TerraPower has awarded the major manufacturing contracts for the first Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor enclosure system. The company says the contracts "represent a significant milestone in the deployment and commercialisation of America's first advanced reactor".

Romania's Nuclearelectrica has ceremonially signed the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the estimated EUR1.9 billion (USD1.97 billion) refurbishment of Cernavoda unit 1 with a consortium of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, AtkinsRealis's Candu Energy, Canadian Commercial Corporation and Ansaldo Nucleare.

The US Department of Energy has selected six companies which will be able to compete for contracts to supply low-enriched uranium. It follows June's request for proposals to purchase LEU from domestic sources.

Finland's Steady Energy has signed a contract with Tractebel to provide engineering services to develop its district heating-focused LDR-150 small modular reactor.

Kinectrics Inc will continue to support Bruce Power's reactor operations, life extension programme and radioisotope production activities under a CAD2.5 billion (USD3.2 billion), 10-year agreement. Meanwhile, a new process data reconciliation/data validation and reconciliation system is improving the output of the Bruce nuclear power plants.

France's Orano has signed two mixed-oxide fuel manufacturing contracts with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for a total of 64 MOX fuel assemblies for use in two Japanese nuclear power reactors.

The engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the completion of Romania's Cernavoda units 3 and 4 has been signed with the FCSA Joint Venture including Fluor, AtkinsRéalis, Ansaldo Nucleare and Sargent & Lundy Energie.

The project company planning to build two new AP1000 reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant site has invited interested parties to participate in pre-qualification for the provision of engineering consulting services.

A consortium of Assystem, Egis and Empresarios Agrupados has signed a contract with Fusion for Energy worth an initial EUR80 million (USD84 million) to provide consulting and engineering expertise on the ITER international fusion project.