GE Hitachi and DTE Energy on Monday said they would explore advancing the detailed design of the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor, known as the ESBWR. nuclearstreet.com

AREVA TN said Monday that it had signed a contract with Xcel Energy to provide wide-ranging dry fuel storage management services for Xcel’s Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear generating plants. nuclearstreet.com

Kazakhstan became the leading supplier of uranium to US nuclear power plants in 2014, overtaking Australia, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). world-nuclear-news.org

NuScale aims to deploy its small modular reactor (SMR) technology in the UK with the first of its 50 MWe units in operation by the mid-2020s. The company is looking for partners to make this happen. world-nuclear-news.org