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Finnish EPR receives operating licence
The Finnish government today granted utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) an operating licence for the first-of-a-kind EPR at Olkiluoto. Once it enters commercial operation early next year, the 1600 MWe pressurised water reactor will supply some 15% of the country's electricity demand.
read more... 08/03/2019
Cavendish contracted to demolish Dounreay reactor
Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded a three-year, multi-million pound contract to dismantle and demolish the oldest reactor on the Dounreay site in Scotland, the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR). The award of the contract followed a competitive tendering exercise.
read more... 18/12/2018
Novovoronezh unit 4 completes upgrade
Loading of nuclear fuel into unit 4 of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia has been completed. The procedure is part of large-scale modernisation work on the VVER-440 reactor and the 43rd time it has been carried out there since it started operations in 1973.
read more... 14/12/2018
Macron clarifies French energy plans
A total of 14 power reactors will be shut down in order to reduce the share of nuclear in France's electricity generation mix from the current 75% to 50% by 2035, President Emmanuel Macron announced today.
read more... 28/11/2018
France to cut nuclear energy reliance by 2035: Minister
France aims to reduce the share of electricity produced by nuclear reactors to 50 per cent from 75 per cent now by 2035, said Environment Minister Francois de Rugy.
read more... 19/11/2018