Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management, alongside its affiliate Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners, now own the company which built the world's first commercial pressurised water reactor more than 60 years ago.

Sanctions on the transport of products through Russian territory have not restricted Kazatomprom's activities, the company said in its quarterly update, and production remains in line with plans. Separately, Kazatomprom's shareholders have approved a major sale of natural uranium concentrates to China's State Nuclear Uranium Resource Development Company.

Constellation completed its acquisition of NRG Energy Inc's 44% stake in the two-unit South Texas Project plant after receiving final approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Substantial uranium spot price improvements have contributed to higher average realised prices, CEO Tim Gitzel said in the company's third-quarter results announcement which also included updates on the progress of the first shipment of its share of 2023 production from Inkai in Kazakhstan and news of a new senior appointment to head its UK subsidiary.

Small modular reactor and advanced fuel technology developer X-Energy Reactor Company - known as X-energy - and Ares Acquisition Corporation have "mutually agreed to terminate their previously announced business combination agreement, effective immediately". 

The supply agreement with China Nuclear International Corporation was finalised earlier this year, Cameco said. The 2023 International Natural Uranium Industry Development Forum also included updates on China's domestic uranium efforts.

Whitecroft Lighting has supplied LED lighting to the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project in Somerset, UK - its first nuclear energy lighting contract. The company says that through the contract it has developed a new, specialist LED lighting solution for the nuclear energy sector.

Germany-based radiopharmaceutical biotech company ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories have launched Actineer, a joint venture for the industrial-scale production of actinium-225.

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Burkina Faso and another with Mali on cooperation in the field of the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power announced it has signed an agreement with Canada's Candu Energy and Italy's Ansaldo Nucleare to jointly carry out a refurbishment of unit 1 at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania.

The study by Kinectrics and FuelCell Energy, supported by Bruce Power, will explore the potential of using nuclear-generated electricity to produce hydrogen and is one of six projects selected to receive a share of the first CAD7.5 million (USD5.5 million) of funding from the Ontario government's new Hydrogen Innovation Fund.

World Nuclear Association and the African Commission on Nuclear Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to support the economic growth and sustainable energy development of the African continent through the use of nuclear energy.