Kärnfull Next announced it will conduct feasibility studies on hosting small modular reactor power plants at two properties located in Karlshamn municipality in Blekinge county, southern Sweden.

The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 at the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the third unit to begin construction at the site, which will eventually house six reactors.

An International Atomic Energy Agency mission to Ghana has judged that the country followed the agency's safety standards while selecting the proposed site for its first nuclear power plant.

Two new large nuclear power reactors and 700 MW of small modular reactor capacity should be built by 2038 - in addition to the large reactors already under construction or planned - under South Korea's latest 15-year long-term energy plan, which has now been finalised.

The first back-up diesel generator - which plays an essential role in safety systems - has been launched for the first unit at Turkey's Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.

An application for a permit to determine the location of the planned unit 8 at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant has been submitted to Bulgaria's Nuclear Regulatory Agency.

Minister of Industry and Trade Lukáš Vlček has said that the Czech Republic and South Korea are looking at further investments and trade relations in addition to the proposed new capacity at the Dukovany nuclear power plant.

Japan is to "make maximum use of nuclear power", with about 20% of the country's total electricity generation in fiscal 2040 coming from nuclear, according to the government's latest Basic Energy Plan. Previous plans have called for a reduction on its dependence on nuclear power.

Small modular reactor project development company Kärnfull Next has secured land rights for the project to build a power plant based on SMRs in the municipality of Valdemarsvik in Östergötland county in southeastern Sweden.

The reactor pressure vessel for unit 1 of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant has arrived at the construction site in China's Guangdong province. It will be the first of two CAP1000 reactors planned for the first phase of the plant.

Ahead of a National Energy Policy Council meeting to discuss whether or not to complete the Angra 3 unit, the president of Eletronuclear, Raul Lycurgo, set out what he sees as the wider benefits to Brazil's economy of the project.

US microreactor developer Last Energy has formally entered the UK's nuclear site licensing process for its plans to develop four 20 MWe microreactors at the site of the decommissioned Llynfi coal-fired power station in Bridgend County, south Wales.