Unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province - the first of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned at the site - has been put into commercial operation, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

The Kazakh national atomic company's Russian partner Uranium One Group JSC has sold its share in the Zarechnoye joint venture to a subsidiary of China's State Nuclear Uranium Resources Development Co. Kazatomprom also expects Chinese beneficiaries to assume interests from Uranium One in two other joint ventures.

The reactor vessel has been installed in its design position at Xudabao 4, Rosatom has announced.

Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province.

Unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province has been connected to the grid, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. The unit is the first of four Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site.

The first meeting of the Russian-Chinese Subcommission on Cooperation on the Northern Sea Route has taken place, as figures show a continued rise in its Chinese trade.

The reactor pressure vessel has been successfully hoisted into position at unit 4 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province.

China's Haiyang nuclear power plant in Shandong province has begun its sixth heating season, covering an area of nearly 13 million square metres - 500,000 square metres more than last year.

China has shipped the systems and equipment for the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor that will be built at the Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand.

Cold functional tests have been completed at unit 1 of the San'ao nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province, China General Nuclear has announced. The unit is the first of six HPR1000s (Hualong Ones) planned at the site.

China has set a target for its nuclear technology application industry to generate annual direct economic output value of CNY400 billion (USD55.7 billion) by 2026.

The largest and heaviest module - the CA20 - has been installed at unit 2 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province, China National Nuclear Corporation subsidiary China Nuclear Power Engineering Company Limited has announced.