Consumers stand to receive refunds and credits totalling $1.3 billion due to the premature closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant under a settlement proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission missed an opportunity during an inspection in 2009 to note design changes to the faulty steam generators that eventually led to Southern California Edison's decision four years later to close the San Onofre nuclear plant, the agency's Office of Inspector General said.

The first uranium ore from the Cigar Lake mine has been processed at the McClean Lake mill after the mill's facilities were modified to enable it to safely process the high-grade uranium ore. Both facilities are in northern Saskatechewan, Canada.

Bechtel plans to combine its civilian and most of its power business units to create the Bechtel Infrastructure global business unit. As part of the reorganization, Bechtel is also creating a new unit, Nuclear, Security & Environmental, which combines the company's government and commercial nuclear businesses.

Wylfa unit 1 - the world's last operating Magnox reactor - will be able to continue generating electricity until the end of 2015 after the UK nuclear regulator approved the plant's latest periodic safety review.

US nuclear generators continue to fight for recognition of their contribution to electricity supply, as subsidies for other forms of power undermine the business case for operation of older nuclear units.

Vattenfall's Forsmark 3 has returned to service with 17 MWe more power after work to replace the unit's high pressure turbine.

Investigations into potential cracks in boiler spines at two units at each of the Heysham I and Hartlepool sites are likely to take until the end of the year to complete, EDF Energy has announced.

Uranerz Energy has announced the first delivery of uranium oxide from its Nichols Ranch in-situ leach mine in Wyoming, which began operating in April.

The process of loading fuel assemblies into the reactor core of unit 1 at the Fangjiashan plant in China's Zhejiang province has begun.

An increase in power output of over 12% at each of units 2 and 3 of the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania has been approved by the US nuclear regulator.

Belgian utility Electrabel has changed the schedule for a planned outage at unit 1 of its Tihange nuclear power plant to ensure the country's demand for electricity during the coming winter can be met. Three of Belgium's seven reactors are currently offline.