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A consortium of 13 South Korean companies has pledged to contribute 100 billion won (about $83 million) to complete design work on the 330 MWt Smart reactor. Other novel small reactor designs have also hit the news this week.
New reactors will be permitted in Sweden from next year as its moratorium on nuclear power transforms into a new set of restrictions.
The prospect of building a press big enough to make the largest nuclear components at Sheffield in the UK has fallen dramatically with the withdrawal of a key government loan.
Welding repairs to the world's main medical isotope production reactor are now complete. Public hearings on its restart are imminent as it is prepared for service.
Nuclear power could become the world's single biggest source of electricity, said a roadmap revealed today by intergovernmental agencies. Industry says the projections are not ambitious enough.