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BWX Technologies Inc shares rose 8% in Tuesday trade after the company announced its BANR microreactor technology was selected for a Transportable Nuclear Power Plant project in Belledune, New Brunswick. Prodigy Clean Energy, Pabineau First Nation and Eel River Bar First Nations chose BWXT's reactor for the Indigenous-led nuclear project, which will feature an up to 50 megawatts electric Prodigy TNPP within the traditional territory of the Pabineau and Eel River Bar First Nations, with targeted in-service operation by the early 2030s. The BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor is a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor designed to produce 75 megawatts thermal, or 22 MWe, using high-assay low-enriched uranium in a TRISO fuel form. The Government of New Brunswick provided Prodigy and the First Nations with a signed Letter of Intent to offtake the generated electricity, and BWXT Canada and Kinectrics Inc., a BWXT-owned company, will deploy a Canadian workforce to support the project. The two BANR units and other systems for the Belledune TNPP will be principally fabricated at BWXT's facilities in Ontario, and BWXT and Prodigy are working toward a definitive agreement for cooperative project development, engineering, licensing, supply chain integration, financing and deployment of BANR-TNPPs.

NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary HALEU Energy Fuel Inc. have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement with Radnostix, Inc., formerly International Isotopes Inc., and its subsidiary International Isotopes Fluorine Products, Inc. to acquire strategic U.S. nuclear fuel processing assets, including a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license and related intellectual property and technical materials tied to a previously planned depleted uranium hexafluoride deconversion and fluorine extraction facility in Lea County, New Mexico. Upon completion of the transaction and transfer of the NRC license, NANO Nuclear would own one of ten NRC-licensed fuel cycle facilities in the United States. Under the agreement, consideration at closing is $9.5 million in cash and $4.0 million in NANO common stock, with closing subject to NRC consent to the license transfer, other required approvals and consents including from New Mexico officials, satisfactory site arrangements and other closing conditions, and the parties currently expect closing in approximately 90 to 120 days. The NRC license was originally issued to construct and operate the DUF6 deconversion and fluorine extraction facility, which was never built, and the acquisition also includes related patented technology, engineering and safety analyses, regulatory and permitting materials, equipment and historical project development records. NANO Nuclear said the existing licensed asset could offer a significantly more efficient regulatory pathway than developing and licensing a comparable facility on a new site, and that no final investment decision has been made on the optimal commercial and development pathway for the acquired assets.