The Britain Remade campaign group has said hitting the UK’s target for a clean energy grid by 2030 will be “almost impossible” without extending the operation of some of the country’s nuclear power plants. The group – which campaigns for the time it takes to build economy-boosting infrastructure to be slashed – is calling on …
Chugoku Electric Power Co. notified the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday that it plans to restart the No. 2 reactor at its Shimane nuclear power plant in western Japan on Dec. 7. The Shimane No. 2 unit will be the second boiling water reactor, after the No. 2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa …
Lawmakers of Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear power plants could be reactivated. In the “Energy Agenda” policy paper, conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) politicians outline their energy policy priorities for the country’s future, ahead of the next federal election, which …
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued an order rejecting the amended Susquehanna Interconnection Service Agreement between PJM Interconnection, PPL Electric Utilities and Talen Energy Corporation proposing to increase the load capacity of Amazon’s data centre at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. In March, Talen announced the sale of its 960 …
The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to operate in three years. Constellation provided a timeline for restarting the plant during a public meeting Friday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Constellation made a deal with Microsoft to provide enough …
Japan’s Hokkaido Electric Power (9509.T), opens new tab and Chugoku Electric Power (9504.T), opens new tab said on Thursday they had booked extraordinary profits for the April-September period from selling previously acquired nuclear fuel. Neither utility has been able to restart any nuclear power plants since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster which prompted stricter safety standards in Japan. Hokkaido …
Premier Cho Jung-tai, left, and Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo report to the legislature in Taipei yesterday. The government would keep an open mind about nuclear energy if issues of safety, effective radioactive waste disposal and public trust can be resolved, Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said yesterday. During a briefing at the legislature on …
A Japanese nuclear reactor which survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima nuclear power plant was restarted Tuesday for the first time since the disaster after a safety upgrade, as the government pursues a renewed expansion of nuclear energy to provide stable power and reduce carbon emissions. The No. …
A nuclear power reactor in northeastern Japan is set to be reactivated Tuesday, amid mixed feelings among local residents. The No. 2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa nuclear power station in Miyagi Prefecture will be the first reactor going back online in eastern Japan since the March 2011 powerful earthquake and tsunami, which …
Constellation Energy (CEG.O), opens new tab is making its case to restore the operating license for its Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the first public meeting before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday on the unprecedented project to restart a retired reactor. Constellation, which announced last month that it had signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft …
