The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has today signed an agreement provisionally accepting Kudankulam unit 2 from its Russian suppliers and thus marking the unit’s entry into commercial operation. world-nuclear-news.org

ARMZ, Atomflot and VostokCoal have signed an agreement to cooperate in the development of the Russian Arctic region. The document was signed on 29 March by ARMZ director-general Vladimir Verkhovtsev, Atomflot general director Vyacheslav Ruksha and VostokCoal chairman Dmitry Bosov during the International Arctic Forum held last week in Arkhangelsk.ARMZ is the uranium mining arm of Rosatom, while Atomflot is the Russian state nuclear corporation’s subsidiary responsible for the operation and maintenance of the country’s fleet of nuclear icebreakers. VostokCoal develops coal and anthracite production projects in Russia. world-nuclear-news.org

Workers in Belarus have installed the replacement reactor pressure vessel for Unit One at the Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant six months after the first one was dropped in an incident that caused Rosatom’s director general at the time to offer a new one to mitigate concerns of damage done to the one that dropped. nuclearstreet.com

Greg Clark, UK business secretary, will visit Seoul this week in a bid to salvage the multibillion pound Moorside nuclear power project in Cumbria.ft.com