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Rosatom has said that a two-week World Association of Nuclear Operators peer review mission to the Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit assessed it for compliance with global best practices.
 

Slovenské elektrárne has said the assembly and hermetic sealing of the reactor has been completed and Slovakia's Mochovce unit 4 is ready to move on to the physical tests leading to the first controlled fission reaction.
 

Spain's Nuclear Safety Council has issued a favourable report on the renewal of the operating licence for the two-unit Almaraz nuclear power plant. It says the plant meets the conditions to operate safely until June 2030.
 

Russia's nuclear regulatory Rostekhnadzor has issued site licences for the first two proposed units at the new Kola Nuclear Power Plant.
 

The two units at the Czech Republic's Temelín Nuclear Power Plant will operate to 2080 and 2082 respectively, under plans to extend their operating lives to 80 years.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said Westinghouse can apply to renew the AP1000 standard design certification, incorporating lessons learned from the construction and operation of Vogtle units 3 and 4, well ahead of the expiration of the current certificate.
 

The UK's Sizewell B nuclear power plant is set to get a 20-year lifetime extension after terms were agreed by the UK government and operator EDF.
 

Slovenské elektrárne has announced that all 349 nuclear fuel assemblies have been successfully loaded into Mochovce 4. The process took five days, and was completed on Friday 3 July.
 

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev has congratulated the US for bringing three microreactors to criticality and noted the role played by "a national regulator that is accommodating to companies", adding that for Russia to maintain its leadership position "we also need to take a fresh look at licensing approaches for such installations".