The organisation has submitted a document to the UN body's Maritime Safety Committee setting out its position on the Code of Safety for Nuclear Merchant Ships, adopted in 1981.
China has designed the world’s first large containership with a nuclear Molten Salt reactor. The design was developed by Jiangnan Shipbuilding, a division of
Twenty national and international nuclear industry associations have issued a joint statement in support of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty and are calling on signatories to the treaty to support the transfer of nuclear technology for peaceful uses among those meeting their commitments under it.
This press statement is issued jointly by FORATOM, Nuclear Energy Institute, Nuclear Industry Association, World Association of Nuclear Operators, World Nuclear Association, and World Nuclear Transport Institute
July’s instalment of the New Nuclear Watch Institute’s ‘Yes to Nuclear’ Perspectives initiative turns to look at the capacity of nuclear energy to improve healthcare services and food production in a world where there is an urgent need to reduce the impact of climate change as well as to adapt to it