Investment in clean energy technologies is significantly outpacing spending on fossil fuels as affordability and security concerns triggered by the global energy crisis strengthen the momentum behind more sustainable options, a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report said on Thursday.

The program of reaching the design capacity for unit 2 of the first nuclear power plant (NPP) in Belarus started last week, according to a statement by the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom.

An international seminar was held last week in Mumbai on the “Role of Small Modular Reactors in Energy Transition” on the sidelines of the energy transition working group meeting at G-20 as part of India’s presidency of the grouping.

The first concrete has been poured for unit 3 of the first nuclear power plant (NPP) in Egypt being built at El Dabaa.

The first batch of nuclear fuel for the first nuclear power plant (NPP) in Turkey was delivered last month.

Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó met with the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom Director General (DG) Alexey Likhachev last month to discuss the construction of the proposed Paks II nuclear power plant (NPP) in Hungary, as well as other aspects of Russo-Hungarian cooperation in the nuclear sector, according to a Rosatom statement.

The reactor pressure vessel and four steam generators for the fifth unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KNPP) located in India’s Tamil Nadu state have been shipped from Russia, according to a statement by the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom.

A new set of wind farms are going to come up in Myanmar to be built with the assistance of  NovaWind, the wind energy division of the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom.

Russia has signed an intergovernmental agreement with the central American nation of Nicaragua on cooperation in projects involving the non-energy applications of nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes, the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said in a statement earlier this month.

A newly built radiopharmaceuticals production complex in Bolivia, built with the assistance of the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, has started supplying radiopharmaceuticals last month to the network of nuclear medicine centres in the country, according to a Rosatom announcement.