The Tennessee Valley Authority's collaborative contractors Bechtel, Sargent & Lundy and GE Hitachi will use an integrated approach as they carry out initial planning for a potential small modular reactor at Clinch River in Tennessee.
Minister of Industry and Trade Lukáš Vlček said he had discussed with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power CEO Joo-ho Whang about finalising the EPC contract and the involvement of Czech companies in the country's new nuclear project.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans to limit legal challenges to major infrastructure projects - including nuclear power plants - to just one hearing in court instead of the current three hearings.
Santee Cooper is seeking proposals to acquire and finish the VC Summer nuclear power plant in South Carolina in the USA, where construction of two AP1000 units was abandoned in 2017, but has no plans to operate the units itself.
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power announced it has signed memorandums of understanding on cooperation with Norway's Norsk Kjernekraft and Sweden's Kärnfull Next to "strengthen its foothold in the European market with its innovative SMR (i-SMR)".
Panelists in a session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos acknowledged the challenge of meeting the target of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050 but highlighted progress made with regards to the supply chain and financing in achieving this.
TerraPower and US data centre developer Sabey Data Centers have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the deployment of Natrium power plants at current and future data centres.
Flushing of all the safety systems to the open reactor has begun at China's Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant's unit 7, which is one of two VVER-1200 units under construction at the site.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that progress on two reactors under construction is "going well" and the two countries are "now discussing the possibility of building additional units".
Westinghouse, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and Korea Electric Power Cooperation plan to collaborate on the deployment of new nuclear reactors around the world after agreeing to settle their intellectual property dispute.