A new agreement will see Google support uprates on Georgia Power's share of the Vogtle and Hatch plants, which will add around 96 MW of new capacity to the grid.
 

Slovakia's Mochovce 4 began power generation at 15:33 on Monday, which operator Slovenske elektrárne describes as the last major stage before the unit is put into operation.
 

As fuel loading begins at Rajasthan Atomic Power Project unit 8, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has started geotechnical investigations for the next two units at the plant. Meanwhile, fuel loading has begun at Kaiga unit 1 as the unit begins the process to return to service after refurbishment.
 

Unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant in China's island province of Hainan has entered commercial operation. The unit is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors being constructed as Phase II of the plant.
 

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company has said it will withdraw applications for regulatory reviews of units 3 and 4 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture after an independent committee found that workers felt under pressure from senior management to manipulate earthquake data submitted to the regulator.
 

The Czech Republic's State Office for Nuclear Security has given the go-ahead for Westinghouse's fuel to be used at ČEZ's VVER-1000 units at Temelín Nuclear Power Plant.
 

Tech giant Google has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Finland's Fortum covering up to 50% of the Loviisa nuclear power plant's capacity and providing financial certainty for power uprates and lifetime extensions until 2050.
 

The US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Dominance Financing has closed a loan of up to USD1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to help finance the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center, taking the company closer to bringing Iowa's only nuclear power plant back into operation.
 

A local ceasefire brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency has allowed work to successfully take place to restore off-site power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
 

Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2,702 TWh of electricity in 2025, beating the previous year's record of 2,667 TWh, according to the World Nuclear Outlook Report, which also calculates that if all national nuclear targets were achieved, total capacity would more than triple by 2050.
 

The loading of fuel into the reactor has begun at Palisades nuclear power plant in the US, as Holtec International continues to move towards the first restart of a closed-down unit.
 

The company says NIVA - for Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant - is the first AI platform of its kind available to commercial nuclear plants belonging to organisations including the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, EPRI, and the Nuclear Energy Institute that have collaborated in its development.