The formation of a joint venture company to build and operate a new nuclear power station at Bohunice is to be finalised by the end of the year now that the Slovakian government has given its consent.

Testing of the first centrifuge cascade has begun at the Georges Besse II (GB-II) uranium enrichment plant in southern France, Areva announced. The cascade is scheduled to start operating by the end of this year.

Lithuania has officially begun its search for strategic investors to construct and operate a new nuclear power plant in the country to replace the Ignalina plant, which is due to shut down by the end of the month.

Authorities have officially ended the latest effort to introduce nuclear power in Turkey. A notice on the Turkish Electricity Trading Company's website said the tender for new reactors had been cancelled. 

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) will undertake main plant civil works of units 3 and 4 of the Kakrapar nuclear power plant after a contract award. It is also celebrating the installation of the pressure vessel of the country's fast reactor prototype.

A Korean consortium has been selected to build Jordan's first ever nuclear reactor - a 5 MW research reactor. The order also represents the first overseas contract for a Korean reactor design.

UK business secretary Lord Mandelson has announced a package of measures to support the country's civil nuclear industry. The package aims to help UK-based companies take advantage of the opportunities presented by both an expanding domestic and global nuclear power market.

The governor of Argentina's north-western Formosa province has said that the prototype of the domestically designed CAREM small modular nuclear reactor will be deployed within the province.

India will have a world-class heavy forging facility for future nuclear power plants after a joint venture by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd and Larsen & Toubro.

EDF Energy has started the process to sell off land suitable for a new nuclear power plant at Bradwell - but only "credible" nuclear operators need apply.

Despite ongoing difficulties with its plan for new reactors at Belene, Bulgarian ministers are actively considering new build at an existing site.

The new fifth nuclear reactor at India's Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) has reached first criticality, bringing the total number operating in the country to 18.