Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has announced an agreement with the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation - part of the University of Saskatchewan - that will enable it to increase by more than 30 times its current production of the rare actinium-225 radioisotope.

The first batch of germanium-68/gallium-68 generators has been delivered by Russia's Isotope JSC under a new contract with Esente Healthcare in India.

The RA-10 multipurpose research reactor is about 80% completed, with civil works to be finished within three months and expectations it will be operating in 2025, Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission says.

The government has announced funding of CAD35 million (USD26.5 million) to enable a pan-Canadian consortium - the Canadian Medical Isotope Ecosystem - to advance and accelerate the development of the next generation of novel medical isotopes and technologies.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has signed a contract worth KRW260 billion (USD200 million) to construct a tritium removal facility at Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant site. The facility will use technology developed by Romania.

TerraPower Isotopes and Belgian joint venture PanTera have announced a collaboration to increase the global availability of actinium-225, while Arizona-based Serva Energy has developed a new research reactor-based production method to ramp up the supply of the rare radioisotope.

An X-ray "flashlight" which would use an energy source based on Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's EmberCore nuclear chargeable ceramic technology to map the lunar surface has been selected for early-stage funding under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts programme.

Drone Delivery Canada has received authorisation for Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight flights and for the transportation of dangerous goods, which the company says is a significant milestone in the development of its Care by Air project to transport medical radioisotopes by drone. The project is the first of its kind within Canada.

Russia's Rosatom has signed a fresh memorandum of cooperation with Kyrgyzstan, on non-energy application of nuclear technologies in healthcare, and updated the country on "progress of the development of a project for the construction" of a small modular reactor.

The first concrete has been poured for the Kijang Research Reactor at the Radiology Science Industrial Complex in Gijang-gun, Busan, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute announced.

The process of assembling the research reactor was reproduced at the manufacturing site in Russia ahead of it being shipped to Bolivia.

Brookhaven National Laboratory has announced the shipment of the first actinium-225 to be produced in a newly refurbished hot cell laboratory at the US Department of Energy's lab. The new facilities will streamline production and shipment of the rare radioisotope for the development of new cancer treatments.