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.

Terrestrial Energy is to collaborate with US engineering services company Ameresco Inc to advance the commercial deployment of its Integral Molten Salt Reactor plant in the USA.

State Governor Kathy Hochul has directed New York's public electric utility to develop and construct an advanced nuclear power plant in Upstate New York.

The US Department of Energy has exercised an option to extend the contract for the production of high-assay, low-enriched uranium until 30 June 2026, but additional options could allow for continued production for up to eight more years.

Separate announcements from the US Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission point towards streamlining the pathway to deployment of advanced reactor technologies.

The US Supreme Court ruled by 6-3 that the State of Texas and Fasken Land and Minerals were not entitled to judicial review of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision to license an interim storage facility for used nuclear fuel.