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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 favourite company and read latest (most English) news about it.
Latest nuclear news
Thorp is back
Friday, September 14, 200714 September 2007
The Sellafield site operator has reported that the initial 33t shearing campaign as part of the phased restart of the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp), which commenced on 4 July 2007, has been successful. The modified plant and procedures for the Feed Clarification Cell have now been fully recommissioned and tested.
The liquors resulting from the leak discovered in April 2005 and held in buffer storage since then have been reprocessed.
More states challenge EU emissions caps
Friday, September 14, 2007More states challenge EU emissions caps
Latvia and Lithuania have become the latest countries tolegally challenge the European commission over cuts to national allocation plans (Naps) for phase II of the EU emissiontrading scheme (EU ETS), bringing the total to seven.
Latvia said on 31 July that it would lodge a complaint with the European court of justice by 26 September.
France begins 'strategic reflection' on future of nuclear sector, presidential spokesman says
Thursday, September 13, 2007 Posted in | »Minor fault shuts down generator at Finnish nuclear power plant
Thursday, September 13, 2007HELSINKI, Finland: Plant officials shut down a nuclear reactor in southern Finland Thursday, after a faulty turbine caused a generator to lose power, but no radiation leak or other damage was reported, officials said.
The 250-megawatt generator, at the Loviisa plant, 90 kilometers (55 miles) east of Helsinki, was shut down but the other 250-megwatt unit was running normally, operations manager Markku Tiitinen said.
EUR 3 billion price tag for construction delay on new reactor at Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP
Wednesday, September 12, 2007ST. PETERSBURG - According to the Elfii consortium of large Finnish electricity users, a construction delay in an experimental new reactor design at Olkiluoto NPP will cost Nordic electricity users EUR 3 billion, the Finnish business daily Kauppalehti reported. Birthe Weijola, 12/09-2007 Elfi director Antti Koskelainen is quoted saying that the cost of the delay is comparable to the investment cost for the whole reactor.
Vrom overweegt stappen om ontmantelen kerncentrale
Wednesday, September 12, 2007Trouw (website), 7 september 2007
(Novum) - Het ministerie van Vrom onderzoekt de mogelijkheden om via juridische weg extra geld af te dwingen van de huidige eigenaar van de kerncentrale in Dodewaard, om die te kunnen ontmantelen. Dit bedrijf, Gemeenschappelijke Kerncentrale Nederland (GKN), schat de kosten op 130 miljoen euro. De beoogde nieuwe eigenaar, de Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval (Covra), zei vrijdag in het Radio 1-programma Argos dat het 230 miljoen euro gaat kosten.
PvdA pleit voor toestemming bij export uranium
Wednesday, September 12, 2007Trouw (web), 11 september 2007
(Novum) - De PvdA wil de Kernenergiewet aanpassen, zodat het bedrijf Urenco verantwoordelijk kan worden gesteld voor de export van kernenergie naar Rusland. Tweede Kamerlid Diederik Samsom vindt dat parlementaire toestemming aan het uitvoeren van uranium vooraf moet gaan.
Finnish plant demonstrates nuclear power industry's perennial problems
Tuesday, September 11, 2007By Alan Katz, Bloomberg News, September 6, 2007
Martin Landtman hunched forward in his shirtsleeves as a June storm on Finland's Baltic coast drenched the construction site of the world's most powerful nuclear reactor. As project manager for TVO, the joint venture buying the plant, Landtman has weathered far worse annoyances than rain.
Flawed welds for the reactor's steel liner, unusable coolant pipes and suspect concrete in the foundation already have pushed back the delivery date of the Olkiluoto-3 unit by at least two years.
Public doubts over nuclear power persist
Tuesday, September 11, 2007Public doubts over nuclear power persist
By Rebecca Bream
Published: September 10 2007 04:03 | Last updated: September 10 2007 04:03
Serious misgivings about nuclear power remain as well as concerns over the role of private sector operators in the industry according to the largest ever public consultation to be held in the UK.
A sample of 1,000 people in nine cities were asked to give their views on whether the government should give the green light to a new generation of nuclear power stations in a series of workshops on Saturday.
The day was hailed by ministers as a victory for the democratic process and a reflection of prime minister Gordon Brown’s push to involve a wider range of people in policy-making.
French nuclear vendor Areva says UK nuclear relaunch 'essential'
Tuesday, September 11, 2007French nuclear vendor Areva says UK nuclear relaunch 'essential'
London (Platts)--6 Sep 2007
French nuclear vendor Areva NP says that the revival of a nuclear power program in the UK is "absolutely essential."
CEO Luc Oursel, speaking at a conference in London Thursday, said that the UK would be the first in Europe to relaunch on a large scale a nuclear power effort. Therefore, he said, it has to be successful.
Success in the UK could lead other European countries planning to exit nuclear power to reconsider their plans.