In the latest meeting between International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev the two sides discussed the on-going security situation and issues relating to any future restart of the plant's units.

The demolition of the turbine hall and adjoining structures at the shut down Sizewell A nuclear power plant in the UK has been completed quicker and at less cost through the use of explosives, Nuclear Restoration Services announced.

Russian nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a five-year licence extension for unit 2 of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, which will see its original 30-year life now extended to 45 years.

A working group formed of representatives from the radiation and nuclear safety authorities of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden has released a strategy, which provides recommendations for strengthening cooperation between them.

US President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders titled Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base, Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy and Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with the goal of "re-establishing the United States as the global leader in nuclear energy".

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has said it remains on track to complete its assessment of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used nuclear fuel repository despite deficiencies in the materials submitted for review.

India's nuclear regulator has given its consent to the siting of the four-unit Mahi Banswara Rajasthan Atomic Power Project in Rajasthan.

Sampling is taking place across the Zhytomyr region after a research study suggested that thousands of hectares of farmland in the area outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone could safely return to agricultural use.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved a draft report that concludes unit 3 of the Tomari nuclear power plant on Japan's northern Hokkaido island meets the new regulatory safety standards, a prerequisite for its restart.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its final safety evaluation approving the Fuel Qualification Methodology Topical Report for the advanced fuel design to be used in NANO Nuclear Energy Inc's KRONOS micro modular reactor energy system.

TerraPower has formally notified UK regulators that it plans to begin the generic design approval process for its Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor, a first step towards deploying the technology in an international market.

Moltex Energy Canada Inc has initiated pre-licensing consultation with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in relation to the development of its WATSS process for converting used uranium oxide fuel into molten salt reactor fuel.