The Finnish government has approved a 20-year extension to the operating licences of units 1 and 2 at Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj’s (TVO’s) Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. World-nuclear-news.com

India’s largest medical cyclotron – Cyclone-30 – is now operational, the country’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) announced yesterday. The cyclotron, at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in Kolkata, will produce medical radioisotopes and will also have dedicated beamlines for material science and nuclear physics research. World-nuclear-news.com

Construction of two new units at the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary is expected to start soon, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a press conference in Moscow on 18 September, following his talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. World-nuclear-news.com

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday that it had renewed the operating license for the Indian Point nuclear power plant Units 2 and 3, located in Buchanan, New York, for operations through April 30, 2024 (for Unit 2) and April 30, 2025 (for Unit 3), respectively. Nuclearstreet.com