The Great Plains New Nuclear Consortium will explore the feasibility and development of deploying new nuclear technology within Nebraska to serve the needs of the four utilities in the Southwest Power Pool market footprint in the USA.
 

The US regulator has completed its final safety evaluation for TerraPower's application to build Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, one month ahead of its already accelerated schedule.
 

The Genesis Mission is a new national effort to use artificial intelligence to transform how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery, with nuclear energy as one of the areas of focus.
 

The first lead fuel assemblies have been manufactured by Framatome for the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company's Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE under a fuel supply agreement announced by the two companies in July.
 

Terra Innovatum, developer of the SOLO micro-modular reactor, has signed a Letter of Intent with US technology firm Uvation to launch a 1 MWe pilot programme with a strategic option to scale up to 100 MWe supporting Uvation's rapidly-growing AI and data centre infrastructure needs.
 

Samples of enriched uranium-zirconium alloy fuel material are being irradiated in the lab's Advanced Test Reactor, a significant step forward in the development and testing programme which is part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between Lightbridge and INL.
 

The US Department of the Army has selected nine sites for the potential deployment of microreactor power plants under the Janus Program. Meanwhile, the Defense Innovation Unit has released an Area of Interest to solicit commercial solutions for advanced nuclear power technologies.
 

Siemens Energy has signed a contract to design and deliver the power conversion system for Oklo's Aurora powerhouse reactors.
 

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced that the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has closed a USD1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Generation to help finance the restart of Three Mile Island unit 1, now known as the Crane Clean Energy Centre.