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Russia's reactor design subsidiary Atomproekt has reported lower earnings and net profit than expected in its first year of operations following consolidation with other Rosatom subsidiaries.

Russia has signed the ten-year extension to the Generation IV International Forum (GIF)ÌýFramework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems .

Ukraine is preparing the legal document required to cancel its contract with Russia concerning the completion of two units at the Khmelnitski nuclear power plant. The move was announced yesterday by Svetlana Kulchitskaya, deputy head of the atomic energy and nuclear industry department of the Ministry of Energy and Coal.

Concerns about reactor chemistry issues related to Hitachi-GE's Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) have been raised by UK regulators in their assessment of the design. The company, however, is confident these concerns can be resolved.

China's ACP100 multi-purpose small modular reactor (SMR) design is to undergo a safety review following the recent signing of an agreement between China National Nuclear CorporationÌýand the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Westinghouse's testing approach for its small modular reactor design. Approval is a significant step toward design certification and will reduce the time ultimately needed to license the Westinghouse SMR, the company said yesterday.

The UK's generic design assessment (GDA) of the AP1000 reactor has entered the "closeout phase", Westinghouse announced today. The GDA process is scheduled to be completed in January 2017.

Areva Inc has asked the US Nuclear Regulatory CommissionÌýto suspend work on the design certification of the US EPR until further notice, prompting Unistar Nuclear Energy to request the suspension of the review of its construction and operation licence application for Calvert Cliffs 3.

US design certification of Korea's APR1400 reactor design can begin in earnest after the US Nuclear Regulatory CommissionÌýformally accepted a revised application from Korea Electric Power CorporationÌýand Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power.

Seventy-two countries party to the Convention on Nuclear Safety declared their intention to continuously improve in that area, while a proscriptive proposal to amend the convention did not gain consensus.

The technical specifications for the BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast neutron nuclear reactor to be built at the Beloyarsk site in central Russia, near Yekaterinburg, have been submitted for expert review.

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will work with three of the world's leading nuclear products and services companies on projects that could unlock the potential of advanced nuclear reactor designs.