Maire S.p.A subsidiary Nextchem and France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo are creating the NextCleo joint venture to develop the conventional island and balance of plant of nuclear power plants based on Newcleo's 200 MW advanced modular reactors.

A single NuScale Power Module small modular reactor could yield about 150 million gallons of clean water per day, the company says, with the leftover brine from the desalination process used as industrial feedstock for hydrogen production.

Thorizon has announced a new research collaboration with Curium and INSA Lyon to support the development of its Thorizon One advanced small modular molten salt reactor. The collaboration includes corrosion testing of metals in contact with molten salt.

Dutch offshore construction engineering contractor Allseas has launched a five-year plan to design, develop and deploy a small modular reactor tailored for integration into offshore vessels and for onshore use.

Westinghouse has received approval for its eVinci microreactor's Preliminary Safety Design Report from the US Department of Energy, becoming the first microreactor developer to secure such an approved report for the National Reactor Innovation Center's Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Lightbridge's advanced nuclear fuel technology has completed the final design review for its upcoming irradiation experiment at Idaho National Laboratory - and expects to benefit from a groundbreaking testing method developed by the lab.

Germany's Wendelstein 7-X - the world's largest stellarator-type fusion device - has achieved a world record in a key parameter of fusion physics: the triple product. This value now exceeds previous tokamak records for long plasma durations.

California-based liquid metal fast reactor developer Oklo Inc has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power aimed at promoting collaboration on the development of small modular reactor technology.

US fusion energy developer Type One Energy announced it has successfully completed the first formal design review of Infinity Two, its 350 MWe fusion pilot power plant using its stellarator technology.