Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has declared that the site of the country's first nuclear reactor is no longer classified as a nuclear facility following the dismantling of the Finnish Reactor 1 in Espoo.
 

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station has signed an agreement with advanced small modular reactor company ZettaJoule to explore building a very-high temperature modular reactor that could attract USD1 billion in research funding.
 

A team of International Atomic Energy Agency experts has outlined areas of good performance, and areas for strengthening South Africa's Safari-1 research reactor's ageing management programme.
 

The commissioning of the first pump in the primary cooling circuit of the RA-10 multipurpose reactor has taken place as part of preparations for cold testing.
 

The Russian state nuclear corporation says that tests have been successfully completed on fuel samples for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors under extreme conditions.
 

Argentina aims to become self-sufficient and an exporter of radioisotopes when the RA-10 multipurpose reactor is operating, while Brazil says construction of its similar facility is due to start in the first half of 2026.
 

Dense uranium and uranium-silicide fuel produced by the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant in Russia is said to offer better performance than the IRT-4M fuel assemblies previously supplied to Uzbekistan.
 

The five initial selections for end user experiments at Idaho National Laboratory's Microreactor Application Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) reactor include projects related to data centres, technology application in commercial and advanced reactors, and applications for nuclear-generated process heat.
 

The delivery of fuel from Russia’s TVEL for the Da Lat Research Reactor in Vietnam is part of the roadmap for developing the two countries’ nuclear cooperation.