Stress tests carried out by EDF Energy on its eight nuclear plants in the UK have shown that they are all “very robust” under the most extreme scenarios, even those far beyond what could ever be plausible in the UK, the company has said.
EDF Energy has applied for consent from the UK’s Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) to build and operate two new nuclear reactor units at Hinkley Point in Somerset, the utility said in a statement.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has confirmed that it has detected signs of nuclear fission reactions in unit number 2 at the shut-down Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.
Belgium’s main political parties have reached a conditional agreement to shut down the country’s two remaining nuclear power plants, owned by GDF Suez unit Electrabel, a ministry spokeswoman said yesterday.
EDF Energy has applied for consent from the UK’s Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) to build and operate two new nuclear reactor units at Hinkley Point in Somerset, the utility said in a statement yesterday.
