Laurentis is currently providing services to a number of SMR clients including Canadian nuclear utilities, Canadian non-nuclear utilities, European utilities, European non-nuclear utilities, and Canadian government departments. Fermi Energia was founded by Estonian energy and nuclear energy professionals to develop deployment of SMRs in Estonia.

ČEZ said three bidders - Framatome, Westinghouse and Russia's TVEL - participated in the tender, which was launched in April 2020.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 9.4 million barrels to 421.8 million barrels.

Brent rose by 48 cents, or 0.5%, to $105.12 a barrel, WTI gained 28 cents, or 0.3%, to $100.88.

For 2022, world oil demand growth is revised down by 0.5 mb/d to stand at 3.7 mb/d, mostly reflecting the downward revision in world economic growth. Oil demand growth is forecast at 1.9 mb/d in the OECD and 1.8 mb/d in the non-OECD.

Westinghouse is one of three finalists in the Dukovany nuclear power plant tender.

BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) is proceeding apace to deliver microreactors to commercial power and industrial customers in cooperation with Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Brent were up $2.98 or 3.03% to $101.46 a barrel, WTI was up $3 or 3.18% to $97.29 a barrel.

Russia's invasion has driven up the price of the oil, gas and grain it exports, providing it with a substantial windfall to fund its "special military operation" - now entering a new phase as Moscow focuses on the eastern Donbas region after failing to break Ukraine's defence of the capital Kyiv.

Japan typically takes high-CV, low-ash coal from Russia