Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have been completed at unit 1 of the San'ao nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province. The unit is the first of six HPR1000s (Hualong Ones) planned at the site.

Russia's Rosatom has been selected as the leader of an international consortium to build Kazakhstan's first planned nuclear power plant - with China being lined up to build a second one.

The government's newly released energy roadmap brings together electricity, natural gas, hydrogen and other energy sources under a single coordinated strategy to ensure the province which already gets more than half of its electricity from nuclear plants has the affordable, secure, reliable and clean energy it needs.

French energy company EDF has signed an Early Work Agreement with Finnish utility Fortum as the partners continue their collaboration toward the potential development of new nuclear projects in Finland and Sweden.

Finnish consulting company TVO Nuclear Services says it has expanded its service portfolio to include the advisory and expert services required for the preparatory and planning stages of small modular reactor projects.

US innovative microreactor developer NuCube Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab to collaborate on the siting of a test reactor at the laboratory.

Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla and Norwegian nuclear project developer Norsk Kjernekraft are to launch a joint project company to develop an SMR power plant on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the reactor building of unit 3 at the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong province. It is the third of six HPR1000 (Hualong One) units planned for the site.

A strategic contract has been signed between the major French industrial players, the government and trade unions aimed at coordinating the country's nuclear industry for the planned life extension of current reactors and the construction of new ones.