Recently, the Norwegian company Norsk Kjernekraft (NK) has signed a letter of intent with TVO Nuclear Services (TVONS) to jointly investigate the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) in Norway. TVONS is a consulting company wholly owned by Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO).
An application from national radioactive waste management agency Andra to construct a high-level radioactive waste repository has been deemed to be admissible for review by the French nuclear regulator. This decision will allow the launch of the technical appraisal of the application.
Russia has repeated threated the use of nuclear weapons against the United States and other Western nations such as members of the European Union. Russia has sent their nuclear weapon equipped planes into other nations airspaces without permission and sailed its nuclear armed ships and submarines though other nations coastal waters without permission.