The ten-year, USD840 million contract to supply electricity to federal facilities is the first-ever long-term multi-agency purchase of electricity by the US General Services Administration, and will support licence extensions and capacity uprates at Constellation's nuclear plants.

Production operations at the Lance project have officially commenced after a five-year hiatus, with the first dry yellowcake product expected in March.

TerraPower has awarded the major manufacturing contracts for the first Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor enclosure system. The company says the contracts "represent a significant milestone in the deployment and commercialisation of America's first advanced reactor".

In what is claimed to be "one of the largest corporate power agreements in history", US nuclear power plant developer Oklo has signed a non-binding Master Power Agreement with data centre designer, builder and operator Switch to deploy 12 GW of Oklo Aurora powerhouse projects by 2044.

US private fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced plans to independently finance, construct, own and operate a commercial-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

The US Trade and Development Agency has signed two grant agreements to support Bulgaria's nuclear ambitions: one will support a cost-shared feasibility study with US company Deep Isolation to support the safe underground disposal of used fuel from Bulgaria's nuclear power plants, while the other will support a prefeasibility study for the deployment of small modular reactor technology.

A subsidiary of Tata Chemicals North America has signed a letter of intent with BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC to explore the deployment of up to eight of BWXT's Advanced Nuclear Reactors for electricity and industrial processing at a soda ash site in Green River, Wyoming.

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.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Urenco USA's licence amendment request to increase uranium enrichment levels up to 10% at its facility in New Mexico.

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

The US Department of Energy has selected six companies which will be able to compete for contracts to supply low-enriched uranium. It follows June's request for proposals to purchase LEU from domestic sources.

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.