A drone pierced the steel shell covering the former reactor and started a fire on the protective membrane. France announced an initial donation for the work on Wednesday.
Spain has rejected claims that more nuclear power would have helped as recriminations erupt over last week’s outage.
Kremlin jams internet as it seeks to protect visiting foreign leaders; Ukraineโs SBU says drones hit Russian arms factories. What we know on day 1,170 The period of an unagreed ceasefire called for by Vladimir Putin began on Thursday morning as the Rus…
Exclusive: Attack damaged โฌ1.5bn containment structure over nuclear reactor with repair costs likely to be borne by western governmentsA Russian Shahed drone costing up to ยฃ75,000 is estimated to have inflicted tens of millions worth of damage to the s…
Franceโs EDF successfully halts Pragueโs purchase of two South Korean-made units
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on track to form a majority government, powered by a backlash to U.S.-style MAGA politics.
Belgian Energy Minister Mathieu Bihet told POLITICO he wants to phase out the country’s Russian gas imports โ but didn’t back an outright ban.
French president speaks after missile attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyyโs home town that killed 20, including nine children. What we know on day 1,139See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageFrench president Emmanuel Macron on Sunday called for โstrong actio…
Energoatom CEO, Petro Kotin, says โmajor problemsโ need to be overcome before it can safely generate powerIt would be unsafe for Russia to restart the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and would take Ukraine up to two years in peacetime if it regaine…
โThis is not how you speak to your close allies,โ Denmarkโs top diplomat said.
For Emmanuel Macron, it wasnโt enough that Luc Rรฉmont turned around Franceโs state-owned nuclear firm. He wanted a CEO who put French industry first and built local reactors faster.
US presidentโs plan for American firms to run power plants is unrealistic and is opposed by Putin and ZelenskyyAs a demand, it is Donald Trump at his most confusing. The American president appears, at least according to Marco Rubio, the US secretary of…
Europe may see atomic power as a path to energy independence, but the Westinghouse chief tells POLITICO it can help the continent.
โToday, to build a reactor in England, Slovakia and France, we have to start from scratch and go through three authorisation procedures in three countries,โ said Buono.
With Germany embroiled in political and economic difficulties, nuclear advocates see an opportunity to score points in Brussels.
For the first time, a Russian projectile directly struck a structure containing a nuclear reactor. Moscow has increasingly been targeting Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure.
Despite talk of a peace agreement, Russia is continuing to wage war against Ukraine.
“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” says International Atomic Energy Agency.
Germanyโs nuclear exit was meant to be final. But with energy costs soaring, conservatives are reopening the debate.
The U.S. would inherit an environmental time bomb of its own making if it lays claim to the massive Arctic island.
According to a TechniAtome internal email seen by Euractiv, on 5 July the teams working on the Nuward project were asked to demobilise – just four days after EDF announced its intention to “evolve the design” of its SMR.
The aim is to have a projected three gigawatts of modular reactor capacity by 2050.
A once proud fleet of power plants is about to be reduced to one last, lonely nuke.
A day after Franceโs newest nuclear reactor started up for the first time, it automatically shut itself down. The operator, the state-owned energy company EDF, said there was no need for concern and that shutdowns can happen during such โlong and comp…
Kursk operation has taken 594 Russian PoWs, Syrski claims, as Grossi says Russian nuclear plant vulnerable like โthe building across the streetโ. What we know on day 917See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more F-16 fi…
International Atomic Energy Agency raises the alarm about the Kursk plant’s vulnerable nuclear reactor as war rages nearby.
For six years photographer Pierpaolo Mittica documented the communities who inhabited and passed through the exclusion zone of the nuclear reactor disaster of 1986. The Russia-Ukraine war has since seen almost everyone evacuated and the siteโs perimete…
Lawmakers argue buying aging atomic energy equipment from Bulgaria wonโt help keep the lights on and could fuel corruption.
The 35-nation Iter project has a groundbreaking aim to create clean and limitless energy but it is turning into the โmost delayed and cost-inflated science project in historyโIt was a project that promised the sun. Researchers would use the worldโs mos…
The head of French energy utility EDF used his presentation of the latest financial results last Friday (July 26) to update the company’s nuclear ambitions: a target of 70 months to build a reactor – or half the current construction time.
* South Korea’s KHNP preferred to France’s EDF * KHNP to build two new units, more possible * Prague plans to sign deal with KHNP in Q1 next year * For a FACTBOX on KHNP’s winning bid, click here (Adds electricity price detail, KHNP comment, background…
The US Senate on Tuesday (18 June) passed a bill to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including by speeding permitting and creating new incentives for advanced nuclear reactor technologies.
The EU invited U.S. firms to help develop these futuristic atomic reactors. But Paris is wary of having Americans “stick their noses in.”
The new roadmap of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been leaked, and it includes a position on nuclear energy, with nothing new or concrete on new financing, fuelling the fantasy of support for the development of the construction of new reactors.ย
The history of U.S.-Israeli relations suggests Washingtonโs leverage may not be as great as some progressive Democrats think.
Ukraineโs Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi says Russia has intensified armoured assaults as battles rages over village near Bakhmut. What we know on day 781See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageGermany will supply a US-made Patriot air defence system and air…
At least nine injured in strikes on region, with industrial facility among targets, official says; Russia has attacked up to 80% of Ukraineโs conventional power plants, says energy minister. What we know on day 776See all our Ukraine war coverageRussia…
Russian-controlled power station says drone shot down over roof over reactor number six, which is currently shut downThe head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-co…
โThis is a major escalation of the nuclear safety and security dangers,โ said UN atomic chief.
Rafael Grossi says three direct hits against the main reactor containment structures โsignificantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accidentโSee all our Ukraine war coverageThe head of the UNโs atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike o…
The EU will need to build an additional 50 GW of nuclear power by 2050, or more than 30 reactors to meet its energy transition targets. 30 more reactors is expensive, but how expensive and why? Explanations.
