UK-based nuclear fusion company Tokamak Energy and Japan's Sumitomo Corporation have agreed to collaborate on the development, implementation and scaling-up of commercial fusion energy in Japan and worldwide.

Westinghouse has been awarded three grants totalling GBP10.5 million (USD13.6 million) from the UK government's Nuclear Fuel Fund to upgrade and expand the Springfields fuel fabrication facility in Lancashire in northwest England.

UK government ministers have announced the release of GBP170 million (USD218 million) funding to take forward development work to prepare the Sizewell C site "for future construction, procure key components from the project’s supply chain, and expand its workforce".

The UK's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has awarded Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation UK a grant of up to GBP22.5 million (USD29 million) to support the development and demonstration of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology.

Companies can register their interest with the newly launched Great British Nuclear for the competition to secure funding support which the UK government says could lead to billions of pounds invested in small modular reactor projects.

Nuclear Waste Services is preparing 260 containers of radioactive waste for final emplacement in disposal vaults at the UK's Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria. Ahead of this work NWS made extensive improvements to the grouting facility at the site.

A collaboration between the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge will explore how supercomputers and artificial intelligence technologies with advanced predictive capabilities can deliver a 'digital twin' of the UK's prototype fusion power plant design.

Nuclear Waste Services is starting the process of evaluating four potential areas for suitability to host the UK's Geological Disposal Facility. It is expected that a final site selection could be a process which takes 10-15 years.

The UK government says its preference remains reaching agreement with the European Union to participate in the Horizon Europe, Euratom and Copernicus programmes, but has also published a prospectus for its "bold and ambitious alternative" plans.

Ten projects funded by the Remote Monitoring of Sensitive Sites competition were shown at the UK's Defence and Security Accelerator and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's demonstration day.

UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR says a joint feasibility report produced with Sumitomo Corporation shows its small modular reactors have an advantage over other available sources for the production of hydrogen.

UK clean space propulsion systems and services company Pulsar Fusion has formed a partnership with USA-based Princeton Satellite Systems to use artificial intelligence to design a hyper-fast space rocket capable of reaching Mars in only 30 days.