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The government of the Sverdlovsk region of Russia has approved the construction of the country's first BN-1200 fast reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant. The unit will be built to replace the existing smaller BN-600 reactor at the plant, which is scheduled to be shut down by 2020.

A report for EDF ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has put some figures on the benefits to the UK economy that could flow from the company's plans for new nuclear power plants.

A joint venture between Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke has been selected by EDF ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß as the preferred bidder for the contract for civil works to construct the planned new plant at the existing Hinkley Point site in southwest England. A final investment decision on the project has yet to be made.

Westinghouse and GE-Hitachi are working towards reaching agreements with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) for preliminary licensing and site development work for the proposed construction ofÌýAP1000 and ESBWR reactors in India.

Yangjiang 3 is the latest Chinese nuclear powerÌýreactor to see the emplacement of its containment dome.ÌýConstruction projects already underway should see China bring online some 27 new reactors by the end of 2015 - in addition to the 15 units currently in operation.

Construction of the first EPR unit at the Taishan nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province has passed another major milestone with the reactor pressure vesselÌýbeing lowered into place.

Russia's state atomic energy corporation Rosatom is interested in entering the UK nuclear market and is beginning preliminary work to do so, officials said at AtomExpo.

China took a step towards full resumption of its nuclear power program with preliminary approval for a post-Fukushima nuclear safety plan.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has agreed to extend the operating licence of the single-unit Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Massachusetts for a further 20 years. Meanwhile, the expected completion of the NRC's review of Progress ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's combined construction and operating licence application (COLA) forÌýits Levy plant in Florida has been revised.

Three developers of small modular reactor (SMR) technology - Babcock & Wilcox, NuScale Nuclear and Westinghouse - have submitted applications to the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß (DoE) for funding to support first-of-a-kind engineering, design certification and licensing.

Westinghouse subsidiary PaR Nuclear has agreed to form a joint venture with China's Taiyuan Heavy Machinery to produce cranes and fuel handling equipment for Chinese nuclear power plants, particularly those based on the AP1000 reactor.

Construction of new nuclear power plants in Russia is advancing, with Kalinin 4 entering trial commercial operation and completion of the installation of the dome of the containment building at Novovoronezh Phase II unit 1.