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Lead author of World Nuclear Performance Report, Jonathan Cobb, outlines the key findings on the industry's performance in 2023, including the trend that older plants are operating better than ever.

Date: Friday, 06 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-World-Nuclear-Performance-Report,-and-The

Global nuclear electricity generation increased in 2023, despite a 1 GWe drop in overall capacity, to 392 GWe, of operable nuclear power plants, according to a new report from World Nuclear Association. Average capacity factors also rose during the year.

Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-fleet-maintained-high-performance-in-2023

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Centre of Excellence for Safeguards and Non-Proliferation has been launched at uranium enrichment services provider Urenco's Capenhurst site in the UK. The centre will be fully operational in 2025.

Date: Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-Centre-of-Excellence-launched-at-Capenhurst

President Biden has signed into law HR 1042, the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, just two weeks after the bill was passed unanimously by the US Senate. The legislation, which bans the import of Russian-produced low enriched uranium (LEU), will come into effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of the bill, and will remain in effect until the end of 2040. Waivers may be granted to allow the import of limited amounts of LEU, under certain circumstances, until 1 January 2028.

Date: Friday, 17 May 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-ban-on-russian-uranium-signed-into-law-11779066

Atomic Canyon has announced a new project with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to use the Frontiers supercomputer to build a safe, efficient, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model for the nuclear sector - and the Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory is confirmed to have surpassed the exascale threshold.

Date: Friday, 17 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-research-to-benefit-from-US-supercomputer

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi spent two days in Iran for talks with high level officials including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iranian Top Nuclear Negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami. His visit was at Eslami’s invitation, in order to also participate in the 1st International Conference on Nuclear Science & Technology (ICNST) as well as the 30th National Nuclear Conference in Isfahan (see related story).

Date: Saturday, 11 May 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshigh-level-talks-between-iaea-and-iran-considered-positive-11757655

The Group of Seven (G7) nations undertook to support the use of nuclear energy in countries that opt for its use, following a two-day Ministerial Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment in Italy. The G7 includes Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the USA as well as the European Union. The ministerial meeting was in preparation for the G7 summit planned for June.

Date: Friday, 03 May 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsg7-acknowledges-need-for-nuclear-despite-differences-on-energy-policy-11733162