Unit 1 of Russia's Balakovo nuclear power plant has begun pilot operation using accident-tolerant MOX fuel assemblies.
 

The award under the ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready programme will enable full-scale field testing of Deep Isolation's Universal Canister System.
 

Monaco-based shipping company Scorpio Tankers Inc has entered into a strategic collaboration with AMPERA Inc of the USA to jointly develop and commercialise advanced microreactors for marine, shipping and related maritime applications.
 

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation Nuclear Inc announced that federally funded research has shown that deep borehole disposal could be a viable option for disposing of high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactor fuel recycling.
 

Three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel have completed their third 18-month VVER-1000 fuel cycle at Russia's Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant.
 

The ILIOS consortium has been appointed as the construction partner for the UK's STEP Fusion programme, while Kinectrics has been named as the design and fabrication partner for the UKAEA-Eni H3AT Tritium Loop Facility. The appointments came as the government published its Fusion Energy Strategy.
 

The UK's Cambridge Atomworks has signed a memorandum of understanding with engineering, management and development consultancy Mott MacDonald to work on the development of the Odin microreactor.
 

Dutch-French molten salt reactor developer Thorizon has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction to jointly advance the development and commercialisation of molten salt reactor technology.
 

The UK's Rolls-Royce SMR has signed a memorandum of understanding with strategic and technical consultancy and project development company Equilibrion to collaborate on a technical and economic assessment of sustainable aviation fuel produced using small modular reactors.