Innovative reactor developer Newcleo has submitted its Safety Option File to France's nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, for its fuel assembly testing facility.

The US Department of Energy has identified land at Idaho National Laboratory as a potential site for Aalo Atomics to build a new experimental reactor facility to advance the company’s commercial Aalo-1 microreactor design.

Microreactor developer Last Energy says it has received a letter of intent from the Export-Import Bank of the United States for USD103.7 million debt financing relating to its project in South Wales in the UK.

Energy Northwest has selected AtkinsRéalis Group Inc as the Owner's Engineer for its small modular reactor development project in Washington state.

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy's BWRX-300 small modular reactor design has completed the first step of the UK's Generic Design Assessment process and progressed to the next phase of its assessment.

US-based engineering company Amentum and Norwegian consulting firm Multiconsult Norge AS have been appointed by Halden Kjernekraft AS to evaluate the potential for constructing a small modular reactor at Halden in southeast Norway, where a research reactor once operated.

Recent memorandums of understanding signed by microreactor developer NANO Nuclear Energy will see it work with the US Department of Energy on evaluating the feasibility of siting its experimental microreactors at the Idaho National Laboratory; with the Togolese government on the potential deployment of its microreactors in West Africa; and with a Canadian startup company on integrating its technology with an innovative farming technique.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the instrumentation and control platform for Westinghouse Electric Company's eVinci microreactor.

South Korean construction firm Samsung C&T has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swedish small modular reactor project development company Kärnfull Next to advance the deployment of SMRs in Sweden.

Finland's Steady Energy has signed a contract with Tractebel to provide engineering services to develop its district heating-focused LDR-150 small modular reactor.

Terrestrial Energy will work with the North American nuclear environmental remediation specialist to collaborate on the siting and deployment of Terrestrial's Integral Molten Salt Reactor plants at sites owned by EnergySolutions under a new memorandum of understanding.

The South African government remains committed to the use of nuclear energy and is planning to revive its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor programme and embark on new builds, the Deputy Director General of the Department for Mineral Resources and Energy has said.