Excavation work has started for the foundation of the nuclear island of the second of two CAP1000 pressurised water reactors planned as Phase I of the Bailong nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
 

The nuclear technology company is holding a groundbreaking ceremony at Idaho National Laboratory for the Aurora-INL sodium-cooled fast reactor.
 

The main structure of the world's first nuclear power ultra-large high-level seawater cooling tower has been completed at unit 1 of the Lianjiang plant in China's Guangdong province, State Power Investment Corp announced.
 

Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever has laid a foundation stone, marking the start of construction of a surface disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level, short-lived waste at the Dessel site in Belgium.
 

The CA01 'super module' has been installed at unit 1 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute announced.
 

Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro has won a "significant" order worth up to USD285 million from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd for the project to build Russian-supplied 1000 MWe pressurised water reactors at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu.

The challenge of how to train and develop the workforce needed for the proposed tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050 formed the basis of a discussion at a side event organised by South Africa and World Nuclear University at the International Atomic Energy Agency's 69th General Conference in Vienna.
 

A contract has been awarded for the construction of the conventional islands of the three reactors that will comprise the first phase of the Xuwei nuclear power project in China. The plant will supply both industrial heating and electricity by coupling a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with two pressurised water reactors.
 

The lower tier of the internal containment building has been installed at the third new unit being built at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in Russia.
 

The uppermost section of the steel containment vessel has been installed at unit 4 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province.
 

The installation of the metal shell of the central cavity of the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor is due to begin this month, following delivery of large-sized parts for it.
 

Nuclearelectrica has started the civil construction works for the refurbishment project for Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant unit 1.