Romania has begun shutting down the second and last operational reactor at its Cernavoda nuclear power plant after record-low water levels on the Danube left the facility without sufficient cooling water
A powerful and unusually widespread storm battered New Zealand, triggering multiple states of emergency and bringing severe disruption across the country.
Around a dozen countries are expected to start electricity production through nuclear power sources in the coming years, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the IAEA director general, said at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris.
Global nuclear power capacity could more than triple by 2060 under an ambitious growth scenario, with small modular reactors (SMRs) accounting for a growing share of new capacity, as countries respond to rising electricity demand.
