Tag: nuclear energy

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Europe divided over “greenwashing” gas and nuclear energy, but parliament ready to support the bill

  

  For the European Parliament natural gas and nuclear power plants have been designated as climate-friendly investments. The European Commission released the proposal, formally called the EU taxonomy, in December as a list of economic activities that investors can label and market as green in the EU.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Boris Johnson promoting energy security with the nuclear industry

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted a roundtable at Downing Street on Monday with leaders from the nuclear industry to discuss how to improve domestic energy security and rapidly accelerate nuclear projects in the UK.

• Friday, March 4th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  “Real threat of nuclear danger” after Russian attack: Putin's forces control Europe's largest nuclear power plant

  

  A Russian bombardment hit the Energodar nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhzhia region, Europe's largest in southeastern Ukraine, last night. The attack unleashed a fire that threatens to cause a disaster ten times larger than Chernobyl in 1986, the city's mayor, Dmitry Orlov, reported via his Telegram account. “The reckless actions of President Putin could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe,” United Kingdom's prime minister, Boris Johnson, warned in a statement.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Gas and nuclear energies and the green economy: furious debate in Europe

  

  Are gas and nuclear clean energies in the drive to a green economy? The controversy has triggered a furious debate in the European Commission following proposed rules that, in effect under certain conditions, the two energies can be labeled “green investments”.

• Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Russia and Nicaragua strengthen bilateral ties on nuclear and other issues

  

  The Governments of Russia and Nicaragua have agreed to work together towards the development of peaceful use of nuclear energy, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Rosatom resumes construction of nuclear reactor in Bolivia

  

  Russia's atomic agency Rosatom Monday resumed construction of a nuclear reactor for the Center for Research and Development of Nuclear Technology (CIDTN) of Bolivia, a project which had been paralyzed in 2019, it was reported.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Nuclear generated electricity increases for seventh year running

  

  Electricity generated from the world’s nuclear reactors increased for the seventh consecutive year in 2019, with electricity output reaching 2657 TWh. This was an increase of 95 TWh on the previous year, and the second-highest ever output, according to Agneta Rising, Director General of World Nuclear Association.

• Monday, July 14th 2014 - 05:24 UTC

  Russia offers to build (and finance) two new nuclear power plants in Argentina

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Saturday a nuclear energy cooperation deal with Argentina on the third stop (Cuba, Nicaragua) of a tour to bolster trade ties and strengthen Russia’s influence in Latin America.

• Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 16:03 UTC

  Argentina leader in use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes, says CFK

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) opened on Wednesday the country’s third nuclear plant Atucha II, in the Greater Buenos Aires district of Zárate, and highlighted the fact that “Argentina is leader in the use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes.”

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:18 UTC

  Germany plans to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022 and double renewable energy to 35%

  

  Germany plans to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022, Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition announced Monday, in a policy reversal drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.