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Reuters reported on Tuesday that major Indian firms are interested in building at least ten gigawatts of coal-fired power generation over the next decade, expanding some existing plants and reviving projects that stalled out when coal power fell into environmentalist disfavor.

Police in Mersin, Turkey, confirmed on Tuesday that they had arrested an unnamed man working at the construction site of the Russian-built Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in connection with an investigation into the Islamic State.

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Vice President Mohammad Eslami announced on Monday that construction has begun on a fourth nuclear reactor in the city of Isfahan.

Ukraine can decentralise its power supply network by building a series of “mini nuclear power plants”, Rolls Royce believes.

Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of damaging a nuclear waste storage facility in a drone strike on the Kursk nuclear power plant

Burkina Faso’s junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant.

Vladimir Putin accused the UK of trying to provoke Moscow, claiming that Britain was behind an attack on a Russian atomic facility.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected reopening nuclear power plants, declaring that atomic energy is a “dead horse” in Germany.

Breitbart News asked Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday just “how close” the United States is to tipping off a world war “if we keep going down this path.” Greene, in an interview during the Turning Point Action conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, said she “think[s] that’s a question that a lot of Americans have.”

During a state visit to Rwanda on Sunday, Hungarian President Katalin Novak signed an agreement allowing Rwandan nuclear energy technicians to receive training from Hungarian universities.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday accused the United States of plotting a “dirty energy gold rush” in Ukraine.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday produced a report that found “clean energy” investments have skyrocketed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, driven by anxiety over volatile fossil fuel prices and the cutoff of oil and gas supplies from Russia.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog expressed growing anxiety about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amid ongoing fighting.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week his government is “very serious” about reviving nuclear power, specifically because it might cripple Canada’s oil and natural gas industry.

Ukraine marked the 37th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, widely considered the worst event of its kind in human history, on Wednesday, condemning Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country and accusing it of using nuclear threats to “blackmail” the world.

Support for Germany’s ruling green party has reportedly collapsed amid ongoing nuclear and home heating scandals plaguing the country.

The U.S., UK, Canada, Japan, and France announced a nuclear power alliance “aimed at displacing Putin” from the international energy market.

Finland’s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe’s most powerful by production capacity, began energy production on Sunday.

Multiple protests took place as Germany’s green government shut down the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants forever.

The termination of all remaining nuclear power plants on Saturday marks a “black day” for Germany, the leader of the CDU has said.

Germany’s planned shutdown of all of its remaining nuclear power plants risks causing power shortages, one industry group in the country has warned.

Germany’s decision to shut down its remaining nuclear power plants is a “strategic mistake”, the head of one government party has said.

A company linked to Russia is set to help continue the work of a major nuclear project operating in Germany.

The unrest in Israel is a “revolt” by “elites who want to maintain their control over the country,” according to conservative American-Israeli columnist Caroline Glick who lauded the “tactical retreat” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he declared pausing the judicial reform legislation to allow for negotiation amid large public protests.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has saved Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear plant, by granting it an exemption from permitting requirements and allowing it to survive past a 2025 expiration date.

71 per cent of Germans want to see the country continue to use nuclear power despite efforts to see the source phased out, research has shown.

The price of electricity and gas is likely to remain high in Europe for the foreseeable future, with one German supplier warning that prices are likely to double in the coming months rather than go down.

Diablo Canyon, the last operational nuclear power plant in California, could be forced to shut down by 2025 despite a five-year extension signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), leaving the state potentially short of power.

France is uncomfortably close to energy rationing as a result of issues it is having with some of its nuclear power plants, a report by The Times has claimed.

Thanks to a raft of power-saving measures combined with its armada of nuclear power plants, France is now on the “right track” to avoid rolling blackouts this winter, one government minister has claimed.

The Swedish government has called on Swedes to save electricity, citing the risk of power disconnections, saying the energy situation in the country has become “acute”.

Macron chastised public utility and energy companies for scaring the public with “absurd scenarios” of potential blackouts this winter.  

France may still see power cuts and therefore will seek to import energy from Britain and other European neighbours, a utility chairman said.

The Olaf Scholz government has mishandled “everything” during the energy crisis, resulting in economic calamity, a German MEP told Breitbart.

The head of the national electricity grid in France has warned that power cuts are still likely during the winter months.

German lawmakers approved a plan to keep the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April.