The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission now expects to complete its review of TerraPower's construction licence application for the Natrium advanced reactor demonstration project by the end of 2025, ahead of the original August 2026 date.

The US Department of Energy has made conditional selections for Westinghouse and Radiant Nuclear to perform the first tests in the National Reactor Innovation Center's Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Global Laser Enrichment has submitted its Safety Analysis Report for the planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This follows its submission in December 2024 of the Environmental Report, now completing GLE's full licence application for NRC review.

The US regulator has renewed the operating licence for VC Summer unit 1 for a second time, clearing the pressurised water reactor to operate until August 2062.

Google has signed an investment and offtake agreement with Commonwealth Fusion Systems for 200 MW of power from its first ARC commercial fusion plant which is to be built in Virginia.

The company's American Centrifuge Operating, LLC subsidiary has met the 900 kg production target for the second phase of its three-phase contract to supply the US Department of Energy with high-assay, low-enriched uranium.

Unit 1 at the plant could restart as early as 2027 with the approval of an early interconnection request by grid operator PJM, Constellation said as it held a celebration of progress at the plant in Pennsylvania.

Maritime classification society the American Bureau of Shipping has issued approval in principle to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering for a concept of a floating small modular reactor-powered power module.