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The Belgian government and French utility Engie have closed the agreement covering the extension of the operation of the Tihange 3 and Doel 4 nuclear power reactors by 10 years and on all obligations related to radioactive waste.

The start-up of the second ion exchange circuit at enCore ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's Alta Mesa central processing plant comes as the company is accelerating wellfield development at the project in South Texas.

About 100 cubic metres of slightly radioactive water flowed into rooms within the containment of Olkiluoto unit 3 after a hatch in the reactor pool was not properly closed before the filling of the pool began.

Czech nuclear power plant Dukovany is heading to a new record output after the return to service of the fourth unit following a shutdown which included 48 investment events helping it to operate with a higher output.

As José Gago succeeds Tom Mitchell after a six-year term as chairman, the two talk to ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear News about the role of the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Association of Nuclear Operators, its achievements and its future role with numbers of nuclear energy plants set to rise sharply in the years ahead.

The unit's 5,761 fuel bundles were removed in just 24 days, making it the most efficient Candu reactor defuel ever, according to Bruce Power.

It is now five months since Constellation ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß announced the project to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 as the Crane Clean ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Center - and it says early milestones towards the launch have been reached ahead of schedule.

Companies representing the Spanish nuclear industry have signed a manifesto calling for the long-term operation of the country's nuclear power plants. Under current plans, Spain's power reactors are all scheduled to shut by 2035.

The refurbishment of unit 3 at Bruce Power's Ontario plant has passed a major milestone with all eight steam generators now in place. Meanwhile, the company has also completed its largest ever harvest of the vital cobalt-60 isotope during a planned outage at Bruce unit 5.

Japan is to "make maximum use of nuclear power", with about 20% of the country's total electricity generation in fiscal 2040 coming from nuclear, according to the government's latest Basic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Plan. Previous plans have called for a reduction on its dependence on nuclear power.

Unit 1 of the Doel nuclear power plant has been taken offline for the final time after 50 years of operation and disconnected from the grid. Its closure is in line with Belgium's 2003 nuclear phase-out policy, under which two other reactors have already been shut down.

The Plenary Session of the Spanish Congress has approved a proposal calling for the government to implement a series of measures that would reverse the country's decision to phase out nuclear power. Under current plans, Spain's power reactors are all scheduled to shut by 2035.