Russian architect-engineer Atomenergoproekt expects to complete in December its work on a draft document to support the operating life extension of unit 1 of the Balakovo nuclear power plant in the Saratov district.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted the Department of Energy’s design for an underground geologic nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The Finnish and Indian nuclear regulators are to exchange information following the signing of a cooperation agreement between the two countries.

Westinghouse has been criticised by the Swedish nuclear regulator for failing to carry out required medical examinations of some workers at its fuel fabrication plant in Västerås.

The American Nuclear Society has written to a Senate committee expressing its concerns that a new bill will politicize the way the national nuclear regulator oversees security of radiological materials.

Canadian nuclear safety regulators have updated regulations for the country's nuclear power plant operators to prepare for and manage emergency situations.

Duke Energy Progress has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval to purchase the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency's generating assets, including stakes in three of its power reactors.

Consumers stand to receive refunds and credits totalling $1.3 billion due to the premature closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant under a settlement proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission.

A round of safety improvements to ensure core cooling in scenarios similar to those of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi have been announced by the Swedish regulator, which unusually made its statement in a newspaper article.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission missed an opportunity during an inspection in 2009 to note design changes to the faulty steam generators that eventually led to Southern California Edison's decision four years later to close the San Onofre nuclear plant, the agency's Office of Inspector General said.

Cracks found in two of the 6000 graphite bricks in one of two Hunterston B reactors in North Ayrshire, Scotland have no safety implications, Colin Weir, station director at the plant said today in response to media coverage of the matter.

Kazakhstan has removed a stockpile of Russian-origin fresh high-enriched uranium fuel from the critical assembly of the WWR-K Research Reactor in Almaty, the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday.