The UK's Nuclear Transport Solutions has signed a strategic agreement with Westinghouse of the USA to work together on the development of Pegasus – NTS's package designed for the safe transport of high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel.
 

Western Canada's first Small Modular Reactor Safety, Licensing, and Testing Centre at the University of Regina is to receive nearly CAD6 million (USD4.3 million) in funding from the federal and provincial governments.
 

A two-year study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NuScale looked at the performance and profitability of coupling a NuScale Power Module with a US chemical facility to provide nuclear-generated steam and electric power - and shows pairing NuScale's nuclear technology with a heat augmentation system to be both profitable and reliable.
 

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation says that a two-year research project that subjected its Universal Canister System to the kinds of conditions found thousands of feet below the surface has shown materials used in its fabrication perform reliably and remain resistant to corrosion over time.
 

Finnish utility Fortum has signed a framework agreement with small modular reactor developer Steady Energy under which Fortum will support Steady Energy in planning its district heating reactor's operation and maintenance model. In addition, Fortum will invest in Steady Energy.
 

Experiments at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of "a density-free region" of the tokamak, finding a method to break through the density limit and providing important physical evidence for the high-density operation of magnetic confinement fusion devices.
 

Excavation of the spiral ramp of the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory near Jiuquan City in China's Gansu province has been fully completed, China National Nuclear Corporation announced.
 

US private fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems is collaborating with multinational technology companies NVIDIA and Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC prototype fusion machine that will apply artificial intelligence and data and project management tools to accelerate commercial fusion.
 

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