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Japan to restart its nuclear reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) announced it wanted to restart reactors at the world's largest atomic power station. Japanese nuclear operators applied to restart reactors under new regulations drawn up following the Fukushima disaster.
read more... 08/07/2013
European Commission launches new nuclear safety rules
The European Commission published on Tuesday a draft on nuclear safety law, including obligatory stress test every six years on the dozens of nuclear reactors operating in the European Union aftermath Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
read more... 14/06/2013
IAEA: World nuclear power capacity increases in 2012 after Fukushima meltdown
World nuclear power generation recorded a slight increase in 2012, after a decline in the previous year aftermath the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan, according to a new report released by UN atomic agency (IAEA).
read more... 07/03/2013
Northeast China gets its first nuclear power station since Fukushima disaster
The first nuclear power plant and the largest energy project in Northeast China since the accident at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in 2011 started operation on 17 February.
read more... 20/02/2013
UK: Centrica abandons plans to build new nuclear power plants
Centrica has announced that it intends to abandon plans to build new nuclear power stations in the UK because of the rising costs following changes to regulations after the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Centrica had been planning to build four plants with the French supplier EDF, but has now pulled out of the partnership.
read more... 05/02/2013