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A new agency has been established in Turkey to regulate the nuclear energy sector, the Official Gazette announced on 9 July.

Date: Friday, 13 July 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsturkey-sets-up-new-nuclear-regulator-6244883

Japan’s Toshiba Corp’s US nuclear subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York court. Westinghouse listed $10bn each in assets and liabilities in its filing in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-files-for-bankruptcy-5773901

Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) has dismissed speculation that it is consiering buying Toshiba’s controlling stake in US-based Westinghouse, but confirmed an interest in joining the NuGen consortium that is planning to build the Moorside NPP in the UK using Westinghouse technology. 

Date: Sunday, 26 March 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskorea-eyes-nugen-stake-5771508

Russia's permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna (including the International Atomic Energy Agency), Vladimir Voronkov, said on 30 June that the Akkuyu NPP project in Turkey could now move forward. The project had been effectively (but not formally) frozen since November 2015 when a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber over Syria. However, an apology from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now seems to have ended the stalemate.

Date: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsturkeys-akkuyu-npp-may-now-move-forward-4941448

6 May (NucNet): France and Japan will cooperate on the development of Generation IV fast breeder reactors (FBR) including the Astrid project, which is under development in France.

Date: Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Original article: nucnet.org/news/france-and-japan-announce-cooperation-on-generation-iv-astrid-fbr