The UAE's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna and India's Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar agreed to establish a formal trilateral cooperation initiative last September

Director general of Russia's nuclear power company Rosatom, Alexey Likhachov, said the agreement marked "a new chapter in the history of Russian-Myanmar relations, the 75th anniversary of which we are celebrating this year".

Russia’s natural gas production fell by more than 13% in 2022, according to preliminary data published by the Russian state statistics service Rosstat.

Ukraine, whose largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, has been under Russian military control since early March 2022, has been calling for the sanctions to include the nuclear energy sector.

During the event, speeches were made by Pakistan's Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Ali Raza, China Atomic Energy Agency Deputy Director Liu Jing and CNNC General Manager Gu Jun.

An Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) analysis of the five projects that have been built or are under construction found the only common elements of the next-generation design are unanticipated issues that have led to costly delays and soaring price tags.

"National consultations have clearly shown that the Hungarians do not want sanctions, because they will not help Ukraine, they will not bring Russia to its knees and will only cause terrible damage to Europe and Hungary," Orban stressed. He believes the results of the national consultations will be a significant help in his discussions with the leadership of the EU and other countries.

KEPCO CEO Seung-il Jeong presented the proposal to Fatih Dönmez, Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, on 30 January during a meeting in which they discussed plans for KEPCO to participate in the nuclear power plant project.

EDF's proposal of an EPR-1200 reactor as the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan was one of "a number of key issues" discussed.

National Energy Plan of Türkiye has been announced and published last week by the Ministy of Energy and Natural Resources. The plan which is prepared based on 2053 Net Zero Emission target covers the period of 2020-2035.

Nuclear currently accounts for almost 75% of France's power production, but former president Francois Hollande's government announced in 2014 that this would be capped at the current level of 63.2 GWe and would be limited to 50% of total output by 2025.

The UAE has an installed capacity of 42 GW (end of 2021), with 35 GW of gas, 2.8 GW of nuclear and 2.7 GW of solar.

China’s power consumption will increase by around 6% in 2023 (after an estimated 3.6% increase in 2022) and that the country will instal around 250 GW of new capacity during the year.

According to the latest issue of FERC's monthly "Energy Infrastructure Update" (with data through November 30, 2022), "high probability" additions by solar to U.S. generating capacity between December 2022 and November 2025 will total 72,809 megawatts (MW).

The new "state-of-the-art mineral processing plant" will be designed and constructed to recover uranium, vanadium and cobalt from ore from Western's mines and that produced by other miners.