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Three months on from the publication of the final report of the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce, the UK government has outlined its plans to speed up nuclear delivery. All reforms are expected to be completed by the end of next year, subject to legislative timelines.
 

Multinational professional services firm Arup has been appointed by Great British Energy - Nuclear to provide early-phase foundation engineering and design support for the construction of its small modular reactor project at Wylfa on the island of Anglesey, North Wales.
 

The deployment of a fleet of ten Westinghouse AP1000 units in the USA would create more than USD1 trillion in GDP over an 80-year lifetime, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study has found.
 

The installation of the second tier at Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant's seventh unit means the inner containment building has now reached a height of 22 metres.
 

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev has said that a further 150 people evacuated from Iran have arrived back in Moscow, adding that "the construction itself - the second and third units - remains a top priority for the corporation".
 

The Financing and Investing in Nuclear - Advisory Board EDF brings together leading experts from across the energy and finance ecosystems to facilitate the financing of, and investment in, new nuclear projects globally.

Rwanda plans to have its first small modular reactor operational in the early-2030s, and an International Atomic Energy Agency mission has outlined steps taken so far.
 

Closing nuclear power plants like Indian Point was a "foolish" political decision, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said as New York Congressman Mike Lawler called for the two-unit plant to be "rebuilt and reopened" to help lower energy costs and strengthen grid reliability.
 

California-based startup Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has begun drilling the first of three planned data acquisition wells in Parsons, Kansas, where it is building its pilot project.