Tag Archives: France

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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Greenpeace raises alarm over Flamanville nuclear plant document dump via TRT World

Posted on 2020/12/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Greenpeace France says it has received thousands of pages of detailed plans of the site, the location of security cameras and descriptions of electronic surveillance, questioning whether the documents are circulating in public. Greenpeace France has said that it has … Continue reading →

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Western Europe cools on plans for nuclear power via Climate News Network

Posted on 2020/11/27 by nfield

By Paul Dorfman As more reactors face closure, governments in Europe may prefer renewable energy to replace nuclear power. LONDON, 25 November, 2020 – News that two more reactors in the United Kingdom are to shut down on safety grounds earlier than planned … Continue reading →

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Japan to resume accepting nuclear waste from UK via NHK World

Posted on 2020/11/09 by nfield

The operator of a storage facility in northern Japan is making arrangements with power companies to resume accepting shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessed in Britain. NHK has learned that Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited has started … Continue reading →

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Study looks at effectiveness of Fukushima decontamination via Nuclear Engineering International

Posted on 2019/12/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] With most of this work completed, the scientific journal SOIL of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) on 12 December published a synthesis of approximately 60 scientific papers, that together provide an overview of the decontamination strategies used and their … 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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Nuclear waste is piling up: Governments need to stop dithering and take action via Phys.org

Posted on 2019/09/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] In the UK, nuclear waste is currently kept in safe but high-maintenance conditions, with some canisters deteriorating, at Sellafield in Cumbria. This is costing tax payers £3 billion per year.  The new geological disposal facility is a vast underground bunker, to be buried around … Continue reading →

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France Is Still Cleaning Up Marie Curie’s Nuclear Waste via Bloomberg Business Week

Posted on 2019/08/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

 Her lab outside Paris, dubbed Chernobyl on the Seine, is still radioactive nearly a century after her death.By Tara Patel In 1933 nuclear physicist Marie Curie had outgrown her lab in the Latin Quarter in central Paris. To give her the … Continue reading →

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18 nuclear power plants in the EU are operating without a valid license via Business Insider

Posted on 2019/08/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

18 nuclear power plants in the European Union are operating without a valid license, according to research conducted by Germany’s Green Party.  This number doesn’t include the 34 other illegal power plants in neighboring European countries that aren’t part of … Continue reading →

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