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Siemens proposes to Germany a new energy transition concept
Germany could save over €150bn by 2030, reducing in such a way the cost of its transition to renewable energy from nuclear power, according to a new study released by Siemens, Europe’s biggest engineering company.
read more... 20/09/2013
Japan says goodbye to its last nuclear reactor
Japan has halted its last functioning nuclear reactor on 15 September, with no schedule for a restart, leaving the country nuclear free for the first time since July 2012.
read more... 19/09/2013
Daily: European power prices up on lower nuclear production
Brent futures recovered from a $2 drop early in the day, rising 35 cents to settle at $114.36 per barrel while the U.S. crude oil prices decreased 83 cents to trade at $106.82 per barrel at 1PM EST, the end of a thinly traded, holiday-shortened day. It had dropped as low as $104.21.
read more... 03/09/2013
Fukushima once again in the spotlight
Japan's nuclear watchdog has said today it is really worried after more than 300 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from a steel tank around the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant.
read more... 21/08/2013
The nuclear energy problem of Japan
Since the Fukushima catastrophe in April 2011, nearly all of the country’s nuclear plants closed, leaving a significant capacity gap which has had to be filled with more coal, oil and gas which provoked substantial costs in both economic and environmental terms, as the price of power increased due to a sharp turn toward the use of fossil fuels.
read more... 16/08/2013