The proposed merger of US utilities Exelon and Constellation Energy moved one step closer with the transaction being approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission. However, the Maryland regulator said that a number of conditions must be met.

Areva has signed a contract with Czech engineering firm TS Plzen for the supply of a new forging press and manipulator for its Le Creusot manufacturing plant.

Nuclear deals potentially worth more than £500 million ($790 million) were signed on the sidelines of the Franco-British Summit in Paris today as a strengthened cooperation agreement on civil nuclear energy was signed between the two countries. Many of these deals relate to EDF Energy's plans to construct two Areva EPR reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

EDF has posted strong results for the last year, with nuclear generation up by enough to counter an 'exceptionally poor' year for hydroelectricity. EDF's nuclear power plants in France and the UK generated 421.1 TWh and 55.8 TWh respectively, beating targets and up on 2010 performance by 13 TWh. The UK's Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor fleet posted its best performance for six years.

Areva's Supervisory Board, upon completing an analysis of the acquisition of mining company UraMin, has turned up no evidence of fraud - but has set out a plan of action to improve corporate governance practices at the company.

A China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC) subsidiary has taken a further step towards purchasing the Husab uranium project in Namibia.

French nuclear fuel giant Areva and nuclear generator EDF have announced a long-term partnership agreement covering the supply of natural uranium for France's nuclear plants from 2014 to 2030.

Uranium development in Wyoming's Gas Hills will be funded from the proceeds of a newly completed private share placement which sees the Korea Electric Power Company (Kepco) become the largest shareholder in Canada-based Strathmore Minerals.

The supervisory board of Polish utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) has approved the construction of two nuclear power plants by 2029 as part of a strategy plan for the period 2012 to 2035 aimed at increasing its installed generating capacity while diversifying its generating technology.

Upgrade work will enable the lives of three RBMK reactors at the Smolensk site in Russia to be extended until the first new unit of a replacement plant is up, according to Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko.

Upgrade work will enable the lives of three RBMK reactors at the Smolensk site in Russia to be extended until the first new unit of a replacement plant is up, according to Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko.

Having spent five years combining its nuclear power, engineering and scientific enterprises into the single entity of Rosatom, Russia now sees privatisation of the firm as part of a plan for industrial modernisation.