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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
Zhangzhou-3 becomes third plant under construction at site in Fujian province
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 23 February 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/first-concrete-poured-for-latest-hualong-one-reactor-as-beijing-pushes-ahead-with-nuclear-expansion-2-4-2024
State media puts cost of project south of Shanghai at $6.2 billion
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/construction-of-two-hualong-one-nuclear-plants-begins-at-jinqimen-2-2-2024
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
IAEA says country is fastest expanding nuclear power generator in world
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 04 January 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/state-council-approves-four-reactors-as-beijing-pushes-ahead-with-ambitious-plans-1-3-2024
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
Landmark statement says reactors can help tackle the ‘existential challenge of a rapidly warming planet’
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/world-needs-sustained-and-significant-investment-in-nuclear-energy-says-iaea-12-5-2023
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded a five-day Site and External Events Design (SEED) mission to Kazakhstan to review the country's process for selecting the site of a planned nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-assesses-Kazakh-plant-site-selection-process
G7 ministers reaffirm net zero targets, condemn Russia, and offer only qualified support for nuclear
Group of Seven (G7) energy and environment ministers, following a two-day meeting in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, issued a 36-page communique laying out their commitments ahead of a G7 summit in Hiroshima in May. The detailed statement covered sections on environment, climate and energy. It reaffirmed a commitment to accelerating the clean energy transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “We call on and will work with other countries to end new unabated coal-fired power generation projects globally as soon as possible to accelerate the clean energy transition in a just manner,” the statement says, stipulating that countries should rely on “predominantly” clean energy by 2035.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsg7-ministers-reaffirm-net-zero-targets-condemn-russia-and-offer-only-qualified-support-for-nuclear-10770194