Dutch-French molten salt reactor developer Thorizon has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction to jointly advance the development and commercialisation of molten salt reactor technology.
 

UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Emma Reynolds, has decided to provide regulatory justification for the Rolls‑Royce SMR design - the first small modular reactor to receive this approval.
 

The Korea Chemical Industry Association and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in studying the deployment of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors in the petrochemical industry.
 

The US Department of Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center are setting up a Nuclear Energy Launch Pad designed to "promote the rapid development and implementation of advanced nuclear technologies by private industry".
 

Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Copenhagen Atomics say that salt purity is the critical factor in preventing corrosion of stainless steel in molten salt reactors. Meanwhile, irradiation testing of materials for such reactors has begun at the High Flux Reactor in the Netherlands.
 

South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission has received an application for standard design approval for the Innovative Small Modular Reactor from the i-SMR Technology Development Project Group.
 

Newcleo subsidiary SRS Servizi di Ricerche e Sviluppo has been contracted by Romanian state-owned nuclear R&D coordination organisation RATEN to supply lead-cooled nuclear reactor research facilities.
 

Rosatom says a new austenitic steel has been developed for the primary circuit of the planned lead-cooled BR-1200 reactor where the operating temperature will be 500-600 degrees Celsius.
 

GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Orlen Synthos Green Energy have signed an agreement to develop a detailed technical design of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor adapted to Polish regulations, safety standards and environmental conditions.