Hot testing at the world's first Hualong One reactor has been completed, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced yesterday. The tests at Fuqing unit 5 laid a "solid foundation" for the unit's operation, the company said.

Local time, 26th November，the Hualong-1 unit in Pakistan Karachi 2 (K2) started the hydraulic test of the primary loop officially, which marked that the unit had been fully transferred from the installation to the commissioning.

The first phase of demonstration district heating system had officially been put into operation.

On October 16, CNNC announced the construction of Hualong-1 in Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province. It is the fifth Hualong-1 unit built by CNNC.

Unit 3 of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant succeeded in connecting to the power grid in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province on Dec 30, with all technical indicators according with initial design requirements.