Brazil’s uranium enrichment capacity has increased by 25% following the inauguration of the seventh cascade of centrifuges at the Resende enrichment plant, Industrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) has announced. World-nuclear-news.org

NB Power and the New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organisation (NBEMO) are to carry out Synergy Challenge 2018, a full-scale exercise to test the province of New Brunswick’s readiness to respond to a simulated nuclear emergency at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant. World-nuclear-news.org

The developers of two different packages for the transport of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) have reported progress with their individual designs. Daher has submitted an application for certification for its DN30 package to US regulators, while China Nuclear New Energy Nuclear Industry Engineering Co Ltd’s XN740 UF6 transport package has completed a 9 meter drop test. World-nuclear-news.org

The cause of a small leak in the emergency cooling water circuit of the Doel-1 nuclear power reactor in Belgium has not yet been determined and the unit will remain offline until tests and repairs are concluded, the nuclear regulator said. Nucnet.org