US uranium mining company Uranium Energy Corp announced its plan to accelerate the steps required for a resumption of operations has been completed, enabling a faster restart at the Christensen Ranch in-situ leach project in Wyoming.

Oklo is to go public by merging with AltC Acquisition Corp - co-founded by Oklo chairman Sam Altman - in a deal which values the company at USD850 million.

GSE Solutions Inc has been awarded a contract worth up to USD15 million for procedure and training support for an undisclosed nuclear power plant operator in the USA in its main control room modernisation project.

Uranium enrichment services provider Urenco has announced plans to increase capacity at its plant in Eunice, New Mexico - the only operating commercial uranium enrichment facility in North America - by 15%. New commitments from US customers for non-Russian fuel underpin this investment, the company noted.

The joint report by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission establishes a common regulatory position on tristructural isotropic fuel qualification, for use in the licensing of advanced reactor and small modular reactor technologies.

Consolidated Uranium Inc has announced the start of "comprehensive" work programmes including the reopening of the underground working at its 100%-owned Tony M uranium mine, fifteen years after it last produced uranium. The Vancouver-based company also plans to investigate the vanadium potential of the underground mine in Utah.
 

A new hourly energy-matching agreement between US company Constellation Energy Corporation and Microsoft will harness the environmental attributes of nuclear to put the data centre in Boydton, Virginia "very close" to the goal of 100% carbon-free operation.

The New Mexico Environment Department, the US Department of Energy and Salado Isolation Mining Contractors have negotiated a settlement agreement with multiple parties that requested a hearing and opposed the draft ten-year renewal permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Nuclear energy is a necessary resource for meeting climate, energy transition and energy security needs, the leaders of India and the USA said. They also noted "ongoing negotiations" for the construction of six AP1000 reactors in India, as well as discussions on small modular reactor development.

Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions has announced additional capabilities in support of the life extension of existing US nuclear power plants, the construction of new reactors and in support of the energy industry's 2050 net-zero goals.

After a year-long search, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation has announced the selection of Gadsden, Alabama, as the location for a USD232 million plant to manufacture, assemble, test, and inspect the non-radiological modules needed to construct the company's Micro-Modular Reactor. Construction of the plant is to begin next year.

The Swedish firm Alleima says it has been awarded an order from South Korea's Doosan for approximately 200 kilometres of steam generator tubes for NuScale's small modular reactors.