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Site preparation is now under way for Canada's first grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR) at Ontario Power Generation's (OPG's) Darlington site. Meanwhile, an initial geological survey has been completed for a proposed SMR at the Temelín nuclear power plant site in the Czech Republic.

Date: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SMR-siting-work-progresses-in-Canada-and-Czech-Rep

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Equipment installation work has commenced at the ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) demonstration project at the Changjiang nuclear power plant on China's island province of Hainan.

Date: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-SMR-project-enters-installation-phase

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Canada's nuclear regulator has given Ontario Power Generation (OPG) the go-ahead to load fuel into Darlington unit 3 after removing the first regulatory hold-point for the refurbished reactor.

Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Refurbished-OPG-reactor-cleared-to-begin-fuel-load

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The first phase of the USD150 million contract will see demonstration production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) at Piketon by the end of 2023. Centrus says it could scale up the facility to commercial production capacity, given sufficient funding.

Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Centrus-Energy,-DOE-finalise-HALEU-contract

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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the licence to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy America (GEH)  for the "possession, transfer and storage of radioactive material" at the Morris Operation Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) in Illinois.

Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC-issues-GE-Hitachi-renewed-used-fuel-storage-fa

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EDF, China General Nuclear (CGN) and the UK government have agreed a three-year extension to the contract for difference (CfD) for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England. While the 'long-stop date' has now been moved to November 2036, EDF maintains the plant's start-up schedule remains unchanged.

Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-year-extension-agreed-to-Hinkley-Point-C-con

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The European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG) has said that "Energoatom is the only legitimate licensee of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) and that the plant has to be operated as per licence conditions and in accordance with Ukrainian and international legal and regulatory requirements, under the supervision of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU)."

Date: Friday, 02 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newseurope-backs-ukrainian-claims-to-znpp-as-russia-strengthens-control-of-the-plant-10399896

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Elektrárna Dukovany II (EDU II), a wholly owned subsidiary of Czech power group CEZ, has received initial bids from three suppliers for the construction of a new nuclear power unit at the Dukovany NPP - France's EDF, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), and US-based Westinghouse. EDU II will now analyse the bids and then negotiate with the bidders. The bidders will then submit their final bids by the end of September 2023, CEZ said. China and Russia were excluded from the tender for political reasons.

Date: Friday, 02 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsez-receives-three-bids-for-dukovany-new-build-10399918

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UK Business Secretary Grant Shapps Shapps has visited the site of the planned Sizewell C NPP to be built by EDF and partners on the Suffolk coast. This came a few weeks after the Chancellor confirmed government funding of GBP679 million $821m) for the project during his Autumn Statement. The government's investment is for the early stage development of the plans, with the plant expected to take a decade to build at the cost of between GBP20-30 billion. Speaking to reporters at the site, Shapps said he "queried" estimates that the costs would be as high as GBP30bn and said he was confident money could be raised to build it from private investors. "We're very confident actually, because we've been speaking to potential investors," he said.

Date: Friday, 02 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-confirms-support-for-sizewell-c-and-buys-out-chinas-stake-10399935

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Canada’s Belledune Port Authority has announced it is working with Cross River Infrastructure Partners to pursue the use of advanced small modular reactor (aSMR) technology as part of a future expansion at the northern New Brunswick port.

Date: Friday, 02 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadian-port-considers-arc-asmr-10399939

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