The European Commission is to invest EUR202 million (USD236 million) in the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator located in Granada, Spain, covering about 25% of the project's cost. The facility will test materials to be used in fusion power plants.

Terrestrial Energy and NRG-Pallas are starting the final phase of the graphite irradiation testing programme for Terrestrial's molten salt reactor at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.

The American Bureau of Shipping, Core Power and Athlos Energy are to collaborate on the evaluation of the potential of deploying floating nuclear power plants to meet the energy demands of islands, ports and coastal communities in the Mediterranean Sea.

The US Department of Energy has made conditional selections for Westinghouse and Radiant Nuclear to perform the first tests in the National Reactor Innovation Center's Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed at the Idaho National Laboratory.

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power plant, marking the first time in Korea that such a fuel assembly has been loaded into a reactor, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power announced.

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Industrias Nucleares do Brasil has signed a contract with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Financing Agency for Studies and Projects for the development and testing of critical technologies applicable to Brazil's planned microreactor.

Maire S.p.A subsidiary Nextchem and France-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo are creating the NextCleo joint venture to develop the conventional island and balance of plant of nuclear power plants based on Newcleo's 200 MW advanced modular reactors.

A single NuScale Power Module small modular reactor could yield about 150 million gallons of clean water per day, the company says, with the leftover brine from the desalination process used as industrial feedstock for hydrogen production.