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Addressing Atomexpo 2024 in Sochi, southern Russia, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó called for nuclear energy to remain a field of international cooperation, and expressed regret that the field was riddled with ideological debates. “As long as infrastructure determines energy cooperation, ideology should have nothing to do with [it],” he said. He added that, whereas nuclear energy had been “a victim of ideology” recently, Europe had “overcome” discrimination, “thanks mostly to the fact that France is a pro-nuclear country”. He added: “We were able to win our debates in Europe and make it recognised that generating electricity in a nuclear way is sustainable, safe and cheap.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsszijjrt-criticises-politicisation-of-nuclear-energy-11635619
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
Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev say that work on the new Paks II nuclear power plant is progressing well, with production of the melt trap completed in Russia and work on the reactor vessel set to start.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Paks-II-aims-for-first-concrete-in-2024,-work-on-r
It is neither sensible nor safe to replace the Russian nuclear fuel used in the VVER-440 reactors at Hungary’s Paks NPP with fuel from another supplier, Hungarian nuclear engineer Zsolt Hárfás said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet. “An often asked question is whether fresh Russian nuclear fuel used in the VVER-440 reactors at the Paks NPP can be quickly replaced by fuel from alternative producers. The short answere is ‘no’ because currently none of the Western manufacturers has an officially approved fuel assembly suitable for VVER-440 units,” he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-expert-advises-against-replacing-russian-fuel-rods-at-paks-11443001
The 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) ended in Dubai with a lengthy agreement unanimously adopted by all parties calling for a transitioning away from fossil fuels and an acceleration of zero- and low-emission technologies. Although nuclear was included, it was mentioned just once in paragraph 28, sub-section (e) of the 197-paragraph text.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 15 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscop28-ends-with-agreement-to-accelerate-green-technologies-including-nuclear-11372830
The 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) has ended in Dubai with a Global Stocktake - unanimously agreed by all parties - calling for a transitioning away from fossil fuels and an acceleration of zero- and low-emission technologies, including nuclear.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/COP28-agreement-recognises-nuclear-s-role
At the 28th Conference of the Parties to the original 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), 22 countries signed a declaration supporting tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The document was signed by the heads of state, or senior officials, from Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA. China and Russia did not sign, although they have the world’s fastest growing and most ambitious nuclear power programmes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscop28-22-countries-target-tripling-global-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050-11347824
Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Sunday, 03 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ministerial-declaration-puts-nuclear-at-heart-of-c
European Union (EU) countries may delete a key part of planned reforms to Europe's electricity market in the face of continued disagreements between France and Germany, Reuters has reported.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgerman-french-disagreements-block-eu-power-market-reforms-11198447