Up to 20 Holtec SMR-160 plants will be built in Ukraine under a cooperation agreement signed between Holtec International and Ukrainian national nuclear operator Energoatom. The agreement calls for the first plant to begin supplying power by March 2029.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Samsung Heavy Industries and Seaborg Technologies have established a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plants featuring Seaborg's compact molten salt reactor technology. 

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation of the USA has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C to conduct joint research and development for the commercialisation of Hydrogen Micro Hubs over the next five years.

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Alberta to collaborate on the deployment of small modular reactor technology - including the Korean-designed SMART reactor - in the Canadian province.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has completed Phase 2 of the vendor design review of Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor. The regulator said that no fundamental barriers to licensing the small modular reactor design were identified during the review.

Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA has submitted an application to the country's Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of a small modular reactor power plant.

Rosatom and the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic have signed a cooperation agreement relating to the construction of a Russian small nuclear reactor power plant in the Republic of Sakha (also known as Yakutia).

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe has submitted an application to Poland's Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of the country's first large nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, Orlen Synthos Green Energy has announced seven potential sites for the country's first small modular reactors.

The Western European Nuclear Regulators Association has set out the steps that industry must take to ensure the timely, harmonised licensing of small modular reactor and advanced modular reactor designs in Europe.

A coalition of companies including major utilities has applied for federal funding to build a green hydrogen network spanning six south-eastern states in the USA. Meanwhile, in Virginia, a property and project development company has secured a site where it plans to create a green energy centre with a green hydrogen hub and data centres powered by small modular reactors.

US utility PacifiCorp has increased its ambition for using Natrium advanced reactors in the 2030s, adding two further units to its plans in addition to the demonstration unit already slated for a retiring coal power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

PT ThorCon Power Indonesia - a subsidiary of USA-based ThorCon - has signed an agreement with Indonesia's Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency to officially start a safety, security and safeguards consultation in preparation for licensing a demonstration 500 MWe floating ThorCon molten salt reactor.