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
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 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'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
French power utility EDF must be obliged to double the share of nuclear electricity production it vends to competitors from a quarter to up to half so as to raise competition, as stated by GDF Suez's chief executive on Thursday.
read more... 05/12/2014