A number of Chinese state-owned nuclear companies have announced recent progress on several nuclear power projects, marking important milestones in the country’s ongoing nuclear energy expansion.

At the Haiyang-3 nuclear power unit, in Shandong province, north of Shanghai, the steel dome has been successfully installed for the reactor containment building. The unit is of the Westinghouse technology-based CAP1000 pressurised water reactor (PWR) design and construction began in 2022.