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France's EDF flags problems with nuclear welds, shares dive
French utility EDF has discovered problems with the weldings and other components in some of its nuclear reactors, it said on Tuesday, sending its shares down more than 8% as investors worried about potential closures.
read more... 11/09/2019
EDF Energy extends Hunterston B-7 nuclear reactor outage to Jan. 15
EDF Energy, the British arm of French utility EDF, has extended an outage at its Hunterston B-7 reactor to Jan. 15, 2020, it said on its website.
read more... 04/09/2019
EDF Energy gets nod to restart nuclear plant where cracks were found
EDF Energy has been granted approval to restart a reactor at its Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland where cracks were found last year.
read more... 21/08/2019
Rosatom postpones fast reactor project, report says
Rosenergoatom, the nuclear power plant operator subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is expected to receive about RUB280 billion (USD4 billion) less in state funding for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Russia owing to the postponement of its fast neutron reactor programme, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported last week, citing anonymous sources.
read more... 14/08/2019
Japan's Tepco to decommission second, undamaged Fukushima nuclear plant: Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power plans to scrap its Fukushima Daini nuclear station, located a few miles south of the bigger Fukushima Daiichi plant where three reactors melted down in 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami, Kyodo News reported on Wednesday.
read more... 24/07/2019