Investors' financial returns on the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project may initially cost UK consumers as much as GBP4 billion (USD5.4 billion) - but in the longer term the net benefits for energy bills could reach GBP18 billion, according to the UK's National Audit Office.
 

The US regulator has completed its environmental assessment of the proposed Long Mott Generating Station advanced reactor facility at Dow Chemical's manufacturing site in Texas ahead of schedule.
 

The Rockefeller Foundation and Temasek Trust have announced the creation of an initiative "to mobilise philanthropic capital in support of nuclear energy as a driver for clean energy security, economic growth, energy abundance, and human development".
 

Finnish small modular reactor developer Steady Energy has signed a letter of intent with municipal energy company Alva-yhtiöt Oy to investigate the suitability of SMRs as a source for district heating in the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland.
 

Concrete has begun being poured for the foundation of the turbine and generator for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor in Seversk in Russia's Tomsk region.
 

Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla has submitted an application to the government to construct a power plant in Norrsundet, Gävle, in east central Sweden, comprising six SEALER reactors.
 

The US Department of Energy has selected eight companies to collectively receive more than USD94 million in federal cost-shared funding to support the near-term deployment of advanced light-water small modular reactors in the USA by addressing key barriers in licensing, supply chain, and site readiness.
 

The people of Anglesey in North Wales are being asked to suggest a name which is "easy to pronounce and welcoming to a wide audience" for the small modular reactor plant which is to be built at the Wylfa site on the island.
 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said her government is preparing to launch a new framework in the coming months aimed at reintroducing nuclear energy into the country's energy mix.