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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
Radiation leak at Germany's sole uranium enrichment facility
Sunday, January 24, 2010An accident at Germany's sole uranium enrichment facility in North Rhine Westphalia has left one worker in hospital under observation.
The incident occurred at the plant in the town of Gronau, when a room in the uranium enrichment facility was accidently exposed to radioactive material. The worker was in the room when the accident occurred, and was taken to the hospital as a precaution. He is expected to be released Friday.
Albania Approves Atomic Energy Agency
Friday, January 22, 2010Albania's government approved on Wednesday the creation of the country´s National Atomic Agency, an institution that will supervise of development of nuclear projects.
Earlier Prime Minister Sali Berisha had announced that the government was looking at the possibility of constructing a nuclear power plant.
Dukovany suspends third unit from grid due to leak
Wednesday, January 20, 2010Dukovany, Jan 20 (CTK) - Staff at Czech nuclear power station Dukovany yesterday unhooked the plant's third production unit from the grid owing to a leak in the secondary circuit.
Technicians found out that tens of litres of non-radioactive water per hour were leaking from one of the pipelines in the secondary circuit.
Bitter row throws French nuclear industry into turmoil
Wednesday, January 20, 2010The French nuclear industry is in turmoil as uranium supplies have dried up and the treatment of spent fuel has been blocked amid an increasingly bitter row between the heads of its two main state operators.
EDF, the electricity group that runs 58 reactors in France, said that Areva, the nuclear energy group, had stopped uranium deliveries on January 4 and was refusing to take away spent fuel for reprocessing.
Areva considers producing cheaper reactors
Friday, January 15, 2010Areva is weighing whether to bring out cheaper, less sophisticated nuclear reactors after its flagship EPR lost out to a low-cost South Korean rival in one of the biggest civil tenders last year.
Top management at the French group last week launched a review of its product range to determine whether Areva should reintroduce the simpler second-generation CPR1,000 reactors - which it stopped building 20 years ago - for client countries that are new to nuclear power.
Soviet-era Lithuanian nuclear plant shuts down under EU deal
Friday, January 1, 2010VILNIUS — Lithuania Thursday shut down its Soviet-era nuclear plant under an EU deal in a move set to drive up electricity prices amid an economic crisis and leave it counting on ex-master Moscow for power.
"At 11:00 pm (2100 GMT) everything went offline. It all went according to plan," Viktor Sevaldin, director of the 26-year-old plant, told AFP by telephone.
Spain says has power to spare, can phase out nukes
Wednesday, December 23, 2009MADRID - Spain's top energy official said on Monday the country had enough spare generating capacity to phase out nuclear power stations in the medium term, in line with government policy.
In recent years, Spain has subsidized renewable energy in order to cut its heavy dependence on fuel imports and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is now the world's third-biggest producer of wind power and the second-biggest of solar.
Draft UN text foresees limited CDM expansion
Thursday, December 17, 2009Climate change negotiators are planning only a limited expansion of the Kyoto protocol's project-based clean development mechanism (CDM) after 2012, according to the latest draft text discussed under Copenhagen's Kyoto track.
Only two of seven options for reforming the CDM are about extending the mechanism beyond its current scope: crediting national mitigation actions by developing countries (NAMAs) and carbon credits for small and large projects below sectoral emission benchmarks.
"Nuclear plant idea was Serbian"
Wednesday, December 2, 2009BELGRADE -- Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Konuzin has confirmed that Russia offered to build a nuclear power plant in Serbia.
But the idea, he said during his visit to Zrenjanin in the north of the country, came from the Serbian side.
Designs for new UK nuclear reactors are unsafe, claims watchdog
Monday, November 30, 2009Major setback for energy plans as report finds flaws in US and French models