The lower house of France's parliament has voted in favour of cutting the country's reliance on nuclear energy to 50% of power generation by 2025 as part of the a long-awaited energy policy.

The European Commission's decision that the revised UK support package for EDF's Hinkley Point C nuclear project is compatible with EU State aid rules does not necessarily provide an easy blueprint for subsequent projects. Other EU nuclear project sponsors and investors face a number of difficult issues that should be at the heart of planning for subsequent projects, write George Borovas, Nick Buckworth and James Webber.

Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection has approved the formation of a joint venture between three utilities and a mining company to build the country’s first nuclear power plant.

The European Commission has found revised UK plans to subsidise the construction and operation of a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point to be in line with EU state aid rules.

The European Commission's approval of agreements between EDF Group and the UK government to build Hinkley Point C demonstrates that they are "fair and balanced for investors and consumers now and for the long term," EDF Energy chief executive Vincent de Rivaz said.

Kazakhstan's economic and foreign policy ambitions will continue to sustain the country's active participation in the global nuclear market and politics, think tank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said in a new report, Kazakhstan and the Global Nuclear Order, published last week.

Climate action and a low-carbon economy have been recurring themes as members of the European parliament have been grilling candidates for top posts in the next European Commission over the past week, but nuclear energy has been largely missing from the debate.

A USA-Vietnam agreement on civil nuclear energy cooperation has entered into force. The agreement establishes the terms for commercial nuclear trade, research and technology exchanges between the two countries as provided under Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act.

Kazakhstan has removed a stockpile of Russian-origin fresh high-enriched uranium fuel from the critical assembly of the WWR-K Research Reactor in Almaty, the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday.

Bolivia is to invest more than $2 billion in the development of nuclear energy over the next decade, the country's president has announced.

The USA and India have established an inter-agency Contact Group to sort out outstanding liability and technical issues to accelerate the full implementation of the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement introduced in 2005.

The operator of Spain's Garoña nuclear power plant, Nuclenor, has submitted documents to the country's nuclear regulator detailing how it plans to meet a series of requirements for the plant's restart.