South Korea’s government has dismissed claims from Korean opposition politicians that its bid to build two nuclear reactors in Czechia had been underpriced and that costs would inevitably increase once work began, the Korean Herald reports.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has kicked off construction this week at his company TerraPower’s nuclear demonstration project in Wyoming, next to an existing coal power station.

Russia will help Uzbekistan build two nuclear power plants, Uzbek news agency Kun.uz reports. The agreement was reached after Russian president Vladimir Putin met Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the president of Uzbekistan,…

Iran has broken ground on a greenfield nuclear power plant at Sirik on the Strait of Hormuz, Nuclear Engineering International reports.

Ontario will refurbish a nuclear power station near Toronto to extend its life by 30 years amid rapid growth in demand for electricity. Province-owned company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will…

The world’s first commercial, fourth-generation reactor has entered service at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in northeast China.

Romanian nuclear operator Nuclearelectrica has hired Canadian engineer Candu Energy and the state-owned Canadian Commercial Corporation to extend the life of the Unit 1 reactor at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant.

US utility Georgia Power started loading fuel into the reactor core of the new Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro, Georgia on 17 August.

The first two units of China’s Hualong One reactor design passed their final acceptance test, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced this week. The country’s future nuclear plans are based…

SNC-Lavalin’s Candu Energy has won a two-year project worth C$65m to prepare for the life-extending refurbishment of a nuclear reactor in Romania.

The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) said yesterday that it had contacted the government of Turkey to propose the construction of four reactors with a total power output of 5.6GW,…

Canadian power company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has retained Candu Energy, part of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and Canadian contractor Aecon to design and build a small modular reactor (SMR) at…

A consortium of Jacobs, Westinghouse and the Lithuanian Energy Institute has landed a decommissioning contract for Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). The Soviet-designed plant could be the first graphite-moderated…

The Netherlands’ Council of Ministers has approved plans for two new reactors, with the country’s only existing plant at Borssele in Zeeland as the preferred location, VRT News reports. The…

Iran broke ground on a nuclear power plant in the country’s southwestern Khuzestan region on Saturday, state news agency PressTV reports. The Karun plant will be located on a 50ha…

Bids from US-Canadian engineer Westinghouse, France’s EDF and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have been shortlisted for a nuclear plant in Dukovany, in the southeast of the Czech Republic.…

Russian shelling over Saturday and Sunday resulted in 12 direct hits on structures at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom said yesterday. Experts from the…

Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom poured the first concrete on Saturday (19 November) for the second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first. Egypt’s energy minister Mohamed Shaker…