South Australia's Flinders University has signed agreements with universities in the USA and UK that will enable the Australian university to begin developing the specialist skills needed to underpin the future construction of nuclear submarines under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States security partnership.

Waiting until the mid-2030s to deploy advanced nuclear at scale in the USA could lead to missing decarbonisation targets as well as having serious supply chain implications, according to a newly released report from the US Department of Energy's Pathways to Commercial Liftoff programme.

Georgia Power has announced that the last series of major tests ahead of initial fuel load is under way at the second new nuclear unit at the site near Waynesboro, Georgia.

The USA and Indonesia have announced a strategic partnership to help Indonesia develop its nuclear energy programme, supporting Indonesia's interest in deploying small modular reactor technology to meet its energy security and climate goals.

Uranium production will resume at the Alta Mesa processing plant in early 2024, enCore Energy has announced, making it the company's second producing location following resumption of uranium production at the South Texas Rosita plant which is scheduled for later this year. Meanwhile, supply chain issues have meant a slight delay to the restart of commercial production at Peninsula Energy's Lance project.

A coated particle fuel for nuclear thermal propulsion applications, fabricated by TRISO-X LLC, has undergone testing in extreme conditions representing those experienced in space.

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have entered a strategic research partnership to better understand the performance and behaviour of materials required for use in future commercial fusion power plants.

The leaders of Australia, the UK and the USA have outlined the phased approach through which Australia will acquire nuclear-powered submarines through the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) enhanced security partnership.

Small modular reactor developer NuScale Power has placed its first upper reactor pressure vessel long-lead material production order with Doosan Enerbility. The order is for materials essential to commence manufacturing of the first NuScale Power Modules that are scheduled to be in commercial operation at the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems' Carbon Free Power Project.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review Northern States Power Company-Minnesota's application for subsequent licence renewal for the Monticello plant. The regulator is also moving forward with revisions to its rule on the environmental considerations behind such renewals.

The clean energy transition is "firmly under way" in spite of - and partially because of - the current geopolitical situation, but there are still "enormous challenges" to face, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm told the CERA Week global energy conference yesterday.

The USA's first-of-its-kind 1 MW demonstration scale, nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility has begun operating at Constellation's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in Oswego, New York. The company said the new facility will help demonstrate the potential for hydrogen to power a clean economy.