Amazon has released a series of images of how its planned X-energy small modular reactor plant - to be named the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility - will look as it gave an update on progress a year after announcing its investment plans.
 

The US Department of Army has announced the launch of the Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power programme aimed at delivering "resilient, secure, and assured energy to support national defence installations and critical missions".
 

Cold functional tests have been completed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project under construction at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.
 

California-based nuclear microreactor developer Radiant has announced that it will build its first factory on a Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
 

A draft new law has been presented and a working group has met as part of the production of a draft action plan for the implementation of small modular reactors in Ukraine.
 

About 1.5 million cubic metres of soil will be excavated during the digging of a pit 13 metres deep for the RITM-200N small modular reactor being built in Uzbekistan.
 

Space Ocean Corporation, a leader in orbital logistics and in-space resource delivery, has entered into a Letter of Intent with Space Nuclear Power Corporation, a pioneer in advanced space nuclear power systems, to explore integrating space nuclear reactor technology into future deep-space missions.
 

Nuclear energy and technology company NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has announced it is to invest more than USD12 million to establish a manufacturing and research and development facility in Illinois, with support from a state incentive programme.
 

The two companies will work together to advance the deployment of BWRX-300 small modular reactors in strategic global markets outside North America, with a focus on developing the supply chain and project delivery solutions. They will also work together in the potential deployment of five BWRX-300s in Sweden.
 

The UK government has opened a public consultation on the Nuclear Industry Association's application for regulatory justification for Rolls-Royce SMR's small modular reactor design. Justification is an early regulatory step required for the operation of a new nuclear technology in the country.
 

Blykalla, Studsvik and Evroc and have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of Sweden's first nuclear-powered data centres at Studsvik's licensed nuclear site in Nyköping on the country's east coast.
 

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.