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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
The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report, Electricity 2024, dedicates a significant amount of space to nuclear power – a departure from its previous studies which treated it as peripheral. In its press release on the new report, IEA says the increase in electricity generation from renewables and nuclear "appears to be pushing the power sector's emissions into structural decline". Over the next three years, low-emissions generation is set to rise at twice the annual growth rate between 2018 and 2023. Global emissions from electricity generation are expected to decrease by 2.4% in 2024, followed by smaller declines in 2025 and 2026.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-acknowledges-significance-of-nuclear-energy-in-new-report-11463539
Renewables together with nuclear power are expected to meet the vast majority of the increase in global electricity demand over the next three years, making significant rises in the power sector's carbon emissions unlikely, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 10 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IEA-highlights-nuclear-s-key-role-in-coming-years
In a special report the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that nuclear is set to make a "comeback" and sees capacity doubling between 2020 and 2050 in its global pathway to hit zero emissions.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-needed-to-play-key-role-in-hitting-climate
Belgium's planned phase-out of nuclear energy is likely to lead to greater use of gas-fired generation and increased emissions, according to a new policy review by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IEA-highlights-concerns-over-Belgian-nuclear-phase
The Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Fanc) said in a report for the government that updates would be needed to the Doel-4 and Tihange-3 nuclear plants if their operation is to be extended and that the government should order the start of planning for this by the end of January.
Any extension to the plants’ operating lifetimes should be for at least 10 years to “be able to develop a comprehensive action plan to improve nuclear safety”, Fanc said. It should also be confirmed that human resources are available to organise the extension of two reactors simultaneously with the dismantling of the other five, as well as the management and storage of radioactive waste.
Fanc added that the analysis was requested by the government just before Christmas. If a report due in March by grid operator Elia shows that security of energy supply after 2025 is threatened without nuclear, the government wants to consider keeping Doel-4 and Tihange-3 in operation longer.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 20 January 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/regulator-gives-provisional-approval-for-extension-of-two-nuclear-plants-1-2-2022
The agreement said nuclear power can complement generation from renewable energy sources including solar, wind, and geothermal, and makes the Netherlands less dependent on gas imports.
The Netherlands have one commercial reactor unit in operation at Borssele, in the southwest province of Zeeland, near the Belgian border. It is a 482-MW Siemens-built pressurised water reactor unit which came online in 1973.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 17 December 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/construction-of-two-new-nuclear-units-becomes-part-of-governing-coalition-deal-12-4-2021
Given the EU's legally binding 2050 comprehensive decarbonisation policy with adequate CO2 pricing, the closure of many large nuclear power plants in Belgium and Germany, and an EU-wide coal power phase out by 2030-2050 and the inability of intermittent renewable energy to supply the scale and quality of energy needed for continent-scale decarbonisation, there is a strong business case to deploy small modular reactors (SMRs) in the EU by 2040, writes Kalev Kallemets, co-founder and CEO of Fermi Energia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Energy-crisis-demands-quickly-scalable-S
The commission said the CRM will contribute to ensuring security of electricity supply, especially as Belgium has decided to phase out all commercial nuclear capacity by 2025.
The approval follows an in-depth investigation launched by the commission in September 2020 to assess if Belgian plans to introduce the national market-wide mechanism were in line with EU state aid rules.
The CRM, which is intended to replace the Belgian strategic reserve, will select beneficiaries through a competitive bidding process. They will be remunerated for their availability in situations where there is shortage of supply and receive capacity payment for the duration of the agreement, which would range between one and 15 years, depending on the size of investment.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 07 September 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/subsidy-approval-and-nuclear-phaseout-will-make-country-one-of-most-polluting-energy-producers-in-europe-9-1-2021