Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA's plan to construct a power plant based on NuScale Power's small modular reactor has been approved by the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

South Korea's Ministry of Industry is to review the need for new nuclear power plants to expand the country's power supply to meet predicted increased demand for electricity.

Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment has given a decision-in-principle for Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe to construct a nuclear power plant in Pomerania. It is a formal confirmation that the company's investment project is in line with the public interest and the policies pursued by the state, including energy policy.

Oklo is to go public by merging with AltC Acquisition Corp - co-founded by Oklo chairman Sam Altman - in a deal which values the company at USD850 million.

Four steam generators and the reactor vessel for unit 3 at the Xudapu nuclear power plant have a combined weight of 1700 tonnes and are being transported from Russia to China by road, barge and then sea from St Petersburg.

In an interview for the World Nuclear News podcast Lassina Zerbo, the former head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization and current chairman of the Rwanda Atomic Energy Board, set out his views on the prospects for nuclear energy in Africa in the years ahead.

The first of nine sector modules installed to form the tokamak torus of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor fusion machine in Cadarache, southern France, has been removed for repairs.

Turkey is in talks with Russia, China and South Korea over its planned second and third nuclear power plants, and with the USA and United Kingdom over small modular reactors, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar is reported to have told a media briefing.

The Ontario government announced it is working with Ontario Power Generation to begin planning and licensing for three additional GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactors, for a total of four, at the Darlington plant site.

Work has begun to construct the groundwater cut-off - an underground waterproof wall - around the area on Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant site where two new units are to be built. The wall will control the flow of groundwater into and out of the Paks II construction pit, once excavated.

The province's government has announced it is starting pre-development work to build up to 4800 MWe of new nuclear capacity at Bruce Power's existing site, in what would be Canada's first large-scale nuclear build in more than 30 years.

The containment vessel bottom head for unit 4 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province has been installed 40 days ahead of schedule, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute has announced.