The US Department of Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center are setting up a Nuclear Energy Launch Pad designed to "promote the rapid development and implementation of advanced nuclear technologies by private industry".
 

Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Copenhagen Atomics say that salt purity is the critical factor in preventing corrosion of stainless steel in molten salt reactors. Meanwhile, irradiation testing of materials for such reactors has begun at the High Flux Reactor in the Netherlands.
 

South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission has received an application for standard design approval for the Innovative Small Modular Reactor from the i-SMR Technology Development Project Group.
 

Newcleo subsidiary SRS Servizi di Ricerche e Sviluppo has been contracted by Romanian state-owned nuclear R&D coordination organisation RATEN to supply lead-cooled nuclear reactor research facilities.
 

Rosatom says a new austenitic steel has been developed for the primary circuit of the planned lead-cooled BR-1200 reactor where the operating temperature will be 500-600 degrees Celsius.
 

GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Orlen Synthos Green Energy have signed an agreement to develop a detailed technical design of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor adapted to Polish regulations, safety standards and environmental conditions.
 

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Kairos Power have entered into a USD27 million strategic partnership to accelerate the technology needed to deploy a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors.
 

The Bill Gates-chaired company's Natrium 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten-salt-based energy storage system has been accepted into the UK's Generic Design Assessment process.
 

The Eagles Consortium has signed a collaboration agreement with France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo to work together on the realisation of the LEANDREA lead-cooled small modular reactor technology demonstrator at Mol in Belgium.