The @IAEAorg's NUTEC Plastics initiative uses #nuclear and isotopic techniques to produce data on marine microplastics distribution and fight plastic pollution - it is one of the areas covered by Chile's new MoU with the agency tinyurl.com/mtxjt6ve

The Province of Saskatchewan has released the former Cluff Lake #uranium mine and mill site from decommissioning approvals and its associated surface lease, Orano Canada Inc has announced #nuclear tinyurl.com/mrmtjkk3

The governments of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have signed an MoU to advance the development of #nuclear power generation in support of both provinces' need for affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity grids by 2050 tinyurl.com/bdh3urju

.Kazatomprom's first quarter #uranium production saw a slight year-on-year increase but its guidance metrics remain unchanged. The Kazakh company's Q1 trading announcement also included an update on plans for a new sulphuric acid plant #nuclear tinyurl.com/yn5rhwx3

Equipment hatch installed in reactor building of the first unit at Turkey's new Akkuyu #nuclear power plant tinyurl.com/8vec9sws

High temperature superconducting tapes for use in the UK's prototype #fusion power plant will be tested in a Czech research reactor following the signing of an agreement between UK Atomic Energy Authority and Centrum výzkumu Řež tinyurl.com/3nayz9ma

.Cameco Corporation CEO Tim Gitzel said the Canadian #nuclear fuel company's results for Q1 2024 - with losses of CAD7 million (USD5 million) - were driven by normal quarterly variations, coupled with costs related to its acquisition last year of Westinghouse Nuclear tinyurl.com/5n6jte37

US company Holtec International has established a wholly-owned subsidiary aiming to 'energise the presently placid business sector of modification and maintenance', with the initial project being the restart of the Palisades #nuclear power plant tinyurl.com/26wk2yuz

A deep geologic repository hosting agreement between the municipality of South Bruce and NWMOCanada was signed following a vote by the municipality's council on 1 May #nuclear tinyurl.com/23b6yatu

A collaboration agreement has been signed by KHNP Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., ARC Clean Technology and NB Power with the goal of establishing teaming agreements for global SMR fleet deployment #nuclear tinyurl.com/4ddr2azv

The manufacture of poloidal field coil No 3 - the final poloidal field coil produced for the ITER #fusion machine - has been completed at the construction site in Cadarache, France #nuclear tinyurl.com/4xaa77wm

The US Senate has passed the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, which will ban the importation into the USA of low-enriched #uranium that is produced in Russia or by a Russian entity #nuclear tinyurl.com/r9uwp65k

The US @nnsanews has signed bilateral agreements with Japan and South Korea to cooperate in optimising the #nuclear non-proliferation features of their respective research reactor models aimed at export markets tinyurl.com/3zazu4bk

A MoU will see the UK's NPL joining CERN's neutron time-of-flight facility with studies aiming to benefit advanced #nuclear reactors, fuel cycles and nuclear fusion tinyurl.com/5df58eeh

The European Commission has approved the Czech Republic's proposed public support package for new #nuclear - after a series of modifications were made to address their concerns during an inquiry which began in June 2022 tinyurl.com/yc4desd9

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The mayor of Paks in Hungary was among those present in Russia to see the start of forging of blanks for the reactor vessel of the first unit at the Paks II #nuclear power plant, which Rosatom Global is building tinyurl.com/3642phxa

Thai innovative and sustainable power company GPSC has signed an MoU with Denmark's Seaborg Technologies to explore the potential deployment of the compact molten salt reactor Power Barge in Thailand #nuclear tinyurl.com/46yftk6m

.BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. is the first company to join GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's group of qualified supply chain companies to advance the global deployment of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor #nuclear tinyurl.com/mz7xnsrp

.Skupina ČEZ and its Elektrárna Dukovany II subsidiary have received binding bids from South Korea's KHNP Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. and France's EDF for the construction of four new #nuclear units in the Czech Republic tinyurl.com/udxp5r4j