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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.
Russia and Japan are expected to start a detailed feasibility study into the possible joint construction of a uranium enrichment plant using Russian technology in Japan or a third country.
The UK government today published a list of 11 potential sites for a first wave of new nuclear power plants in the country and has invited comments from the general public.
Russia and Japan are expected to start a detailed feasibility study into the possible joint construction of a uranium enrichment plant using Russian technology in Japan or a third country.
The first flask of fuel has been removed from the Chapelcross nuclear power plant in Scotland, marking a milestone in the defueling of the four reactor units at the site.
All possible energy options, including new nuclear units, are “still on the table” for Croatia, despite comments by prime minister Ivo Sanader that nuclear might not be a priority.
Germany’s 17 operational reactor units will produce a further 1,241 terawatt-hours of electricity up to about 2021, under a national law aimed at a gradual phase-out of nuclear energy, the country’s federal radiation protection agency (BfS), said today.
The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) says its top decommissioning priority is to deal with “high hazard, high risk facilities”, most of which are at Sellafield in north-west England and Dounreay in Scotland.
The safety and operating performance of US nuclear power plants remained high in 2008, according to indicators from the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO).
The second annual Financing Nuclear Power conference in London will take a practical look at the “challenges and developments” of financing the nuclear renaissance, organisers say.
Hungary’s parliament has approved a decision-in-principle that paves the way for construction of a new reactor unit at the country’s Paks nuclear power plant.
