Duke Energy has added large light-water reactor technology in an update to its long-range resource plan, targeting a potential 2037 in-service date for new nuclear generation either from small modular reactors at Belews Creek or a large reactor at the WS Lee site.
 

As well as working to speed up US licensing approval and commercialisation of its SOLO micro-modular reactor, Terra Innovatum Srl says its reactor can offer decentralised production of medical radioisotopes - and wants to engage with producers and distributors to bring them to market.
 

Urenco USA has received authorisation from US regulators to produce uranium enriched up to 10% and says it will be the first commercial uranium enricher to produce so-called LEU+.

Requests for Proposals have been issued to build and power AI data centres at the Savannah River Site and the Oak Ridge Reservation.
 

Four companies have been selected by the US Department of Energy for its new pilot programme to build advanced nuclear fuel lines. The announcement came as Standard Nuclear and Framatome announced a US-based TRISO nuclear fuel production joint venture.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licences of Point Beach units 1 and 2, clearing the way for an 80-year operating life for the two pressurised water reactors.
 

US advanced nuclear technology company Oklo Inc and Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla have announced a strategic partnership focused on technology collaboration, supply-chain coordination, and regulatory knowledge-sharing.
 

California headquartered pulsed magnetic fusion system developer Pacific Fusion has selected Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site for its first Research and Manufacturing Campus.
 

Advanced nuclear technology company Oklo Inc carried out full-scale flow testing of a prototypical fuel assembly at the Argonne National Laboratory, generating experimental data to validate computer models, demonstrate manufacturing parameters, and advance Oklo’s fuel assembly design towards production.
 

The major expansion of Centrus Energy's uranium enrichment plant in Ohio is expected to boost production of both low-enriched and high-assay low-enriched uranium.
 

TerraPower, Evergy and the Kansas Department of Commerce are to explore siting TerraPower's Natrium reactor and energy storage system within Evergy's service territory in Kansas.
 

The Tennessee Valley Authority is collaborating with fusion company Type One Energy on the potential deployment of fusion technology at the former Bull Run fossil plant site.