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The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has selected five nuclear sites where it will carry out inspections to assess arrangements for and resilience to climate change effects. It recently hosted a meeting with fellow international regulators to discuss the implications of climate change on the nuclear sector.

Date: Friday, 08 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-nuclear-regulator-assesses-preparedness-for-cli

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) have agreed to strengthen joint efforts in the area of nuclear science and technology for climate adaption and mitigation.

Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscop28-iaea-and-opec-fund-strengthen-cooperation-on-climate-mitigation-11365201

Public support for nuclear energy continues to grow as a wave of new nuclear plants - large and small - enter service or are planned, and communications strategies need to evolve to match the new outlook, writes Jarret Adams, CEO of Full On Communications. 

Date: Thursday, 19 October 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Navigating-the-Communications-Challenge-of-Nuclear

Successful deployment of small modular reactor (SMR) technology must leverage private sector investment, a new report by the Indian government's NITI Aayog public policy think-tank has found.

Date: Friday, 19 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Private-sector-investment-essential-for-SMR-deploy

France-based project management, engineering, and digital services company, Assystem has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samruk-Kazyna, Kazkahstan’s National Welfare Fund of Kazakhstan during an official visit of Kazak President Kassym-Jomart to Paris. The MOU outlines areas for cooperation on Kazakhstan’s new civil nuclear power programme.

Date: Thursday, 08 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsassystem-signs-mou-with-kazak-national-welfare-fund-10414280

France’s Framatome has announced a strategic partnership with Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, to accelerate studies for long-term advancements and enhanced safety of operations for the nuclear industry. Framatome and Inria will utilise complementary skills in the integration of digital innovations to fast-track efforts to apply innovative safety approaches to nuclear plants.

Date: Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-and-inria-partner-to-accelerate-npp-safety-studies-9790125

Framatome and Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, have entered a strategic partnership to accelerate studies for long-term advancements and enhanced safety of operations for the nuclear industry.

Date: Saturday, 18 June 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Inria,-Framatome-team-up-on-digital-nuclear-safety

Finland’s Posiva Oy has launched a project for modelling the groundwater chemistry in the bedrock of the site for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel far into the future using one of the most efficient computers in the world. Posiva, which is responsible for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel, is jointly owned by Finnish nuclear utilities Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima Oyj. “This is probably the most demanding modelling of groundwater chemistry to date, anywhere in the world. The goal of the project is to verify the balancing of long-term safety with economic sustainability. This will open the way to industrial final disposal far into the future,” Posiva noted.

Date: Friday, 29 April 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsposiva-models-groundwater-chemistry-in-olkiluoto-9658841

European industry body Foratom is hopeful that a new conversation around nuclear energy in light of the continent's gas crisis will bring the policy framework needed for it to make a major contribution to 2030 energy targets, a Moody's webinar heard.

Date: Thursday, 04 November 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Evolution-in-EU-nuclear-debate

The current approaches to assessing financial adequacy for decommissioning and radioactive waste management - which are based on the linear discounting of estimated future costs - should be complemented with a broader "circular" approach, a new OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) report proposes. This approach, it says, reflects that changes of different kinds will play out between today's decisions and future funding needs.

Date: Saturday, 19 June 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NEA-proposes-new-approach-for-assessing-back-end-f