South Korea will build four additional nuclear reactors by 2030 and extend the life of 10 older units.
Vattenfall is undertaking a pilot study to examine construction of SMRs in Sweden to meet increased demand for electricity.
Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO), operator of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant, has announced that the start of commercial operations has been delayed by three months to the end of December.
Toshiba and Bechtel have announced they will collaborate on delivery of equipment for Poland’s first nuclear power plant.
Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear utility Energoatom has signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company to strengthen ties.
EDF Energy has ruled out postponing the shutdown of the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in the UK, after the UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng had suggested that Britain was considering extending its life.
EDF has announced that the already much-delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in southwest England will open a year later and cost £3 billion more than the previous estimates.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cleared Uganda to start building a 2000 MW nuclear power plant.
Following the UK announcement that it is planning to build eight new nuclear power plants by 2050, the UK and South Korea are in talks regarding nuclear power plant construction.
Finnish consortium Fennovoima has terminated a contract with Russian group Rosatom to build the 1200 MW Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in northern Finland.