The trend of declining uranium exploration and mine development expenditure has been reversed - but substantial investment in new mining projects will be essential to meet nuclear power generation projections to 2050 and beyond, according to the latest edition of the key OECD/IAEA joint report.

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been under Russian military control since March 2022 and its director has said he expects Russian licences for operation of all units to be obtained by the end of 2027. Ukraine's Energoatom says any talk of restarting the units is a violation of nuclear and radiation safety standards.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has 20 emergency diesel generators for use in case of a loss of external power, with International Atomic Energy Agency staff at the site witnessing tests on the generators this week.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says they "stand ready" to support the implementation of any future agreement regarding Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, after its status was included in ceasefire talks.

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi's two-day visit to Niger included meetings with Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine and other senior officials as well as visits to two uranium mine sites.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl's giant shelter has been completed, three weeks after it was struck by a drone. The International Atomic Energy Agency says radiation levels have remained at normal levels.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says that the decision for the rotation of agency experts at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to take place via Russia, rather than via Ukraine as usual, was because "I could not take risks with the lives of my experts, and any other political consideration was out of place".

More than 400 people have been working in shifts since the damage was caused to the giant shelter structure covering the area of Chernobyl's unit 4. International Atomic Energy Agency experts report that radiation levels remain normal.

An International Atomic Energy Agency mission to Ghana has judged that the country followed the agency's safety standards while selecting the proposed site for its first nuclear power plant.