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Daily: European power for Monday mixed on more French nuclear and cold weather
Brent and U.S crude futures rose on Friday, backed by the intensification of conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants who stimulated concerns about supply in the Middle East and by a fire on an energy platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
read more... 19/11/2012
The Czech Republic to considerably increase the share of nuclear power production
The Czech government is planning to considerably increase the country’s nuclear power production to at least 50 percent of its electrical energy mix by around 2040 from the current 30 percent and to slash coal use to meet greenhouse gas emission targets.
read more... 14/11/2012
Poland to choose between nuclear power and gas
Poland is going to scrap its nuclear programme in favor of shale gas as a less risky investment option, according to the head of Polish state-owned utility PGE.
read more... 05/11/2012
Japan’s Hitachi to build nuclear power plants in the UK
The Japanese company Hitachi has announced on Tuesday that it intends to buy from German utilities E.ON and RWE the nuclear venture Horizon, for a total of 696 million pounds, and added that it was already in negotiations to find another company to manage the plants after they are built.
read more... 01/11/2012
China to end nuclear ban after Japan's Fukushima disaster
China is seeking to steadily resume construction of new nuclear power plants, approving a small number of nuclear power projects by 2015. The government froze new nuclear power projects and ordered a national scrutiny of existing plants after Japan's Fukushima disaster.
read more... 25/10/2012