India and Canada are in talks to sign a nuclear cooperation pact soon. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting India on 15 and 16 November, 2009 and the deal in all likelihood will be signed then. Meanwhile, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, or AECL, is in talks with three private sector Indian power generation companies, including Anil Ambani’s Reliance Power Ltd, for setting up nuclear power generation plants based on its Candu (Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.

Enel and Electricité de France have recently formed a joint venture to assess the feasibility of building at least four nuclear power plants in Italy, marking the latest stage in the relaunch of the country’s nuclear industry more than 20 years after it was rejected by the public.

Gas and electricity supplier Centrica’s plans to acquire a minority stake in nuclear utility British Energy (BE) from Electricité de France (EdF) have been approved by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), UK's consumer and competition authority.

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), South Korea's state power firm, has signed a deal with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) to cooperate in the nuclear power sector.