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IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, opening a recent International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future (FR22) in Vienna stressed the need to develop fast reactor technology.

Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-focuses-on-fast-reactors-9648274

The challenges the nuclear industry faces are largely external and must be overcome if it is to help tackle the existential threat of climate change, panellists in the Nuclear Energy and its Future session of the Reuters Next conference on 11 January said. These challenges include: the notion nuclear is an out-dated technology; the cost of finance; market design; political changes; perceived competition with renewable energy; and the public's misconceptions about radioactive waste.

Date: Friday, 15 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-real-challenges-to-nuclear-are-external,-says

The 2020 edition of the biennial International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) booklet, Advances in Small Modular Reactor Technology Developments provides the latest data and information on SMRs around the world, including detailed descriptions of 72 reactors under development or construction in 18 countries.

Date: Wednesday, 04 November 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-iaea-publication-looks-at-smr-development-8342387

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), an initiative involving 13 countries focused on next generation nuclear power technologies, have called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative nuclear reactor systems to address climate change, IAEA reported on 17 July. Participants in the 14th GIF-IAEA Interface Meeting, held virtually amid the global pandemic, reviewed progress on the research, design and development of innovative nuclear reactor systems, including in areas such as nuclear safety, proliferation resistance, economics, education and training. 

Date: Thursday, 23 July 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-and-gif-call-for-faster-deployment-of-next-generation-reactors-8039068

France’s Framatome and the Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA - Atomic & Alternative Energies Commission) on 3 December signed a cooperation agreement in Tokyo with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR). This followed the agreement established in 2014 for the Astrid [Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration] sodium-cooled fast reactor project, which was effectively cancelled earlier this year.

Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-and-japan-to-co-operate-on-fast-reactor-research-7547862

France’s Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA - Atomic & Alternative Energies Commission) is abandoning plans to build its prototype fast-breeder for the ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) project, Le Monde reported on 30 August. 

Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-cancels-astrid-fast-reactor-project-7394432


Indonesia will not used to nuclear energy to meet its target of 136.7GWe of power capacity by 2025 or 430GWe by 2050, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said said on 12 December. This effectively cancels a previous $8bn plan to operate four nuclear plants with a total capacity of 6GWe by 2025. "We have arrived at the conclusion that this is not the time to build up nuclear power capacity. We still have many alternatives and we do not need to raise any controversies," he noted.

Date: Monday, 14 December 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindonesia-rules-out-nuclear-as-major-power-source-4752814

6 May (NucNet): France and Japan will cooperate on the development of Generation IV fast breeder reactors (FBR) including the Astrid project, which is under development in France.

Date: Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Original article: nucnet.org/news/france-and-japan-announce-cooperation-on-generation-iv-astrid-fbr