Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe, the Polish government company that is progressing its policy to deploy up to six reactors at multiple sites in the country by 2040, has submitted the environmental impact assessment report for the first plant.

CORRECTED The city of Vantaa has said its municipal energy company must withdraw from the project to build the Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Finland, saying the situation in Ukraine makes it unlikely a licence would be granted.

The process of loading the 157 fuel assemblies into the core of unit 6 of the Hongyanhe plant in Liaoning province has been completed, China General Nuclear announced. The unit - the second of two ACPR-1000 reactors built as Phase II of the plant - is scheduled to begin operations later this year.

At a meeting with US President Joe Biden, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said that he believed the two countries' nuclear energy programme "will be able to get off the ground soon".

India is preparing to start building reactors in "fleet" mode from next year, beginning with the first concrete for two 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors at Kaiga in Karnataka, Department of Atomic Energy officials have told a parliamentary panel.

Unit 6 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province - the second of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors at the site - has been put into commercial operation, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. Unit 5 became the first Hualong One to enter commercial operation last year.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation has announced the start of commercial operation for the UAE's second nuclear unit. Barakah 2 achieved first criticality in August 2021 and began supplying electricity to the grid on 14 September.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov says he hopes to put "concrete proposals" to Greece within 12 months. It is believed that the plan would be for Greece to sign a long-term supply contract for energy from a new nuclear reactor in Bulgaria.

The South African government has published the first phase of its National Infrastructure Plan 2050. The plan aims to create a foundation for achieving the vision of inclusive growth under the National Development Plan, with energy one of four critical network sectors addressed in this phase.
 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted a roundtable at Downing Street on 21 March with leaders from the nuclear industry to discuss how to improve domestic energy security and rapidly accelerate nuclear projects in the UK.

The Director General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Yau Idris, said that agreements had been signed with a number of other countries' regulators as plans proceed for a proposed four unit plant.

The main components of the turbine plant of Akkuyu unit 1 - including the stator, turbine generator rotor and low-pressure cylinder - have been delivered to the construction site in Turkey.