A joint venture established by global investment firm Brookfield and nuclear project development and delivery company The Nuclear Company is to project manage the completion of the two VC Summer AP1000 units in South Carolina.

The giant Basemat module, which will serve as the foundation of the reactor building for the first small modular reactor to be built in a G7 country, has been set into place 35 metres below ground in the excavated reactor building shaft.

Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2667 TWh of electricity in 2024, beating the previous record of 2660 TWh which was set back in 2006, according to World Nuclear Performance Report 2025.