The largest and heaviest module has been installed at unit 4 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute has announced. Two CAP1000 units - the Chinese version of the AP1000 - are being constructed as Phase II of the plant, in China's Zhejiang province.

Work has begun to build the foundations for the Pallas research reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, which will replace the existing High Flux Reactor. However, the Dutch government has yet to make a final decision on constructing the reactor.

First concrete has been poured into the foundation slab marking the start of the main construction phase for unit 3 of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant project, and follows the issuing of a construction licence by the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority on 29 March.

The first concrete has been poured for the Kijang Research Reactor at the Radiology Science Industrial Complex in Gijang-gun, Busan, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute announced.

The process of assembling the research reactor was reproduced at the manufacturing site in Russia ahead of it being shipped to Bolivia.

The supplementary joint venture agreement between NTPC - the country's largest integrated energy company - and government enterprise Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd is for the development of six 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors across two sites.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin joined online as a ceremony was held to mark the arrival of first fuel for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey.

Russia's Rosatom says two reactor vessels and eight steam generators are being shipped to Kudankulam unit 5 in India and Tianwan unit 7 in China, calling it the first time two sets of such equipment have been shipped at the same time from one production site.

First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 4 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province. It marks the official start of construction of the second of two CAP1000 pressurised water reactors planned as Phase II of the plant.

Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has issued an acceptance certificate to the Areva-Siemens consortium for the Olkiluoto 3 EPR, which began regular electricity production on 16 April. It said the 1600 MWe reactor is scheduled to enter commercial operation on 1 May.

The 730-tonne reactor cavity precast pool has been installed in Hinkley Point C unit 1's reactor building, using the giant crane, called Big Carl. Meanwhile the final phase of the offshore work by the site is under way after the arrival of two large jack-up vessels.

Tunnelling at the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory near Jiuquan City in China's Gansu province has reached a depth of 280 metres, the depth of the first of two planned technology test platforms, China National Nuclear Corporation announced.