Tom Samson has taken over as CEO of NuGen, the consortium working to build new reactors at Moorside in Cumbria. His return to Britain after new build work in the United Arab Emirates is an example of the two-way process of global nuclear learning.

Saudi Arabia and France signed three nuclear-related cooperation agreements in Paris on 24 June. One is to carry out a feasibility study for the construction of two power reactors in the Middle Eastern country.

Ukraine is preparing the legal document required to cancel its contract with Russia concerning the completion of two units at the Khmelnitski nuclear power plant. The move was announced yesterday by Svetlana Kulchitskaya, deputy head of the atomic energy and nuclear industry department of the Ministry of Energy and Coal.

Construction of the second AP1000 unit at the Vogtle nuclear power plant reached a milestone with the installation of the module that will house the unit's reactor pressure vessel, Georgia Power announced.

The first batch of steam generators for unit 2 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant has been delivered to the construction site, Russian nuclear power plant operator Rosenergoatom said on 17 June.

The reactor vessel for the second unit of the United Arab Emirates' first nuclear power plant under construction at Barakah has been installed. That of the first unit was installed in May 2014.

Both steam generators have now been installed within the containment building of the second Westinghouse AP1000 unit under construction at the Sanmen plant in China's Zhejiang province.

Unit 3 of the Ningde plant in China's Fujian province has become China's 25th nuclear power reactor to enter commercial operation.

The installation of the dome upon the containment building of unit 5 at China's Yangjiang nuclear power plant marks the end of major civil engineering works at the unit.

Unit 2 of China General Nuclear's Yangjiang nuclear power plant in Guangdong province has entered commercial operation.

The main control room of the first Westinghouse AP1000 unit at Haiyang in China's Shandong province has been declared operational. The unit is expected to begin operating by the end of this year.

The construction of nuclear power plants and development of the nuclear industry in China's Sichuan province will be promoted under a strategic cooperation framework agreement signed between China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and the provincial government.