Unit 4 of Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture today became the ninth Japanese reactor to resume power generation. The 1180 MWe pressurised water reactor is expected to re-enter commercial operation in mid-July. World-nuclear-news.org

Framatome’s accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) is now being tested in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) at Idaho National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced. The fuel is being developed through a US Department of Energy programme which aims to commercialise ATF by 2025. World-nuclear-news.org

With hot functional testing completed in early June, the owner of Finland’s Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant announced that the long-delayed Unit 3, a European Pressurized Reactor, would be connected to the grid in December and ready to enter commercial operating status by May 2019. Nuclearstreet.com

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) will shut down the Wolsong-1 nuclear plant unit before the end of its lifetime in 2022, South Korean media quoted Chung Jae-hoon, KHNP’s chief executive officer, as saying. Nucnet.org