The second of three planned shipments of high-level radioactive waste has left the Sellafield site in northwest England and is being transported by rail and sea to its destination at the Isar interim storage facility in Germany.

Russia's Rosatom has begun assembling the RITM-200 reactor vessel for the Leningrad nuclear-powered icebreaker, bringing the total number of RITM reactor units currently being produced at its ZIO-Podolsk plant to eight.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom scientists, who say it could slash travel time to Mars to one or two months.

Energy Fuels Inc expects shipments of ore from its Pinyon Plain Mine in northern Arizona to the White Mesa Mill in southern Utah will restart in February following the signature of an agreement with Navajo agencies on the transport of uranium ore along federal and state highways crossing the Navajo Nation.

Rosatom has reported nearly 37.8 million tonnes of cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route in 2024, breaking the previous high by 1.6 million tonnes. 

A keel-laying ceremony has been held at the Baltic Shipyard in Russia for the multipurpose Vladimir Vorobyov service ship for nuclear-powered icebreakers.

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority subsidiary Nuclear Transport Solutions has been awarded funding by the UK government to spearhead the development of transport capabilities for the UK's future use of high-assay low-enriched uranium.

The first meeting of the Russian-Chinese Subcommission on Cooperation on the Northern Sea Route has taken place, as figures show a continued rise in its Chinese trade.

The American Bureau of Shipping has released its latest report into the potential of advanced nuclear technology for maritime applications, with a study of a small modular reactor on a standard liquefied natural gas carrier.