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STOP PRESS: THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
The time has come to take stock. Energy policy is in a total mess. Not a single one of its five pillars remains intact with the withdrawal of the German companies, RWE and EoN, from the nuclear element.
Finnish utility Fortum today submitted is application for a decision-in-principle on the possible construction of a third reactor unit at the country’s Loviisa nuclear power plant.
The European Parliament has adopted by a large majority a “wide-ranging blueprint” for the EU’s future energy strategy that calls for “a specific road map for investments in nuclear energy”.
A new study of Dutch energy policy by the International Energy Agency (IEA) urges the government to take a decision on new nuclear build as soon as possible or risk creating uncertainty.
Progress Energy's four nuclear plants in the US states of North and South Carolina and Florida set a record for their combined electricity generation in 2008, the company said on 27 January.
The announcement by French president Nicolas Sarkozy confirming the construction of a second European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR) run by Electricite de France (EDF) is “excellent news for the whole of the nuclear industry”, the company has said.
British Energy (BE) said today that the UK’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate had approved the return to service of its Heysham A1 reactor unit in northern England.
Canadian nuclear regulators have dismissed claims that radioactive material has leaked from a research reactor into the Ottawa River in the province of Ontario.
Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant operated safely during and after a major earthquake that struck in July 2007, a new report from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts confirmed today.
