TerraPraxis and Danish floating nuclear power plant developer Seaborg have agreed to assess Seaborg's Compact Molten Salt Reactor as a potential heat source to support the rapid decarbonisation of the global coal fleet.

Canadian-German nuclear technology company Dual Fluid has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian research centre TRIUMF to advance the development of a small modular reactor based on Dual Fluid technology.

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission has spun off two nuclear start-ups - Hexana and Stellaria - for the development of small modular reactors.

X-Energy UK Holdings and Cavendish Nuclear are developing proposals for small modular reactors in the UK and have "identified Hartlepool as a preferred location" - welcoming EDF's announcement that the existing nuclear power plant will operate for an extra two years, to 2026.

The completion of the main internal structure of the reactor building for the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang nuclear power plant has been announced by China National Nuclear Corporation.

X-Energy Reactor Company is to build a digital twin-based support centre as the first step in its Commercial Operations Services business to support the initial deployment of its advanced modular reactors. Meanwhile, Energy Northwest is hopeful that X-energy's recent announcement that the first Xe-100 reactor will be installed at a Dow site on the US Gulf Coast will help further plans for its own project in Washington state.

France's EDF has signed a Letter of Intent with Italy's Ansaldo Energia, Ansaldo Nucleare and Edison to assess potential industrial cooperation for the development of nuclear power in Europe, including in Italy, specifically in the field of small modular reactors.

Swedish lead-cooled small nuclear reactor technology developer LeadCold is to conduct a feasibility study on the construction and operation of a demonstration SEALER (Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor) with associated infrastructure for fuel fabrication in Studsvik.

A newly announced agreement under which Urenco USA will supply enriched uranium to Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation to manufacture fuel for its Micro-Modular Reactor has been described by the companies as the first commercial supply of enriched uranium product for use in an advanced nuclear reactor anywhere in the world.

Materials science company Dow and X-energy have signed a joint development agreement to develop a four-unit Xe-100 high-temperature gas reactor facility at one of Dow's US Gulf Coast sites.

The Czech Republic's ČEZ's first small modular reactor project is to be near the Temelín nuclear power plant. It has now identified the coal-fired power plants at Dětmarovice and Tušimice as the preferred locations for its second and third SMRs.

The 12-foot (3.7 metre) long heat pipe manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company in a project supported by the US Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project is one of the largest of its kind made and will be used to support a test reactor the company aims to operate in 2026.