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China's first lead-bismuth alloy zero-power reactor - Qixing (Venus) III - achieved first criticality on 9 October, the China Institute of Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has announced. The milestone marks the start of China's core physics experiments into liquid metal cooled fast reactors.

Terrestrial ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß and NRG have begun an irradiation programme to analyse the behaviour of graphite under the conditions it will experience during the seven-year life of a Terrestrial ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Integrated Molten Salt Reactor core unit.

Romanian utility Nuclearelectrica has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Fostering ALFRED Construction consortium regarding cooperation on the development of the Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator (ALFRED). A demonstration unit is planned to be constructed in Romania.

The UK government has committed GBP220 million (USD270 million) over four years for the conceptual design of the Spherical Tokamak for ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Production (STEP). The STEP programme aims to construct a fusion power plant based on the design by 2040.

An irradiation test on molten nuclear fuel salts inside the High Flux Reactor has been completed at Petten in the Netherlands. The results will yield new data on the safe operation of molten salt reactors.

A project to demonstrate the production of hydrogen in integrated energy systems at US nuclear power plants is one of three selected by the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß to receive a share of USD15 million in its latest announcement of project selectees. At the same time, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded USD15 million in grants to support the development of the country's future nuclear workforce.

Lead test assemblies of Westinghouse EnCore fuel rods containing uranium silicide fuel pellets have been loaded into a commercial nuclear power plant for the first time. The fuels, developed through the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's accident tolerant fuels programme, were loaded into Exelon's Byron unit 2 during a scheduled refuelling outage.

Nuclear research and innovation projects need to receive a higher level of financial support from the European Union in order to help the bloc meet its climate and energy goals, according to a new position paper issued by Foratom.

The US Administration is committed to reviving and revitalising the nuclear industry and is leading by action, not just words, according to US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's National Nuclear Security Administration has signed a USD600 million contract with Cray Inc to build its first exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. The computer will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

The UK plans to make it easier for scientists from overseas to work and live in the country following its departure from the European Union. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the "fast-track visa route" during his visit yesterday to the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, England.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has formally announced the preparation of an environmental impact statement for the construction of a Versatile Test Reactor to test fuels and materials for use in advanced civilian nuclear power reactors.