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Following talks in Budapest, Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, and Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade Peter Szijjártó confirmed that work on the construction of new power units at the Paks NPP (Paks II) is proceeding at a rapid pace. The Paks II project was launched in 2014 by an inter-governmental agreement between Hungary and Russia for two VVER-1200 reactors (units 5&6) to be supplied by Rosatom. The contract was supported by a Russian state loan to finance the majority of the project.

Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-and-hungary-confirm-progress-at-paks-ii-11600771

Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) said a ground-breaking ceremony has taken place for a new geology building in Forsmark. The building will be a centre for the collection and evaluation of data from surveys and site monitoring on the Forsmark peninsula. Modern construction technology and durable materials will be used in the construction of the building, which will be completed by the spring of 2025.

Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsskb-breaks-ground-on-new-geology-building-in-forsmark-11597439

Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev say that work on the new Paks II nuclear power plant is progressing well, with production of the melt trap completed in Russia and work on the reactor vessel set to start.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Paks-II-aims-for-first-concrete-in-2024,-work-on-r

Sweden's radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) has announced the breaking of ground for its new geology building, which will be a centre for the collection and evaluation of data from surveys and site monitoring on the Forsmark peninsula.

Date: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SKB-begins-construction-of-Forsmark-geology-buildi

Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) hosted a two-day forum, the 5th annual VVER Fuel Forum in Bratislava. The forum on nuclear fuel for VVER 440 and VVER 1000 reactors, which was sponsored by Westinghouse, was attended by representatives of utilities that are potential customers for Westinghouse VVER fuel. These included Ukraine’s Energoatom, Finland’s Fortum, the Czech Republic’s CEZ, Bulgaria’s JE Kozloduy, and Hungary’s nuclear plant operator MVM Paks. The participants exchanged experiences on the procedure for implementing fuel from Westinghouse for operating VVER-440 and VVER-1000 reactors.

Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsslovakia-hosts-westinghouse-sponsored-vver-nuclear-fuel-forum-11554179

Sweden's Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari has announced the launch of an investigation to abolish the country's ban on uranium mining. The move was welcomed by Australia-based Aura Energy, which hopes to extract uranium as a by-product from its 100%-owned Häggån polymetallic project in Sweden.

Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sweden-moves-to-lift-uranium-mining-ban

Nuvia, a subsidiary of France's Vinci construction group, has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall to remove, inspect and sort the radioactive and other materials currently inside the reactor buildings of units 1 and 2 at the Ringhals nuclear power plant in Sweden.

Date: Saturday, 03 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuvia-to-carry-out-Ringhals-decommissioning-work

The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report, Electricity 2024, dedicates a significant amount of space to nuclear power – a departure from its previous studies which treated it as peripheral. In its press release on the new report, IEA says the increase in electricity generation from renewables and nuclear "appears to be pushing the power sector's emissions into structural decline". Over the next three years, low-emissions generation is set to rise at twice the annual growth rate between 2018 and 2023. Global emissions from electricity generation are expected to decrease by 2.4% in 2024, followed by smaller declines in 2025 and 2026.

Date: Friday, 26 January 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-acknowledges-significance-of-nuclear-energy-in-new-report-11463539

Estonia’s privately held nuclear energy start-up company Fermi Energia has signed a Letter of Intent with Sweden's Kärnkraftsäkerhet och Utbildning (KSU), a member of the Vattenfall Group, to conduct training related to the Estonian small modular reactor (SMR) programme. KSU, which trains operators and maintenance personnel for Swedish NPPs, will support Fermi Energia in conducting courses and utilising simulator technologies and other training tools during the preparations for deploying and SMR plant in Estonia.

Date: Saturday, 20 January 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswedens-ksu-to-support-estonias-fermi-energia-on-training-for-its-smr-programme-11447506

One-and-a-half times more people support the use of nuclear energy than oppose it, according to a multinational public opinion poll conducted by market research firm Savanta on behalf of energy consultancy Radiant Energy Group.

Date: Saturday, 20 January 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Global-survey-finds-high-public-support-for-nuclea