NextEra Energy and Google have signed a 25-year agreement to buy power from the 615 MW Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa, USA, which was shut down following storm damage suffered in 2020.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction has signed a front-end engineering design contract with Fermi America to build four large-scale nuclear power plants in the USA.
The Canadian federal government and the Ontario government have announced a combined C$3 billion in new subsidies to support the SMR development at the Darlington generating station.
The Scottish Government is refusing to give planning permission for any new nuclear reactors to be built in Scotland.
South Africa has announced a new national energy plan, which proposes reviving its stalled SMR nuclear project and expand gas-fired power generation.
Slovakia has approved an agreement with the USA to develop a 1000 MW new nuclear power plant.
Darlington Nuclear has been granted a 20-year extension from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the longest term ever granted to a Canadian nuclear plant.
Iran and Russia have signed an MOU to expand nuclear cooperation through the construction of SMRs in Iran. Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom, met with Mohammad Eslami, President of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, during Eslami’s trip to Moscow.
Stephen Lecce, Minister of Energy and Mines for Ontario province in Canada has announced that an MOU has been signed between Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). The agreement is for OPG to supply UKAEA with tritium to support UKAEA’s research into nuclear fusion.
According to a report, The Future of Electricity in the Middle East and North Africa, by the International Energy Agency (IEA), electricity consumption in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has tripled since 2000 and is predicted to rise by an extra 50 per cent by 2035.