The general director of International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano announced at the IAEA’s 56 general conference in Vienna, that nuclear power will maintain its importance in several countries, despite the Fukushima disaster. He also added that there will be a steady increase in the number of nuclear power plants worldwide in the next 20 years.
read more... 02/10/2012
Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany decided to phase-out nuclear power by 2022. As a result, this decision has created a loss of about 12.7 GW, and despite many investments in the renewable energy sector, the gap should be filled with coal and gas, to ensure the country's energy future.
read more... 02/10/2012
Japan is planning to phase out nuclear power during the next three decades under new government policy, aftermath Fukushima nuclear energy disaster.
read more... 12/09/2012
Production of nuclear energy worldwide is expected to increase considerably in the years to come. Despite phase-out of nuclear energy of Germany and Japan following the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, China and the United States focus their attention on next- generation reactors.
read more... 20/08/2012
The Swiss parliament decided in 2011 to phase out all the country’s nuclear power following the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan.
read more... 26/07/2012