Sofia - Opponents of Bulgaria’s controversial planned nuclear power station at Belene have asked the European Commission to oppose its construction, according to Bulgarian media reports on Monday.Work on building two 1,000 megawatts reactors at Belene, near Bulgaria’s northern border with Romania, was initially approved in 1981, but the construction project was abandoned in 1990 when many communist-era investment projects were reviewed.
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BE investigating cause of hydrogen leak at Torness-1
Friday, December 7, 2007London (Platts)--6 Dec 2007
British Energy is investigating the cause of a hydrogen leak at Torness-1 in Scotland, BE said December 6.
BE spokeswoman Sue Fletcher said the advanced gas-cooled reactor was manually tripped December 1 following indications of the leak, which is on the conventional plant main turbo-generator. She could not say how long the reactor would be offline, she said, as BE is still devising a repair and restart plan. "We are also determining whether we will take the opportunity to carry out additional maintenance work while the unit is off," Fletcher said.
US, Russia take steps to open American market to Russian uranium imports
Friday, December 7, 2007WASHINGTON (AP) The United States tentatively has agreed to allow limited imports of uranium from Russia, suspending an antidumping investigation that has been in place for decades, according to a filing by the Commerce Department.
The imports, beginning in 2011, would be limited by yearly quotas.
EDF nuclear power plant construction faces legal challenge
Friday, December 7, 2007December 04, 2007: 05:55 AM EST
PARIS, Dec. 4, 2007 (Thomson Financial) -- French anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nucleaire said it has mounted a legal challenge to the construction of EDF's Flamanville nuclear reactor and hopes to get work stopped.
EDF said the construction of the 1,650 megawatts EPR European pressurised water reactor, to be supplied by Areva, has started following ground preparation at the site.
Legal challenge to German nuclear tax break fails
Thursday, December 6, 2007(ENDS Europe DAILY 05/12/07) Three German municipal utilities have lost an appeal at the European court of justice against tax breaks for nuclear power operators in Germany. The three firms wanted the court to overturn a state aid ruling by the European commission from 2001.
The commission said a tax exemption for funds put aside for waste disposal and reactor decommissioning did not amount to a state subsidy. But the court ruled the firms' appeal inadmissible last Thursday because they had not shown they were directly affected by the case. It did not evaluate the commission decision itself.
RWE and Vattenfall Europe's chances to delay nuclear exit have risen
Wednesday, December 5, 2007AFX News Limited
FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - RWE AG and Vattenfall Europe AG's chances of delaying the shut-down of nuclear reactors until after the next German parliamentary elections have risen after a fall in power volumes following the closure of two reactors, Handelsblatt reported.
Nulear power for Shtokman?
Wednesday, December 5, 200708:50 - 03 December 2007
Norwegian environmental group Bellona fears that Gazprom will use nuclear power to provide electricity to the huge Shtokman gas-field project.
The NGO has sought action by Norway's foreign ministry to prevent Gazprom taking the nuclear route.
Russian nuclear sites need to be safer
Wednesday, December 5, 2007By Russell Hotten
Daily Telegraph 04 December 2007
Russia has created a vast state-run company that brings together organisations and agencies involved in the country's civil and military nuclear sector, with the aim of overseeing billions of pounds of investment in new power stations and pitching for contracts abroad.
Organs of miscarried babies 'were used in Sellafield nuclear testing'
Wednesday, December 5, 2007London Evening Standard, 4 December 2007
The organs of miscarried and stillborn babies may have been harvested for testing by nuclear scientists, it emerged yesterday.
Victims of road accidents could also have been part of the grisly programme set up to establish whether workers at Sellafield had suffered radiation poisoning.
Units 5-6 of NPP Kozlodui Among the World's Best
Tuesday, December 4, 2007Blaga Bangieva (News.bg, 30.11.2007) - The modernization of units 5 and 6 of nuclear power plant Kozlodui costs 491 million EUR, stated Ivan Genov, executive director of the association on a meeting in Kozlodui by the occasion of the 20th anniversary of unit 5.
