The dome of the containment building has been hoisted into place at the second unit of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in the UK. The milestone marks the end of the major civil engineering works on the plant's reactor buildings.

A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste within it.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on nuclear energy, with both countries planning new large-scale and small modular reactors in the coming years.

The polar crane has been installed within the reactor building of the second reactor under construction at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in southwest England. It comes days before the unit's dome is due to be lifted into place.

France's EDF has announced that it has agreed in principle to invest up to GBP1.1 billion (USD1.5 billion) in the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in the UK, taking a 12.5% in the project. A final investment decision on the project has yet to be made.

A siting study has identified 21 sites in the Midlands region of central England that could potentially support 20 GWe of new nuclear generating capacity in the nearer term. Two sites were selected as the region's most strategic nuclear deployment opportunities.

Construction firms Balfour Beatty, Laing O'Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics have signed a Programme Alliance Agreement with Sizewell C to deliver the main civil works at the new nuclear power plant in the UK.

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced a partnership which will see innovative technology deployed for the first time on a nuclear site to remotely and autonomously sort and segregate radioactive waste.

A memorandum of cooperation has been signed between the UK and Japan for partnership on fusion energy - as companies in the two countries announce new collaborations.