Kairos Power, Natura Resources, Terrestrial Energy and Aalo Atomics have signed agreements to bring their reactors to Texas A&M-RELLIS, a 2400-acre technology campus in Bryan in Texas in the USA.

Belgium's new coalition government has announced plans to continue operating two of the country's reactors for an additional 10 years beyond the 10-year extension already agreed - and said it aims to construct new reactors.

The introduction of regulatory regimes focused on small modular reactors is something many countries are wrestling with. It is something that the SMR Regulators' Forum was set up to help with, as this World Nuclear News Briefing on its history and work explains.

Georgia Power has filed its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan, saying it has proposed power uprates at four units at its Hatch and Vogtle nuclear power plants and that additional nuclear power capacity will be needed over the long-term.

The start-up and testing phase of the on-shore pumping station for Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant's first unit has begun.

Nuclear project developer Norsk Kjernekraft has signed a letter of intent with Nordic consultancy company Norconsult to promote the development of nuclear power in Norway. The partners said their cooperation could "result in concrete projects".

The Sizewell C nuclear power plant project in the UK is "on time and on budget" and is "the best prepared nuclear project in modern nuclear history", MPs have been told in the first annual progress update on the project.

Westinghouse Electric Company and EDF are each to conduct a Technical Feasibility Study for GEN energija assessing the deployment of their reactors at the proposed new nuclear power plant next to the existing Krško site.

EDF Energy said the performance of its UK nuclear power plants in 2024 was "very good", with an output of 37.3 TWh - a level it aims to maintain over the coming years. Meanwhile, a new report has highlighted the contribution that nuclear energy has made to economic growth in the UK.

The Tennessee Valley Authority's collaborative contractors Bechtel, Sargent & Lundy and GE Hitachi will use an integrated approach as they carry out initial planning for a potential small modular reactor at Clinch River in Tennessee.

Minister of Industry and Trade Lukáš Vlček said he had discussed with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power CEO Joo-ho Whang about finalising the EPC contract and the involvement of Czech companies in the country's new nuclear project.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans to limit legal challenges to major infrastructure projects - including nuclear power plants - to just one hearing in court instead of the current three hearings.