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.
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand for cooperation on small modular reactors and exploring their feasibility for future projects.
Halden Kjernekraft has submitted a proposal to Norway's Ministry of Energy for an assessment of the construction of both a power plant based on multiple small modular reactors as well as a radioactive waste storage facility at Halden, in southeast Norway.
Following a two-year competition, Rolls-Royce SMR has been selected as the preferred bidder to construct the UK's first small modular reactors.
The UK government is committing GBP14.2 billion (USD19.1 billion) towards the building of the Sizewell C plant in Suffolk, England, which will be a "replica" of Hinkley Point C featuring two of EDF's EPR reactors.
The 80-tonne tank, which has a capacity of 60 cubic metres, was produced at the Petrozavodskmash plant of Rosatom's machine-building division with the ceremonial shipment marking the plant's 65th anniversary.
Innovative reactor developer Newcleo and Slovak state-owned radioactive waste management company JAVYS have signed a joint venture shareholder agreement, paving the way toward the construction of up to four Newcleo lead-cooled fast reactors at the Bohunice site.
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is preparing to sign subcontract agreements and establish a project office at Dukovany after the signing of the contract to build two APR-1000 units at a project cost of CZK407 billion (USD18.6 billion). The aim is to start construction in 2029.
The contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for new nuclear capacity at the Dukovany site in the Czech Republic has been signed - hours after the Supreme Administrative Court annulled a regional court's injunction to stop it happening.