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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
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.
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.
Kozloduy sells 80% electricity directly to companies
Tuesday, December 4, 2007Mon 03 Dec 2007 - Rene Beekman, SOFIA ECHO
Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP) sold close to 530 megawatts electricity on the free market, of which only 80 megawatts went to the National Electricity Company (NEC).
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.
Czech President Klaus pleading for nuclear energy
Tuesday, December 4, 2007Prague, ČTK 19:22 - 03.12.2007 - The dream of endless lowering of energy consumption is nonsense and this should be said aloud, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said at the reopening of the VR-1 training reactor at Czech Technical University (CVUT) today.
"I cannot imagine the development of this country without nuclear energy," Klaus said.
Ryan refuses uranium mining licences
Tuesday, December 4, 2007Sun, Dec 02, 2007 - Prospectors have been banned from mining the hills of Donegal (Ireland) for the nuclear fuel uranium, it emerged today.
The Minister for Natural Resources Eamon Ryan refused to grant exploration licences to two companies with their eyes set on some of the county's most wild and scenic areas.
The Green Party TD said he declined the recent applications as part of a wider stance against nuclear power in Ireland and in the UK.
EU's Piebalgs says sufficient power in Lithuania when Ignalina closes
Tuesday, December 4, 2007BRUSSELS (AFX News) - EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs said there will be sufficient power in Lithuania when its Ingalina nuclear power station's second unit is shut down at the end of 2009.
'At the end of 2009 (when the plant closes), the power gap will not cut Lithuanian consumers' power,' the commissioner told reporters here.
Armenia to Close Nuclear Plant
Friday, November 30, 2007YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) -- Armenia approved a plan Thursday to shut down its lone nuclear power plant, following years of pressure from foreign nations concerned about its Soviet-era design and safety.
The government gave no date for closing the Medzamor reactor, located about 20 miles west of the capital, Yerevan. The 27-year-old plant, which supplies nearly half the country's electricity, halted operations after a 1988 earthquake but was restarted during an energy shortage in 1995.
Lithuania nuclear chief sees delay to new plant
Friday, November 30, 2007VISAGINAS, Lithuania, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A planned new Lithuanian nuclear plant faces a delay of at least two years to 2017, the head of the country's current sole atomic power facility said on Thursday. Viktor Shevaldin, head of the Ignalina nuclear plant, due to be shut down at the end of 2009 under Lithuania's European Union entry terms, said several uncertainties remained about the planning and eventual construction of a new plant.
Brown promises nuclear decision
Wednesday, November 28, 2007Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised that a decision on whether Britain should build new nuclear power stations will be made early next year.
Eighteen of Britain's 23 nuclear reactors
will reach the end of their lives by 2015
Mr Brown told delegates at the Confederation of British Industry's annual conference in London yesterday that the time for public debate had finished. He said the controversial decision over Britain's nuclear future must be made to ensure security of energy supplies over the next decades.