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Nuclear power plant developer Elementl Power has signed an Early Works Agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy to use its BWRX-300 small modular reactors for a proposed project in Meigs County, in southeast Ohio in the USA.
 

Bulgaria's Council of Ministers has agreed a fresh exception from sanctions to allow the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant to import necessary components and parts from Russia.
 

Rolls-Royce SMR has selected Škoda JS and Doosan Enerbility for pre-production work for key components - including the reactor pressure vessel - for its small modular reactor programme.
 

French engineering group Assystem and Canadian engineering firm AtkinsRéalis have both been appointed by EDF and Sizewell C Limited to a new five-year Professional Services Framework.
 

The shipbuilding subsidiary of South Korea's HD Hyundai has been selected as preferred manufacturer for TerraPower's Natrium Reactor Enclosure System components, one of a series of agreements aimed at the "rapid commercialisation and deployment of a fleet of Natrium … plants in the coming years".
 

Great British Energy - Nuclear has selected US firm Jacobs to develop environmental baseline data, with AtkinsRéalis and AECOM as subconsultants, on the Oldbury site which is earmarked for new UK nuclear capacity.
 

Czech nuclear operator ÄŒEZ has signed an early works contract with Rolls-Royce SMR for the proposed construction of a small modular reactor at Temelín. ÄŒEZ has also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to consider the investor model and possible sources of financing.
 

Britain's Tokamak Energy has been named magnet systems partner for the UK's STEP Fusion programme, while France's Dassault Systèmes has been contracted to expand STEP's product lifecycle management capability.
 

Minister of Energy Traycho Traykov has said Bulgaria wants its proposed new nuclear power units at the Kozloduy plant to be built at fixed prices.