Nuclear power in Europe

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More then thirty years of debate, and the controversy remains as polarised as ever. This website (to be fair – whose maintainer is anti-nuclear) collects news about nuclear power in Europe, sorted by nuclear power plant, type of power plant, country etc.

By presenting different (media) angles on current nuclear issues, we hope to be able to cut out some spin, either pro or against, and to allow the reader to make up his or her own mind about today’s pro’s and con’s of nuclear power.

In the menu on the right you can select your country, the nuclear power plant in your neighbourhood, or your favorite company and read latest (most English) news about it.

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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s highly radioactive waste will more than double by 2030 mainly as spent fuel derived from nuclear reactors mounts up, the French national radioactive waste management agency (Andra) said on Tuesday.
Andra draws up every three years an inventory of sites polluted with radioactivity and details quantities per waste category as well as [...]

A nuclear leak, which could have caused a major disaster, was only averted by a chance decision to wash some dirty clothes, according to a newly obtained official report.
On the morning of Sunday 7 January 2007, one of the contractors working on decommissioning the Sizewell A nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast was in [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – German RWE, Europe’s fifth-largest utility, will fight to take over Essent’s stake in the Netherland’s only nuclear power plant, disputing a claim by peer Delta that it should sell it on.
RWE does not have to comply with a demand by Dutch state-owned utility Delta to sell on the 50 percent stake of [...]

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) – Sweden’s Vattenfall is ready to reopen one of its two north German nuclear plants shortly and the second will reopen later this year at the earliest as the operator completes safety-related measures, Chief Executive Lars Josefsson said on Monday.
“Kruemmel is almost ready to go live but of course requires approval while the [...]

OLKILUOTO, Finland — As the Obama administration tries to steer America toward cleaner sources of energy, it would do well to consider the cautionary tale of this new-generation nuclear reactor site.
The massive power plant under construction on muddy terrain on this Finnish island was supposed to be the showpiece of a nuclear renaissance. The most [...]

The revival of atomic energy in Europe and a new nuclear-friendly mood in both the EU Commission and the EU Parliament has given the industry’s powerful lobby in Brussels a
shot in the arm.
From Sami Tulonen’s office in Brussels, it’s just a five-minute walk to the EU Parliament and three minutes on foot to the European [...]

Power company TVO denies that Finland’s Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority (STUK) has threatened to stop construction of a nuclear reactor at its plant in Olkiluoto. Nonetheless both TVO and French contractor Areva say they take the criticism seriously.
TVO and Areva admit that plans for an automation safety system have been delayed, but say that [...]

Today we will witness an entirely new phenomenon in Albania’s public life. For the first time we will follow a protest organized by people cooperating through the Facebook. A few days ago some people in Shkoder founded a group against the project for construction of a nuclear plant in Albania. The group has now about [...]