Westinghouse Electric Company, Spanish engineering firm Tecnatom and US consulting and training services provider Accelerant Solutions have agreed to form the Nuclear Excellence Academy, a nuclear training programme for utilities in the USA and Canada.

An international survey has highlighted the need for a better gender balance in the nuclear sector, but how to achieve it? That's one of the issues discussed with Corhyn Parr, CEO of Nuclear Waste Services. Plus Nucleareurope's Andrei Goicea on nuclear's place in the EU's Net Zero Industry Act.

South Australia's Flinders University has signed agreements with universities in the USA and UK that will enable the Australian university to begin developing the specialist skills needed to underpin the future construction of nuclear submarines under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States security partnership.

Attracting, developing, supporting and retaining the right leaders will help determine the destiny of the nuclear sector in the coming years, writes Callum Thomas, CEO of Thomas Thor.

US company GSE Systems Inc has been awarded a contract by Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj to upgrade the training simulators for units 1 and 2 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant.

If the ambitious targets for nuclear expansion around the world are to be met more women need to be attracted to the sector, according to a Nuclear Energy Agency report on the international gender balance in the nuclear sector released to mark International Women's Day.

The UAE will celebrate the Professional Day of the Nuclear and Radiation Sector Workers on 16 February every year after receiving approval from the country's Cabinet.

The Intergovernmental Agreement on cooperation in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes will see the two countries working together on the use of nuclear technology in a number of areas, including training of a workforce for building and running a small modular reactor.

Six Polish universities, energy firm PKN Orlen and the Ministry of Education have signed a letter of intent for the roll-out of new nuclear energy-related courses to begin in the coming academic year. It comes with Orlen's CEO outlining large-scale plans for adoption of small modular reactors.

New build in the Czech Republic will lead the utility ČEZ to almost double its nuclear workforce. The company said its nuclear teams will grow by 2600 over the next ten years.

The President of the International Youth Nuclear Congress, Lena Andriolo, on what young people can bring to the nuclear sector.

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials has developed a virtual remote dismantling system for use in teaching the use of lasers and plasma to cut underwater reactor vessel internals during the decommissioning of nuclear power plants.