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Participants in a programme launched by the IAEA during the COVID-19 pandemic have agreed to step up joint efforts to fight the monkeypox and Lassa fever viruses using nuclear science.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 10 June 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-science-to-help-tackle-monkeypox,-Lassa-fe

IAEA head warns of consequences of failure to embrace energy source Rafael Grossi said a lack of willingness to embrace nuclear energy would curtail capacity growth and hamper efforts to halt climate change. Courtesy IAEA. The International Atomic Energy Agency will highlight the role of nuclear techniques in supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, with director-general Rafael Grossi saying he will personally deliver the message to the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow that nuclear energy “is and must be part of the solution”.

In a statement to the 65th regular session of the agency’s general conference, which is taking place in Vienna this week, Mr Grossi said nuclear can help with climate-smart agriculture, sustainable land-water use, and the environment.

He said the agency’s latest forecast envisages a doubling of the present levels of nuclear-generated electricity production capacity by 2050 in the high case scenario. This relies on both lifetime extensions of existing plants and about 550 GW of new build.

According to the agency’s low case scenario, however, a lack of willingness to embrace nuclear energy would curtail capacity growth, causing the world to fall well short of doing what is necessary to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/nuclear-is-and-must-be-part-of-solution-to-climate-change-9-1-2021

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to increase by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021 - the biggest annual rise in emissions since 2010, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This increase, reversing most of last year's decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is being driven by a strong rebound in demand for coal in electricity generation.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Coal-demand-to-boost-CO2-emissions-in-2021-says-IE

The pandemic has shown the resilience of the nuclear industry to act responsibly, both as a supplier of energy and as an employer, the head of the world's biggest uranium producer said today. In his address to delegates at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle forum, Kazatomprom CEO Galymzhan Pirmatov said the wellbeing of the company's 20,000 employees was his first priority.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 15 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kazatomprom-put-health-before-profit-during-pandem

Covid-19 pandemic is continuing to affect work at the site, company says The Vogtle-3 construction site in November 2020. Courtesy Georgia Power. Georgia Power is likely to adjust the dates for the start of hot functional testing and fuel load for the Vogtle-3 nuclear power plant under construction in the US, but still expects to achieve the November 2021 and 2022 regulatory-approved in-service dates for Units 3 and 4 respectively.

Since October 2020, the Vogtle site in the state of Georgia has seen a significant increase in Covid-19 cases, Georgia Power said. This increase, combined with “other productivity challenges”, continues to impact construction production and the pace of testing activity completion, it added.

Last year Georgia Power said it expected to begin hot functional testing in January 2021 and fuel loading in April 2021.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/georgia-power-likely-to-revise-schedule-for-hot-testing-and-fuel-load-at-unit-3-1-2-2021

Nuclear science and non-power nuclear applications have never been more important, writes Dr. Yuri Seleznev, rector of Rosatom Technical Academy (Rosatom Tech).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 06 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Nuclear-science-and-the-path-to-sustaina