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EDF’s plans to prolong life of UK nuclear power stations put energy policy in doubt
The electricity giant EDF, the UK’s main nuclear operator, is negotiating with the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) the extension of the operational lifetime of their existing eight nuclear power reactors.
read more... 22/05/2012
Japan to switch off the last nuclear reactor
On Saturday, Japan will switch off the last of the country's 50 running nuclear reactors, definitely abandoning a power source that once supplied a third of its electricity, leaving Japan without nuclear power for the first time since 1966, following last year’s devastating accident at Fukushima which has hit the public confidence.
read more... 04/05/2012
E.ON to post the heaviest loss in its history on German nuclear phaseout
Germany’s biggest utility E.ON has registered the heaviest loss in the company’s history in 2011, being hit hardly last year by German government’s decision to close eight of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
read more... 15/03/2012
Czech Republic to temper its nuclear expectations
The Czech Republic has tempered its nuclear ambitions to build five nuclear reactors in the country, being scaled back to just two units, even if Germany and Poland may have been counting on those nuclear reactors to supply electricity. Germany has halted eight of its oldest reactors, intending to close another nine by 2022, aftermath the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
read more... 17/02/2012
UK: new generation of nuclear reactors could recycle radioactive waste into fuel
While many nations around the world are abandoning nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the UK is planning building new power reactors that will be able to recycle nuclear waste into new-generating fuel.
read more... 03/02/2012