Terrestrial Energy has signed a manufacturing and supply contract with Westinghouse subsidiary Springfields Fuels Limited to deliver a pilot Integral Molten Salt Reactor fuel plant in the UK, paving the way to provide the fuel to support future fleet deployment of such reactors. The project is receiving support from the UK government's Nuclear Fuel Fund.

TerraPower has awarded contracts to four companies to supply services and equipment for the Natrium reactor demonstration project being developed in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

The US Senate has voted by 96-3 to approve legislation that would strengthen domestic nuclear fuel production and ensure that disruptions in uranium supply will not impact the development of advance reactors or the operation of the USA's existing power reactor fleet.

A public-private partnership comprised of 42 state-run and private entities has been created to advance Korea's small modular reactor sector. The alliance aims to establish plans to revitalise the country's SMR industry within the next year.

After a year-long search, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation has announced the selection of Gadsden, Alabama, as the location for a USD232 million plant to manufacture, assemble, test, and inspect the non-radiological modules needed to construct the company's Micro-Modular Reactor. Construction of the plant is to begin next year.

A new joint venture, known as NUCEAL, has been established by French, Spanish and Slovakian engineering firms Assystem, IDOM and VUJE to support the development of EDF's projects in the European Union and possibly in the UK.

The Swedish firm Alleima says it has been awarded an order from South Korea's Doosan for approximately 200 kilometres of steam generator tubes for NuScale's small modular reactors.

US nuclear plant owners and operators purchased less uranium in 2022 than in 2021, and at a higher price, according to the US Energy Information Administration's latest annual uranium marketing report. Most of the uranium delivered in 2022 was of foreign origin, with Canada and Kazakhstan together providing more than half the total.

Škoda JS Director General František Krček says he believes Czech industry could handle a majority of the work for new nuclear plants in the country - and says he also hopes for orders relating to small modular reactors within five years.

The members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have called on national authorities and the industry to take action to increase the representation of women in the sector and enhance their contributions.

The US Department of Energy has formally begun the Environmental Impact Statement scoping process for its proposed programme to support the commercial production of high-assay low-enriched uranium - or HALEU - fuel. The DOE is also seeking feedback on two draft requests for proposals to acquire HALEU.

Construction company Aecon has formed a partnership with fabricator and constructor ES Fox Limited to jointly manufacture steel components offsite for Canada's first grid-scale small modular reactor at Ontario Power Generation's Darlington site.