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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

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The future of nuclear in UK: To be or not to be?

Currently the UK has 16 reactors generating on average about 19% of its electricity and all but one of these will be retired by 2023. The exception is Sizewell B, the UK’s only pressurized water reactor (PWR), which began operations in 1995. The country has a number of reactors which are currently reaching the end of their working life, and it is now unclear how they will be replaced.

read more... 29/05/2013

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Belgian nuclear reactors Tihange- 2 and Doel-3 allowed reopening

Belgium's Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) has given green light to GDF Suez to restart two nuclear reactors shut last year over safety concerns.

read more... 20/05/2013

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Brief history about the Italian V Conto Energia

The first Italian National Energy Program dates 1975 when, immediately after the first oil crisis, the Parliament noticed the problem of the increasing fossil fuels prices. The objective was to design a new national energy system fossil fuel free, the only solution was to build new nuclear power reactors, but a referendum where about 70% of the Italians decided to vote against nuclear, stopped the construction of all the nuclear plants all over Italy.

read more... 15/05/2013

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EDF may erase hopes of new nuclear power plants in UK

The U.K. government is seeking to restore nuclear energy as part of a program to limit its carbon emissions and has been in talks with French state-controlled EDF, the world's largest nuclear operator, to build as many as four new reactors.

read more... 19/04/2013

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