Molten salt reactor developer Thorizon and Dutch research and technology organisation TNO have launched a materials and corrosion programme to generate the experimental data and predictive models required to qualify materials for molten salt reactors.
 

The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment aims to achieve first criticality in 2027, with the US Department of Energy approving cost-shared funding under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
 

Innovative nuclear energy company Newcleo has inaugurated its EUR10 million (USD11 million) advanced nuclear fuel engineering, testing and training centre located in Chusclan, in the Gard department in southern France.
 

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced it has employed equipment it has developed to excavate a full-scale deposition hole for used nuclear fuel disposal in the bedrock at its research demonstration site.
 

Deployable Energy's Unity demonstration reactor has been selected by the US Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center for testing inside the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments, or DOME, testbed at the Idaho National Laboratory in 2027.
 

American laser fusion company Xcimer says it has finalised an agreement for up to USD30.5 million of funding through the US Department of Energy's Milestone-based Fusion Development Program.
 

The UK is seeking to translate its position in fusion research into industrial and commercial leadership, with government, industry and the UK Atomic Energy Authority highlighting the need to develop supply chains, skills, regulation and investment alongside fusion technology.
 

China's aim to achieve the commercial utilisation of fusion energy by 2050, and the benefits to be gained from international collaboration, have been set out at Fusion for the Future: Engineering the Key Pathway to Realising Fusion Energy, a side event at the 70th IAEA General Conference.
 

The ENN Group has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the ENN Fusion Spherical Ring Hydrogen-Boron Plasma Platform (Helong-2) project at the group's fusion R&D centre in the Langfang Economic and Technological Development Zone in China's Hebei Province.