Westinghouse is to study the feasibility of a seventh unit at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant, focusing on a hybrid reactor design incorporating VVER equipment as one of two possible options.
The Ukrainian cabinet has removed Yuri Nedashkovskaya from his position as president of Energoatom. The abrupt move comes shortly after an operational issue at the South Ukraine nuclear power plant.
The final contract has been signed for Russian firms to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus, the country's first. Ostrovets 1 should begin electricity production in 2018.
India's contract for the third and fourth reactors to be built at Kudankulam comes with up to $3.5 billion in export finance, the country's officials said today after signing a deal in Moscow.