Amidst the current global energy crisis, nuclear power has the potential to play a significant role in helping countries to securely transition to energy systems dominated by renewables, according to a new special report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) released late last month.

A ceremony was held earlier this month to mark the start of construction in Egypt’s first nuclear power plant (NPP) at El Dabaa where the “first concrete” was poured at the NPP site.

The government of Myanmar has signed various Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom for cooperation in training and skill development in the field of atomic energy, and shaping positive public opinion on nuclear power in the Southeast Asian nation, according to a Rosatom statement earlier this week.

While the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) achieved a major machine assembly milestone in May 2022 with the first sub-section of the ITER plasma chamber being lifted out of tooling and lowered into the machine well, the ITER organisation is currently having to revise the timelines for the world’s largest nuclear fusion project owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

European Union (EU) lawmakers have voted down an objection to labeling gas and nuclear power as sustainable energy sources.

In a reversal of the previous administration’s policy, the South Korean government said last week that it would raise the share of nuclear power generation in the country to at least 30 percent by 2030 and resume construction of the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant (NPP) units 3 and 4.

Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom subsidiary Luch Scientific Production Association has signed an agreement to supply thermocouples for four units of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (NPP) in India, according to a Rosatom release.