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World leaders gathered in Brussels at the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi. The Summit was the highest-level meeting to date exclusively focused on the topic of nuclear energy. It followed inclusion of nuclear energy in the Global Stocktake agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai in December 2023 and the launch of the IAEA’s Atoms4NetZero initiative.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691
Leaders and representatives from 32 countries at the Nuclear Energy Summit backed measures in areas such as financing, technological innovation, regulatory cooperation and workforce training to enable the expansion of nuclear capacity to tackle climate change and boost energy security.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuclear-at-summit
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning and Remediation (ARTEMIS) mission concluded that Croatia is committed to addressing the challenges of managing its radioactive waste. The team also identified specific areas for additional efforts including the development of arrangements for the safe and secure centralised storage of radioactive waste.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 01 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-says-croatia-is-committed-to-safe-radwaste-management-10978596
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is starting the process of evaluating four potential areas for suitability to host the UK's Geological Disposal Facility. It is expected that a final site selection could be a process which takes 10-15 years.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-begins-studies-to-assess-four-potential-GDF-sit
Croatia is committed to addressing the challenges of managing its radioactive waste, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded. Croatia is a co-owner of the Krško nuclear power plant, located in neighbouring Slovenia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 27 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-finds-Croatian-commitment-to-radwaste-managem
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has recently published a 73-page study, which tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment. NEA says the SMR designs are at various stages of development, from fundamental research on new concepts to commercial deployment and operation of mature designs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-development-tracked-by-nea-and-iaea-studies-10691068
In a wide-ranging interview for the World Nuclear News podcast GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s President and CEO Jay Wileman explained why nuclear has a key role in achieving carbon reduction targets, and how regulatory harmonisation between different countries could help speed that process.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 21 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/In-Quotes-GE-Hitachi-s-Jay-Wileman-on-regulatory-h
Estonia's privately held nuclear energy company, Fermi Energia, has chosen GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's (GEH's) BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) for deployment in Estonia by the early 2030s. In 2022 Fermi Energia had accepted tenders from US-Japan joint venture GE Hitachi, US-based NuScale and the UK’s Rolls-Royce. Fermi Energia said the criteria for selection were technological maturity, the establishment of a reference plant, economic competitiveness and the participation of Estonian companies in the supply chain.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 10 February 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsestonias-fermi-energia-chooses-bwrx-300-for-its-smr-programme-10582892
Estonia's Fermi Energia has selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's (GEH's) BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) for potential deployment in the Baltic country by the early 2030s. Two other SMR designs had been under consideration.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 09 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWRX-300-selected-for-Estonia-s-first-nuclear-powe
While many agree the benefits of using nuclear energy to fight climate change and build energy security are clear, there is still a major hurdle to overcome before it is widely accepted as a safe and clean part of the energy mix: the perception that the nuclear industry has a waste "problem", writes Laurie Swami, president and CEO of Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-It-s-time-to-let-the-world-know-we-can-s