A contract has been awarded for the construction of the conventional islands of the three reactors that will comprise the first phase of the Xuwei nuclear power project in China. The plant will supply both industrial heating and electricity by coupling a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with two pressurised water reactors.
 

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has signed a long-term supply contract for converted uranium with ConverDyn, the sole operator of a uranium conversion facility in the USA.
 

The newly announced collaboration includes a first-of-a-kind power purchase agreement between Kairos Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority that will see Kairos Power's Hermes 2 reactor deliver power to the grid for Google's data centres, with plans to increase the demonstration unit's output.
 

In a move to diversify its power supplies, data centre developer and operator Equinix has signed a preorder agreement for the purchase of 20 of Radiant's Kaleidos microreactors and intends to sign a power purchase agreement with Dutch nuclear energy development company ULC-Energy.

Slovenské elektrárne has signed a contract with Urenco Group for the supply of enriched uranium to its Bohunice and Mochovce nuclear power plants to the mid-2030s.

Framatome and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company have signed an agreement for the supply of nuclear fuel assemblies and engineering services for the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates.

US construction and engineering firm Kiewit Corporation has been selected by Oklo Inc as the lead constructor for its first commercial Aurora advanced fission power plant at the Idaho National Laboratory.

TerraPower has announced three more supplier contracts as part of the fifth round of procurement awards for the Natrium project in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in the USA.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held meetings to discuss progress on the El Dabaa nuclear power plant with Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev, before an amendment to the intergovernmental agreement between Egypt and Russia was signed.