Hitachi today announced the incorporation of a new UK company – Hitachi Nuclear Energy Europe – as part of its strategy to enhance its UK presence for the engineering, procurement and construction of Horizon Nuclear Power’s new nuclear power plant development at Wylfa Newydd. world-nuclear-news.org

Unit 3 of South Korea’s Shin Kori nuclear power plant was connected to the grid on 15 January and has started supplying electricity, plant owner Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced yesterday. world-nuclear-news.org

Tom Mundy, executive vice president of program development at NuScale said the Oregon-based Fluor company could have a small modular nuclear power plant up and running in Britain by 2025. nuclearstreet.com

The possibility North Korea has the capability to miniaturize nuclear warheads cannot be ruled out, according to a Japanese government official. upi.com