Holtec has announced that it has submitted its final tender response to Great British Nuclear as part of the UK's ongoing small modular reactor technology selection competition. GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce SMR earlier confirmed they had submitted final tenders.

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.

Energy Alberta has submitted its Initial Project Description to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada for the proposed Peace River Nuclear Power Project. The public is now being invited to provide comments on it.

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.

Australian ship design group Seatransport and US-based Deployable Energy are collaborating with UK-based classification society and professional advisory service Lloyd's Register to develop nuclear power generation for different applications, including strategic response vessels in remote areas.

Eight technology developers have been selected and are now eligible to seek funding as part of a programme to provide fixed on-site microreactors at military installations "to support global operations across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace".

Two of the four shortlisted small modular reactor vendors - GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce SMR - have announced they have submitted their final tender responses as part of Great British Nuclear's ongoing SMR selection competition.

Kazakhstan has officially shortlisted four reactor vendors for the country's first nuclear power plant following a "competitive dialogue process with potential technology suppliers".

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.

The Norwegian government has commissioned several agencies to develop an Environmental Impact Assessment programme for the proposed power plant based on multiple small modular reactors in the municipalities of Aure and Heim.

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have been completed at unit 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province. The unit is the second of four Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site.