Lightbridge Corporation has fabricated coupon samples using enriched uranium-zirconium alloy representative of the fuel material alloy composition it plans to use in its commercial next-generation fuel.
Russia's Baltic Shipyard has demonstrated the use of a collaborative robot and a welding robot with machine vision, which it says will be an important part of the plant's modernisation programme.
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced a partnership which will see innovative technology deployed for the first time on a nuclear site to remotely and autonomously sort and segregate radioactive waste.
Software development company Palantir Technologies Inc is partnering with The Nuclear Company to develop and deploy an AI-driven, real-time software system that they say will transform the construction of nuclear reactors.
Four European nuclear technology organisations have launched the Eagles Consortium to develop and commercialise the EAGLES-300 next-generation lead-cooled small modular reactor with the aim of delivering a first demonstration by 2035.
Lightbridge's advanced nuclear fuel technology has completed the final design review for its upcoming irradiation experiment at Idaho National Laboratory - and expects to benefit from a groundbreaking testing method developed by the lab.