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Romania: Nuclearelectrica will shut unit 2 for repairs
Romania's Nuclearelectrica declared it will stop on December 23 its nuclear reactor number two at its Cernavoda nuclear power plant and detach it from the national electricity grid on Tuesday to solve a problem, which did not affected plant’s safety.
read more... 24/12/2014
Sweden: waste tax for nuclear power plant operators to be doubled
Sweden's government has agreed to almost double a tax nuclear power plant operators pay to the nuclear waste fund, so as to aid it cover the increasing costs of dismantling, as stated by the environment ministry on Thursday.
read more... 19/12/2014
German TSOs to develop Ultranet power line
Western and southern German TSOs Amprion and TransnetBW on Wednesday submitted a bid to develop a north-south power transmission line that is a key part of the country's effort to shift from nuclear and thermal energy.
read more... 18/12/2014
Hungary and Russia ink agreement for nuclear plant development
Hungary and Russia will begin working next year on developing the central European country's single nuclear power plant with two 1,200 megawatt blocks, which are likely to start operating in 2025 and 2026, as stated by a Hungarian government representative on Tuesday.
read more... 10/12/2014
Britain: the bill for decommissioning nuclear will be higher next year
Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) anticipates spending 3.3 billion pounds on closing and cleaning up nuclear plants in 2015/16, a little bit more than in 2014/15, it mentioned on Monday in a draft business plan to 2018.
read more... 09/12/2014