US microreactor technology company NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to construct the first research KRONOS micro modular reactor on the university's campus.

Estonia's Fermi Energia and South Korea's Samsung C&T Corporation Engineering & Construction Group have signed a teaming agreement to collaborate on the deployment of two BWRX-300 small modular reactors in Estonia.

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe and the Westinghouse-Bechtel Consortium have agreed the terms and conditions of an Engineering Development Agreement for Poland's first nuclear power plant after a previous agreement expired.

Hungary's Paks II new nuclear project says it is ready for first concrete, but is awaiting permission from the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority.

The first of four main pumps for China's ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project has passed factory acceptance tests and been shipped to the construction site at the Changjiang on the island province of Hainan.

Industrial giant Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company have submitted a construction licence application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed advanced nuclear project at Dow's Seadrift site in Texas.

Site analysis reports, flood studies and seismic safety studies - as well as technical feasibility studies by potential technology providers Westinghouse and EDF - are being carried out for the JEK2 project for new capacity at the existing Krško nuclear power plant in Slovenia. 

The Swedish government has proposed a new law regarding state support for nuclear power investments. In the bill - submitted to parliament on 27 March - it proposes providing state loans to finance four new reactors as well as a contract-for-difference power price mechanism.

A financing kick-off meeting has been held for the first phase of the Xuwei nuclear power project in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China National Nuclear Corporation announced. The plant will supply both industrial heating and electricity by coupling a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with two pressurised water reactors.