Sweden's radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB has selected Swiss construction firm Implenia as its collaborative partner to build the first underground section of the final repository for used nuclear fuel in Forsmark.

Civil engineering for ONDRAF/NIRAS' surface disposal facility in Dessel will be carried out by the NucleusSafe partnership, with construction company Denys responsible for electromechanical aspects. Work is to begin later this year.

Talen Energy Corporation has entered into a new agreement for the long-term supply of 1,920 MWe of electricity from its Susquehanna nuclear power plant to support Amazon Web Services' data centres, as well as looking into building SMRs and capacity uprates.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is preparing to sign subcontract agreements and establish a project office at Dukovany after the signing of the contract to build two APR-1000 units at a project cost of CZK407 billion (USD18.6 billion). The aim is to start construction in 2029.

The contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for new nuclear capacity at the Dukovany site in the Czech Republic has been signed - hours after the Supreme Administrative Court annulled a regional court's injunction to stop it happening. 

French company EDF says the goal of its legal challenge to the decision to award the contract for new nuclear capacity in the Czech Republic to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is to ensure it is "in accordance with European regulatory rules".

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has been contracted by Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to carry out an evaluation at a proposed site in the Buyende region for the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant.

Ontario Power Generation has awarded AtkinsRéalis company Candu Energy Inc a CAD450 million (USD325 million) execution contract for the first of the four planned small modular reactor units at the Darlington New Nuclear Project.

France's Framatome is to supply ATRIUM 11 fuel assemblies to the Leibstadt nuclear power plant in Switzerland following the signing of a long-term contract with operator Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG.