A pre-licensing assessment of the EAGLES-300 lead-cooled small modular reactor has been launched by the Belgian, Italian and Romanian nuclear regulators. The International Atomic Energy Agency is supporting this project as a pilot project within its Nuclear Harmonisation and Standardisation Initiative.
 

Naarea, a French developer of a molten salt fast neutron microreactor, announced it has successfully demonstrated an innovative proliferation-resistant pyrochemical method of producing sodium chloride-plutonium trichloride salt.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revised the duration of its licensing design certifications from 15 years to 40 years, with Westinghouse's AP1000 approval now extended to 2046.
 

Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh told India's parliament that a "delay in completion of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor project is mainly due to first-of-a-kind technological issues being faced in the integrated commissioning phase of the project".

Six items weighing more than 1,000 tonnes have been manufactured for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor which is being built at the Siberian Chemical Combine site in Seversk, in the Tomsk Region of Russia.

US microreactor developer Last Energy said it remains on track to obtain a site licence decision by December 2027 for its South Wales project after successfully completing a Preliminary Design Review for its PWR-20 power plant design by UK nuclear regulators.

The first stage of design work on a prototype molten salt reactor has been completed, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has said.

Canadian regulators have concluded that there are no fundamental barriers to licensing the ARC-100 small modular reactor, ARC Clean Technology has announced.

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev says that the first two new 600 MW units at the second phase of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant will be built between 2027 to 2037.