Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has announced a public procurement for consultancy services for the preparation of work towards selecting a location and environmental impact assessments for a 600 MW nuclear power plant.
 

As public hearings are held on the project to build Kazakhstan's second nuclear power plant, the country is also looking to broaden its energy partnerships with the European Union into new areas including the nuclear sector. Meanwhile, Russian and Kazakh entities have confirmed their intention to work together to build a multipurpose research reactor and laboratory complex.
 

The government has "only just begun when it comes to our ambitions for new nuclear in the UK", Energy Secretary Ed Miliband told the Nuclear Industry Association's Nuclear 2025 conference in London. He said the government has plans for further reactors - both large and small - and has initiated a search for suitable sites.
 

The first delivery has taken place of nuclear fuel for the initial loading of Kudankulam nuclear power plant’s unit 3 in India.
 

A Rockefeller Foundation study sees nuclear potentially delivering 20% of electricity generation in eight key emerging economies by 2050 - and says that philanthropy can play a "catalytic role" in making it happen.
 

The US Department of Energy has selected Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec to each receive USD400 million in federal cost-shared funding to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors in the USA.
 

The three-company consortium has signed an owner’s engineer contract to advance two new AP1000 units at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.
 

The Great Plains New Nuclear Consortium will explore the feasibility and development of deploying new nuclear technology within Nebraska to serve the needs of the four utilities in the Southwest Power Pool market footprint in the USA.
 

The full-scope simulator for Phase I of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province has passed factory acceptance testing and can now be delivered to the site for installation.
 

Framatome has completed the manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the second of two EPR units being built at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, UK. The first two of four steam generators for the unit have also been completed.
 

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has visited the Jizzakh region to identify growth opportunities in the area, with construction work under way at the site of what will be Uzbekistan’s first nuclear power plant.
 

The final module of the passive water tank has been installed within the reactor building of unit 4 at the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning Province, China National Nuclear Corporation announced.