The bottom head of the containment vessel of unit 3 at the Taipingling nuclear power plant has been installed on the central raft foundation of the unit's nuclear island, China General Nuclear announced.

Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at  BWX Technologies' Innovation Campus in Lynchburg, Virginia.

US-based Deep Geo Inc and South Africa-based Allweld Nuclear and Industrial have signed a memorandum of understanding to support the development of new nuclear power capacity in Africa.

Norwegian energy developer Ocean-Power and Danish nuclear technology company Copenhagen Atomics have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly study the potential for producing electricity and heat in Norway using thorium-based molten salt reactors.

Cold hydrostatic testing has been completed at unit 7 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. The tests mark the first time the reactor systems are operated together with the auxiliary systems.

Workers have begun the pre-assembly of the first tier of the internal containment building for what will be the seventh unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant.

UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has signed the final investment decision for the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, England. The government will be the largest shareholder in the GBP38 billion (USD51 billion) project alongside EDF, Centrica, La Caisse and Amber Infrastructure.

Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company plans to conduct surveys of the Mihama nuclear power plant site in Fukui Prefecture to determine if a new reactor could be build there as a replacement for unit 1, which was declared permanently shut down in 2015.

EDF subsidiary Arabelle Solutions is to supply turbine island equipment for the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor project at the Darlington site in Ontario, Canada.