Several agreements have been signed between UK and US companies to advance the deployment of small modular reactors and advanced reactors in both countries. The deals were signed ahead of the state visit of President Donald Trump to the UK later this week.
 

A planning application has been submitted for a new nuclear energy-focused facility on a brownfield site that was once part of the Berkeley nuclear power plant in south-west England.
 

Nuclear power is at the forefront of the UK government's acceleration to net-zero, Lee McDonough, Director General, Net Zero, Nuclear and International at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero told World Nuclear Symposium 50 in London on Thursday.

Westinghouse has signed memorandums of understanding with six UK suppliers to support nuclear new build projects based on its AP1000 and AP300 reactor technologies in the UK and around the world.
 

The Heysham 1 and Hartlepool advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plants will continue generating electricity until March 2028, an extension of 12 months, EDF Energy has announced.
 

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has been allocated GBP154 million (USD207 million) in government funding to develop specialised capabilities to enable plutonium disposal. The government announced earlier this year that the country's stockpile of plutonium will be immobilised and disposed of in a geological disposal facility.
 

Four British universities have been awarded funding to collaborate on research on securing a domestic supply of nuclear graphite and finding solutions to managing the country's stockpile of irradiated graphite waste.
 

An independent taskforce has called for "radical, once-in-a-generation" reform of the UK's nuclear regulatory system in order to remove regulatory barriers to new nuclear projects. The taskforce said the system has become "unnecessarily slow, inefficient and costly".
 

UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Czech firm Škoda JS to explore the production of key components for a global fleet of small modular reactors.