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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

Italy is a steadfast partner in the challenges facing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today with a long history of achievements in the nuclear field, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi commented, as he travelled to Rome. During his two-day visit, Grossi met with Italy’s President and Foreign Minister, as well as with Pope Francis. Discussions covered a variety of issues including nuclear safety and security in Ukraine, nuclear non-proliferation, and the role of nuclear science and technology in combating climate change.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrossi-holds-talks-with-italian-leaders-and-pope-francis-10523617

The proposed inclusion of certain nuclear and gas activities within the European Union's list of officially approved "green" investments is set to become law after an attempt to block it fails in the European Parliament.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 07 July 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/European-Parliament-backs-nuclear-and-gas-in-EU-ta

Jeremy Gordon says that rising gas prices show that Europe can’t afford to do without nuclear

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Saturday, 18 December 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscoming-to-a-head--9329540

People crying out for practical solutions to climate crisis, letter says Union leaders from across Europe have urged policymakers to choose nuclear power as they discuss how to accelerate the path to net zero at the UN Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

The leaders of 12 major unions representing workers in the nuclear sector said in an open letter that Cop26 is a chance for policymakers to choose emission-free energy, good jobs and sustainable prosperity – and that means choosing nuclear power as part of a balanced energy system.

They said too often, climate activism and discourse has ignored nuclear and muted the voice of the people who rely on it. “People are crying out for practical solutions to the climate crisis, ones that offer real hope in a green economy,” they wrote in the letter.

They said the nuclear issue is the subject of a political debate, but there is no scientific debate because every serious expert analysis confirms that the world needs nuclear to hit net zero.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/union-leaders-urge-leaders-to-include-nuclear-in-clean-energy-mix-11-1-2021

Yves Desbazeille says nuclear is vital but is not always part of the debate in Brussels Yves Desbazeille, head of Brussels-based industry group Foratom, says nuclear can help energy systems survive the impact of renewables' intermittency. Europe has ‘simply not addressed’ energy security issueLong-term operation of reactors needs to be on agendaNuclear can be vital for production of green hydrogenNuclear needs to be part of bloc’s green finance taxonomy

NucNet: Foratom has been warning policymakers in Brussels about the risks related to an energy supply that is based largely on renewables and natural gas. We now have a situation where power prices in Europe have increased to unsustainably high levels. How would you explain this?

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/we-cannot-see-a-serious-solution-for-the-future-of-energy-supply-with-100-renewables-10-2-2021

Thirty-five years on from the Chernobyl accident, Ukraine and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have highlighted their commitment to cooperation in nuclear power. Meanwhile Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has launched the start of operations at a new storage facility for used nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl site.  

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Title

A group of 46 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from 18 countries has written to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, calling for the inclusion of nuclear energy in the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments. The exclusion of nuclear, they say, would promote a strategy that is "clearly inadequate" to decarbonise the region's economy.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 08 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NGOs-call-for-nuclears-inclusion-in-EU-taxonomy

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, says "the time is not ripe" for an unofficial meeting proposed by Josep Borrell, EU foreign affairs chief and coordinator of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA). His statement follows Iran's commencement last week of restrictions on some site inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 02 March 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Iran-says-time-not-ripe-for-talks-on-nuclear-deal

The UK-based New Nuclear Watch Institute (NNWI), an industry supported think-tank, has published a 28-page report “On the Role of Nuclear Power in the Development of a European Hydrogen Economy”.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Friday, 18 December 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnnwi-report-looks-at-nuclears-role-in-hydrogen-production-8415416

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