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During his recent visit to China, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi discussed the situation at the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) with both Chinese officials and Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev. Grossi is trying to win support for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss ZNPP later in May.

Date: Saturday, 27 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporizhia-npp-discussed-in-china-10888079

Members of the International Nuclear Regulators' Association (INRA) have released a joint statement affirming their commitment to work together on generic design assessment and licensing of small modular reactor (SMR) technologies.

Date: Saturday, 27 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulators-support-international-collaboration-on

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and other IAEA officials have signed several agreements at the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA), during Grossi’s first official visit to China. Grossi met with several high-level officials and visited nuclear facilities and institutions in Beijing, Shanghai and Shandong.

Date: Friday, 26 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsagreements-signed-during-first-official-visit-to-china-by-iaeas-grossi-10884614

The IVG.1M research reactor at Kazakhstan’s National Nuclear Centre (NNC) in Kurchatov, has resumed formal operation using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, following completion its conversion and subsequent licensing.

Date: Thursday, 25 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazakhstan-research-reactor-switches-to-leu-fuel-10881376

In his latest update on the situation at the Zaporizhia NPP, IAEA  Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the plant had lost all external power for several hours, underlining the extremely precarious nuclear safety and security situation at the facility and the urgent need to protect it and prevent an accident.

Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporozhia-npp-loses-external-power-for-several-hours-10876375

Four Danish companies – Topsoe, Alfa Laval, Copenhagen Atomics, and Aalborg – are supporting a project to use small modular reactors (SMRs) to produce energy for ammonia production by Indonesia companies Pupuk Kaltim along with Pertamina New & Renewable Energy. The agreement was signed in Copenhagen at Topsoe HQ in Lyngby, Denmark, and all participating companies were present, as well as officials from the Indonesian embassy.

Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdanish-companies-support-smr-use-for-ammonia-production-in-indonesia-10876912

India’s National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), a government-supported public policy think tank, is advocating blending finances and green bonds to attract private sector investment for the construction of small modular reactors (SMRs) to decarbonise India’s energy sector in its report, “The Role of Small Modular Reactors in Energy Transition”.

Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsniti-advocates-private-investment-for-smrs-10876948

Several agreements were signed between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Chinese entities during the opening day of IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi's first official visit to China since taking office in 2019.

Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-strengthens-cooperation-with-China

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says agreement on protecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is needed urgently, saying "this situation cannot continue" after its link to external power supplies was lost for most of the morning on Monday and it was forced to rely on emergency diesel generators for a seventh occasion.

Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fresh-concerns-for-Zaporizhzhia-after-external-pow