Two security experts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio, Texas, in March 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab there. Idahostatesman.com

First concrete for the foundation of unit 2 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh was poured during a ceremony on 14 July. A construction licence for the Russian-supplied reactor was issued by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority on 8 July. World-nuclear-news.org

Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Energoatom has explained to the European Parliament the benefits of supporting the ‘energy bridge’ project. Ukraine expects to start supplying electricity to the EU network via the so-called energy bridge as early as next year, and to complete the project by 2025. World-nuclear-news.org

The Doel-3 nuclear power unit in Belgium is to be restarted in the coming days following the completion of work to reinforce a building that had been subject to concrete degradation. Nucnet.org