The International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Bank Group (WBG) recently provided an update on their partnership’s progress at the one-year mark. That partnership, entered into only weeks after the World Bank reversed its long-standing ban on nuclear power investment, aims to facilitate new financing and construction of advanced nuclear projects in developing countries.

An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has completed its review of the long-term operational safety of South Africa’s Koeberg nuclear power plant, which is operated by the public utility Eskom.