Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held meetings to discuss progress on the El Dabaa #nuclear power plant with Rosatom Global Director General Alexei Likhachev, before an amendment to the intergovernmental agreement between Egypt and Russia was signed tinyurl.com/3nnwkhzd

.Terrestrial Energy and NRG-Pallas are starting the final phase of the graphite irradiation testing programme for Terrestrial's molten salt reactor at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands #nuclear tinyurl.com/azu6jkux

Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is to collaborate with France-headquartered innovative reactor developer newcleo on assessing the possibilities of applying advanced fast reactor technology in the Baltic state #nuclear tinyurl.com/3eddrv9h

.TerraPower has announced three more supplier contracts as part of the fifth round of procurement awards for the Natrium project in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in the USA #nuclear tinyurl.com/dfw3r29j

The UN's @eca_official says that participants at the recent #NEISAfrica summit agreed "​that ​small modular reactors hold immense promise for accelerating Africa's energy transition" tinyurl.com/h6s6ukty

.Holtec International has told the US NRC it has completed the necessary licensing activities to transition the Palisades #nuclear power plant from decommissioning to operational status, proposing this happens on 25 August tinyurl.com/yw26cm58

.Energoatom is pushing ahead with plans with Westinghouse Nuclear to create a plant for the production of fuel assemblies in Ukraine, and with Holtec International for manufacturing plants for SMRs and for storage containers for used #nuclear fuel tinyurl.com/mu89f44m

The US NRC has accepted for review the construction permit application from Tennessee Valley Authority for a BWRX-300 SMR at the Clinch River site in Tennessee. The regulator said it expects to complete its review within 17 months #nuclear tinyurl.com/yr4kdvbp

The fast neutron BN-1200 reactor planned as Beloyarsk #Nuclear Power Plant’s fifth unit has entered the preparation stage for construction tinyurl.com/5n7k6jux

Japan's Hitachi has developed a new Metaverse Platform for #Nuclear Power Plants that leverages a metaverse and AI technology tinyurl.com/3aksb78e

.@IAEAorg Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has reported that the agency's experts at Zaporizhzhia #Nuclear Power Plant heard "hundreds of rounds of small arms fire" for about an hour on Saturday evening tinyurl.com/yfx9jw66

The modernisation of the Electrochemcial Plant uranium enrichment plant in Zelenogorsk, Russia, has been completed. The six-year modernisation project involved installing new generation gas centrifuges #nuclear tinyurl.com/3jmvbdzp

Although China has made significant progress in further strengthening its regulation of #nuclear safety, the staffing levels of the country's regulatory body must keep up with China's fast-growing nuclear industry, an @IAEAorg team of experts said tinyurl.com/2et4hhsk

The polar crane has been installed within the reactor building of the second unit under construction at the Hinkley Point C #nuclear power plant in southwest England. It comes days before the unit's dome is due to be lifted into place tinyurl.com/ppa89m6s

.Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe has officially notified the European Commission about its investment project involving Poland's first #nuclear power plant, in accordance with its obligations under the Euratom Treaty tinyurl.com/57hyckbu

Exactly one year after construction began, China has produced its first barrel of natural #uranium from its largest domestic project - the National Uranium No.1 demonstration project - in Ordos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region #nuclear tinyurl.com/58puunap

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed an MoU on cooperation on #nuclear energy, with both countries planning new large-scale and small modular reactors in the coming years tinyurl.com/5ytej9e8

The inner containment dome has been installed at unit 6 of the Lufeng #nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the first of two HPR1000 (Hualong One) units under construction at the site, where four CAP1000s are also planned tinyurl.com/y4uzdd94

. "O‘zatom" agentligi, the Hungarian Foreign & Trade Ministry and MVM EGI have signed a protocol on agreements reached on cooperation relating to proposed #nuclear energy projects in Uzbekistan tinyurl.com/z3jhabz2

The European Commission is to invest EUR202 million (USD236 million) in the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator located in Granada, Spain, covering about 25% of the project's cost. The facility will test materials to be used in #fusion power plants #nuclear tinyurl.com/upb8y6d4