NRG-Pallas - operator of the High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands - has been contracted by Kairos Power of the USA to perform irradiation demonstrations and qualifications of fuels and materials that will be used in its small modular reactor.

The 10-day process has been completed of welding the closing seam of the reactor vessel being manufactured for the first unit at Egypt's first nuclear power plant.

A ceremony has been held to mark first concrete being poured on Thursday for the foundation of the reactor building for unit 4 at the Leningrad II nuclear power plant in Russia.

The hydraulic tests to check the primary circuit systems and equipment at the Rooppur nuclear power plant's first unit have been successfully completed, paving the way for hot functional tests to begin. 

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is withdrawing from the technology selection process for two new reactors at the Borssele nuclear power plant site in the Netherlands. It follows the company's recent withdrawal from similar reactor selection processes in Sweden and Slovenia.

The National Nuclear Energy Commission has begun a three-year project to demonstrate the feasibility of the development of a Brazilian 3-5 MW microreactor.

Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical characteristics of the VVER-S reactor with MOX fuel.

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a licence for the locating of a fourth unit at the Kursk II nuclear power plant.

Unit 7 at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project is the third 700 MWe indigenous pressurised heavy water reactor to be connected to the Indian grid.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said the country had "asked the Russians, if possible, to build a second power plant", according to the official Belta news agency's report on a speech made to the Federation Council during his official visit to Russia.

Minister of Industry and Trade Lukáš Vlček said the proposed construction of new nuclear energy units at Dukovany will bring long-term economic benefits, but an action plan is needed to avoid negative impacts from the construction which is expected to see a 9,700 increase in the population of the surrounding area.

Innovative reactor developer Newcleo has acquired a site in Chusclan in the Gard department in southern France on which it will build an R&D innovation and training centre supporting the development of its future fuel assembly manufacturing facility in France.