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The new government of Japan to revive nuclear power
Japan's newly elected Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced this week that it could discard plans drafted by the previous administration as he intends to review plans to abandon the use of nuclear power after the previous government had said it wanted to phase out nuclear power by 2040 following last year's disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
read more... 28/12/2012
Coal generates 35% of UK’s electricity
Coal still plays an important role in UK’s electricity generation, as in the third quarter of this year, coal generated about 35 % of the UK's electricity, according to Government figures, at the same time as gas provided 28 %of electricity, and nuclear 22 %, while renewable accounted just under 12%.
read more... 21/12/2012
Spain’s Garona shuts down
Spain’s oldest nuclear plant Garona, suffers shutdown due to a new energy tax imposed by the government. After years of selling power below costs, Spain’s government decided to introduce higher taxes on electricity generation as a measure to deal with a 24 billion euro energy tariff deficit.
read more... 17/12/2012
CEZ expects record nuclear power output in 2012, 2013
Czech Republic’s largest power producer announced on Tuesday that both of its nuclear power plants are on the way to hit new record power generation this year and next, as it cuts fossil fuel-generated power production.
read more... 11/12/2012
Russia to build two new reactors in China
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, signed a protocol, on Thursday, for the construction of what will be the third and fourth reactors at the Tianwan nuclear power plant, and discussed also the possibility of building floating nuclear power plants.
read more... 10/12/2012