Global technology company Microsoft has signed an agreement with fusion energy developer Helion Energy for the provision of electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation Energy will serve as the power marketer and will manage transmission for the project.

Tokamak Energy of the UK is to send its gamma radiation cryostat system to the US Department of Energy's Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so that it can be exposed to extreme conditions to test lifetime fusion power plant performance.

Framatome received approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to apply the company's suite of Advanced Codes and Methods to operating conditions with uranium-235 enrichments above the industry standard of 5%.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Samsung Heavy Industries and Seaborg Technologies have established a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plants featuring Seaborg's compact molten salt reactor technology. 

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation of the USA has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C to conduct joint research and development for the commercialisation of Hydrogen Micro Hubs over the next five years.

Fluor Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Longview Fusion Energy Systems to be its engineering and construction partner in designing and planning laser fusion energy commercialisation.

A Chinese tokamak device has set a new world record for a steady-state high-constraint mode plasma operation and German researchers have discovered a way to build smaller and cheaper fusion reactors. Meanwhile a US Government Accountability Office report on achieving commercial fusion cautions that several challenges must still be overcome.

Tunnelling at the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory near Jiuquan City in China's Gansu province has reached a depth of 280 metres, the depth of the first of two planned technology test platforms, China National Nuclear Corporation announced.

X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC and Kinectrics have announced a partnership to design, construct and operate a commercial-scale facility to test and verify the performance of critical structures, systems, and components of X-energy’s Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor in helium-based high-temperature and high-pressure environments.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese company Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd to partner on the delivery of technical services to support the growing international fusion reactor market, with a key focus on testing related to tritium.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in research and development for remote handling and the maintenance of future fusion power plants.

South Australia's Flinders University has signed agreements with universities in the USA and UK that will enable the Australian university to begin developing the specialist skills needed to underpin the future construction of nuclear submarines under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States security partnership.