Britain may scale back its nuclear ambitions as Japan copes with a radioactive disaster following the March 11 earthquake, the energy minister said today. Chris Huhne, British Energy Secretary, said the troubles with Japan’s nuclear power sector have cast a “shadow” over the nuclear power industry. Huhne also said he wasn’t ruling out nuclear power [...]

Energy conservation has become a major current issue since the Spanish government opened fire on motorways last Friday. All conservation measures are designed to reduce fuel and oil consumption. Spanish energy dependence is very high, considering that 84% of primary energy has to be imported and the majority of these imports are oil and other [...]

Swedish National Grid has submitted its investment plan for 2012 – 2014 to the Swedish government; estimated to be 11.4 billion over the next three years. The main driving forces behind the increased rate of investment is the expansion of renewable power generation, power upgrades in nuclear plants, the need to remove bottlenecks in domestic [...]

Sweden will invest 100 million kroner over five years to develop a reactor that will burn nuclear waste and generate plutonium. The decision was taken as part of the international cooperation with the research facility ESS in Lund. The government decided to invest in nuclear technology research and education in cooperation with France. The initiative [...]

The UK government announced this week that nuclear energy will not receive public funds as Britain moves to shape its energy future. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, said that nuclear sites would be subject to new liabilities as the government declares its determination to provide certainty to low carbon investors. [...]

The nuclear industry received a boost this week when the future of two nuclear power plants was assured for the next five years. The plants, which are located at Teesside and Lancashire, passed technical and economic evaluations by British Energy (BE). 2 further plants in Hartlepool and Heysham have also been given the green light [...]

Nuclear power has long experienced widespread criticism. The world’s political bodies, with a few exceptions such as France and Finland, have often forced the nuclear industry into a defensive position. However, recent decisions would suggest that there is an effort to focus the clean, safe and economic nature of nuclear energy and the huge potential [...]

One of the most famous environmentalist of the world was in Italy in the past days to present his book “Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto”. The daily Repubblica and the monthly Wired interviewed him to discover how one of the father of the environmental movement converted into a supporter of nuclear power and genetically [...]

Sweden is highly depend on nuclear power for its electricty supply, and currently half of all Swedish nuclear power plants are closed for maintenance reasons. The Swedish minister of energy intends to avoid last year’s situation where the same situation lead to a energy price crisis on the Swedish electricity market. “If the utilities don’t [...]

On Tuesday, France made a historical import of 6,000 MH. 16 out of France’s 58 nuclear factories are now closed. In the factories that remained opened, workers have decided to lower the production. “The electricity workers have decided to join the strike by using their working tool” commented a union member. For more information, (in [...]