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France reaches deal to send back nuclear waste to Germany via rfi

Posted on 2021/06/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Paris and Berlin have reached an agreement in principle to allow the return of nuclear waste processed in France to Germany by 2024.  […] German energy firms sent the spent nuclear fuel to Cogema facility (now part of Orano) in Normandy for … Continue reading →

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High Renewables in France – it can be done via Renew Extra Weekly

Posted on 2021/03/28 by nfield

March 27, 2021 At present France gets around 109 TWh of its electrical power from around 53GW of renewables and it is aiming to treble that to 300TWh by 2030, while also reducing the share of nuclear in electricity generation, … Continue reading →

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France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study finds via Science

Posted on 2021/03/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Adrian Cho From 1966 to 1974, France blew up 41 nuclear weapons in above-ground tests in French Polynesia, the collection of 118 islands and atolls that is part of France. The French government has long contended that the testing was … Continue reading →

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France extends lifetime of its oldest nuclear reactors via Star Tribune

Posted on 2021/02/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SYLVIE CORBET  PARIS — France’s nuclear safety authority agreed Thursday to extend the operational lifetime of the country’s 32 oldest nuclear reactors by a decade to as much as 50 years. The public electricity company that operates the nuclear … Continue reading →

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Macron says nuclear will remain key energy source for France via France24

Posted on 2020/12/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear power will remain a key part of France’s energy supplies, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday in a show of support for the industry even as he looks to reduce nuclear’s dominance as a power source. France has said it … Continue reading →

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Fukushima’s Olympic makeover: Will the ‘cursed’ area be safe from radioactivity in time for Games? via France24

Posted on 2020/06/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By:Constantin SIMON In a year’s time, the Olympic Games, dubbed the “reconstruction Olympics”, should allow Japan to move on from the Fukushima tragedy. The region, a symbol of the 2011 disaster, has officially been cleaned up but many problems remain, such … Continue reading →

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France begins shutting down oldest nuclear plant via The News.com

Posted on 2020/02/23 by nfield

PARIS, France: French state-owned energy giant EDF on Saturday began shutting down the country’s oldest nuclear power plant after 43 years in operation. Environmentalists and anti-nuclear activists have long pushed the authorities to close down the plant but not everyone … Continue reading →

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Gorbachev warns world in ‘colossal’ danger from nuclear weapons via France 24

Posted on 2019/11/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says the world is in “colossal” danger from nuclear weapons held by global powers amid continued tensions since the end of the Cold War. The last head of the Soviet Union won the 1990 Nobel … Continue reading →

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France orders EDF to tackle nuclear project failings via Reuters

Posted on 2019/10/28 by nfield

[…] EDF’s Flamanville 3 nuclear project in France is running more than a decade behind schedule and has racked up billions of euros in cost overruns, and the utility has encountered setbacks in building plants overseas too. But the hitches … Continue reading →

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France’s EDF raises Flamanville cost estimate by 1.5 bln euros via Reuters

Posted on 2019/10/09 by nfield

[…] EDF said its latest estimate was for construction costs at Flamanville now standing at 12.4 billion euros. […] In July 2018, just months after welding problems at Flamanville were first reported, EDF had already added 400 million euros to … Continue reading →

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