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Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), and the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation (AOPFN) have signed a long-term relationship agreement to formalise relations between two of Canada’s leading nuclear organizations and the Renfrew County-based First Nation. The agreement will establish a working group to pursue ongoing collaboration, and create a Neya Wabun (Guardian) program to establish a regular AOPFN monitoring presence at designated AECL sites, among other environmental, cultural and economic protection and promotion activities and programs.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Saturday, 17 June 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadian-organisations-formalise-relations-with-algonquin-first-nation-10946230

A Support Agreement has been signed between the Romanian State and nuclear utility Societatea Na?ionala Nuclearelectrica (SNN), for the development of the National Strategic Project to complete units 3&4 at the Cernavoda NPP.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 15 June 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclearelectrica-to-develop-cernavoda-34-10941316

Romanian nuclear utility SN Nuclearelectrica (SNN) and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) have launched a NuScale Power Energy Exploration Centre (E2 Centre) at the University’s Faculty of Energy Engineering. It includes a control room simulator for NuScale’s VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant. It is the first E2 Centre to be established outside the USA. The first E2 Centre was opened at Oregon State University in 2020.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 18 May 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-supports-opening-of-nuscales-energy-exploration-centre-in-romania-10858705

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and Global First Power (GFP) have announced a repurposed parking lot at the Chalk River campus as the location where they plan to build and operate a demonstration Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR).

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2023; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Site-unveiled-for-Canadian-MMR

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) of the USA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C to conduct joint research and development for the commercialisation of Hydrogen Micro Hubs over the next five years.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Saturday, 22 April 2023; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Korean-partners-to-build-SMR-powered-hydrogen-p

A draft law on the agreement to build two new reactors at Romania’s Cernavoda NPP was adopted by the government on 19 December and will now be submitted to parliament for approval of the agreement signed earlier between the state and Cernavoda operator Nuclearelectrica. “It is a very important law, which I hope will be adopted as soon as possible by my colleagues in the Parliament, in order to move forward with the project of the new units at Cernavoda,” Energy Minister Virgil Popescu said in a news release.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Friday, 23 December 2022; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsromanian-government-approves-draft-law-for-cernavoda-expansion-10456893

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (UNSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Finland to investigate deployment of its Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) as a research and test reactor for the city of Lappeenranta, in the vicinity of the University campus.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 22 December 2022; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsusnc-explores-possible-deployment-of-its-mmr-in-finland-10451860

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Finland's Lappeenranta University of Technology to explore the deployment of a Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) in Lappeenranta. Meanwhile, USNC has signed an MoU with Canadian privately held investment firm Portland Holdings Investco Limited to promote the MMR in the Middle East, North Africa and the Caribbean regions.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Saturday, 17 December 2022; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Agreements-for-microreactor-deployment-in-Finland

Canada's Candu Energy said it is conducting pre-project design and engineering work to facilitate a 30-year life extension of the two Candu reactors at the Qinshan Phase III nuclear power plant near Shanghai in China's Zhejiang province.