The USD900 million solicitation to support the deployment of small modular reactors has been re-issued to better align with President Donald Trump's agenda on unleashing American energy and AI dominance, the Department of Energy said.

NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has assembled the first reactor core hardware of its ZEUS solid core battery reactor for initial non-nuclear testing.

Oklo Inc and Deep Atomic Inc are embarking on pre-application engagements with US nuclear regulators for their respective projects: Oklo Inc is engaging with the regulator ahead of an application to construct and operate an Aurora Powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory, while Deep Atomic is planning to apply for design certification of its MK60 small modular reactor.

NRG-Pallas - operator of the High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands - has been contracted by Kairos Power of the USA to perform irradiation demonstrations and qualifications of fuels and materials that will be used in its small modular reactor.

Finland's Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology is to build two new test facilities at its nuclear engineering laboratory on its Lappeenranta campus for research into the safety of small modular reactors.

Westinghouse and Urenco have signed a long-term fuel enrichment agreement under which Urenco will provide enrichment of high-assay low-enriched uranium to Westinghouse for five years of deployment for the company's eVinci microreactor.

The National Nuclear Energy Commission has begun a three-year project to demonstrate the feasibility of the development of a Brazilian 3-5 MW microreactor.

A study by NRG-Pallas has identified four regions in the Dutch province of Gelderland as suitable for hosting a small modular reactor. The province aims to designate two locations for an SMR in 2027.

The first two lead units of a 55 MW variant of the Bharat small modular reactor will be built at a Department of Atomic Energy site by 2033, Minister of State Jitendra Singh has told parliamentarians.