Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has presented a purchase order for the contract to build Kaiga units 5 and 6 to Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Ltd in the first major nuclear contract for the Hyderabad-based company.

The installation of the main circulation pump units means that all the main equipment is now in place at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant's unit 2. 

The Tennessee Valley Authority intends to submit the Construction Permit Application for the Clinch River small modular reactor to the US regulator by June.

The first of four main pumps has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project, under construction at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete composite that is claimed to significantly reduce the cost of building nuclear reactor containment structures.

Preparatory work on the buildings required to support construction and administration of the planned small modular reactor project in the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan has begun.

The bottom head of the containment vessel of unit 1 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant has been installed on the central raft foundation of the unit's nuclear island, China Nuclear Construction Corporation 22 announced.

Cold hydrostatic testing has been completed at unit 3 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant in China's Hainan province, Huaneng Hainan Changjiang Nuclear Power has announced. The tests mark the first time the reactor systems are operated together with the auxiliary systems.

The pouring of concrete has begun to form the foundation for the reactor building of the Pallas research reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.