Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced measures to promote nuclear projects using US technology in Slovakia and Hungary.
 

A Valar Atomics microreactor has been transported on a US Air Force cargo plane from California to Utah and will eventually be moved to the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab for testing and evaluation.
 

The US Trade and Development Agency has announced USD2.7 million in funding for technical assistance to Meralco PowerGen Corp, to evaluate US small modular reactor designs and develop an implementation roadmap for the Philippines' first SMR nuclear power plant.
 

The X-energy, LLC subsidiary is now authorised for the commercial fabrication of tristructural isotropic - or TRISO - fuel for advanced nuclear reactors at a facility that is currently under construction in Tennessee, marking the first-ever US approval of a category II fuel fabrication facility.
 

The Nuclear Scaling Initiative’s Scale What Works campaign says that direct disposal of used nuclear fuel in the US is the "safest, most secure and least expensive pathway for the country" as nuclear energy capacity is expanded.
 

Solstice Advanced Materials announced that its Metropolis Works plant in Illinois - the USA's only domestic uranium conversion facility - is expected to produce more than 10,000 tonnes of uranium hexafluoride in 2026, which represents about a 20% increase from its planned output in 2024.
 

Days after Rosatom's CEO reiterated the Russian nuclear company's willingness to cooperate with Armenia in the construction of new nuclear capacity, Armenia and the USA have completed negotiations on a cooperation agreement that will pave the way for US companies to strike deals on nuclear power projects in Armenia.
 

The US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded more than USD19 million to five US companies to research and develop recycling technologies for used nuclear fuel.
 

BWX Technologies says its TRISO nuclear fuel for Antares Nuclear is on track for "timely completion" for the reactor demonstration planned to meet the US’s 4 July target date.