Two separator-superheaters, each 16 metres tall and weighing 95 tonnes, have been installed in their design positions for the innovative lead-cooled BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor.
 

The concreting of the inner containment dome has been completed at unit 3 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province, while concrete pours have also been completed at units 1 and 2 of the Zhaoyuan plant in Shandong province.
 

BWX Technologies says that its BANR microreactor has been selected by Prodigy Clean Energy, Pabineau First Nation and Eel River Bar First Nation for a proposed project in Belledune in New Brunswick.
 

Westinghouse and the University of South Carolina are partnering to create a multidisciplinary nuclear workforce development programme to support US fleet deployment of AP1000 plants. Meanwhile, the New York Power Authority has awarded USD10 million in funding to support nuclear workforce development programmes across the state.
 

A tunnel boring machine has finished digging a 620-metre tunnel which will form part of Hinkley Point C's system for returning fish to the sea.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a construction permit for the Tennessee Valley Authority's planned GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX‑300 small modular reactor at the Clinch River site.
 

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev to discuss further life extension options for the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, as well as options for new nuclear capacity.
 

The new Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant unit 7 has achieved a self-sustaining controlled nuclear chain reaction and is at its minimum controllable power level.
 

First concrete was poured for the nuclear island of Bailong Nuclear Power Plant's unit 2 at 18:27 on Sunday 27 September.
 

The Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium and Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe have agreed the main commercial and legal terms of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract that will deliver Poland's first nuclear power plant, and plan to complete the contract negotiation process by the end of this year.
 

The US Trade and Development Agency has signed an agreement with Turkey's state-owned nuclear development enterprise TÜNAŞ to fund technical assistance to create the regulatory, institutional, and financial roadmap needed for Turkish private sector companies to deploy small modular reactor nuclear technology.
 

The second RITM-200C small modular reactor unit has been manufactured for the floating nuclear power plant destined to supply electricity to a copper mining centre in Chukotka.