The goal of limiting the global temperature increase to well below 2˚C requires new climate policies, investment incentives, and a massive adoption of low carbon energy technologies, including nuclear power, participants at an IAEA side event to the Bonn Climate Change Conference heard yesterday. Iaea.org

The U.S. and Europe are developing nuclear weapons use and intensifying combat training near the Russian border, according to a Russian defense minister newsweek.com

Russian state nuclear company Rosatom hopes to win a tender announced by Saudi Arabia to build nuclear plants in the kingdom, Alexei Likhachyov, head of Rosatom, told reporters. Reuters.com

NuScale Power and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) have signed the initial contract for the new Centre for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing (CANM). The contract covers prototype work for manufacturing NuScale’s helical coil steam generators, a major component in the NuScale small modular reactor (SMR) design that is under certification review by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. World-nucleare-news.org