Arai Shiro, President of JAIF Current Status of Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Energy Policies in Japan Currently, there are 36 nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Japan (excluding those undergoing...
Italy: where the nuclear sector stands today
Umberto Minopoli, President, Italian Nuclear Association Italy stopped its nuclear activity in 1987, after a referendum. The decision concerned not only the shutdown of four operating nuclear power...
First megawatts from Mochovce 3- Starting up of new nuclear unit is a major milestone for Europe
Miroslav Tokár, Director of Nuclear Power Plants Division (CNO), Slovenské elektrárne, a.s. There have been only four units under construction over the past decade in the EU. Olkiluoto 3 was...
Berlin locuta – causa finita? Facts and insights concerning the “German Stress Test” and the remaining three German NPPs
Arnulf Nöding, Director of Governmental Affairs Germany, Urenco Global "Roma locuta (est) causa finita (est)” - Rome has decided, the matter is settled. This is a legal principle that comes from...
Will the European Union take its last chance to respect the spirit of the Euratom Treaty?
Energy has been at the heart of the European Union’s endeavour to jointly rebuild the economy after the disasters of the second world war. Europe’s founders understood that energy is indeed the...
Announcement of the preferred site for the first NPP new build in Poland
This article is by Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe sp. z o.o. (PEJ), a state-owned SPV directly responsible for the development of the investment process and for site investigations, as well as for...
Czechs launch tender for new nuclear unit
Petr Zavodsky, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Elektrarna Dukovany II, a. s. IIn this edition of A View From, Petr Zavodsky updates us on the development of the tender for a new...
Sweden gets approval for a final repository for spent nuclear fuel
Christopher Eckerberg, VP Nuclear Decommissioning at Vattenfall At a cabinet meeting last week, the Swedish government approved SKB’s license application for a final repository for spent nuclear...