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EDF Energy to increase its nuclear investment in UK
While the majority of energy companies are phasing out the nuclear energy, EDF Energy announces that it will increase its current 300 million pound investment on UK nuclear plants in order to adopt extra safety rules imposed by the British energy watchdog, following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
read more... 16/12/2011
German exit from nuclear to drive Swedish power prices up
Germany’s early phase-out from nuclear power in response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis could lift Swedish power prices. Higher prices in the German wholesale electricity market caused by a shift to fossil fuel-fired power generation could lift Swedish electricity prices in case of dry weather conditions depleting Swedish hydroelectric stocks and ending up in power imports from Germany.
read more... 22/11/2011
French nuclear power plants passed safety tests
According to the French energy utility EDF, all nuclear power plants from France has passed successfully the safety tests, the report being submitted to the country's nuclear regulator ASN. The move came in the wake of Fukushima nuclear accident.
read more... 23/09/2011
Siemens closes the nuclear chapter
The German engineering and industrial conglomerate, Siemens announced on Sunday that will quit nuclear power, aftermath the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan in March.
read more... 21/09/2011
Global nuclear energy capacity to rise 70% by 2030
Despite dented nuclear outlook in Germany and Japan following the Fukushima’s disaster, global nuclear power capacity will increase by almost 70% in the next 20 years, being mainly driven by demand in China, India, Korea and the United Kingdom, according to the last projections of the World Nuclear Association.
read more... 16/09/2011