What were the big nuclear energy stories of 2024? What to watch out for in 2025...
The World Nuclear News team looks back over the most read articles in 2024 - with topics including tech giants turning to nuclear energy for data centres, nuclear battery innovations, the uranium mark...
23 Dec 202438min
What happened with nuclear energy at COP29?
The COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, was the latest global gathering aiming to agree measures to tackle climate change. Jonathan Cobb, senior programme lead, climate, at World Nuclear Ass...
29 Nov 202434min
What next for the UK's record-breaking Heysham 2 nuclear power plant?
Martin Cheetham is the station director of the EDF-run Heysham 2 nuclear power plant on the Lancashire coast in northwest England. It has two advanced gas-cooled reactors which were first connected to...
11 Nov 202422min
Why are Microsoft, Google and Amazon choosing nuclear energy?
Global tech giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all announced deals which will see them using nuclear energy in the coming years. In this edition we outline what has been announced, why, and also...
23 Okt 202422min
Financiers back idea of nuclear expansion, but what are the challenges?
A group of 14 global financial institutions have expressed their support for the call to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Their message, during New York Climate Week, stated their recognition t...
24 Sep 202433min
World Nuclear Performance Report, plus The Nuclear Company
Total nuclear electricity generation rose in 2023 despite a small drop in overall capacity, according to World Nuclear Performance Report 2024. In this episode, lead author Jonathan Cobb, senior progr...
5 Sep 202438min
The Finnish SMR designed to produce heat, not electricity
Steady Energy is developing the LDR-50 small modular reactor with the initial goal of decarbonising district heating systems. The CEO of the Finnish company, Tommi Nyman, explains why the decision to ...
23 Aug 202429min
How are the USA's historic new Vogtle 3 and 4 units doing?
Southern Nuclear's Senior Vice President for Vogtle 3 and 4, John Williams, discusses the achievement and "tremendous pride" from everyone involved in completing the first new nuclear units built in t...
3 Juli 202423min
