A regional court in the Czech Republic has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Wednesday's expected signing of a contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for the construction of new nuclear units at Dukovany nuclear power plant.

The Czech government has announced plans for a state loan to finance construction of two new units at the Dukovany nuclear power plant, with a contract scheduled to be signed with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power next week.

Canada's Candu Energy has signed a preferred vendor agreement with South Korea's Doosan Enerbility, allowing it to pursue collaboration on nuclear power projects worldwide, including the upgrading of Candu reactors and nuclear new-build projects.

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor has given the go-ahead for the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant's planned fifth unit - a fast neutron BN-1200 reactor. Preparatory construction works are expected to start this year.

The Consultative Committee of India's Ministry of Power has met and outlined steps needed to meet the country's target of a more than 10-fold increase in its nuclear energy capacity to 100 GW by 2047.

China's State Council has approved five nuclear power projects - Fangchenggang Phase III, Haiyang Phase III, Sanmen Phase III, Taishan Phase II and Xiapu Phase I - with a total of 10 reactors, including eight Hualong One units.

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe and the Westinghouse-Bechtel Consortium have signed the recently-agreed Engineering Development Agreement, which ensures the continuity of the implementation of Poland's first nuclear power plant project.

The network will eventually securely link together all computers, work stations, systems and sensors at the El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt. 

A new company, Trondheimsleia Kjernekraft AS, has been founded in partnership between the future host municipalities of Aure and Heim, local energy company NEAS and Norsk Kjernekraft to develop a power plant based on multiple small modular reactors.

The deployment of advanced nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors, presents a promising yet complex horizon as these technologies look to support the transformation of the energy sector, write PA Consulting's Derreck Van Gelderen and Matt Leedham.

The Czech Republic's competition authority has dismissed EDF's appeal against the process used to select Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for new nuclear power capacity in the country.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has presented a purchase order for the contract to build Kaiga units 5 and 6 to Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Ltd in the first major nuclear contract for the Hyderabad-based company.