Infrastructure company Costain has been selected by Urenco to carry out the front-end engineering design for the UK's first high-assay low-enriched uranium advanced fuels facility.

A new study shows that Scotland's GBP25 billion (USD33 billion) nuclear decommissioning programme could deliver significant long-term economic and social benefits at both national and local levels over the next 90 years and beyond.

The defueling of the second of two reactors at Hunterston B means the plant has become the first of the UK's seven advanced gas-cooled reactor power plants to be declared free of all used nuclear fuel ahead of decommissioning.

Great British Nuclear, the arms-length body set up to oversee the UK's plans for new nuclear, is to launch a tender to procure up to two owner's engineers as part of its small modular reactor programme.

TerraPower has formally notified UK regulators that it plans to begin the generic design approval process for its Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor, a first step towards deploying the technology in an international market.

Holtec has announced that it has submitted its final tender response to Great British Nuclear as part of the UK's ongoing small modular reactor technology selection competition. GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce SMR earlier confirmed they had submitted final tenders.

The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation has published its first report on international regulatory collaboration on small modular reactors, outlining how it is working with international counterparts to create more efficient, harmonised approaches to reactor design assessment. Meanwhile, more US states have joined a lawsuit challenging federal licensing rules for advanced nuclear energy technology.

Two of the four shortlisted small modular reactor vendors - GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce SMR - have announced they have submitted their final tender responses as part of Great British Nuclear's ongoing SMR selection competition.

British inertial fusion energy developer First Light Fusion and systems, engineering and technology company Frazer-Nash Consultancy have announced plans for collaborative research to advance fusion energy.