Having spent five years combining its nuclear power, engineering and scientific enterprises into the single entity of Rosatom, Russia now sees privatisation of the firm as part of a plan for industrial modernisation.
The Nunatsiavut Assembly has voted unanimously to lift a moratorium on the development of uranium deposits on Labrador Inuit lands. As a result, exploration activities are likely to start in earnest by mid-2012.
Disposing of waste from new UK nuclear power plants will cost operators a maximum of 71p per MWh of power produced, less than 1% of the cost of delivered electricity.
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Investing in new nuclear generating capacity or any other form of energy would be too expensive and come online too late, France's state audit office has concluded. Extending the operating lives of its existing nuclear power reactors would be its best option._615x160.jpg)
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Germany's energy policy could cost some €1.4 trillion ($1.8 trillion) by 2030 even before the cost of the nuclear shutdown is taken into account..jpg "Garoña (Nuclenor)")
Spain's new government will ask nuclear regulators for advice on the continued operation of the Garoña nuclear power plant, which was dealt an arbitrarily short operating licence by the previous administration.
The Nunatsiavut Assembly has voted unanimously to lift a moratorium on the development of uranium deposits on Labrador Inuit lands. As a result, exploration activities are likely to start in earnest by mid-2012.