The first of four main pumps for China's ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project has passed factory acceptance tests and been shipped to the construction site at the Changjiang on the island province of Hainan.

Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant continues to progress towards starting up, with the turbine installation completed at unit 1. 

The outer steel dome of the nuclear island containment building of unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province has been hoisted into place.

The 10-day process has been completed of welding the closing seam of the reactor vessel being manufactured for the first unit at Egypt's first nuclear power plant.

A ceremony has been held to mark first concrete being poured on Thursday for the foundation of the reactor building for unit 4 at the Leningrad II nuclear power plant in Russia.

Russia's Rosatom has begun assembling the RITM-200 reactor vessel for the Leningrad nuclear-powered icebreaker, bringing the total number of RITM reactor units currently being produced at its ZIO-Podolsk plant to eight.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has signed an agreement with South Korean construction firm Samsung C&T to establish a strategic partnership for the co-development of overseas nuclear power plant projects.

A total of nine major contracts have been signed for the construction of units 1 and 2 of the Bailong nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute announced.

The installation of the second tier of the inner containment building for Egypt's El Dabaa nuclear power plant's second unit took just over a fortnight to complete.