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Demolition work has begun on building K-27, the last of five gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facilities at the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏßÌýplans to remove all gaseous diffusion buildings from the site by the end of the year under its Vision 2016 project.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has approved the expenditure of a further $200 million on the completion of Watts Bar 2, which would bring final spending on the project to a total of up to $4.7 billion.

Developers and potential customers of small modular reactors (SMRs)Ìýon 27 January signed a memorandum of understanding to set up the SMR Start consortium to advance the commercialization of SMR reactor designs.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß (DOE) has invited public comment by 15 June on a consent-based approach to siting facilities for the storage and disposal of used commercial nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

Settlement agreements worth $74 million have been finalized by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß (DOE) and its contractors, resolving claims relating to incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in 2014. Operations are now expected to restart at WIPP in December 2016.

The State of New York Public Service Commission yesterday ruled that non-carbon-emitting generation resources including nuclear power plants must be included in the state's Clean ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß StandardÌýportfolio. The CES is to include a support mechanism for upstate nuclear power plants at risk of closure for economic reasons.

Entergy has asked a US federal court to reject New York State's objection to coastal certification of Indian Point, which it says was intended to block a renewal of the nuclear power plant's operating licence.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß (DOE) has selected projects to develop a pebble bed reactor and a molten chloride fast reactor to receive multi-year cost-share funding worth up to a total of $80 million.

A US House of Representatives committee has approved a bipartisan bill to support federal research and development (R&D) and stimulate private investment in advanced nuclear reactor technologies. The approval came as President Barack Obama said the country must move away from "dirty energy".

A team led by Battelle Memorial Institute has been selected by the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß (DOE) to drill a 16,000 feet (4880 metre) test borehole into a crystalline basement rock formation in North Dakota as part of studies into the feasibility of using boreholes for nuclear waste disposal.

Centrus ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Corp has reached agreement with Russian uranium enrichment company Techsnabexport (Tenex) to modify the terms of the long-term supply contract they signed in 2011 and to extend their contractual relationship until 2026.

US nuclear energy programs, including small modular reactors and the development of new advanced reactors, are to receive $960 million under an appropriations act signed into law by President Barack Obama.