Today, I am announcing the end of the sanctions waiver covering all remaining JCPOA-originating nuclear projects in Iran – the Arak reactor conversion, the provision of enriched uranium for the Tehran Research Reactor, and the export of Iran’s spent and scrap research reactor fuel. The sanctions waiver covering these activities will end following a final, …
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S ENERGY STRATEGY document sets out energy policy up to 2020. Its main provisions were approved by the government in 2000 and confirmed in 2003. The strategy outlines several priorities: an increase in energy efficiency; reduction of environmental impacts; more sustainable development, energy development and technological development; as well as improved effectiveness and …
Slovenia will make a decision by 2027 at the latest on whether to build a second nuclear power plant at its existing Krško site, Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec has said during a visit to the plant site on 22 May. The minister also called for an immediate start on the construction of a storage facility …
The Trump administration’s recent Nuclear Fuel Working Group report provides a sobering view of the national security threat posed by Russia’s aggressive global strategy to dominate the nuclear power and fuel industry to extend its geopolitical influence. The report warns of Russia’s efforts to increase its market share of the U.S. nuclear fuel industry and …
Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Mike Braun (R-IN), Tom Udall (D-NM), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a letter to Department of Commerce Assistant …
Making a commitment to build six new EPRs in France would be an “effective stimulus” for the country’s economy as it recovers in the years ahead from the shock of COVID-19, the French nuclear energy society (SFEN) wrote in a position paper published this week. Nuclear energy “ticks all three boxes” highlighted in the debate …
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El-Debaa nuclear power plant in Egypt will receive a reliable supply of fuel once it is built following the announcement that Russia will supply nuclear fuel components including uranium and aluminium items to Egypt for a period of 10 years, following an agreement signed between the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority and Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant …
The IAEA and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) of the United Kingdom have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in support of a sustainable future for nuclear power, including activities on existing and emerging nuclear reactor technologies as well as decommissioning and radioactive waste management. The two organizations have signed a Practical Arrangement, building on a …
Last month, TerraPower’s President and CEO Chris Levesque testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about what the country and the world must do to transition to a clean energy economy. As an American company, TerraPower has a duty to innovate in clean energy, a duty that has been reinforced in these trying times. …