An agreement between Kazatomprom and Japanese utility Kansai to supply Kazakh uranium products for Japanese nuclear power plants and a raft of nuclear-related bilaterals were signed during the visit to Japan by Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
 

The Niigata Prefectural Assembly has backed Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi's decision to approve the restart of units 6 and 7 at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant.
 

Tokyo-based fusion company Helical Fusion has signed a power purchase agreement with Aoki Super Company, a major regional supermarket chain in central Japan.
 

The Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak project, designed to demonstrate fusion energy power generation in Japan in the 2030s, has reached its first key milestone, Starlight Engine and Kyoto Fusioneering have announced.
 

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.
 

Fusion Fuel Cycles Inc has officially begun construction at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario of the Unique Integrated Testing Facility - the world's first integrated tritium fuel cycle system test facility capable of full-loop operations.
 

Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company is beginning surveys of the Mihama nuclear power plant site in Fukui Prefecture to determine if a new reactor could be built there as a replacement for unit 1, which was declared permanently shut down in 2015.
 

Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc, has informed the Niigata Prefectural Assembly that the utility is considering decommissioning units 1 and 2 at its seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant.
 

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company announced it has removed the upper lid of the pressure vessel of unit 1 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant as it begins to dismantle the reactor. Dismantling of the reactor of unit 2 at the plant began earlier this year.