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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
Anti-nuclear Irene protests
Friday, July 25, 2008A VETERAN anti-nuclear weapons protester has chained herself to the gates of a nuclear power station.
Irene Willis, 62, from Buckland, Shoebury, was one of eight environmental activists protesting outside Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk.
They are protesting about the risks to health and safety from nuclear power stations and the nuclear fuel cycle.
Baltic, Polish cos agree atomic development venture
Friday, July 25, 2008VILNIUS, July 25 (Reuters) - Energy companies in the three Baltic states and Poland agreed on Friday to set up a joint venture to develop a nuclear power plant in Lithuania, the Lithuanian partner said.
The four countries have been negotiatng on the project for months and hammered out a deal on Friday in Copenhagen.
"The partners have agreed to Lithuania's proposal to establish a joint project development company, in which LEO LT would hold a 51 percent stake," Lithuania's LEO LT said in a statement after a meeting.
Lithuania has said it wants to build a 3,200-3,400 megawatt nuclear power plant to replace its Soviet-era Ignalina nuclear facility, due to be shut down at the end of next year.
French environmentalists alarmed after fresh nuclear incident
Friday, July 25, 2008PARIS (AFP) — French environmentalists sounded the alarm Thursday after the third incident this month at a nuclear plant left 100 employees contaminated.
"This new incident shows that nuclear energy, which is presented as clean and safe, remains a dangerous, polluting and poorly controlled energy," a spokesman for environmental group Greenpeace told AFP.
Envoy turned away from Russian nuclear facility
Friday, July 25, 2008MOSCOW (Reuters) - The British ambassador to Moscow and two of his diplomats were refused entry to a UK-funded nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia when they turned up on a scheduled visit, an embassy spokesman said on Friday.
Ambassador Anthony Brenton was in the Arctic port of Murmansk on Thursday to visit a British navy ship that was there to take part in a Russian Naval Day celebration.
Alarm shuts down nuclear reactor
Friday, July 25, 2008Emergency officials say a warning alarm has triggered the automatic shutdown of a nuclear reactor in western Ukraine.
Officials at the Emergency Situations Ministry said a fall in water levels at a steam generator in the third reactor of the Rivne nuclear power plant caused Thursday's shutdown.
Ukrainian Nuclear Reactor Shut Down Over Malfunction
Friday, July 25, 2008Kiev, 25 July: The third unit of the Rivne nuclear power plant was automatically disconnected from the Ukrainian power network and shut down on Thursday [24 July], the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The ministry explained the shutdown with the insufficient level of water in the steam generator's cooler. The radiation is normal, the ministry said.
Poland to Build Nuclear Power Plant to Avoid Electricity Deficit
Friday, July 25, 2008WARSAW, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Poland may run out of electricity in 12 years, and after 2020 the demand for electricity will exceed its production by 30 percent, the Energy Market Agency predicted in a report on Thursday.
The report suggested that around 2030 Poland will either have to import 30 percent of required electricity or build a nuclear plant by that time, according to Polish news agency PAP.
SEPA backing for £110m Dounreay dump
Friday, July 25, 2008SCOTLAND'S environment regulator has given a boost to plans to build a new low-active nuclear dump at Dounreay.
The £110 million scheme earmarked for ground adjoining the former fast-reactor complex is being fought by residents of the small adjoining settlement at Buldoo. But the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on Wednesday gave notice of its conditional backing for the development.
No site selected for construction of nuclear power plant so far
Friday, July 25, 2008No site for the construction of Belarus’ first-ever nuclear power plant has been selected so far as government experts continue exploring a few options.
Three areas are being studied, located close to the village of Chyrvonaya Palyana near Bykhaw, Mahilyow region; the village of Kukshynava between Horki and Shklow, Mahilyow region; and in the Astravets district, Hrodna region.
Explosion at centrifuge maker
Thursday, July 24, 2008Accident investigators will today begin their investigation into the cause of an explosion at a company which makes centrifuges for the Urenco uranium factory in Almelo.
No-one was hurt in the blast, which the fire brigade describes as a ‘chemicals incident’.