A memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by Westinghouse and Brazil’s state-owned Nuclebras Equipamentos Pesados (Nuclep) paves the way for the companies to collaborate on the fabrication of AP1000 reactor components in Brazil. world-nuclear-new.org

The International Uranium Enrichment Centre (IUEC) in Angarsk, Russia will serve as a reference point for similar regional International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-sponsored fuel ‘banks’, the Vienna-based agency’s director general, Yukiya Amano, said last week.  world-nuclear-new.org

Construction of a four-reactor nuclear power plant in northern Turkey will include French, Turkish and Japanese construction firms, Japanese media announced late last week. nuclearstreet.com

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (Wano) has published a long-term plan that will pave the way for the organisation to become more effective and to correct shortfalls that contributed to its inability to identify and direct the global industry support necessary to have prevented the Fukushima-Daiichi accident. nucnet.org