World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi outlined the thinking behind the change in policy at a joint event in Paris. Hear what they said, as well as World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León's assessment of its significance.

The World Bank has taken its first step since ending its ban on funding nuclear energy projects by partnering with the International Atomic Energy Agency to support countries that choose to include nuclear energy in their development strategies. 

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has warned the United Nations Security Council that there is still a "window of opportunity to return to dialogue and diplomacy", after the United States joined Israel in launching attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told a meeting of the agency's board of governors on Monday that Israel's attack on the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant site had destroyed the above-ground part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant. 

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.

The contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for new nuclear capacity at the Dukovany site in the Czech Republic has been signed - hours after the Supreme Administrative Court annulled a regional court's injunction to stop it happening. 

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.

A motion to hold a referendum on restarting the recently shut-down Maanshan nuclear power plant was passed in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, and the Central Election Commission has now approved the proposal.

The Czech Republic's Minister of Industry and Trade Lukáš Vlček held talks with French Energy Minister Marc Ferracci and European Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné about the new nuclear planned at Dukovany, and losing bidder EDF's objections to the tender process.