California-based startup Deep Fission has chosen Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas, for its pilot project and plans to build a full-scale commercial plant there following the test reactor demonstration.
Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications.
The US regulator has completed its final safety evaluation for TerraPower's application to build Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, one month ahead of its already accelerated schedule.
Samples of enriched uranium-zirconium alloy fuel material are being irradiated in the lab's Advanced Test Reactor, a significant step forward in the development and testing programme which is part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between Lightbridge and INL.