Slovakia’s newest nuclear power unit, Mochovce 4 has reached critical status and minimum controlled power.

The operator of the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary has announced it will have to be fully shut down within the next 72 hours because of record-low water levels in the River Danube. Romania’s Cernavoda has also shut down one of its two units.

The Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO) has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the conceptual design of a 15,000 TEU container ship powered by two small modular molten salt reactors (SMRs).

The Lithuanian state-owned company leading the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, Altra, has launched an international tender for the design and dismantling of the reactor cores of the plant’s two RBMK-1500 reactors.

Skanska contracted for Swedish repository expansion work: Construction firm Skanska has signed a contract worth about SEK1 billion (USD100 million) with Sweden’s radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB for the construction of new rock caverns at the SFR final repository for low and intermediate-level waste in Forsmark.

IAEA produces global mapping tool of used nuclear fuel.
The global total of used nuclear fuel produced by nuclear power plants is about 448,000 tonnes of heavy metal, with three quarters in storage and one quarter reprocessed, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s first interactive tool showing how much used nuclear fuel the world has – and where it is stored – by country.

Japan Aims To Replace 14 Ageing Nuclear Reactors By 2050s. Japan plans to rebuild between two and five ageing nuclear reactors by the 2040s and as many as 11 to 14 by the 2050s as it aims to secure stable power supply, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing a draft policy presented on 5 June.

Slovenia has marked the 60th year of operation of the Triga research reactor with a ceremony at which Slovenia’s president Nataša Pirc Musar awarded the Golden Order of Merit to the Jožef Stefan Institute.

Grossi warns at Security Council against attacks on nuclear plants.
In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council following a drone strike near Barakah Nuclear Power Plant’s inner perimeter, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has warned of the “most serious” consequences of a direct hit.

The site chosen for Poland’s first commercial nuclear power station is suitable for construction to go ahead, specialists from Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) have said.
onstruction of first Westinghouse reactor could begin in 2028.