The demolition and subsequent reconstruction of a temporary storage facility for low-level radioactive waste has been completed at Italy's Trino nuclear power plant, which is undergoing decommissioning.
 

Italian technology and engineering group Maire SpA and its sustainable technology subsidiary NextChem have signed a memorandum of understanding with EDF and its Nuward subsidiary to jointly explore opportunities for cooperation in the development and deployment of the Nuward small modular reactor programme.
 

France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo has awarded an engineering services contract to NEXT-N, its newly-launched joint venture with Nextchem to develop the conventional island and balance of plant of nuclear power plants based on Newcleo's 200 MW advanced modular reactors.
 

The Director of Uzatom, Azim Akhmedkhadjayev, has been holding talks with Italian specialists and businesses about cooperation in the project to build Uzbekistan's first nuclear power plant.
 

Italy's Council of Ministers, at a meeting chaired by President Giorgia Meloni, has approved for final consideration a bill delegating responsibility for the reintroduction of nuclear energy in the country to the government.
 

As well as working to speed up US licensing approval and commercialisation of its SOLO micro-modular reactor, Terra Innovatum Srl says its reactor can offer decentralised production of medical radioisotopes - and wants to engage with producers and distributors to bring them to market.
 

Italy-based micro-modular reactor developer Terra Innovatum Srl has signed a memorandum of understanding with Italian industrial firm ATB Riva Calzoni - a global supplier and manufacturer of nuclear components - for the preparation, development, and production of Terra Innovatum's SOLO reactor.

France-headquartered innovative reactor developer Newcleo has signed a memorandum of understanding with Federbeton, the Italian cement association, to explore Newcleo's technologies and potential synergies with the cement industry.

Italy's Ansaldo Energia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Uzbekistan's Uzatom Atomic Energy Agency to explore collaboration in advanced nuclear technologies and the development of small modular reactors.