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Rosatom has announced completion of life-extending modernisation work at unit 3 of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, the last of three RBMK-1000 reactors at the site in western Russia. The other two units are already set for an extended period of operation of 15 years.

Bruce Power has completed its first harvest of medical-grade cobalt-60 produced inside the Bruce 7 nuclear power reactor.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has finalised further federal loan guarantees of USD3.7 billion for the continued construction of Vogtle units 3 and 4.

Cavendish Nuclear has completed the handover of the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) at the UK's Sellafield site. The plant will support the retrieval of waste from the site's legacy silos.

Bulgaria's State Enterprise Radioactive Waste (SERAW) has awarded a further three-year extension to the Decommissioning-Repository Project Management Unit (D-R PMU) Consultant contract to the Empresarios Agrupados/Nuvia Consortium.

An agreement to jointly participate in overseas nuclear digital instrumentation and control (I&C) projects has recently been signed between Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction.

Unit 1 of the nuclear power plant under construction at Ostrovets in Belarus has been connected to its own source of power supply.

Boss Resources has announced a 30% increase in mineral resources in the area designated to provide the feed material for the future re-start of its Honeymoon in-situ leach uranium project in South Australia.

"Significant progress" during 2018 with the construction of Vogtle 3 and 4 means Southern Company expects the two AP1000 units to be completed on schedule and to budget.

India and Argentina have agreed to boost cooperation in the nuclear energy sector with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 18 February.

Uranium One will focus on ensuring that all of its operating uranium mines in Kazakhstan remain at "optimal production" over the next year.

EDF in 2018 achieved all its financial objectives and exceeded the targets of its performance plan, company chairman and CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy announced last week.