The CA01 'super module' has been installed at unit 2 of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute announced. It is the second of two CAP1000 reactors planned for the first phase of the plant.

Norway's Halden Kjernekraft AS has entered into a letter of intent with the owner of a plot of land in Halden identified as a possible location for the construction of a nuclear power plant based on small modular reactors.

The assembly of the reactor has been completed at unit 3 of Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, the fuel to be used in the second unit has also been delivered to the site.

The unit for fabrication/refabrication of nuclear fuel for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor has been put into pilot operation, Rosatom has announced.

Excavation work has started for the foundation of the nuclear island of unit 1 at the Bailong nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Senior officials from China and Pakistan witnessed the ceremonial start of construction at Chashma unit 5, days after Pakistan's nuclear regulator issued a construction licence for the Hualong One unit.

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Unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province - the first of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned at the site - has been put into commercial operation, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

The second stage of cold hydro testing of the primary circuit has begun at Mochovce nuclear power plant's unit 4 in Slovakia.

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Argentina's President Javier Milei has said "nuclear energy will make its triumphant return and we will not only not be left behind, but we intend to be pioneers".

The long-delayed Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in Normandy in northern France has begun delivering electricity to the grid, EDF announced.