The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Kairos Power have entered into a USD27 million strategic partnership to accelerate the technology needed to deploy a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors.
 

New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole reactor.
 

French small modular reactor developer Blue Capsule Technology has announced the start of construction of ELISE - a full-size test rig for sodium at high temperatures - at Peyrolles-en-Provence, in collaboration with France's CSTI Groupe.
 

Finnish small modular reactor developer Steady Energy has poured the first concrete for a full-scale, non-nuclear pilot of its LDR‑50 small modular reactor for district heating at the decommissioned Salmisaari B coal-fired power station in central Helsinki.
 

The Eagles Consortium has signed a collaboration agreement with France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo to work together on the realisation of the LEANDREA lead-cooled small modular reactor technology demonstrator at Mol in Belgium.
 

Danish nuclear technology company Copenhagen Atomics has completed two years of continuous operation of a molten salt pump and test loop at its facilities in Copenhagen. The system has been running without issues under high-temperature molten salt conditions, marking one of the longest continuous durability tests of its kind worldwide, it said.
 

The US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded more than USD19 million to five US companies to research and develop recycling technologies for used nuclear fuel.
 

Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil is preparing for the final phase of testing for fuel rods to be used in the development of Brazil's national microreactor project.
 

BWX Technologies says its TRISO nuclear fuel for Antares Nuclear is on track for "timely completion" for the reactor demonstration planned to meet the US’s 4 July target date.