Holtec International of the USA and South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction have agreed to accelerate the programme to complete the balance of plant design of the remaining systems and structures for the SMR-160 advanced small modular reactor.

Southern Company and TerraPower have completed construction and installation of a new test facility at TerraPower's laboratory in Everett, Washington. The Integrated Effects Test will be used in the development of the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor.

The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility - or TF3 - in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will be North America's first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility and is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
 

Workers have begun transferring 157 fuel assemblies into the core of the unit, marking a pivotal milestone towards the startup and commercial operation of the USA's first new nuclear units in more than three decades.

The first of two 300-tonne melters at the Hanford Site in Washington State which will transform radioactive and chemical waste into a glass form for safe disposal will take several weeks to reach its commissioning and operational temperature of 2100°F (1149°C).

A strategic partnership of Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Renewable Partners is to acquire Westinghouse Electric Company for a total enterprise value of approximately USD8 billion.

The charter agreement on advanced reactor and small modular reactor technologies formally establishes the collaborative relationship between the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the overall work to be done by them both relating to the BWRX-300 reactor design.

A tool provided by a new multi-disciplinary initiative led by Idaho National Laboratory aims to support communities and economies looking to transition to carbon-free energy in making informed energy choices that are right for their time, place and community.

The 2022 Virginia Energy Plan, announced by Governor Glenn Youngkin, calls for a nuclear innovation hub to be established in the state and for a commercial small modular reactor to be deployed in southwest Virginia within the next decade.

Vistra has applied to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a 20-year operating licence extension for the two-unit Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in Texas. The current licences for Comanche Peak units 1 and 2 expire in 2030 and 2033, respectively.

Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have proposed that the formation of "hills and valleys" in magnetic field lines could be the source of sudden collapses of heat ahead of disruptions that can damage doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities. Their discovery could help overcome a critical challenge facing such facilities.

Japan's last high-enriched uranium-fuelled research reactor is to be converted to low-enriched uranium fuel under a new agreement between the US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.