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The lower house of India's parliament has passed the bill proposing a new legal framework for India's nuclear sector - including clearing the way for private sector participation - and discussions have begun in the upper house.
 

Minister of State Jitendra Singh has tabled the bill proposing a new legal framework for India's nuclear sector in the Indian parliament.

India aims to finalise a site for a second Russian nuclear power plant in the country - and says broader cooperation could include small modular reactors, floating power plants and localisation of fuel supply.
 

Argentina has officially nominated the current Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations, for the years 2027 to 2031.
 

Developing new large and small-scale nuclear power plant projects and wider nuclear fuel cycle cooperation were discussed during talks between Rosatom and India’s Department of Atomic Energy.
 

The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran has said the country’s new nuclear construction projects are continuing, and said locations would soon be announced for eight new units covered in a contract signed with Russia.
 

The board of Spain's Centrales Nucleares Almaraz-Trillo has officially requested a three-year extension to the operating licence for Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant's units I and II.
 

Slovenia's Prime Minister Robert Golob and French President Emmanuel Macron have signed a Declaration of Intent to Establish Long-Term Cooperation in the Field of Nuclear Energy, with EDF one of two in the running as supplier for a proposed new unit at Krško.
 

The Czech Republic, which already has European Commission approval for its financing plan for one new unit at Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant, has now formally sought approval for similar state support for the second new unit, which is part of the country's expanded new nuclear plans.
 

The European Court of Justice has backed Austria's appeal against Hungary's state aid for the construction of the Paks II nuclear power plant and said the European Commission "should have ascertained" whether the direct award of a contract "complies with EU public procurement rules".
 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has traditionally only invested in safety-related nuclear projects, but "views are evolving" and investments in small modular and advanced reactors could follow, a conference has heard.
 

Hungary's Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto has said US President Donald Trump sees Hungary as a friend and "it was in this spirit that the US administration lifted the sanctions related to the Paks nuclear plant project".