Siemens Energy has signed a contract to design and deliver the power conversion system for Oklo's Aurora powerhouse reactors.
 

Construction work above ground - also known as vertical construction - has begun for TRISO-X's TX-1 advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which will be the first plant of its kind in the USA.
 

A study conducted by strategic consultancy firm Roland Berger has confirmed that the small modular reactor proposed by Dutch offshore construction engineering contractor Allseas offers major strategic opportunities for the Netherlands.
 

The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor is no longer under care-and-maintenance after the country's cabinet approved the decision to allow South Africa to further develop the technology and to transfer the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor company from Eskom to Necsa.

The strategic cooperation agreement between Aecon, prime contractor for Canada’s first small modular reactor project, and Norwegian private nuclear developer Norsk Kjernekraft, will focus on the GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor.
 

The small modular reactor market could support the decarbonisation of at least 11 industrial sectors that make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe with a potential market of 700 GW by 2050, a study by LucidCatalyst has concluded.
 

The UK government has announced that Wylfa on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, will host three Rolls-Royce small modular reactors. It said the site - where a Magnox plant is being decommissioned - could potentially host up to eight SMRs.
 

A three-year BRL50 million (USD9.1 million) project brings together private and public sector bodies to develop a concept for a 5 MWt microreactor with core cooling by heat pipes.
 

Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall has signed an agreement with the Industrikraft i Sverige AB consortium for joint investment and collaboration that enables the next step in the development of new nuclear generating capacity in Sweden.
 

The Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for the Aurora Fuel Fabrication Facility, where the fuel for Oklo's first commercial-scale Aurora powerhouse will be made, is the first under the US Department of Energy's Fuel Line Pilot Projects initiative and was approved in just under two weeks.
 

Toyo Tanso USA, a subsidiary of Japanese company Toyo Tanso Co, is to supply fine-grain graphite components for the first deployment of X-energy's Xe-100 small modular reactor under the agreement, which is worth around USD40 million.
 

Finnish energy firm Helen has announced that three potential sites in Helsinki have been identified for further assessment for locating a small nuclear power plant.