Posted by NucNet on 28 May 2014 in NucNet
The diversification of nuclear fuel supplies could become a condition for any new investment in nuclear power stations to be built in the EU, especially when using non-EU technology, the European Commission says in its European Energy Security Strategy released today. The strategy, which the EC says was ...
Posted by NucNet on 27 May 2014 in NucNet
EDF’s costs to produce nuclear power from its fleet of 58 nuclear reactors in France are increasing as investment needed to keep aging reactors safe over the next two decades could reach 90 billion euros (EUR) (123 billion US dollars), the state auditor said. “Production costs from the ...
Posted by NucNet on 19 May 2014 in NucNet
Voters in the Swiss canton of Bern yesterday rejected an initiative to prematurely shut down the single-unit Mühleberg nuclear station, which is scheduled for closure in 2019. A clear majority of 63.3 percent said no to the proposal to immediately stop operation of the plant, which is owned ...
Posted by NucNet on 16 May 2014 in NucNet
The World Association of Nuclear Operators (Wano), formed in 1989 after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, has marked the 25th year of its creation by establishing scholarships for four students aged 25 and under who are pursuing degrees in nuclear power generation.
More than half of the fuel assemblies from Fukushima-Daiichi-4 have been transferred to a central storage pool with the remainder scheduled to be removed by the end of the year, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said. In an operation that began in November 2013, Tepco has so ...
A senior executive at Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has praised the UK’s model of support to encourage the development of new nuclear reactors. Nikolay Drozdov, director of Rosatom’s international business department, told the European Nuclear Conference in Marseille, France, that UK support in the form of ...
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has drawn up a list of 21 nuclear power stations in the central and eastern US that must carry out in-depth analysis of updated earthquake risks “as a matter of priority”, although all sites are considered safe for continued operation in the ...
An industry group in Chile has proposed to the government that the country builds enough nuclear power reactors to provide 30 percent of its electricity generation by 2030. The Nuclear Power Committee of the Association of Engineers said its “30/30” proposal would meet the 30 percent target with ...
France is planning to introduce commercial fast neutron nuclear reactors (FNRs) in 2040. Christophe Béhar, head of the nuclear energy division at the French Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, told the European Nuclear Congress that France is looking to “intensify its efforts” to develop FNRs with a closed fuel cycle.
Posted by NucNet on 12 May 2014 in NucNet
Poland is planning to generate 12 percent of its electricity from nuclear by 2030 with its first reactor in commercial operation in 2024, a conference has heard. Beata Sparazynska, senior expert at the nuclear energy department of Poland’s Ministry of Economy, told the European Nuclear Congress in Marseille, ...
Posted by SONE on 30 April 2014 in Newsletters
Oh to be in England – but not when madness is there Robert Browning may wistfully have written: “Oh to be in England now that April’s there”. Our advice would be to give it a miss – and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, too – when UN environmental zeal in inflicted upon it.
Posted by NucNet on 8 April 2014 in NucNet
The European Commission “unfairly discredits nuclear energy” and “fails to make an objective comparison” when it addresses the potential environmental impact of the UK’s proposed investment contract for the construction of two EPR reactors at the Hinkley Point C nuclear station in England, a European industry group has said.
Posted by SONE on 30 March 2014 in Newsletters
Ukraine strengthens the case for nuclear power. Nothing perhaps over this month has more underlined the need for nuclear power in the UK than the plight of the Ukraine. In truth the West has cut a sorry figure responding to Russia’s annexation of the Crimea.
Posted by NucNet on 30 March 2014 in Issues
The Anthropocene. It is claimed that we are now entering a new era with the transition from the previous geological epoch, the Holocene, which began some 10,000 years ago with the retreat of the ice age and the development of human civilizations, to the Anthropocene, which is characterised by increasing influence of human activities.
Posted by NucNet on 20 March 2014 in NucNet
The deadline to develop a new design of nuclear reactor using thorium for fuel has been brought forward by 15 years as China’s central government tries to reduce the nation’s reliance on smog-producing coal-fired power stations, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported today. The newspaper said ...
Posted by NucNet on 19 March 2014 in NucNet
EDF Energy made a “conservative decision” to take both reactors at the Dungeness B nuclear power station in southern England offline for two months in May 2013 to further improve flooding defences, the company said today. In a statement issued in response to a report in a national ...
