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Nuclear generation bounced back from the pandemic-related decline seen in 2020, increasing by 100 TWh to reach 2653 TWh in 2021, according to ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association's latest performance report which has just been published.

In the first edition of the new monthly ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear News podcast, Sama Bilbao y León sets out the opportunities and challenges facing the industry - and says many countries are finally becoming serious about nuclear. John Lindberg sorts fact from fiction on radiation, and the uranium sector is in focus as the month’s news is reviewed.

The application and interpretation of the same safety objectives into specific national regulatory requirements and guidance result in significant differences between the same reactor design when deployed in different countries, writes Claude Mayoral. A more harmonised approach to regulation will be needed to enable the widespread deployment of small modular and advanced reactor designs.

Nuclear energy offers a "golden opportunity" to create a cleaner and more equitable world, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León said today at the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. However, she noted there are three major challenges hindering the nuclear industry in making its full potential contribution towards sustainable development and combatting climate change: financing, perception and regulation.

While pledges made during the recent COP26 climate change conference show that governments are committed to limiting the rise in global temperature, the nuclear industry is ready to play its part in achieving those objectives, says ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León.

¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León has called for more action, not more rhetoric, to come out of the ongoing COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland. In a video address, she said the important role nuclear energy plays in combatting climate change still needs more recognition. A transcript of her video message follows.

Nuclear energy provides enormous opportunities to bring about a fast, cost-effective and just decarbonisation, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León said yesterday in a COP26 event titled The Role of Nuclear ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß in a Net-Zero Future. Innovations in technologies - such as small modular reactors - and new ways of financing projects will help nuclear play its role in decarbonising the world, participants said.

¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß nuclear generating capacity is set to continue its upward trend with demand for uranium fuel increasing over the period to 2040, according to the projections in the latest edition of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association's Nuclear Fuel Report. Uranium resources are more than enough to meet that demand, but intense development of new projects will be needed in the current decade to avoid potential supply disruptions.

Nuclear reactors generated a total 2553 TWh of electricity in 2020, down from 2657 TWh in 2019, according to the latest ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Performance Report released by the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association. Despite the small decline, the Association's Director General, Sama Bilbao y León, said "the resilience and flexibility shown by the global nuclear fleet tell a very positive story."

The Swedish government must make a decision on the application to construct a final high-level waste repository and not consider it separately from that for an expansion of the existing Clab interim repository for used fuel, write ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association's Director General Sama Bilbao y León and Public Affairs Manager John Lindberg. Dividing the applications, they say, is a political game of 'Fox and Geese' that is extremely unworthy of an established democracy like Sweden.

Nuclear energy must get a fair representation at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties to be held 31 October to 12 November in Glasgow, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León has said in an open letter to COP26 President Alok Sharma. The full text of the 16 August letter is as follows.

International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has called for more Member States to appoint a national focal point on denials of shipment of radioactive materials. Speaking during a webinar organised by the independent Transport Facilitation Working Group and hosted last week by ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association, he said having more NFPs would result in the smoother transport of radioactive materials around the globe.