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Investors' financial returns on the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project may initially cost UK consumers as much as GBP4 billion (USD5.4 billion) - but in the longer term the net benefits for energy bills could reach GBP18 billion, according to the UK's National Audit Office.
 

The Rockefeller Foundation and Temasek Trust have announced the creation of an initiative "to mobilise philanthropic capital in support of nuclear energy as a driver for clean energy security, economic growth, energy abundance, and human development".
 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said her government is preparing to launch a new framework in the coming months aimed at reintroducing nuclear energy into the country's energy mix.
 

Rosatom’s Director General Alexei Likhachev has said Russia is ready to offer Indonesia a comprehensive approach to developing its national nuclear programme, ranging from gigawatt-scale units to small modular reactors and floating power plants.
 

The reactor for Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant’s unit 2 is more than 60% complete and the steam generators 50% complete, and "we plan to begin shipping the key equipment next year", Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev has said.
 

Nuclear generates about a fifth of Spain's electricity, but the plan is to close all its power reactors by 2035. A number of countries have had second thoughts on phasing out their nuclear capacity - will Spain also do so? In this episode Marta Ugalde, President of Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum Foro Nuclear, outlines the current situation.
 

The Belgian government has begun talks to take direct ownership of the country's seven nuclear power reactors - with all decommissioning and dismantling works suspended "to ensure that all options remain available to the Belgian State".
 

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson has announced the government's intention to release a "transformative" Nuclear Energy Strategy for Canada before the end of the year - and will also invest millions of dollars to assess the potential of a Canadian-controlled microreactor that could provide heat and electricity to remote and northern defence-related facilities and operations.
 

Czech nuclear operator ÄŒEZ has signed an early works contract with Rolls-Royce SMR for the proposed construction of a small modular reactor at Temelín. ÄŒEZ has also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to consider the investor model and possible sources of financing.