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The strategy outlining how the province aims to transition to clean energy calls for the addition of 600 MWe of capacity at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generation Station by 2035, doubling New Brunswick's current nuclear capacity.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-Brunswick-releases-energy-strategy-with-SMR-fo
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted to include 17 technologies in the EU’s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), including nuclear energy. The MEPs led by the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), the liberal Renew group, and the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) voted 376 in favour, 139 against with 116 abstentions. EU member states will now discuss the issue in the Council of Ministers before it is finalised in December. They are expected to reduce the list.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 24 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newseu-parliament-includes-nuclear-in-net-zero-industry-act-11322086
The Atlantic Declaration for a US-UK Economic Partnership, announced by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden, says the two nations aim to build resilient, diversified, secure supply chains and reduce strategic dependencies - and includes a new high-level US-UK civil nuclear partnership.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-UK-declaration-includes-nuclear-partnership
"A new clean energy economy is emerging - and emerging much faster than many realise," International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said at the launch of the agency's eighth World Energy Investment report.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-report-on-clean-energy-investments-says-little-about-nuclear-10897991
Ukrainian nuclear power operator Energoatom is entering retail electricity through a network of electric vehicle chargers branded ATOMcharge. A network of 120 charging stations is to begin construction within two years, the company said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ATOMcharge-Energoatom-s-new-charging-network-for-e
SK Inc and SK Innovation - both affiliates of SK Group, Korea's second-largest conglomerate - have invested USD250 million in US nuclear innovation company TerraPower. The investment by SK is part of the latest private capital fundraise, which has raised at least USD750 million of investment in TerraPower.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 17 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/South-Koreas-SK-Group-invests-in-TerraPower
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says that without "immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IPCC-sets-out-energy-options-for-liveable-future
The UK nuclear insurance pool has expanded its capacity to EUR1.2 billion (USD1.4 billion), which will provide the "insurance certainty" to allow the nuclear sector to support the net zero transition, London-based Nuclear Risk Insurers (NRI) said yesterday. It has finalised its position on covering the extensions of liability created as part of the 2004 Protocol Amendment to the Paris Convention which comes into force on 1 January 2022.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-nuclear-insurers-provide-certainty-to-support-d
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) on 6 October released a new report, “Small Modular Reactors in the Australian Context”, which offers an overview of SMRs, their potential role in Australia and likely operating costs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsminerals-council-of-australia-looks-at-smrs-9138244
In his column for Zeit online on 10 August, Theo Sommer, the respected editor-at-large at Die Zeit, said Germany still needs nuclear power. He asks: “Will the lights go out in Germany in 2023 because we are no longer producing enough electricity?” He says German electricity consumption is currently around 580TWh per year, while the Federal Economy Ministry estimates that demand will increase by 15% to 645 to 665TWh in 2030.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrespected-german-intellectual-pleads-for-nuclear-8991276