Renewable electricity generation increased by 24% to 6.9 TWh,

Swedish Modular Reactors has been granted just over SEK99 million ($10.6m) in support of demonstrating a smaller lead-cooled reactor. Solkompaniet Sverige has been granted SEK14.4 million to support demonstrating a smart solar park.

In the situation that has obtained in recent months on energy markets, it has become clear that one of the foundations of stability of the modern global world is, in the first instance, reliable energy supply, which cannot be provided without observing a reasonable balance of energy sources and an absence of discrimination against traditional sectors of the fuel and energy complex.

“Nuclear technology has long played a vital role in prominent space missions,” said Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy. “But future missions could rely on nuclear powered systems for a much broader spectrum of applications. Our pathway to the stars runs through the atom.”

EDF says it is to raise EUR2.5 billion (USD2.8 billion) to help cover the costs of measures imposed to limit French energy bills and a projected fall in nuclear output.

Russia and Brazil already have ties in the nuclear energy field with a memorandum of understanding signed in 2017 by Rosatom and Brazil’s Electrobras and Electonuclear to promote cooperation in nuclear power.

Russia sees the decision of the European Commission to classify nuclear energy and gas as clean energy sources as "important" and expects it to come into force in the next six months, Novak said.

The recent decision by the European Union to include nuclear power in the Taxonomy showed that nuclear power will be the driving force for decarbonisation.

Projects for the creation of new nuclear power facilities will receive about RUB56 billion from the National Wealth Fund (NWF), another RUB40 billion will be allocated from the budget.

The Swedish Energy Agency has now awarded the partners SEK99 million to put towards building an electrically powered non-nuclear prototype SEALER at Oskarshamn for testing and verifying materials and technology in an environment of molten lead at high temperatures.

Following the signing of the contract, the consortium will start mobilising the construction site in preparation for resuming construction of Angra 3.

Aboard the Leader, its two reactors are placed side-by-side in the centre of the ship. Their thermal energy will be converted to electricity by a steam turbine by four 35 MWe generators.

The new agreement follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in September 2021 by NuScale Power, KGHM and business engineering advisory consultancy PBE to jointly explore the deployment of NuScale's SMR technology as a repowering or repurposing solution for existing coal-fired power plants and electricity and heat for KGHM's industrial processes in Poland.

The time is right for a nuclear renaissance in France, Macron said, adding he had made two important decisions regarding this.

Solar energy capacities should reach a capacity over 100 gigawatt by 2050, while off-shore wind capacity should grow to 40 gigawatt from virtually zero at the moment.