The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued the last of three conditional loan guarantees for Vogtle units 3 and 4, meaning that the construction of the first AP1000 nuclear power plant in the USA is now fully financed.

Fortum's future participation in the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant project remains unclear as the Finnish electricity producer's talks with Rosatom and Gazprom Energo on restructuring Russia's territorial generating company TGC-1 have yet to reach agreement.

Construction of the second AP1000 unit at the Vogtle nuclear power plant reached a milestone with the installation of the module that will house the unit's reactor pressure vessel, Georgia Power announced.

The first batch of steam generators for unit 2 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant has been delivered to the construction site, Russian nuclear power plant operator Rosenergoatom said on 17 June.

A memorandum of understanding signed by Westinghouse and Brazil's state-owned Nuclebras Equipamentos Pesados paves the way for the companies to collaborate on the fabrication of AP1000 reactor components in Brazil.

The reactor vessel for the second unit of the United Arab Emirates' first nuclear power plant under construction at Barakah has been installed. That of the first unit was installed in May 2014.

Both steam generators have now been installed within the containment building of the second Westinghouse AP1000 unit under construction at the Sanmen plant in China's Zhejiang province.

The state of Virginia has the potential to be a nuclear energy leader in the USA, according to a position paper published by the state-based Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy.

The main control room of the first Westinghouse AP1000 unit at Haiyang in China's Shandong province has been declared operational. The unit is expected to begin operating by the end of this year.

The construction of nuclear power plants and development of the nuclear industry in China's Sichuan province will be promoted under a strategic cooperation framework agreement signed between China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and the provincial government.

The Czech cabinet has approved an action plan on nuclear energy, providing for future construction at both the Temelin and Dukovany nuclear sites.

Russia has increased its competitive edge in the nuclear plant construction market through the serial production of new reactors, the head of NIAEP-JSC ASE said yesterday. The company was formed in 2012 from the merger of Rosatom subsidiaries Nizhny Novgorod design institute and Atomstroyexport in order to consolidate Russia's nuclear power engineering expertise into a single division. Last year, it absorbed Atomenergoproekt.