Barakah One Company, the joint venture that will operate the four-unit Barakah nuclear plant in the United Arab Emirates, has received its electricity generation license for Unit 1 from the Department of Energy. Nuclearstreet.com

Framatome said it had successfully completed a visual inspection of the tube bundle top structure of a steam generator in the Spanish nuclear power plant at Ascó Unit 2 using a “well-proven” underwater inspection submarine system called SUSI. Nuclearstreet.com

Nuclear generation in the UK decreased by 1.9% from 71.7 TWh to 70.3 TWh in 2017 due to a slight increase in outages, but nuclear contributed to 41% of overall low-carbon power, new government statistics show. Nucnet.org

Fuel loading has begun of Russia’s first commercial floating nuclear power station, the Akademik Lomonosov, in the port city of Murmansk in the far northwest of Russia, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. Nucnet.org