Poland expects to conclude talks on the financing of its first nuclear power plant “in a matter of months”, a senior government official said during the Polish-US Nuclear Industry Forum in Warsaw yesterday. World-nuclear-news.org

Framatome earlier this year applied its ultra-high pressure (UHP) cavitation peening process on reactor vessel primary nozzles at Dominion Energy’s Millstone nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut. This marked the first underwater application of this maintenance technique on reactor pressure vessel nozzles to primary pipe welds. World-nuclear-news.org

China has begun construction of two new reactor units at the Changjiang nuclear station in the island province of Hainan off the country’s southeast coast, state media reported on Monday following a signing ceremony. Nucnet.org

Ending funding for the commercial production of the medical radioisotope technetium-99m (Tc-99m) by governments of producing countries could help solve continuing supply problems, a Nuclear Energy Agency report says. Nucnet.org