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.

• China
• United Kingdom
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• France
• United States
• Canada
• Japan
• India
• South Korea
• European Union
• Turkey
• United Arab Emirates
• Finland
• International Energy Agency
• Efficient energy use
• Poland
• Pakistan
• Sweden
• Kazakhstan
• Italy
• Belgium
• Saudi Arabia
• Egypt
• Philippines
• Netherlands
• Hungary
• Serbia
• Czech Republic
• Brussels
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Armenia
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Ursula von der Leyen
• Viktor Orbán
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Mark Rutte
• 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
• Net zero emissions
• 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference

Source: NEI Magazine

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691

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Country has one commercial reactor at Borssele Incumbent prime minister Mark Rutte is expecting his fourth term in power. Image courtesy New Democracy (Nea Demokratia) / Flickr. The newly formed Dutch governing coalition has decided to include the construction of two new nuclear power units in the country as part of future energy and climate policies, according to the official document published yesterday.

The agreement said nuclear power can complement generation from renewable energy sources including solar, wind, and geothermal, and makes the Netherlands less dependent on gas imports.

The Netherlands have one commercial reactor unit in operation at Borssele, in the southwest province of Zeeland, near the Belgian border. It is a 482-MW Siemens-built pressurised water reactor unit which came online in 1973.

• International Atomic Energy Agency
• Europe
• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Christian Democratic Appeal
• People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Democrats 66
• Mark Rutte

Source: Nucnet

Date: Friday, 17 December 2021

Original article: nucnet.org/news/construction-of-two-new-nuclear-units-becomes-part-of-governing-coalition-deal-12-4-2021

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