The reactor pressure vessel top cover has been hoisted into place at unit 1 of the San'ao nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province, while the first steam generator has been installed at unit 8 of the Tianwan plant in Jiangsu province.

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission are seeking public comments on Bruce Power's Initial Project Description for a potential new nuclear power station at its existing site on the shores of Lake Huron.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and Business Development Bank of Canada have announced a lead investment of CAD10 million (USD7.3 million) each in Canadian private fusion developer General Fusion. Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy has awarded USD4.6 million in 17 awards to fund public-private partnerships for fusion research.


 

As work progresses at the site for Ontario Power Generation's Darlington New Nuclear Project, a massive tunnel boring machine that will be used in site preparations has been named Harriet Brooks in honour of Canada's first female nuclear physicist.

Norsk Kjernekraft has submitted a proposal to Norway's Ministry of Energy for an assessment of the construction of a power plant based on multiple small modular reactors in the municipality of Øygarden, west of Bergen.

The third and final tier of the reactor containment structure has been installed at the construction site of the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor at the Siberian Chemical Combine site in Seversk, in the Tomsk Region of Russia.

The first steam generator for units 5 and 6 of the Kaiga nuclear power plant in India's Karnataka State has completed its journey from L&T's Hazira complex in Gujarat.

Workers have completed the construction of the concrete foundation pit for the reactor of unit 8 at Russia's Leningrad nuclear power plant. First nuclear safety-related concrete is scheduled to be poured for the VVER-1200 unit next year.

A custom-made glass test cell created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has enabled researchers to observe how gases behave inside a molten salt reactor and investigate the complex chemistry that can occur in the molten salt solution.

MobileNuclear Energy is to collaborate with Peregrine Turbine Technologies to integrate its MN-1 Mobile Microreactor system with PTT's supercritical carbon dioxide energy conversion system and advanced heat exchanger technologies.