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US microreactor developer Last Energy announced it has raised USD40 million for its Series B round of funding, bringing total capital raised to USD64 million since the company's founding in 2019. It also said it has now reached commercial agreements for 80 of its microreactors.

Date: Friday, 30 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Funding-and-commercial-agreements-grow-for-Last-En

The Nuclear Company aims to redefine how large-scale nuclear infrastructure projects are delivered in the USA using proven, licensed technology in a fleet-scale model - and is taking to the road in a campaign bus to build support for its vision.

Date: Saturday, 03 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Startup-brings-fresh-approach-to-US-nuclear-deploy

Sweden and the USA have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at pursuing cooperation in industrial collaboration, technology development, and research and innovation in technologies related to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Date: Saturday, 03 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sweden,-USA-agree-to-nuclear-cooperation

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a strategy aimed at accelerating the viability of commercial fusion energy in partnership with the private sector. The department also announced USD180 million to support fusion research at an event in Washington, DC.

Date: Saturday, 08 June 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USA-sets-roadmap-for-fusion-commercialisation

All remaining highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's (JAEA's) Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly has now been returned to the USA. Japan and the USA have been cooperating for many years to repatriate HEU from Japanese research reactors to the USA.

Date: Saturday, 13 April 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-Japanese-research-reactor-free-of-HEU

The USA and the European Union have reiterated their intent to strengthen their strategic relationship to ensure energy security, align policies, and deepen cooperation on technologies and innovation, all with the aim of accelerating the global transition to climate neutrality.

Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EU,-US-council-underlines-joint-strategic-efforts

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subsidiary of South Korea's HD Hyundai, is to collaborate in a nuclear shipping project with UK start-up Core Power and US Southern Company and TerraPower. This followed a joint research and technology exchange meeting at Terrapower’s headquarters in Washington DC.

Date: Saturday, 10 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskorean-shipbuilder-joins-nuclear-shipping-project-11502161

South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) plans to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) for use in shipping in cooperation with the UK's Core Power and the USA's Southern Company and TerraPower.

Date: Thursday, 08 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Korean-shipbuilder-joins-maritime-SMR-project

Following talks in Washington between US Deputy Secretary of Energy David M Turk and the UK Minister for Nuclear & Networks, Andrew Bowie a new strategic partnership was established to advance fusion energy. “The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) said in a statement that they had “decided to form a major new strategic partnership to accelerate the?demonstration and?commercialization of fusion energy”.?This partnership will focus on advancing the US?Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy?and the UK’s?Fusion Strategy.

Date: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-and-uk-form-strategic-partnership-to-advance-fusion-energy-11297592