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Leaders from the nuclear and finance sectors came together to help put together the inaugural World Nuclear Investment Guide. The goal is to demystify nuclear energy and make it seen as "just another infrastructure class".
 

This year the International Atomic Energy Agency's Symposium on International Safeguards will have its own dedicated evening to showcase how the nuclear industry works with IAEA Safeguards. There will also be a training day on the application of safeguards to new nuclear reactor designs and technologies, writes Kristine Madden, IAEA Safeguards Evaluator.
 

Sites being decommissioned - such as the Hanford one, which dates back to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s - have historically been seen as liabilities. But should they be more recognised for their future value?
 

Laurent Odeh, chief commercial officer for Urenco, outlines the uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel services company's capacity expansion plans as it responds to a record order book.

The UK's Low Level Waste Repository is nearing its 70th birthday and is probably the world's oldest operating facility of its kind. During that time things have changed from a "tip and tumble" typical landfill disposal system, to an approach with containerised waste and engineered vaults.
 

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.
 

Forty years after the Chernobyl accident, the largely uninhabited exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant has become a haven for wildlife, as well as providing the world with a unique living laboratory for scientific study of the impact of radioactive elements. The zone also plays a large part in popular culture's enduring interest and fascination with the events of 1986.
 

A shelter was rapidly built over the ruins of Chernobyl reactor 4 in 1986, but it was never meant to be a long-term fix. So the giant New Safe Confinement arch, designed to last 100 years, was built to fully enclose the area and allow the safe removal of the original shelter and the remains of the destroyed unit. Even without the damage caused by the 2025 drone strike it was a process due to take many decades. So, forty years after the accident, what is the current situation and what does the future hold?
 

What we know now about the causes of the 1986 Chernobyl accident and the effect it had on people's health, plus the story of how the alarm was raised internationally at a nuclear power plant in Sweden. And how the lessons learned led to a global safety culture which has underpinned the widespread plans for new nuclear capacity.