Japan's Muroosystems Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with UzAtom, Uzbekistan's nuclear development agency, for cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The focus of this cooperation is on nuclear safety, regulatory support, technical consulting, and owner's engineering services for nuclear projects.
 

The Slovak Republic has chosen Rothschild & Co after a competitive selection process for a financial advisor for its proposed new nuclear project.
 

Terrestrial Energy Inc and Oklo Inc have executed agreements with the US Department of Energy for a pilot reactor that will support Integral Molten Salt Reactor plant development, and a radioisotope pilot plant, respectively.
 

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have been completed at unit 7 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.
 

The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran has said that the third tier of the inner containment building of the second unit at the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been installed.
 

Polish power company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe has signed an amendment with the Westinghouse-Bechtel Consortium enabling the implementation of the next stage of work under the project to build Poland's first nuclear power plant, as part of the Engineering Development Agreement.
 

The initial loading of fuel assemblies into the cores of unit 1 at the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong province and unit 1 at the San'ao plant in Zhejiang province - both Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors - has commenced ahead of their start-up, China General Nuclear announced.
 

Blue Bird Energy - a Bulgarian company focused on deploying small modular reactors - has signed a Letter of Intent with Poland's Synthos Green Energy to establish a joint venture aimed at constructing a fleet of up to six GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 reactors in Bulgaria.
 

First concrete has been poured for the nuclear islands of unit 1 of the Bailong nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and of unit 2 at the Lufeng plant in Guangdong province, marking the official start of construction of the two CAP1000 reactors.
 

Unit 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant has entered commercial operation, China Nuclear Power Corporation announced. The unit is the second of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned at the site in China's Fujian province.
 

The fourth and final shell of the peripheral cavity has been installed at the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor in Seversk in Russia's Tomsk region.
 

The first new VVER-TOI power unit at the Kursk II nuclear power plant in Russia has been connected to the grid and reached a capacity of 240 MW on 31 December.