Switzerland's Federal Council has presented draft legislation that would remove the country's ban on the construction of new nuclear power, which has been in place since 1 January 2018.

An assessment programme has been submitted to the Governor of Svalbard for the construction of a small modular reactor power plant on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago, marking the first formal step towards building the facility.
 

The US Department of Energy has announced its initial selection of 11 advanced reactor projects for the Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, which aims to see at least three of them achieve criticality in less than one year from now.
 

Norwegian nuclear project developer Norsk Kjernekraft and energy developer Ocean-Power are to cooperate on the development of concepts of floating nuclear power plants based on small modular reactors.
 

Four British universities have been awarded funding to collaborate on research on securing a domestic supply of nuclear graphite and finding solutions to managing the country's stockpile of irradiated graphite waste.
 

The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 at the Jinqimen nuclear power plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China National Nuclear Corporation announced. It is the first of six Hualong One units planned for the plant.
 

South Africa's Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has upheld a 2017 decision to grant Eskom environmental authorisation to construct and operate a new nuclear power station in Duynefontein, in the Western Cape.
 

A ceremony has been held at the Dukovany nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic to mark the start of a detailed site survey in preparation for the construction of two Korean-supplied APR1000s there.
 

China's National Nuclear Safety Administration has issued a construction licence for units 1 and 2 at the Jinqimen nuclear power plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, clearing the way for first concrete to be poured for the foundation of the reactor building of the first unit.