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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
Landmark statement says reactors can help tackle the ‘existential challenge of a rapidly warming planet’
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/world-needs-sustained-and-significant-investment-in-nuclear-energy-says-iaea-12-5-2023
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Kazakhstan resulted in a raft of agreements covering a wide range of areas. Kazakhstan President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev said the visit was of special importance in terms of determining the prospects for the development of relations between the two countries. He noted that the independent development of the two countries was not an obstacle but resulted in a mutually beneficial partnership” which was “well understood in both Kazakhstan and Russia”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-strengthens-relations-with-kazakhstan-pending-decision-on-npp-construction-11297584
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded a five-day Site and External Events Design (SEED) mission to Kazakhstan to review the country's process for selecting the site of a planned nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-assesses-Kazakh-plant-site-selection-process
The second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was put into commercial operation on 1 November. Together with the first unit the new nuclear power plant will provide about 40% of the country's electricity needs.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 03 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Second-Belarus-unit-enters-commercial-operation
Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said the country is in talks with Russia about a second nuclear plant, and with China for a third one - and has also held out the ambition of adding 5 GW of small modular reactor (SMR) capacity to the country's energy system by 2050.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 September 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Turkey-at-important-point-in-China-nuclear-plant-t
Turkey is in talks with Russia, China and South Korea over its planned second and third nuclear power plants, and with the USA and United Kingdom over small modular reactors (SMRs), Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar is reported to have told a media briefing.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Turkey-aiming-for-20GW-of-nuclear-by-2050s
Spanish, French and Slovakian engineering firms IDOM, Assystem and VUJE have set up the NUClear Engineering Alliance (NUCEAL) to support the development of EDF’s projects in the European Union. The joint venture was launched in Lyon, France, in the presence of French Minister for Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 23 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-engineering-alliance-formed-to-support-edfs-european-projects-10959071
A new joint venture, known as NUCEAL, has been established by French, Spanish and Slovakian engineering firms Assystem, IDOM and VUJE to support the development of EDF's projects in the European Union and possibly in the UK.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 22 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-engineering-alliance-formed-to-support-EDF