The Tennessee Valley Authority has announced a new nuclear programme to explore advanced nuclear technology as part of its decarbonisation goals. One of its first tasks will be to pursue a construction licence application for a light-water, small modular reactor at the Clinch River site.

Welding of circumferential seams on the upper half of the reactor vessel for unit 7 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant has begun, Russia's Atommash has announced.

Electronuclear said the consortium made up of Ferreira Guedes, Matricial and ADtranz can now press ahead with the work to complete unit 3 of the Angra nuclear power plant in Rio de Janeiro.

Construction of Russia's MBIR multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor was 8% ahead of schedule at the end of 2021 and is now expected to be completed in 2027, one year earlier than previously planned.

Researchers at the Joint European Torus in the UK doubled previous records by producing a total of 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period.

A full-scale electrically heated prototype for the US Department of Energy's Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation reactor has been built at Idaho National Laboratory.

Alaskan cooperative utility Copper Valley Electric Association and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation have agreed to determine the feasibility of building the first commercial installation of a Micro Modular Reactor Energy System in the US state.

Necsa - the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation - has released a Request for Information for the Multipurpose Reactor to replace the 56-year-old Safari-1 research reactor located at Pelindaba.

Two newly announced North American initiatives aim to accelerate the deployment of fusion technologies for power generation.

A cargo ship carrying materials and equipment for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant - including the reactor pressure vessel for unit 2 - has arrived from Russia at the construction site on the southern coast of Turkey.