US fusion energy developer Type One Energy announced it has successfully completed the first formal design review of Infinity Two, its 350 MWe fusion pilot power plant using its stellarator technology.

Belgium's Nuclear Research Centre and the national nuclear regulator have announced the start of a formal preliminary consultation on an innovative small modular reactor using lead-cooled technology.

Canada's Prodigy Clean Energy and marine engineering firm Serco have announced they are close to completing a prototypical test programme demonstrating the robustness of Prodigy's Transportable Nuclear Power Plants to resist accidental and threat scenarios.

Finnish small modular reactor developer Steady Energy is to build a non-nuclear pilot facility at the decommissioned Salmisaari B coal power station in central Helsinki to demonstrate the maturity and safety of its LDR-50 reactor for district heating.

The US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has announced a significant upgrade to Argonne National Laboratory's liquid metal test loop for sodium-cooled fast reactors - the largest such test facility in the USA.

The State of Idaho and the US Department of Energy have signed a targeted waiver of the 1995 Settlement Agreement, allowing Idaho National Laboratory to bring in a high-burnup nuclear fuel cask and limited amounts of used fuel from US university research reactors.

The new kit was demonstrated at the Monaco Clean Fusion Forum, which also saw a memorandum of understanding signed with eight universities and research institutions who will each use one of micro-fusion specialist Alpha Ring's Alpha-E devices.

The Dutch developer of the advanced small modular molten salt reactor, Thorizon One, has announced a partnership with French molten salt-based energy storage solutions specialist Storabelle.

Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla and Norway's Institute of Energy Technology have entered into a strategic collaboration to accelerate the technical development of Blykalla's SEALER reactor.

Norway should build a deep geological landfill for high-level waste and a medium-depth geological repository for low- and intermediate-level waste, a group of experts considering solutions for the disposal of the country's historic radioactive waste have recommended.

Technical cooperation under a newly signed Memorandum of Agreement between Westinghouse Electric Company and the University of Saskatchewan will help accelerate deployment of the microreactor in Saskatchewan.

A memorandum of understanding and a master services agreement signed by Westinghouse Electric Company and McMaster University aim to move the eVinci microreactor towards commercialisation.