The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided MGA Thermal with $1.27 million to build a pilot plant for steam generation from the accumulated thermal energy. The plant will be able to store 5 MWh of energy at a time, follows from the ARENA message.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a directive prescribing the issue of a safety certificate for the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project developed by NuScale company. The regulator thereby has completed a more than five-year process of certification allowing NuScale to begin the SMR construction in the United States.

The scientists at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) have developed an aerostat resembling an airship that can be used for cargo delivery in the Arctic and other remote regions of Russia. The solar-powered airship, named Ecodisolar, uses air lifting gas to save energy for vertical movement.