Russia has sent “squadrons” of nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 strategic bombers to Crimea in response to the deployment of U.S. Navy Aegis Ashore missile defense installations in Romania, according to a report in Russian state-run media. Japantimes.co.jp

An agreement between US small modular reactor (SMR) developer NuScale Power and Romanian energy company Societata Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (SNN SA) to explore the use of SMRs in Romania has been welcomed by the US Department of Energy (DOE). World-nuclear-news.org

Mexican state utility CFE (Comision Federal de Electricidad) has a good basis to manage the long-term operation of the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has found. World-nuclear-news.org

The Normandy region of France has put itself forward as a candidate site for the construction of a new generation of French EPR nuclear power units, Paris-based nuclear society SFEN said. Nucnet.org