The Westinghouse Electric Company has signed an agreement in principle with the Pabineau and Eel River Bar First Nations in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick to build a…

Five companies have been awarded a design and engineering contract to prepare plans for a depository for spent nuclear fuel in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Deep Geological Repository (DGR) will…

Belgium’s parliament voted overwhelmingly last week in favour of a bill that reverses a law enacted 22 years ago that mandated an end to nuclear power generation, Brussels Times reports.…

Forty years after the Danish parliament banned the building of nuclear power plants, Denmark is interested again. Its energy minister Lars Aagaard told newspaper Politiken that the government would assess…

Vietnam is still in talks with Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom about building nuclear power plants in Vietnam, the two countries said in a joint statement reported by Reuters. The parties…

The Canadian province of Ontario plans to switch on North America’s first small modular reactor (SMR) by 2030 after the provincial government last week gave the nod for construction to…

Russia has agreed to help Iran to build a greenfield nuclear power plant (NPP) and to further expand its existing facility in Bushehr on the country’s Gulf coast, the Mehr…

The Kazakh Atomic Energy Agency has shortlisted four companies to supply reactors for its first nuclear power plant, the Interfax news agency reports. They are Russia’s Rosatom, Korea Hydro &…

The government of Sweden is planning to issue state loans to fund its planned fleet of four nuclear reactors instead of seeking private finance. Energy minister Ebba Busch said the…

Vietnam’s National Assembly today approved raising the country’s growth target for this year to at least 8%, up from 6.5%, and backed infrastructure projects including a railway to China and…

India and France have agreed to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) together after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, The Indian Express reports. India’s foreign ministry…

Arizona’s three biggest utilities have joined forces to assess the feasibility of adding more nuclear generating capacity to the state, news site Arizona Republic reports. The companies – Arizona Public…

The Belgian government wants to extend the lives of its five nuclear reactors and start building their replacements, repealing a 2003 law banning new nuclear construction, the Belga news agency…

A coalition of engineers led by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has applied to the Department of Energy for an $800m grant to speed up the development of small modular…

France’s plan to secure the future of its energy sector by building six nuclear reactors beginning in 2027 have been thrown into doubt by a report from the Cour des…

Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom has offered to build two VVER-1200 reactors in Vietnam, and help with wind and battery projects, the Interfax agency reports. Chief executive Alexei Likhachev told journalists…

Russian nuclear energy company Rosatom has signed an agreement with the Ethiopian Ministry of Innovation & Technology to start developing a Centre for Nuclear Science & Technology.

The Belarusian Energy Ministry is to carry out a feasibility study probing whether to add a third reactor to its Astrovets nuclear station or build a second nuclear site, the…