Framatome has completed the manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the second of two EPR units being built at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, UK. The first two of four steam generators for the unit have also been completed.
 

The first lead fuel assemblies have been manufactured by Framatome for the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company's Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE under a fuel supply agreement announced by the two companies in July.
 

Regulatory approval has been granted for the first components of an RITM-200 small modular reactor plant to be produced using 3D printing in Russia.
 

Siemens Energy has signed a contract to design and deliver the power conversion system for Oklo's Aurora powerhouse reactors.
 

Argentina's Nucleoelectrica and Canada's Candu Energy Inc, part of AtkinsRéalis, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate globally on "providing engineering, technical assistance, and maintenance services for Candu-type nuclear power plants".
 

The Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for the Aurora Fuel Fabrication Facility, where the fuel for Oklo's first commercial-scale Aurora powerhouse will be made, is the first under the US Department of Energy's Fuel Line Pilot Projects initiative and was approved in just under two weeks.
 

Toyo Tanso USA, a subsidiary of Japanese company Toyo Tanso Co, is to supply fine-grain graphite components for the first deployment of X-energy's Xe-100 small modular reactor under the agreement, which is worth around USD40 million.
 

EDF is building a partnership with the supply chain to make it "leaner, faster, more reliable", the company's Chairman and CEO, Bernard Fontana, said during a session at World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. Other panellists agreed that partnerships - together with standardisation, modularisation and diversification - are important in delivering projects on time and on cost.
 

Rolls-Royce SMR of the UK has signed a contract and memorandum of understanding with Canadian nuclear engineering firm BWX Technologies Inc to support future collaboration on the development of the Rolls-Royce SMR.