Russian President Vladimir Putin assured Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that Russia if fulfilling its obligations and develops its nuclear power industry in strict accordance with restrictions on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Sputniknews.com Physicists from the Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk, Russia are in the final stages of preparations to relaunch the BFS, the largest operating critical test facility of its kind in the world, following modernization. Sputkniknews.com A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy has been signed between China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and the Ugandan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. The parties will give priority to cooperation in applying nuclear technology in medicine, agriculture and industry. World-nuclear-news.org More than 700 specially manufactured tubes for the steam generators associated with the so-called CAREM project in Argentina – the Central Argentina de Elementos Modulares project – have been delivered to the construction site near the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, CONUAR announced last week. CONUAR is the acronym for Combustibles Nucleares Argentinos, the organization that is moving forward with the country's first domestically designed nuclear power reactor of any kind. Nuclearstreet.com
