Fusion Fuel Cycles has reached an agreement with California-based General Atomics to finalise a USD20 million, ten-year strategic investment into the Unique Integrated Testing Facility (UNITY-2) project.
 

Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla and the Research Institutes of Sweden have signed a memorandum of understanding to partner on accelerating the development of advanced nuclear reactors in the country.

X-energy Reactor Company has signed an agreement with the Defense Innovation Unit and the Department of the Air Force to advance the development of its commercial microreactor ahead of its deployment at Department of Defense installations to support US national security.
 

Four British universities have been awarded funding to collaborate on research on securing a domestic supply of nuclear graphite and finding solutions to managing the country's stockpile of irradiated graphite waste.
 

A study shows that simulations of underground radioactive waste interactions, generated by new, high-performance computing software, aligned well with experimental results from a research facility in Switzerland.

Lightbridge Corporation has fabricated coupon samples using enriched uranium-zirconium alloy representative of the fuel material alloy composition it plans to use in its commercial next-generation fuel.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority has begun using two additive manufacturing - or 3D printing - machines that use complementary methods to manufacture highly specialised components for fusion machines.

The first stage of design work on a prototype molten salt reactor has been completed, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has said.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nuclear medicine, the integration of diagnostics and therapeutics - known as theranostics - represents a groundbreaking shift in how we approach the treatment of life-limiting conditions such as cancer. Wietse Smit, research and development manager, Urenco, looks at the potential, and the challenges, ahead.