Delegates at a plenary session of Russian Energy Week taking place this week in Moscow discussed how nuclear power is an “inalienable element of the sustainable development agenda”. The session, which was hosted by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, included panellists from Belarus, Egypt, Hungary and the UAE, as well as from the International Atomic Energy Agency […]

The European Union puts it bluntly: We must reduce the level of CO2 emissions and we need to start doing it right now. While some EU Member States are more advanced in achieving their climate and energy goals, others are lagging behind, writes Yves Desbazeille, director general of Foratom.

On June 5, 2019, the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held an open hearing on the national security implications of climate change. The government experts testifying pointed to Nigeria as an example of the complex ways in which such trends are emerging globally. As Peter Kiemel, a counselor for the National Intelligence […]

In late 2015, investigators discovered chilling surveillance video in the possession of a suspected terrorist alleged to have been involved in the November 2015 attacks in Paris. The Islamic State took credit for those attacks, and the video footage suggested it had been watching a high-ranking Belgian nuclear official who had access to secure areas […]

BEIS-sponsored Nuclear Security Culture Programme in partnership with the African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) presents: Nuclear Security Workshop for Scientists, Technicians and Engineers Accra, Ghana 10-12 September 2019   The Nuclear Security Culture Consortium, sponsored by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is holding a workshop on nuclear […]

The Prime Minister of Tanzania Hon. Kassim Majaliwa officially inaugurated the Second Joint Meeting of SADC’s Nuclear Regulators Network and the fifth Steering Committee of the Project “Support to Southern African States in Nuclear Safety and Safeguards” (Project MC 5.01/15 B). Mr. Majaliwa greeted the 40 plus participants coming from 16 countries and international organizations […]

Anthony Stott from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Infrastructure Development Section talks to NEI about nuclear developments in Africa. How extensive is the interest in nuclear power in Africa? At the moment, in Africa only South Africa has nuclear power, and it has had it since 1994. It’s well established there, but there are other countries […]

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and its subsidiaries signed a number of agreements during the XI International Forum Atomexpo 2019 in Sochi with countries planning to introduce nuclear power, including Azerbaijan, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Serbia, and Uzbekistan. Azerbaijan’s National Nuclear Research Centre and Rusatom International Network signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on personnel […]

Partnering with the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS), the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) offered as a new initiative an Intensive Course on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security for Women in STEM in Accra, Ghana, from February 11–15, 2019.