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.

Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company, whose expansion on the international market in recent years has outstripped the country’s capacity to supply uranium fuel to the new power plants, won a large concession recently to mine uranium in Mongolia.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, provider of advanced and sophisticated technology for nuclear energy, has said recently that it will develop nuclear plants in India in collaboration with engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro (L&T).