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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
Belgium will depend all winter on electricity imports
Belgium will have to import electricity every week this winter in case of cold snap and amid weak wind and solar energy output. The situation in Belgium is very tense, with the country becoming structurally dependent on imports after being deprived of several nuclear reactors.
read more... 02/12/2014
Sweden: Vattenfall to put on standby its nuclear plans
Swedish power group Vattenfall, will give up its plans to build new nuclear power reactors because of a new government, including Green Party, which is not supporting them, setting up an energy commission tasked with achieving a 100% renewable electricity system.
read more... 01/12/2014
UK nuclear regulator gave approval to resume three EDF reactors
Britain's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) gave permission on Friday for EDF Energy to resume three nuclear reactors over the next week, offline since August, for inspections needed by an error on a similar unit.
read more... 24/11/2014
EDF: French nuclear reactor postponed to 2017
French utility EDF declared that its Areva-designed EPR nuclear reactor in Flamanville, France, will be delayed one more year, anticipating it would be linked to the grid in 2017, a decade after the start of the construction.
read more... 19/11/2014