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PUBLIC OPINION RECOVERS: POLITICIANS REMAIN DEAF
First, the good news. Nuclear power has virtually recovered from the knock it took over Fukushima. Indeed, according to an Ipsos MORI poll between December 2 and 8 exactly half the population is now in favour of replacing existing nuclear power stations and only 20% against. That compares with a favourable 36/28% rating in June last year – three months after the Japanese disaster. Read more...
Latest figures from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan show that temperatures in the lower areas of the reactor pressure vessels of units 1 to 3 are stable at below 100 degrees Celsius.
Nuclear power can address the twin challenges of global climate change and acute growth in energy demand while also having the largest potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the lowest cost, a new report says.
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, temporarily shut down last month for safety tests, will operate at full capacity in February 2012, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation said yesterday.
Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard has called for the Labor Party to end its ban on uranium exports to India, saying the move would be good for the Australian economy and for jobs.
France’s nuclear safety authority ASN (l’Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire) has given the country’s nuclear power plants a clean bill of health, but recommended the protection of vital equipment be improved.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has commended Japanese efforts to clean up radiation from its crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in a report today, but urges the country to consider several additional steps.
France's Socialist Party (PS) voted yesterday to back a pre-electoral agreement with the green party, EELV, that would close EDF’s 24 oldest reactors by 2025, party leader Martine Aubry announced.
French utility GDF Suez will reassess its nuclear strategy in Belgium between now and mid-2012 after Belgian parties seeking to form a government agreed to raise a tax imposed on the nuclear energy industry.
The Czech nuclear regulator and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have confirmed that “very low levels” of iodine-131 have been measured in the atmosphere over the Czech Republic in recent days.
The net flows of electricity between France and Germany have increased “significantly” over the last six months partly because of the closure of nuclear reactors in Germany following the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi, EDF has said.
The net flows of electricity between France and Germany have increased “significantly” over the last six months partly because of the closure of nuclear reactors in Germany following the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi, EDF has said.
