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EDF: French annual nuclear power production down 3.8% in 2012
French annual nuclear power production from 58 reactors owned by EDF totaled 404.9 TWh last year, a decrease of 3.8% compared to 421.1 TWh in 2011, this being the first decline since the crisis in 2009 (- 6.6%).
read more... 23/01/2013
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
France to face a gap in power generating capacity
The grid operator Reseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) announced that in three years France will face a gap in power generating capacity due to the closure of two nuclear reactors and some fossil fuel power plants. In his report RTE added that power will be assured until 2015 when as much as 7.6 GW of coal and heating fuel-fired power plants may be turned-off.
read more... 06/09/2012
EDF in talks with China for building new nuclear reactors in UK
EDF, the French utility, which owns and operates eight of Britain's ten nuclear-power stations, plans to expand two of these sites by building four new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point, Somerset.
read more... 03/09/2012
E.ON will not build new gas or coal plants in Western Europe
Germany’s largest utility announced its intent not to build new power capacity based on coal or gas in Western Europe at least until 2020 because the market seems to become oversupplied until the last remaining German nuclear reactors will be shut down permanently, while in Eastern and Southern Europe the situation is different.
read more... 29/08/2012