Serbia's National Assembly has voted through amendments to the energy law which has ended the 35-year prohibition on the construction of nuclear power plants.

The South African government remains committed to the use of nuclear energy and is planning to revive its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor programme and embark on new builds, the Deputy Director General of the Department for Mineral Resources and Energy has said.

The world is paying a price for letting "lingering concerns about safety and ideological opposition" deter governments from constructing new nuclear power plants, according to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. If the ambitious approach to nuclear deployment had continued, it says, the world would have saved 28.9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide since 1991. 

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The Britain Remade campaign group has said hitting the UK's target for a clean energy grid by 2030 will be "almost impossible" without extending the operation of some of the country's nuclear power plants.

Deputy Energy Minister Denis Moroz has said that a report will be drawn up next year on the options of a second nuclear power plant or a third unit at the existing plant in Belarus.

Amentum has been selected by the Netherlands to review and advise on the technical feasibility studies for two new reactors in the country submitted from three potential reactor vendors.

China's Haiyang nuclear power plant in Shandong province has begun its sixth heating season, covering an area of nearly 13 million square metres - 500,000 square metres more than last year.

The USA and UK have signed the new framework agreement to allow the Generation IV International Forum to continue after the current agreement expires in February. The agreement excludes current participant Russia.

Small modular reactors could play an important role and contribute to the Dutch energy transition, a joint report by NRG-Pallas and TNO concludes. The study shows that there is room for more than 13 SMRs in 2050.

At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries - El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria and Turkey - have added their support for the tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.

Seeing nuclear as a flexible energy source - producing electricity, hydrogen and heat with large-scale energy storage - rather than merely as a source of baseload power means it can complement the variability of renewables without the need for back-up natural gas power plants, a new report from the Dalton Nuclear Institute says.