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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has released its Energy Sector Strategy 2024-28. EBRD says it “prioritises the urgent need to accelerate the decarbonisation of energy through scaling up renewables, enhancing grids and storage, promoting zero-carbon fuels and phasing out unabated fossil fuels.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsebrds-energy-sector-strategy-ignores-nuclear-11387315
Remediation work at legacy uranium mining sites in Uzbekistan is under way, supported by a €9m ($11m) grant from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA) – set up on the initiative of the European Union (EU) and managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsremediation-begins-at-former-uranium-mining-sites-in-uzbekistan-11160714
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded a five-day mission to Uzbekistan to review safety processes for evaluating the site for its first NPP. The Site & External Events Design Review Service (SEED) mission was carried out at the request of the Uzbek government and hosted by the state agency for the development of nuclear energy, Uzatom.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 February 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-team-reviews-npp-site-evaluation-for-uzbekistan-10558479
An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has concluded a five-day Site and External Events Design (SEED) mission to Uzbekistan, which plans to build its first nuclear power plant in the southeast of the country.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-completes-siting-review-for-Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan’s Nuclear Energy Development Agency under the Ministry of Energy, Uzatom, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the field of nuclear infrastructure development with Rosatom Technical Academy and Russian nuclear utility Rosenergoatom. For Russia, the MoU was signed by the General Director of Rosenergoatom, Andrey Petrov, and the rector of the Rosatom Technical Academy, Yuri Seleznev. General Director of the Uzatom Agency Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov signed for Uzbekistan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 15 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuzatom-signs-mou-on-nuclear-infrastructure-development-9851396
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Rosenergoatom, Rosatom Training Academy and the Agency for Nuclear Power Engineering Development at the Ministry of Energy in Uzbekistan.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 15 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-and-Uzbekistan-sign-MoU-on-nuclear-infrast
Uzbekistan is "making great strides" in developing its nuclear and regulatory infrastructure in strong partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Uzbek Minister of Energy Alisher Sultanov told participants in the 64th IAEA General Conference yesterday. Speaking via video-link to the annual event in Vienna, Sultanov provided an update on the Central Asian country’s new nuclear power programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Uzbekistan-on-track-for-IAEA-mission-this-year,-sa
The leadership of the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan met with a Hungarian delegation to Tashkent last month, during which they discussed Hungary's willingness for partnership in the energy sector.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 13 August 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Uzbek-Hungarian-ministers-discuss-cooperation-in-n
Officials from both countries are working on an extensive EPC agreement, but a number of “uncoordinated” issues remain to be resolved, Tass quoted Rosatom’s general director Alexei Likhachev as saying
According to Tass, Uzbekistan and Russia were said to agree the final terms of the contract before an official visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Moscow scheduled for June 2020.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 29 February 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/rosatom-considers-inking-of-epc-agreement-possible-in-june-2020-say-reports-2-5-2020
Four projects aimed at building up Uzbekistan's technical capacity, human resources, developing nuclear infrastructure, and strengthening nuclear and radiation safety have been approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) board of governors. The Central Asian country aims to have two nuclear power reactors in operation by 2030.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-approves-four-projects-for-Uzbekistan