Taiwan's nuclear regulator has completed its review of Taipower's plans for the restart of the Maanshan nuclear power plant, which was submitted earlier this year.
 

The Province of Ontario has announced the signature of more than CAD3 billion (USD2.1 billion) worth of contracts for the refurbishment of four units at Ontario Power Generation's Pickering plant as site construction for the project gets under way.
 

A new agreement will see Google support uprates on Georgia Power's share of the Vogtle and Hatch plants, which will add around 96 MW of new capacity to the grid.
 

Slovakia's Mochovce 4 began power generation at 15:33 on Monday, which operator Slovenske elektrárne describes as the last major stage before the unit is put into operation.
 

As fuel loading begins at Rajasthan Atomic Power Project unit 8, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has started geotechnical investigations for the next two units at the plant. Meanwhile, fuel loading has begun at Kaiga unit 1 as the unit begins the process to return to service after refurbishment.
 

Unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant in China's island province of Hainan has entered commercial operation. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors being constructed as Phase II of the plant.
 

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company has said it will withdraw applications for regulatory reviews of units 3 and 4 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture after an independent committee found that workers felt under pressure from senior management to manipulate earthquake data submitted to the regulator.
 

The Czech Republic's State Office for Nuclear Security has given the go-ahead for Westinghouse's fuel to be used at ČEZ's VVER-1000 units at Temelín Nuclear Power Plant.
 

Tech giant Google has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Finland's Fortum covering up to 50% of the Loviisa nuclear power plant's capacity and providing financial certainty for power uprates and lifetime extensions until 2050.