The company said in a statement it would aim for a global market share of one third of the roughly 150 plants it anticipates will be built by 2030. The statement also said Hitachi would aim to increase its nuclear revenues from 210 billion yen (about 2.2 billion US dollars, 1.9 billion euro) in 2009, to 380 billion yen in 2020.
The Areva-Siemens consortium constructing the Olkiluoto-3 (OL3) nuclear unit in Finland has said most work on the unit will be finished by the end of 2012, with operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) saying the unit should start commercial operation some time during 2013.
France’s nuclear safety authority (Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire; ASN), and the government’s directorate-general for energy and climate (DGEC) have released a new edition of the national radioactive material and waste management plan, moving towards a “coherent national waste management framework”.
A new “vision” of nuclear energy’s role in Europe’s energy mix lists 10 key objectives to allow for the long-term operation of the existing nuclear fleet, to support the deployment of Generation III technology, and to prepare for the launch of Generation IV reactors.
As many as 1,400 nuclear reactor units could be in commercial operation around the world by 2050, although whether this figure is realised will depend partly on the performance of the nuclear industry itself, a conference has been told.
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