The first of nine sector modules installed to form the tokamak torus of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor fusion machine in Cadarache, southern France, has been removed for repairs.

Four steam generators and the reactor vessel for unit 3 at the Xudapu nuclear power plant have a combined weight of 1700 tonnes and are being transported from Russia to China by road, barge and then sea from St Petersburg.

Turkey is in talks with Russia, China and South Korea over its planned second and third nuclear power plants, and with the USA and United Kingdom over small modular reactors, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar is reported to have told a media briefing.

The Ontario government announced it is working with Ontario Power Generation to begin planning and licensing for three additional GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactors, for a total of four, at the Darlington plant site.

The province's government has announced it is starting pre-development work to build up to 4800 MWe of new nuclear capacity at Bruce Power's existing site, in what would be Canada's first large-scale nuclear build in more than 30 years.

Work has begun to construct the groundwater cut-off - an underground waterproof wall - around the area on Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant site where two new units are to be built. The wall will control the flow of groundwater into and out of the Paks II construction pit, once excavated.

The containment vessel bottom head for unit 4 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province has been installed 40 days ahead of schedule, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute has announced.

The first Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactor has begun commercial operation in Gujurat - almost three years after reaching first criticality.

The RA-10 multipurpose research reactor is about 80% completed, with civil works to be finished within three months and expectations it will be operating in 2025, Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission says.

NB Power, in partnership with ARC Clean Technology Canada Inc, has submitted an environmental impact assessment registration document and an application for a site preparation licence for an advanced small modular reactor at the existing Point Lepreau nuclear site.