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German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake'

German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake'

Nuclear Reactor
18-04-2023

Polish Plans for Large and Small Reactors Progress
Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) has submitted an application to Poland's Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of the country's first large nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, Orlen Synthos Green Energy has anno
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
18-04-2023

Finnish EPR Enters Regular Electricity Production
Test production has been completed at the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR in Finland and the plant has now started regular electricity production, operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has announced. TVO said the reactor will soon be declared to be in commercial op
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
18-04-2023

Nuclear Leaders Issue Call for Action From G7
World Nuclear Association and nuclear trade associations from Canada, Japan, Europe, the UK and the USA have issued a declaration calling on G7 governments to support the long-term operation of existing nuclear power plants and to accelerate the deploymen
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
18-04-2023

New G7 Nuclear Energy Alliance Forms as Germany Pulls the Plug on Last Reactors
A nuclear power alliance between the UK, US, Canada, Japan and France has been formed at the G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment in Sapporo, Japan, as Germany brings its nuclear activities to an end in the same weekend.A joi
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
17-04-2023

NPR Podcast Highlights Perspectives on Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy was the focus of a recent NPR 1A podcast episode, hosted by journalist Jenn White, who welcomed guests to discuss the role of nuclear energy in the future of the United States. The guests—Joe Dominguez, chief executive officer of Constellat
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
17-04-2023

Giant Finnish Nuclear Power Plant Starts Production
This chart from the EIA shows sources of uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants, 1950-2021. In 2020, according to the chart, 39.60 million pounds of uranium oxide was imported for the domestic nuclear power plant fleet. (Credit: Energy Information Agency)T
Nuclear Fuel
17-04-2023

“On the Verge of a Crisis”: The U.S. Nuclear Fuel Gordian Knot
This chart from the EIA shows sources of uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants, 1950-2021. In 2020, according to the chart, 39.60 million pounds of uranium oxide was imported for the domestic nuclear power plant fleet. (Credit: Energy Information Agency)T
Nuclear Reactor
17-04-2023

Europe’s Largest Nuclear Reactor Olkiluoto 3 Enters Service in Finland
Finland's next-generation Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, has gone into regular production after months of delays, its operator said Sunday, hours after Germany ended its nuclear era.Olkiluoto 3, now producing around 14 percent
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
17-04-2023

Germany Ends Nuclear Era as Last Reactors Power Down
Germany says energy supply safe despite nuclear exitBerlin (AFP) April 15 - Switching off Germany's remaining nuclear plants will not put the country's power supply at risk despite the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, ministers
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
17-04-2023

How to Decommission a Nuclear Power Plant
Germany's last three nuclear power plants will stop generating electricity from Saturday but the arduous and decades-long process of decommissioning the sites is only just beginning.Here's a look at what happens after the plants are taken
Nuclear waste
14-04-2023

France’s Andra Seeks to Increase Low-Level Waste Storage Capacity
France’s National Agency for the management of radioactive waste (Andrea - l’Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs) has applied to the prefecture of Aube for an environmental authorisation to increase the
Nuclear waste
14-04-2023

Radiological Operations of Idaho’s IWTU Begin
IWTU operators prepare to introduce radiological sodium-bearing liquid waste into the facility Tuesday. (Photo: DOE)More than a decade after construction was declared completed, Idaho’s long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) has beg
Nuclear Technology
14-04-2023

US GAO Report Identifies Fusion Challenges
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress, Technology Assessment - Fusion Energy Potentially Transformative Technology Still Faces Fundamental Challenges says a number of challenges need to be overcome in order to achieve commercial fusi
Nuclear Power Plant
14-04-2023

Kazakhstan Continues to Pursue NPP Plans
Almasadam Satkaliyev, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Energy says "Rosatom has a certain advantage as supplier of the nuclear island" for a planned NPP. While the authorities continue to look for a contractor and supplier of equipment for con
Nuclear Power Plant
14-04-2023

Hungary and Belarus Agree Nuclear Energy Cooperation
Hungary and Belarus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation relating to the projects in both countries for new Russian VVER-1200 nuclear reactors.(Image: Belarus Foreign Ministry)The MoU was signed at an intergovernmental committee
Nuclear Fusion
14-04-2023

Chinese and German Milestones in Fusion Research
A Chinese tokamak device has set a new world record for a steady-state high-constraint mode plasma operation and German researchers have discovered a way to build smaller and cheaper fusion reactors. Meanwhile a US Government Accountability Office report
Nuclear Power Plant
14-04-2023

Joint Venture Established for Second Polish Plant
A joint special purpose vehicle - named PGE PAK Energia Jądrowa SA - has now officially been formed by Polish companies ZE PAK and Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) to implement the project to construct a nuclear power plant in Pątnów in central
Nuclear Fuel
14-04-2023

Cameco, Energoatom Fuel Deal Implemented
Cameco and Energoatom have signed the last agreement needed for the implementation of a programme to export all of Ukraine's uranium production for processing in Canada to produce fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants.Kotin (on the left) and Git
Nuclear Power Plant
14-04-2023

NARUC, NASEO Launch Program for New Nuclear Deployment
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) have announced the launch of the Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative (ANSC)—an effort to bring together utility regulators and
Nuclear Technology
14-04-2023

UCC Completes Nuclear Diving Project at Legacy Sellafield Pond
In December 2022, UCC UK became the first nuclear diving company in more than 60 years to enter Sellafield’s PFSP. (Photo: Sellafield Ltd.)Underwater Construction Corporation (UCC) UK Ltd. announced that it has recently completed a nuclear divin
Energy Technology
13-04-2023

Nuclear Science and Technology in Space
Anyone who has heard me speak about the American Nuclear Society recently knows that I like to remind people of the ANS mission and vision statements. I invite people to read the exact words: Our mission is to advance, foster, and spur the development and
Nuclear Decommissioning
13-04-2023

Decommissioning Progresses in Germany
The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment has granted utility EnBW Kernkraft GmbH approval to decommission and dismantle unit 2 of its Neckarwestheim NPP. The plant is due to shut down later this month. The 1400 MWe Neckarwestheim 2 press
Nuclear Power Plant
13-04-2023

France Renews Nuclear Co-operation With China
France and China agreed to renew their partnership in nuclear energy during the recent state visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to China. This was one of a raft of economic agreements reached in the course of the three-day trip, during which Macron
Nuclear Reactor
13-04-2023

In Pictures: Tokamak Energy’s Fusion Plant Concept
The UK-based nuclear fusion company Tokamak Energy has released the first images of how its future commercial fusion power plants could look.The company is stressing the ability to site plants in urban environments (Image: Tokamak Energy)Tokamak Energy an
Nuclear Power Plant
13-04-2023

Indian Minister Eyes 9% Nuclear Share by 2047
Installed nuclear capacity is set to more than triple by 2031, and nuclear power plants are likely to generate about 9% of the country's electricity by 2047, according to Minister of State Jitendra Singh. India's nuclear power plants gener

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