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The first of four main pumps has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project, under construction at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete composite that is claimed to significantly reduce the cost of building nuclear reactor containment structures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The first large-scale equipment - the feedwater reserve tank - has been placed within the turbine building of unit 3 at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has announced its decision to authorise Ontario Power Generation to construct a BWRX-300 reactor at the Darlington New Nuclear Project site in Clarington, Ontario.

Hungary's Paks II new nuclear project says it is ready for first concrete, but is awaiting permission from the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority.

The first of four main pumps for China's ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project has passed factory acceptance tests and been shipped to the construction site at the Changjiang on the island province of Hainan.

Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant continues to progress towards starting up, with the turbine installation completed at unit 1.