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…