energy minister Mohamed Shaker…

The United States’ Export-Import Bank has signalled interest in offering $3.05bn to support American involvement in building two more reactors at Cernavoda, Romania’s only nuclear power station. Bank president Reta…

The state-owned Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will provide US$700m to develop the country’s first small modular reactor (SMR), planned for the Darlington nuclear power station in Ontario. The money goes…