Several agreements have been signed between UK and US companies to advance the deployment of small modular reactors and advanced reactors in both countries. The deals were signed ahead of the state visit of President Donald Trump to the UK later this week.
 

Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla and global engineering company ABB have signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate the deployment of such reactors for the maritime market.
 

As nuclear technologies diversify - such as small modular reactors, floating reactors, new fuels and markets - regulation must evolve to enable innovation, a panel at World Nuclear Symposium agreed.
 

Italy-based micro-modular reactor developer Terra Innovatum Srl has signed a memorandum of understanding with Italian industrial firm ATB Riva Calzoni - a global supplier and manufacturer of nuclear components - for the preparation, development, and production of Terra Innovatum's SOLO reactor.

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.
 

ENTRA1 Energy has signed a collaborative agreement with TVA to deploy up to 6 GW of NuScale SMR capacity at sites across TVA’s seven-state service region in south-eastern USA.
 

At the request of Norwegian government, three state agencies have set out their proposed programme for the environmental impact assessment for a small modular reactor power plant in the municipalities of Aure and Heim. Meanwhile, a joint venture of Norsk Kjernekraft and Austrheim Municipality has begun the formal regulatory process to assess the construction of a nuclear power plant in Austrheim.
 

Two weeks after being selected as one of the advanced reactor projects to receive support under the US Department of Energy's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, Aalo Atomics has broken ground at a site in Idaho to start construction of its first experimental extra modular nuclear reactor, the Aalo-X.
 

A proposal for an assessment programme for building a small modular reactor power plant in Grenland, southern Norway, has been submitted to the country's Ministry of Energy. Meanwhile, a project company has been established to investigate the construction of an SMR plant in the municipality of Vardø in Finnmark, north-eastern Norway.