Separate announcements from the US Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission point towards streamlining the pathway to deployment of advanced reactor technologies.

Belarus Energy Minister Denis Moroz has said the country is looking at potentially locating its planned radioactive waste disposal facility in the Grodno, Mogilev or Gomel areas.

The government's newly released energy roadmap brings together electricity, natural gas, hydrogen and other energy sources under a single coordinated strategy to ensure the province which already gets more than half of its electricity from nuclear plants has the affordable, secure, reliable and clean energy it needs.

The European Commission has assessed that lifetime extensions and new large-scale reactors planned by member states will need investment of EUR241 billion (USD279 billion) by 2050 - with more needed for small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors.  

The World Bank is ending its long-standing ban on providing funding for nuclear energy projects - and will be open to supporting efforts to extend the life of existing reactors and accelerate the potential of small modular reactors in developing countries.

Talen Energy Corporation has entered into a new agreement for the long-term supply of 1,920 MWe of electricity from its Susquehanna nuclear power plant to support Amazon Web Services' data centres, as well as looking into building SMRs and capacity uprates.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has set out the intentions of Canada's First Ministers to work together to establish the nation as a global energy superpower, streamlining the project approval and permitting process for "projects of national interest".

Nuclear fuel cycle companies, utilities and others have applauded the presidential executive orders that aim to revitalise the US nuclear industry - but questions are being raised about the impacts of some of the mandated reforms.

US President Donald Trump has unveiled a series of executive orders aimed at quadrupling the country's nuclear energy capacity by 2050. In this podcast episode, we replay the announcements and pick out the key points and broader impact they could have.