Norsk Kjernekraft has signed a memorandum of understanding with high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear reactor developer X-energy to explore the deployment of small modular reactors in Norway.

The turbine generator stator for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England, has been delivered from the manufacturing plant in Belfort, France.

The engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the completion of Romania's Cernavoda units 3 and 4 has been signed with the FCSA Joint Venture including Fluor, AtkinsRéalis, Ansaldo Nucleare and Sargent & Lundy Energie.

Cold functional tests have been completed at unit 1 of the San'ao nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province, China General Nuclear has announced. The unit is the first of six HPR1000s (Hualong Ones) planned at the site.

The project company planning to build two new AP1000 reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant site has invited interested parties to participate in pre-qualification for the provision of engineering consulting services.

A consortium of Assystem, Egis and Empresarios Agrupados has signed a contract with Fusion for Energy worth an initial EUR80 million (USD84 million) to provide consulting and engineering expertise on the ITER international fusion project.

Concreting of the outer containment dome of the first unit at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant took 104 days, with 3511 cubic metres of high-strength self-compacting concrete mix poured.

The largest and heaviest module - the CA20 - has been installed at unit 2 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province, China National Nuclear Corporation subsidiary China Nuclear Power Engineering Company Limited has announced.

The core catcher for unit 4 at Egypt's El Dabaa nuclear power plant is expected to be installed by the end of the year. It means all four units will have passed that landmark within little more than a year.