The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced.
 

South Korea's SMART100 small modular reactor design is set to become the first SMR in the world to formally submit a Safeguards Technical Report to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has announced.
 

The UK government has opened a public consultation on the Nuclear Industry Association's application for regulatory justification for Rolls-Royce SMR's small modular reactor design. Justification is an early regulatory step required for the operation of a new nuclear technology in the country.
 

The last roofing truss has been moved into place on the turbine hall and the metal shell for the central cavity of the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor has been installed.
 

US microreactor developer NANO Nuclear Energy has signed a letter of intent for the proposed sale of its ODIN low-pressure coolant microreactor design and all associated intellectual property to Cambridge AtomWorks of the UK.
 

A pre-licensing assessment of the EAGLES-300 lead-cooled small modular reactor has been launched by the Belgian, Italian and Romanian nuclear regulators. The International Atomic Energy Agency is supporting this project as a pilot project within its Nuclear Harmonisation and Standardisation Initiative.
 

Naarea, a French developer of a molten salt fast neutron microreactor, announced it has successfully demonstrated an innovative proliferation-resistant pyrochemical method of producing sodium chloride-plutonium trichloride salt.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revised the duration of its licensing design certifications from 15 years to 40 years, with Westinghouse's AP1000 approval now extended to 2046.
 

Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh told India's parliament that a "delay in completion of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor project is mainly due to first-of-a-kind technological issues being faced in the integrated commissioning phase of the project".