The present work reports the role of different atomic mobility induced localized pore evolution on densification during spark plasma sintering of nanocrystalline W-Mo alloy powder. The shrinkage (or expansion) behavior of cold compacted milled powders was studied using dilatometry during non-isothermal sintering up to 1600 °C. Subsequently, the milled powders were densified to ~95% relative density using spark plasma sintering up to 1600 °C. The enhanced localized Joule heating due to dynamically evolved porous structure could be attributed for the densification during spark plasma sintering.Spark plasma sintering (SPS) has shown a great promise over the last few decades due to several advantages than the conventional sintering processes, such as densifying variety of materials to fully dense structure at a lower temperature in a short duration of time with a possibility of retaining the fine grain structure [1][2][3]. These benefits are primarily attributed to localized heating mechanism [4,5]. However, localized heating mechanisms are highly dependent on the nature of contact between the particles in due course of sintering process of conductive materials. It has been established that the localized heating and electrosintering mechanisms will be highest and largely contributing at the initial stages of sintering (with more point contacts and higher current) and gradually decreases with time [6,7]. The nature