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The Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium and Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe have agreed the main commercial and legal terms of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract that will deliver Poland's first nuclear power plant, and plan to complete the contract negotiation process by the end of this year.

The US Trade and Development Agency has signed an agreement with Turkey's state-owned nuclear development enterprise TÜNAŞ to fund technical assistance to create the regulatory, institutional, and financial roadmap needed for Turkish private sector companies to deploy small modular reactor nuclear technology.

The second RITM-200C small modular reactor unit has been manufactured for the floating nuclear power plant destined to supply electricity to a copper mining centre in Chukotka.

The Province of Ontario has announced the signature of more than CAD3 billion (USD2.1 billion) worth of contracts for the refurbishment of four units at Ontario Power Generation's Pickering plant as site construction for the project gets under way.

Czech company Škoda JS has been chosen as sole supplier of control rod drive mechanisms for Rolls-Royce SMR's future small modular reactors.

An agreement to work together to identify and develop market opportunities for the deployment of BWRX-300 small modular reactors in Europe was signed on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

China General Nuclear says the 250,000-ton-metre lifting torque ring-rail crane rolled off the production line last month to support the construction of Hualong One 2.0 nuclear power plants.

TerraPower says it intends to rebid the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project to build the first-of-a-kind Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming, following the two companies' decision to move forward separately.

Kairos Power and Samsung C&T have announced the signing of a binding term sheet for the South Korean engineering and construction firm to make a strategic investment in Kairos Power and for the companies to collaborate on the commercial deployment of Kairos Power's fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor technology.

Slovakia's Mochovce 4 began power generation at 15:33 on Monday, which operator Slovenske elektrárne describes as the last major stage before the unit is put into operation.

The first unit at Turkey's Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is being prepared for the reactor's next stage of pre-start-up testing.

Tests to check the integrity of the containment structure have been completed at unit 5 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site.

Unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant in China's island province of Hainan has entered commercial operation. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors being constructed as Phase II of the plant.

The licence justification materials for two new units at the next phase of Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia have had a positive verdict from Russia's State Environmental Expertise.

An exemption granted by the US regulator means Holtec can go ahead with certain works before the issuance of a Limited Work Authorisation for two small modular reactor units at the Palisades Energy Center in Michigan.

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand has signed an agreement with the US Trade and Development Agency for a feasibility study on the deployment of US small modular reactor technologies in Thailand.

The European Investment Bank is to invest up to EUR40 million (USD46 million) in Finland's small modular reactor company Steady Energy, whose LDR-50 reactor is designed specifically for district heating networks.

China Atomic Energy Authority has launched the Global Network for SMR Innovation with the aim of supporting small modular reactor technology progress, standards and deployment "helping make nuclear energy safer, more affordable and more accessible in support of climate action and sustainable development".

Westinghouse says the completion of zero-power high-temperature criticality testing for the microreactor, which saw it reach criticality at 663 degrees Celsius, is a defining milestone in the programme's build-test-learn development journey.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has directed UK regulators to begin the Generic Design Assessment of the X-energy Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, after completing reviews of X-energy UK Holdings Ltd's application.