Leading Italian energy player Edison has announced its ambition to construct two nuclear power plants based on EDF's small modular reactor technology between 2030 and 2040, if the conditions are created for the return of nuclear energy to Italy.

An International Atomic Energy Agency expert mission has concluded that reports compiled by the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission will provide a good basis for a feasibility study into the country's use of small modular reactors for electricity generation and seawater desalination.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Russian President Vladimir Putin and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi have taken part in a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first batch of nuclear fuel at the Rooppur nuclear power plant.

A design for a floating offshore nuclear power barge from HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and Kepco Engineering & Construction has received approval in principle from the American Bureau of Shipping.

Southern Company, TerraPower and Core Power have started pumped-salt operations in the Integrated Effects Test facility at TerraPower's laboratory in Everett, Washington. The facility will be used in the development of the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor.

Finnish energy firm Helen has signed a letter of intent with Steady Energy - developer of the LDR-50 small modular reactor - with the aim of enabling an investment in a small-scale nuclear power plant for the production of district heating.

The dome of the containment building has been installed at unit 2 of the San'ao nuclear power plant, China General Nuclear has announced. It is the second of six Chinese-designed HPR1000 (Hualong One) pressurised water reactors planned at the site in China's Zhejiang province.

EDF, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy International LLC, Holtec Britain Limited, NuScale Power, Rolls Royce SMR and Westinghouse Electric Company UK Limited are now to be invited to bid for UK government contracts in the next stage of the process.

Saudi Arabia has announced it intends to move towards implementing full International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear safeguards as it works towards building its first nuclear power plant.

Polish power company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe has signed an engineering services contract with US firms Westinghouse Electric Company and Bechtel for the country's first nuclear power plant, to be constructed at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in the Choczewo municipality in Pomerania.