Japan’s Chubu Electric Power has said it will buy a stake in NuScale Power of the US from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
EDF has said that output restrictions are expected at two nuclear power plants along the Rhone river in eastern France due to high temperature forecasts.
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) of Canada has announced that it will begin planning and licensing for the deployment of three additional GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) BWRX-300 SMRs at the Darlington New Nuclear Project site.
Todd Smith, Energy Minister of Canada’s province of Ontario, has announced that the government is starting predevelopment work for up to 4800 MW of new nuclear units at Bruce Power in 10 years.
Rob Jetten, Energy Minister of the Netherlands, said in a letter to parliament, that the country is in discussions with “three potential and interested suppliers” to build two new nuclear power plants.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is identifying sites through its seven state footprints in the USA suitable for SMR development.
Pakistan and China have signed a $4.8 billion agreement to build Chashma 5, which will be the seventh Chinese nuclear power plant in Pakistan.
A number of Japanese companies have invested ¥10 billion (around $72 million) in a British start-up developing floating offshore nuclear power plants.
Westinghouse Electric, Bechtel, and Polish utility Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) have signed an agreement for the design and construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant.
Ukraine has reconnected the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine – currently occupied by Russian military invaders – to its external power supply after an outage that had left it reliant on emergency generators.