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Dpa - 13 Jun 2018 German environment minister Svenja Schulze has joined her counterparts from Austria and Luxembourg in a call for an end to financial support for new nuclear power plants in the European Union, according to a dpa newswire report carried by Handelsblatt. The three (…)

12 Jun 2018 : Jordan has scrapped a $10bn (€8.5bn) deal with Russia to build the Middle Eastern kingdom’s first nuclear power station, reports in local media said today. The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) sent a statement to the Jordan Times saying the Jordanian government decided (…)

13 Jun 2018 : French nuclear regulator ASN has decided to strengthen its oversight of the production process of nuclear equipment and components as a result of the series of manufacturing irregularities, which were detected in 2015 at the Le Creusot forge in central France. ASN said the new (…)

SOFIA (Bulgaria), June 7 (SeeNews) - French energy group Areva is interested in the project for the construction of Belene nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, energy minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Thursday, shortly after the parliament in Sofia moved to revive the abandoned project. (…)

7 Jun 2018 : State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) would require “some sort” of state guarantees to invest in Bulgaria’s Belene nuclear power station project, Xie Jiajie, president of the China Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation (CZEC) told reporters yesterday on the sideline of a (…)

7 Jun 2018 : Nuclear seems to be the “elephant in the room” for many decision makers at EU level, Yves Desbazeille, director-general of Brussels-based industry group Foratom, told a nuclear conference in Varna , Bulgaria. “European policy makers know that we [the nuclear sector] are around (…)

May 17th, 2018 by Joshua S Hill During the first quarter of the year, Britain’s wind farms produced more electricity than ever before and promptly surpassed the amount of electricity generated by the country’s nuclear fleet, similarly for the first time ever. A new analysis from (…)

Reuters Staff PARIS, June 6, 2018 (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF said on Wednesday that a first nuclear chain reaction has been carried out at the Taishan European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in China, signalling an initial startup of the long-delayed project. EDF’s head (…)

5 Jun (NucNet) : The UK government has started negotiations with Japan-based Hitachi on the planned 20bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station in Wales, energy secretary Greg Clark said in a written statement to parliament yesterday. Mr Clark said the UK government will be considering a direct (…)

By Andrew Merrell | 5th June 2018 Plans to dump 300,000 tonnes of mud dredged near to a former nuclear power plant into Cardiff Bay have left a Gloucestershire firm in a sticky situation. Nuclear energy giant EDF, which has its UK headquartered in Barnwood, has come in for criticism (…)