Software development company Palantir Technologies Inc is partnering with The Nuclear Company to develop and deploy an AI-driven, real-time software system that they say will transform the construction of nuclear reactors.

The tests for tightness and strength of the containment building at Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant unit have been carried out successfully.

Sweden's radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB has selected Swiss construction firm Implenia as its collaborative partner to build the first underground section of the final repository for used nuclear fuel in Forsmark.

Hungary's Atomic Energy Authority has granted permission to resume construction activity in the entire working pit area of the planned first new unit at the Paks II nuclear power plant project.

Maire S.p.A subsidiary Nextchem and France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo are creating the NextCleo joint venture to develop the conventional island and balance of plant of nuclear power plants based on Newcleo's 200 MW advanced modular reactors.

Civil engineering for ONDRAF/NIRAS' surface disposal facility in Dessel will be carried out by the NucleusSafe partnership, with construction company Denys responsible for electromechanical aspects. Work is to begin later this year.

The first concrete for unit 1 at Nuclear Power Corporation of India's four-unit Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana plant is to be poured in October, Minister of Power Manohar Lal Khattar has said.

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 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.

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.

The Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey will have an automated system installed to remotely monitor the cooling water discharged into the sea, to meet the requirements of Turkish environmental regulations.