Two government agencies are to invest a total of CAD3 billion (USD2.1 billion) and take "meaningful" minority stakes in Ontario Power Generation's Darlington New Nuclear Project, helping to de-risk the construction and operation of the small modular reactors.
 

The outer containment dome has been installed at unit 5 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the first of two HPR1000 (Hualong One) units under construction at the site, where four CAP1000s are also planned.
 

The first reactor vessel has been delivered to the El Dabaa construction site of Egypt's first nuclear power plant.
 

Fusion energy developer Helion Energy has been granted a Conditional Use Permit by Chelan County, clearing the way for permitting and construction of the fusion generator building of its Orion fusion power plant in Malaga in Washington State.
 

France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo has awarded an engineering services contract to NEXT-N, its newly-launched joint venture with Nextchem to develop the conventional island and balance of plant of nuclear power plants based on Newcleo's 200 MW advanced modular reactors.
 

Its newly launched spider robot can carry out ultrasonic inspections of welds 30 centimetres thick three times faster than previous methods, Russia’s Rosatom has said.
 

The concreting of the containment water tank has marked the completion of the civil construction of the main nuclear island structure of unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant site in China's Shandong province.
 

Construction work has begun on the outer containment building for the third new unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant, which will be the seventh in total.
 

A delivery ceremony has been held for the toroidal field magnet coil box - measuring 21 metres by 12 metres - at the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology in Hefei, China.