The reactor pressure vessel for unit 5 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant has completed hydraulic pressure tests. The unit – the first of two demonstration Hualong One units being built at the site in China’s Fujian province – is expected to start up in 2019. World-nuclear-news.org

According to India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), an agreement between the two countries’ governments on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy was signed by Bangladesh’s Ministry of Science and Technology and India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). World-nuclear-news.org

AREVA and KAZATOMPROM signed a major agreement Monday to strengthen their long-standing cooperation in the uranium mining sector in Kazakhstan, the companies announced from Paris. Nuclearstreet.com

The board of directors at French utility EDF have voted to continue operations of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant that has received international pressure to close and was slated to do so as part of the French government’s commitment to reduce the country’s dependence on nuclear power. Nuclearstreet.com