The USA, Japan and South Korea have signed a memorandum of cooperation to support trilateral cooperation on accelerating small modular reactor deployments in third countries, with an initial focus on the Indo-Pacific region.
 

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory and Rolls-Royce have signed trilateral memorandums of cooperation on advancing High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors and the coated particle fuel to power them.
 

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Kazakhstan's National Nuclear Centre have agreed to a new phase of their joint core safety experiments of fast reactors, which focus on severe accident mitigation measures for demonstration fast reactors.
 

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has presented a draft target of replacing up to five of the country's nuclear power reactors that are due to be decommissioned by the 2040s and 11-14 reactors by the 2050s.
 

Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced the start of the removal of fuel assemblies from the used fuel storage pool of unit 2 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
 

The cooperative effort to transfer 1.7 tonnes of high-assay low-enriched uranium - HALEU - fuel from Japan to the USA has been hailed as a pivotal step in reducing nuclear proliferation risks and enhancing global security while supporting the US domestic supply chain.
 

Unit 6 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant has resumed commercial operation, becoming the first reactor owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company to do so since the accident at its Fukushima Daiichi plant.
 

Enhanced cooperation in the area of clean energy, including small modular reactors, is one of the areas highlighted in the Canada-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Roadmap.
 

Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun its internal investigation of Fukushima Daiichi unit 3's primary containment vessel, using palm-sized micro-drones.