The Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial Business Forum was held in Tokyo on March 14–15, bringing together energy ministers and representatives from governments and companies from 16 countries across the Indo-Pacific region. The event was jointly hosted by Japan and the United States. Participants included U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is encouraging existing or potential applicants for new reactor-related activities to share planning information through fiscal year 2028. NRC staff published the Regulatory Issue Summary so the agency can best understand industry interest in order to most effectively set budgets for licensing reviews and inspection support needed to safely enable new …
South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party said on Monday that the government will lift limits on coal-fired power generation capacity and raise nuclear power plant utilization to as high as 80% as part of an energy response to the Middle East crisis. Lawmakers in the party’s Middle East crisis economic response task force said in a briefing the measures are …
Unit 1 of the San’ao nuclear power plant has begun supplying electricity to the grid for the first time, China General Nuclear announced. The unit is the first of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned for the site in Zhejiang province. “At 17:28 on 12 March, the first Hualong One nuclear power unit in the …
The XII International Scientific Conference “Development of the Uranium and Rare Metals Industry” will be held in Almaty on 13-15 May 2026. The Republic of Kazakhstan, represented by the National Atomic Company Kazatomprom, opens wide opportunities for cooperation in the field of safe development of nuclear energy to its partners in different countries of the …
Service roads and power lines are being constructed as part of JSC Khiagda’s infrastructure work for the Namaru deposit in the Bauntovsky District of Buryatia in Russia. JSC Khiagda, part of Rosatom’s mining division, is Russia’s leading uranium producer with operations at five deposits “in the challenging permafrost conditions of the Bauntovsky Evenki District”, in a …
Rwanda plans to invest up to $6 billion in nuclear power plants as part of its strategy to secure reliable electricity and support long-term economic growth, President Paul Kagame said on Tuesday. Rwanda plans to invest up to $6 billion in nuclear power plants to secure reliable electricity for economic growth. President Paul Kagame announced …
Rosatom expects to sign a framework agreement on the construction of the third unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (BelNPP) by the end of 2026. This was announced by Director General of the state corporation Aleksei Likhachev at the industry event “Information Day”. “Together with our Belarusian colleagues, we are working on the financial and technical …
During the second Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris, Emmanuel Macron called on Kazakhstan to increase uranium exports to the European Union. The French president said additional supplies would help Europe meet its goal of expanding nuclear fuel production as part of its long-term energy strategy. Kazakhstan is the world’s largest uranium producer. In 2025, the country produced about 26,000 …
South Korea will speed up the restart of nuclear reactors undergoing maintenance to secure energy amid the ongoing war in the Middle East . The nation will seek to start two units in March, and a further four by mid-May, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment said in a statement after an emergency meeting on March …