The European Commission is to give EUR500m ($666m) towards the decommissioning of ageing Soviet-type nuclear reactors in Eastern Europe.

Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant will be running at full capacity by February next year, according to the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation.

French nuclear power company EDF restarted one of its UK reactors today after it was shut down earlier this week.

France's nuclear watchdog today said the country’s reactors were safe but would need improvements to avoid a Fukushima-style scenario following a natural disaster.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has started work on fitting a storage system to capture radioactive sludge at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Iran’s first nuclear power plant is back online with power generation said to be stable following its disconnection last month for safety tests.

Kansai Electric Power will today become the first Japanese utility to submit a stress test report on a nuclear reactor taken offline following the Fukushima crisis earlier this year.

EDF Energy this morning restarted a 620 MW nuclear reactor in the UK which had been offline for a month for refuelling.

Britain’s nuclear power capacity was boosted by 1,500 MW yesterday when three nuclear power plants were restarted.

Leading Belgian energy company Electrabel has licensed Ventyx asset health management software to facilitate enhanced equipment reliability at its nuclear power plants.

The Shaw Group has renewed its contract with STP Nuclear Operating Company in the US to provide maintenance and modification services to operating units 1 and 2 of its nuclear power facility.

One of the more critical aspects of nuclear reactor maintenance work at Browns Ferry, a 3.4 GW boiling water reactor plant near Decatur, Alabama, USA, and every other plant, is opening and resealing the vessel head flange, which consists of many large studs and nuts.

Plans to reopen the Somerset coal- and oil-fired power plant in Massachusetts have been scrapped.

Exelon Nuclear Partners announced the completion of a Memorandum of Cooperation with CNNC Nuclear Power Company Ltd., the largest nuclear energy owner and operator in China.

After soaring between 2004 and 2008, nuclear plant construction costs are now reflecting the general slide in prices since the global downturn hit, reports the Nuclear Energy Institute. But developers are also adopting modular approaches to keep a grip on their investment in getting nuclear capacity online.

The German government is keen to ‘phase out the phase-out’ of its 17 nuclear power plants. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 6 September that the nation’s nuclear power plant operations would be extended by an average of 12 years beyond a scheduled phase-out, but deep opposition remains.