The US Department of the Air Force has selected Radiant Industries, Inc, Westinghouse Government Services and Antares Inc as potential microreactor developers and operators under its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations initiative, as well as announcing a third potential location for a reactor.
 

TerraPower has announced the official start of construction on its first Natrium plant, Kemmerer unit 1 in Wyoming. The Bill Gates-chaired company says the unit will be the first utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant in the United States.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Kairos Power's request that the completion date specified in the construction permit for its Hermes 1 demonstration reactor be extended by 28 months.
 

Eli Lilly and Company will collaborate with the state on a future pathway for nuclear energy solutions, including small modular reactors and other advanced nuclear technologies, under a non-binding letter of intent signed with Indiana Governor Mike Braun.
 

The Hermes 2 Demonstration Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will be the company's first commercial-scale reactor and is the first power-producing Gen IV reactor to receive a construction permit from the US regulator.

ConverDyn has said it is looking into building a sister plant to its Metropolis conversion facility, in addition to recently announced plans to expand the existing plant.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it has received an application from the University of Illinois to construct the first research KRONOS micro modular reactor on the university's campus.
 

Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been selected by the US Department of the Air Force as potential locations to site microreactors under the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations programme.

The Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed - built from the repurposed Experimental Breeder Reactor-II facility at Idaho National Laboratory - is now ready to host its first fuelled microreactor test campaign.