France and India are to launch a cooperation programme on small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors. The announcement came after a meeting in Paris between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of France Emmanuel Macron, during which they noted progress made on the six-EPR power plant project in Jaitapur, India.

The core module for the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project has passed the final acceptance and will be shipped to the construction site at the Changjiang nuclear power plant on China's southern island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has taken part in the ground-breaking ceremony for the 1200 MWe unit 5 of the Chashma nuclear power plant, which is being built by China National Nuclear Corporation.

A number of nuclear energy-related agreements were among the 33 memorandums of understanding signed between South Korean and Polish companies during the Korea-Poland Business Forum in Warsaw.

Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA's plan to construct a power plant based on NuScale Power's small modular reactor has been approved by the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

South Korea's Ministry of Industry is to review the need for new nuclear power plants to expand the country's power supply to meet predicted increased demand for electricity.

Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment has given a decision-in-principle for Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe to construct a nuclear power plant in Pomerania. It is a formal confirmation that the company's investment project is in line with the public interest and the policies pursued by the state, including energy policy.

Oklo is to go public by merging with AltC Acquisition Corp - co-founded by Oklo chairman Sam Altman - in a deal which values the company at USD850 million.

Four steam generators and the reactor vessel for unit 3 at the Xudapu nuclear power plant have a combined weight of 1700 tonnes and are being transported from Russia to China by road, barge and then sea from St Petersburg.

In an interview for the World Nuclear News podcast Lassina Zerbo, the former head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization and current chairman of the Rwanda Atomic Energy Board, set out his views on the prospects for nuclear energy in Africa in the years ahead.

The first of nine sector modules installed to form the tokamak torus of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor fusion machine in Cadarache, southern France, has been removed for repairs.

Turkey is in talks with Russia, China and South Korea over its planned second and third nuclear power plants, and with the USA and United Kingdom over small modular reactors, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar is reported to have told a media briefing.