The engineering, construction and project management company Bechtel will continue managing and operating the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico after receiving a three-year extension to its contract with the US Department of Energy.
 

Unit 2 of the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium's Flanders region has been taken offline for the final time after 50 years of operation and disconnected from the grid. Its closure is in line with Belgium's nuclear phase-out policy, under which four other reactors have already been shut down.
 

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved Taipower's report on the current condition of its decommissioned nuclear power plants, which concludes that the Kuosheng and Maanshan plants are "feasible for reoperation". The utility is expected to submit plans next year for their restarts.
 

The Ontario government has approved Ontario Power Generation's plan to refurbish four Candu nuclear reactors at Pickering, clearing the way for a start to the execution phase of the project, subject to final regulatory approvals.

Unit 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant has begun supplying electricity to the grid, China National Nuclear Corporation announced. The unit is the second of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned at the site in China's Fujian province.
 

The governor of Japan's Niigata Prefecture has given his approval for the restart of units 6 and 7 at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. Pending backing of his decision by the prefectural assembly next month, Hideyo Hanazumi will inform the central government of the approval, ending the process of obtaining local consent.
 

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced that the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has closed a USD1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Generation to help finance the restart of Three Mile Island unit 1, now known as the Crane Clean Energy Centre.
 

The continued operation of unit 2 at the Kori nuclear power plant until 2033 has been approved by South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission. The reactor has been offline since April 2023, when its original 40-year operating permit expired.
 

South Africa's National Nuclear Regulator has authorised the 930 MWe Koeberg 2 unit for a further 20 years of operation.