The Canada Infrastructure Bank has announced a commitment of CAD970 million (USD713 million) towards Ontario Power Generation's Darlington New Nuclear Project, in the bank's largest investment in clean power to date.
 

Slovenské elektrárne said unit 3 of the Mochovce nuclear power plant reached minimum controlled output on 22 October.

Poland aims to build six nuclear plants in the coming years and has had offers from the USA’s Westinghouse, South Korea’s KHNP and France’s EDF. As the country’s deadline for making a decision approaches, Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin and Climate Minister Anna Moskwa held talks in Washington with US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.

The core catcher casing has been installed at unit 8 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province, marking the start of installation of the unit's nuclear island main equipment, China National Nuclear Corporation announced.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hailed the benefits to come at an event coinciding with the installation of the reactor pressure vessel at Rooppur 2, the second unit of Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant.

The start of regular electricity production at the Olkiluoto 3 EPR in Finland, currently scheduled for December, is likely to be delayed after damage was discovered in the internals of the feedwater pumps located in the plant's turbine island during maintenance and inspection work.

Finnish utility Fortum has launched a two-year feasibility study to examine the prerequisites for nuclear new build in Finland and Sweden. The study will consider both small modular reactors and conventional large reactors.

Sweden's incoming centre-right coalition government has adopted a positive stance towards nuclear energy, calling for state-owned energy company Vattenfall to investigate the possible restart of Ringhals units 1 and 2, as well as to prepare for the construction of new reactors.

Workers have begun transferring 157 fuel assemblies into the core of the unit, marking a pivotal milestone towards the startup and commercial operation of the USA's first new nuclear units in more than three decades.

Work has begun to install the steam generators for unit 2 of Rooppur, one of two units at what will be the first nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.

The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cwmni Egino to support their development of a new small scale nuclear project at Trawsfynydd in North Wales.

Barakah unit 3 is now supplying its first electricity to the UAE's grid. Barakah, the country's first nuclear power plant, is a key component of the UAE's Net Zero 2050 Strategy.