The company which is aiming to modernise US nuclear construction has completed its Series A funding round as well as announcing the opening of its primary engineering and construction office in Columbia, South Carolina.

A Tennessee Valley Authority-led coalition including BWRX-300 developer GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has submitted an application for the revised federal funding to support the US deployment of small modular reactors. Holtec has also announced its application to the USD800 million programme.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its final safety evaluation approving the Fuel Qualification Methodology Topical Report for the advanced fuel design to be used in NANO Nuclear Energy Inc's KRONOS micro modular reactor energy system.

General Matter says it will use a novel, scalable, cost-competitive technology to address a "commercial bottleneck" in the US nuclear fuel cycle and will be shipping enriched uranium by the end of the decade.

The Tennessee Valley Authority intends to submit the Construction Permit Application for the Clinch River small modular reactor to the US regulator by June.

A consortium led by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has been awarded a USD10 million contract by the University of Missouri for the design and licensing of its planned new research reactor.

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete composite that is claimed to significantly reduce the cost of building nuclear reactor containment structures.

BWX Technologies, Inc has acquired 97 acres of land in Oak Ridge with plans to establish advanced centrifuge manufacturing capability that "will support the establishment of a reliable, long-term domestic supply of enriched uranium, an essential component for the nation’s defence".

Westinghouse Electric Company's lead test assemblies with LEU+ fuel have been loaded into Unit 2 of the Vogtle nuclear power plant - a first for such fuel in a commercial reactor in the USA.