Energy Alberta has submitted its Initial Project Description to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada for the proposed Peace River Nuclear Power Project. The public is now being invited to provide comments on it.

A public opinion poll conducted by market research firm Savanta on behalf of energy consultancy Radiant Energy Group shows that support for nuclear energy in 23 US states outweighs opposition by 1.5 times. Meanwhile, a poll conducted by Gallup shows that 61% of people nationally favour the use of nuclear energy.

With a new poll showing that the majority of West Australians support lifting the state's ban on uranium mining, Australia's national mining association is calling on the state's Labor Party to let voters know if it would consider overturning the ban if it retains power in the upcoming general election.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans to limit legal challenges to major infrastructure projects - including nuclear power plants - to just one hearing in court instead of the current three hearings.

France's Bpifrance Assurance Export and Sfil have joined the growing list of overseas financial institutions expressing interest in helping to finance Poland's first nuclear power plant project. Meanwhile, a poll shows record public support for nuclear energy in Poland.

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. 

In the wake of the cancellation of a planned referendum on new nuclear in Slovenia, the Director General of GEN energija, Dejan Paravan, has said that alongside continuing work on the proposed JEK2 project they will also be seeking more detailed information from small modular reactor companies.

More than half of the respondents to a US survey believe nuclear energy is an essential part of the solution to climate disruption and energy security. The ecoAmerica Climate Perspectives Survey, from the Anthropocene Institute, has seen US citizens' concerns about nuclear energy decrease over its seven-year series.

Residents of the Municipality of South Bruce have voted in favour of declaring itself a willing host for a Deep Geological Repository for Canada's intermediate and high-level waste in a public referendum. South Bruce is the second community in Canada to declare its willingness to host the facility.