Minister of Energy Viktor Karankevich said that since November 2020 the first unit had produced enough electricity to replace the equivalent of 2 billion cubic metres of natural gas, with the second unit close to being ready.

US electricity generation and transmission cooperative Dairyland Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NuScale Power to evaluate the potential deployment of NuScale's small modular reactor technology.

Unit 3 of the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan has reached first criticality, becoming the fourth Hualong One reactor in the world - and the second outside China - to reach that milestone.

Unit 6 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province has reached 100% full power operation for the first time. Meanwhile, the National Nuclear Safety Administration has completed a comprehensive pre-operational inspection at unit 6 of the Hongyanhe plant in Liaoning province.

Vogtle unit 3 is now expected to be in service by the end of the first quarter of 2023, with unit 4 following by the fourth quarter of 2023, Georgia Power has announced. In addition, the company said its share of total Vogtle capital costs has increased about USD920 million.

Feedback is being sought on the proposed plan ahead of a formal Invitation to Tender for the Advanced Modular Reactor Research, Development & Demonstration programme.

The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded Swedish Modular Reactors AB - a joint venture between Uniper Sweden and LeadCold - funding of just over SEK99 million (USD10.6 million) in support of the construction of a demonstration LeadCold SEALER lead-cooled small modular reactor at the Oskarshamn plant site.

The reactor vessels for Russia's largest icebreaker yet, the Leader, are being made. The vessel will use two RITM-400 reactors for a propeller power of 120 MW, which is twice that of the newest icebreakers currently at sea.

NuScale Power and the Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA have signed a definitive agreement to initiate work towards deploying a first NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor power plant in Poland.

The connection of unit 3 at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland to the national grid has been delayed until next month, operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has announced.