A Tennessee Valley Authority-led coalition including BWRX-300 developer GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has submitted an application for the revised federal funding to support the US deployment of small modular reactors. Holtec has also announced its application to the USD800 million programme.

Great British Nuclear, the arms-length body set up to oversee the UK's plans for new nuclear, is to launch a tender to procure up to two owner's engineers as part of its small modular reactor programme.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its final safety evaluation approving the Fuel Qualification Methodology Topical Report for the advanced fuel design to be used in NANO Nuclear Energy Inc's KRONOS micro modular reactor energy system.

Technical cooperation under a newly signed Memorandum of Agreement between Westinghouse Electric Company and the University of Saskatchewan will help accelerate deployment of the microreactor in Saskatchewan.

The Tennessee Valley Authority intends to submit the Construction Permit Application for the Clinch River small modular reactor to the US regulator by June.

TerraPower has formally notified UK regulators that it plans to begin the generic design approval process for its Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor, a first step towards deploying the technology in an international market.

The first of four main pumps has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project, under construction at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

A memorandum of understanding and a master services agreement signed by Westinghouse Electric Company and McMaster University aim to move the eVinci microreactor towards commercialisation.

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete composite that is claimed to significantly reduce the cost of building nuclear reactor containment structures.

Holtec has announced that it has submitted its final tender response to Great British Nuclear as part of the UK's ongoing small modular reactor technology selection competition. GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce SMR earlier confirmed they had submitted final tenders.

Preparatory work on the buildings required to support construction and administration of the planned small modular reactor project in the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan has begun.

Australian ship design group Seatransport and US-based Deployable Energy are collaborating with UK-based classification society and professional advisory service Lloyd's Register to develop nuclear power generation for different applications, including strategic response vessels in remote areas.