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The European Commission must acknowledge the "critical role" that nuclear energy has to play under its sustainable finance initiative, European nuclear trade body Foratom said yesterday. The Commission, it said, should reconsider its decision to exclude nuclear from economic activities covered by th

Kazakhstan's JSC National Atomic Company Kazatomprom announced today it had signed a commercial agreement to supply natural uranium to Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB). Kazatomprom said it had won INB's tender to supply natural uranium hexafluoride for the needs of the Brazilian nuclear power in

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FORATOM calls on the European Commission to acknowledge the critical role which nuclear energy has to play under the sustainable finance initiative.  We strongly believe the decision to not include nuclear at this stage in the taxonomy should be reviewed as it is in total contradiction with EU clima

Without a significant increase in the deployment of nuclear power, it will be difficult for the world to secure sufficient energy to achieve sustainable development and to mitigate climate change, Mikhail Chudakov, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said today on annou

Barakah One Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) laying out a general framework to explore opportunities for collaboration in new nuclear energy markets.

Barakah One, a subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec), said the t

The IAEA has released its latest projections for energy, electricity and nuclear power trends through 2050.

There is increasing and widespread recognition that nuclear energy will feature in the future global energy mix and make its contribution to sustainable development, the World Energy Council says in a report published today.

Policymakers need to understand that the system costs of variable renewable energy necessitate the inclusion of nuclear and hydro as the primary dispatchable low-carbon generation options within a clean electricity mix. Representatives of the International Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy A

Nuclear must be part of a fossil-free future, but the industry first needs to address the cost of constructing new reactors, Magnus Hall, CEO of Swedish utility Vattenfall AB, told delegates attending World Nuclear Association Symposium 2019 in London.

Russia’s nuclear fuel company Tvel and the Centre for Energy Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have signed a contract for the supply of Russian nuclear fuel for the Budapest research reactor.

Tvel did not say how much the long-term contract was worth, but said it is for fuel supplies s

The World Nuclear Association’s projections for nuclear generating capacity growth have been revised upwards for the first time in eight years, following the introduction of more favourable policies in a number of countries.

In a report published on Thursday the London-based industry group said tha

Rapid growth in uranium demand will lead to a need for additional mined uranium in the period to 2040 in all scenarios given in the latest edition of World Nuclear Association's fuel report. Projections for nuclear generating capacity growth have been revised upwards for the first time in eight year

Iran zegt dat het vanaf morgen nieuwe centrifuges voor uraniumverrijking wil bouwen. Het neemt daarmee opnieuw afstand van het atoomakkoord dat in 2015 met de vijf permanente leden van de VN-Veiligheidsraad plus Duitsland en de EU werd gesloten.

With 58 nuclear power reactors producing nearly 72% of France’s electricity in 2018, France is one of the countries with the highest share of nuclear power in its energy production.

Unit 2 of the Novovoronezh 2 nuclear power station in southwest Russia has successfully gone through one month of test operation at 100% of its design capacity, Rosenergoatom, the operating subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, announced.

The test operation phase began on 31 July 2019 wh

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The US Administration is committed to reviving and revitalising the nuclear industry and is leading by action, not just words, according to US Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette.

Asia is driving growth in nuclear power generation with China’s 46 commercially operational nuclear reactors representing about 11% of the world’s nuclear capacity in 2018, a report by the London-based World Nuclear Association said.

According to the report, China connected a record 8.3 GW of new n

The Swiss government has announced it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions to a net-zero level by 2050. According to Swiss government statistics, about 60% of Switzerland's electricity generation comes from renewable sources, most of it from hydro (56.6%). Nuclear contributes about 37.6% and about

Australia should repeal its prohibition on nuclear energy regardless of whether it decides to build nuclear power plants, Ziggy Switkowski, a former chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, told a federal parliamentary committee yesterday. Switkowski, who led the 2006

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