Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd and the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Hub are collaborating to develop a robot capable of accessing areas that are inaccessible or unsafe for humans to work in. The announcement came as the first network of robotics and artificial intelligence collaboration hubs across the UK was launched.

Using Electron Beam Welding, the company weld-joined two 200mm-thick, 3-metre diameter vessel sections in UK small modular reactor nuclear grade steel, describing it as a breakthrough in the industrialisation of EBW for thick-section materials.

The first rail transfer of stainless steel drums of waste from the Winfrith Magnox site to Nuclear Waste Services' Low Level Waste Repository site has been completed. The waste's radiation levels have decayed sufficiently for it now to be reclassified as low-level waste.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted a roundtable at Downing Street on 21 March with leaders from the nuclear industry to discuss how to improve domestic energy security and rapidly accelerate nuclear projects in the UK.

Sellafield Ltd's Programme and Project Partners has announced the winners of a mechanical and pipework framework agreement. Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick and Doosan Babcock have been appointed to the framework, which is worth GBP112-237 million (USD148-312 million) over the 18-year life of the programme.

UK-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo has signed a framework agreement with ENEA - the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development - to cooperate on the development of small, lead-cooled fast reactors.

A consignment of intermediate-level radioactive waste has been safely returned to Australia from the Sellafield plant in the UK.

With the planned expansion of nuclear power in the UK, the government needs to harness community support and include the full lifecycle when considering proposed sites, according to a report by Manchester University's Dalton Nuclear Institute.

Tokamak Energy of the UK announced it has demonstrated a world-first with its privately-funded ST40 spherical tokamak, achieving a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, the threshold required for commercial fusion energy.

Plans to jointly develop a state-of-the-art advanced materials treatment facility in the UK have been announced by Westinghouse Electric Company and Perma-Fix Environmental Services. To be built at Westinghouse's Springfields site, the facility will expand waste treatment capabilities for the European nuclear market.

Hinkley Point C's first reactor building now stands at more than 32 metres tall following the installation of a 347-tonne liner steel ring, EDF Energy announced.

The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation, along with the environment regulators for England and Wales, have been asked by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to begin a Generic Design Assessment for Rolls-Royce SMR Limited's small modular reactor design.