Capital Power Corporation, based in Edmonton, Alberta, and Ontario Power Generation are working together to assess the feasibility of developing SMRs to help power Alberta’s electricity grid.
The UK Government has announced it will invest £300 million into creating specialist fuel for the next generation of nuclear reactors.
Rafeal Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that his inspectors are being denied access to parts of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaprizhzhia nuclear power plant and had yet to receive 2024 maintenance plans for the facility.
Shanghai has announced that it has commissioned the Shidaowan demonstration nuclear power plant project equipped with Fourth Generation technology in Shandong province, China.
Spain’s government has confirmed that it will close all of its remaining nuclear power plants by 2035.
Japan’s nuclear power regulator has lifted an operational ban it imposed on Tokyo Electric Power’s (Tepco’s) 8212 MW Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, clearing the path for a restart.
Six EU countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands), along with Switzerland, have signed a commitment to end carbon emissions in power generation by 2035.
Kansai Electric has decided not to build a new LNG-fired power plant southwest of Osaka, deciding to focus instead on hydrogen, nuclear, and renewable energy.
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and GE Hitachi have signed an MOU to identify opportunities for future investment in SMR technology development.
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) of Canada and Westinghouse Electric Company have signed an MOU establishing a framework for the two organisations to identify potential areas of cooperation for deployment of nuclear technologies.