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Ukraine’s nuclear utility Energoatom and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) have signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) on the design, construction and commissioning of new nuclear power units in Ukraine. The MOC was signed by Energoatom President Petro Kotin and Hyundai E&C Executive Vice President and Operations Director Choi Young in the presence of Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko and South Korea's Ambassador to Ukraine Kim Hyun-Tae.

Date: Friday, 17 May 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenergoatom-and-hyundai-ec-reaffirm-co-operation-on-new-build-in-ukraine-11779160

Bulgaria’s Nuclear Regulatory Agency (AYaR - Agentsiyata za Yadreno Regulirane) has licensed the use of Westinghouse fuel for unit 5 of the Kozloduy NPP. Loading of the new fuel, which has already been delivered to the site, will begin during the next scheduled repair and maintenance outage, due to begin at the end of April. The first 42 cartridges of the new American fuel arrived at Kozloduy NPP by ship from Sweden, where they were manufactured.

Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-fuel-licensed-for-use-at-kozloduy-11708947

World leaders gathered in Brussels at the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi. The Summit was the highest-level meeting to date exclusively focused on the topic of nuclear energy. It followed inclusion of nuclear energy in the Global Stocktake agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai in December 2023 and the launch of the IAEA’s Atoms4NetZero initiative.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691

Bulgaria’s National Assembly (Parliament) has ratified the intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in nuclear energy, signed in February between Bulgaria and the US. The agreement was supported by 149 deputies of the parties of the ruling majority. Some 50 opposition representatives voted against it.

Date: Saturday, 23 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbulgarian-parliament-ratifies-us-atomic-energy-cooperation-agreement-11623024

Chinese-French TAC-1 (CNPE) consortium has won a contract for the sub-assembly of modules for the vacuum vessel of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction at Cadarache in southern France. The consortium includes China Nuclear Power Engineering (a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation - CNNC); China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Company Ltd; Southwestern Institute of Physics; Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ASIPP; and France’s Framatome.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinese-french-consortium-to-assemble-iter-vacuum-chamber-11594527

The Sino-French TAC-1 consortium - led by China National Nuclear Corporation subsidiary China Nuclear Power Engineering and including Framatome - has been awarded a contract to assemble the vacuum chamber modules of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in Cadarache, southern France.

Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Contract-for-ITER-vacuum-vessel-assembly

The Bulgarian Parliament has given the go-ahead for talks to take place with Hyundai Engineering & Construction, as the sole shortlisted constructor for engineering, construction, delivery and commissioning of the new AP1000 units planned for the Kozloduy site.

Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hyundai-E-C-says-Kozloduy-selection-signals-South

Delyan Dobrev, Chairman of Bulgaria’s Parliamentary Energy Commission told BTV that South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C), part of Hyundai Corporation, will be invited to submit a binding offer with a price for the design, construction, supply, installation and commissioning of units 7&8 of the Kozloduy NPP. Of the five candidates interested in building the new nuclear facilities, two Chinese and two American companies did not meet the requirements, he said.

Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshyundai-ec-shortlisted-to-build-new-kozloduy-units-11532756