For some time now, but especially since the support of institutions such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency and the EU in the Green Finance Regulation, nuclear energy has received broad global support. And there is a growing realisation from this side that nuclear power is an essential part of the Read more...
A quarter of a century ago, a long-time expert on the scene wrote that dealing with (high-level) radioactive waste "has the well-deserved reputation of being one of the trickiest policy areas facing the US and other countries with nuclear reactors for power generation" [North 1999]. With a few exceptions, this is still true today. However Read more...
29.04.2024: Georgia Power: Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation
19.04.2024: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum: Starting signal for industrialisation of low-enriched fuel
15.04.2024: Westinghouse Congratulates Energoatom on Start of AP1000® Work at Khmelnytskyi NPP
The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in the Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine has once again found itself in a threatening situation following a drone attack on the evening of 7 April 2024. The plant was attacked with three smaller drones. Three people were injured, an analysis laboratory was damaged and a Read more...
08.04.2024: Westinghouse Releases New Report on Economic Impact of AP1000® Deployment in Poland & Down Selects Key Polish Suppliers
On 22 March 2024, one day after the Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 of the IAEA and the Belgian EU Council Presidency, the EU Commission and the European nuclear industry association nucleareurope held an information event (dissemination event) on the European Industrial Alliance on SMRs. As part of the target of a 90 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2040, the EU's Read more...
22.03.2024 STMUV: Federal government forces next step in nuclear phase-out
Europe on its way to becoming a key player in the construction and development of new nuclear power plants: With a declaration of intent by 25 countries to triple global nuclear power capacity, nuclear power has made its first prominent appearance as a climate policy technology at a Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Read more...
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