The energy departments of the US and UK governments are to partner with Tokamak Energy for a USD52 million upgrade of the ST40 fusion facility, which will coat its inner wall with lithium.

The third 18-month phase of the pilot operation of innovative REMIX fuel has begun at Russia's Balakavo nuclear power plant's first unit. The aim is to be able to close the fuel cycle for VVER reactors.

The Deimos experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory is the first criticality experiment using high assay low-enriched uranium fuel to be carried out in the USA in more than 20 years, and will help to develop public data and criticality benchmarks for the material.

US-based multinational repository developer DeepGeo and Danish advanced reactor designer Copenhagen Atomics are to collaborate on better understanding both the radioactive materials and fuel needs of Copenhagen Atomics' small and modular thorium molten salt reactor.

The USA and UK have signed the new framework agreement to allow the Generation IV International Forum to continue after the current agreement expires in February. The agreement excludes current participant Russia.

As it prepares to test a prototype of its Kaleidos microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory's DOME facility, Radiant Industries has secured USD100 million in Series C funding bringing the company's total venture funding to USD160 million.

Focused Energy has completed a scientific report detailing its initial high-gain target design based on direct-drive laser inertial fusion, the first of its Milestones in the US Department of Energy's Milestone-based Fusion Development Program. 

Framatome's PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel chromium-coated M5Framatome cladding has become the world's first ATF technology to operate with full length fuel rods at a burnup rate above 60 GWd/tU.

A consortium of Assystem, Egis and Empresarios Agrupados has signed a contract with Fusion for Energy worth an initial EUR80 million (USD84 million) to provide consulting and engineering expertise on the ITER international fusion project.