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The Net Zero Nuclear Industry Pledge, which commits to a goal of at least tripling nuclear capacity by 2050, was unveiled at an event at the UN's COP28 climate change summit taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.

Much progress has been made over recent years in the representation of nuclear in national, regional and international debates on energy and the climate, speakers agreed at the opening session of the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Exhibition in Paris this week.

The nuclear energy industry will be highly visible at the 28th Conference of the Parties, taking place in Dubai over the coming weeks, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León told delegates at the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Exhibition 2023 in Paris.

China's first project to bring nuclear-generated heat to multiple prefecture-level cities has begun operation in Shandong province, supplying heat from the Haiyang nuclear power plant to the cities of Haiyang and Rushan through a 23 km pipeline.

A project to produce 100 tonnes a year of clean hydrogen from the operation of the Angra nuclear power plant's two units was detailed at a seminar on sustainable hydrogen production in Brazil.

The European Parliament has adopted its position on the proposed Net-Zero Industry Act, which is intended to bolster Europe's manufacturing output in technologies needed for decarbonisation. MEPs included nuclear fission and fusion among a list of 17 technologies covered by the legislation.

"A changing policy landscape is creating opportunities for a nuclear comeback," according to the International ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency in the latest edition of its ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Outlook, with nuclear generating capacity expected to increase from 417 GWe in 2022 to 620 GWe in 2050 in a scenario based on existing energy policies.

US President Joe Biden and ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Secretary Jennifer Granholm have announced seven regional clean hydrogen hubs that will share USD7 billion in federal funding to accelerate the commercial-scale deployment of low-cost, clean hydrogen. Nuclear energy features in the plans of several of them, including a large nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility at Constellation's LaSalle plant in Illinois.

The Government of Canada has announced nearly CAD20 million (USD15 million) in federal funding to support the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to help enable a phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation by 2030. The funding includes CAD7 million to support pre-development work for a small modular reactor at Point Lepreau in New Brunswick.

As the International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency raises its projections for global nuclear generating capacity in 2050, speakers at the Agency's 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and the Role of Nuclear Power said there are many challenges the nuclear industry needs to overcome to reach its full potential.

In an update to its Net Zero Roadmap, published in 2021, the International ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency says the role of nuclear power has been revised upwards given recent policy support. In the updated net-zero emissions scenario, nuclear generating capacity reaches 916 GWe in 2050, up from the 812 GWe given in the 2021 version.