On 19 April, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) and FORATOM represented by Takuya Hattori, JAIF President, and Jean-Pol Poncelet, FORATOM Director General, respectively, signed a Memorandum of Understanding that strengthens the cooperation of the two organisations in the areas of nuclear policy, technology and energy.

On 26 April 2012, the European Nuclear Safety Regulators' Group (ENSREG) peer review Board that consists of seven senior regulators from EU countries and a European Commission (EC) senior manager published its final report on the peer review of the nuclear stress tests. The report praises the results of the stress tests that have improved or are about to improve the safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Europe.

When Tomari 3, the only nuclear reactor still running in Japan since the tsunami, is taken offline for maintenance on 5 May 2012, Japan may be without nuclear-generated electricity for the first time in 40 years. The 54 Japanese nuclear reactors produced 30% of the country's electricity before the Fukushima accident. The Japanese government said the country could face power shortages especially during the summer if all Japanese nuclear reactors are shut down.

On 20 March 2012, FORATOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) represented by J.P. Poncelet, Director General of FORATOM and Alexander Bychkov, IAEA Deputy Director General for Nuclear Energy respectively, signed a practical arrangement Agreement that cemented years of close cooperation with the IAEA.