Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Alberta to collaborate on the deployment of small modular reactor technology - including the Korean-designed SMART reactor - in the Canadian province.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has completed Phase 2 of the vendor design review of Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor. The regulator said that no fundamental barriers to licensing the small modular reactor design were identified during the review.

Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA has submitted an application to the country's Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of a small modular reactor power plant.

Rosatom and the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic have signed a cooperation agreement relating to the construction of a Russian small nuclear reactor power plant in the Republic of Sakha (also known as Yakutia).

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe has submitted an application to Poland's Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of the country's first large nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, Orlen Synthos Green Energy has announced seven potential sites for the country's first small modular reactors.

The Western European Nuclear Regulators Association has set out the steps that industry must take to ensure the timely, harmonised licensing of small modular reactor and advanced modular reactor designs in Europe.

A coalition of companies including major utilities has applied for federal funding to build a green hydrogen network spanning six south-eastern states in the USA. Meanwhile, in Virginia, a property and project development company has secured a site where it plans to create a green energy centre with a green hydrogen hub and data centres powered by small modular reactors.

US utility PacifiCorp has increased its ambition for using Natrium advanced reactors in the 2030s, adding two further units to its plans in addition to the demonstration unit already slated for a retiring coal power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

PT ThorCon Power Indonesia - a subsidiary of USA-based ThorCon - has signed an agreement with Indonesia's Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency to officially start a safety, security and safeguards consultation in preparation for licensing a demonstration 500 MWe floating ThorCon molten salt reactor.

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.

Rolls-Royce SMR Limited's 470 MWe small modular reactor design has successfully completed Step 1 of the UK's Generic Design Assessment process and progressed to the next phase.

Grupa Azoty Police, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporationand the West Pomeranian University of Technology have signed an agreement to build a nuclear energy research facility based on Ultra Safe Nuclear's Micro-Modular Reactor technology. Meanwhile, Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe, Westinghouse and Bechtel expect to soon sign a contract for the design of Poland's first large-scale reactor.