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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
Hundreds march in Niger against French nuclear firm
Saturday, September 8, 200708/09/2007 : Reuters Africa
Hundreds march in Niger against French nuclear firm
Hundreds march in Niger against French nuclear firm
Sat 8 Sep 2007, 13:00 GMT
NIAMEY, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people in Niger marched on Saturday to demand the departure of French nuclear giant Areva, which they accuse of backing a rebellion in the uranium-rich north of the former French colony.
The Tuareg-led Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) has killed at least 45 government soldiers and taken dozens hostage since launching a campaign in February to demand more development for the region around t
Dismantling nuclear plant to cost more
Friday, September 7, 2007The environment ministry is considering forcing the current owner of the nuclear plant in Dodewaard to pay more towards its dismantling. The company, GKN, estimates the cost at €130m.
The intended new owner Covra, which specialises in radioactive waste, told the Radio 1 Argos programme it will cost €230m.
Beautiful, green and very nuclear
Friday, September 7, 2007(By Dana Spinant) One of Finland’s most unlikely tourist attractions is Olkiluoto, a small island off the west coast, which is home to the first nuclear reactor being built in Europe in more than a decade.
The radioactive legacy of Dodewaard
Friday, September 7, 2007Het 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.
Merkel rejects call for early nuclear shutdown
Wednesday, September 5, 2007Merkel rejects call for early nuclear shutdown
Tue Sep 4, 2007 1:12PM EDT
The back end; a renewable resource
Tuesday, September 4, 2007Spent nuclear fuel is now being widely referred to as 'used' nuclear fuel and reprocessing is fast becoming 'recycling'. Before long, those countries that 'recycle' their 'used' nuclear fuel will claim that nuclear power is a renewable source of energy.
Areva's ownership structure debated in France
Monday, September 3, 2007Paris (Platts)--31Aug2007
Areva's ownership structure is being debated in France, following a
statement August 30 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that France's nuclear
enterprises must be "given the resources to develop."
On August 31, Areva CEO Anne Lauvergeon said that "Areva's development
needs major resources, [and] a change in capital [equity structure] appears
the best solution." She added, during a conference call with journalists and
analysts, that Areva's future is up to the government, its majority
shareholder.
Muslim clerics forbid construction of Indonesian nuclear power plant
Monday, September 3, 2007The Associated Press, International Herald Tribune
Published: September 3, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia: Dozens of Muslim clerics issued an edict against the construction of Indonesia's first nuclear power plant on seismically charged Java island, saying the potential dangers far outweighed the benefits.
The scholars from the country's largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, acknowledged the plant, which is scheduled to be built in 2010 and up and running by 2016, would help meet the rising deman
No new nuclear plants likely before 2020
Monday, September 3, 2007Reuters Mon 20 Aug 2007
A cyclist travels away from Sizewell A and B power stations in Suffolk, Britain May 22, 2007.
No new nuclear plants likely before 2020
By Daniel Fineren
LONDON (Reuters) - No nuclear power plants are likely to be built in Britain before 2020, if they are built at all, which will be too late to fill the country's looming power generation gap, according to a report published on Monday.
The government wants the private sector to build new nuclear power plants to replace the country's ageing reactors and plug a generation shortfall left by the closure of coal-fired power plants under European environment laws.
French-led consortium to build new shelter for Chernobyl's exploded reactor
Monday, September 3, 2007PARIS A French-led consortium will build a new shelter to encase the reactor at Ukraine's Chernobyl power station that exploded in 1986 in history's worst nuclear accident.
The new shelter will enclose the existing concrete "sarcophagus" erected hastily after the 1986 accident, which has been crumbling and leaking radiation for more than a decade.
The contract for the Novarka consortium, including Bouygues SA and Vinci SA, will be worth more than €430 million (US$593.14 million), Vinci said in a statement Tuesday night.