Nuclear Energy

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to sources at the Board of Audit of Japan. That means more than half of the government’s total estimated cost of 21.5 trillion yen, including …

France is staring down a serious risk of blackouts this winter, with French utility EDF lowering its nuclear power output forecast for this year to 275-285 terawatt hours, according to Bloomberg’s Javier Blas. The shift in power forecast is a sizeable one, down from its previous 280-300 TWh, which EDF …

A top Russian official revealed that Moscow and Baghdad are preparing to sign a memorandum of cooperation in the field of non-energy and peaceful applications of nuclear technologies. Ilya Lobov, the economic adviser of the Russian embassy in Iraq, announced in an interview with RIA Novosti that both sides are …

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since World War II and predicted that the historical period of the West’s “undivided dominance over world affairs” is coming to an end. Speaking on October 27 at a conference of international policy experts in Moscow, Putin said …

U.S. President Joe Biden expressed skepticism about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s words that he does not intend to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the Voice of America reports. Biden considers the Russian president’s rhetoric dangerous. “If he has no intention, why does he keep talking about it? Why is he …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country’s three remaining nuclear power stations to keep operating until mid-April, as the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hurts the economy. Originally Germany planned to phase out all three by the end of this year. Mr Scholz’s order overruled the …

NATO said on Friday it would launch its annual nuclear exercise “Steadfast Noon” on Monday. NATO said on Friday it would kick off its annual nuclear exercise “Steadfast Noon” on Monday, with up to 60 aircraft taking part in training flights over Belgium, the North Sea and Britain to practice …

France is considering increasing its capacity for uranium enrichment as the Western allies look to reduce their reliance on Russian nuclear power plant fuel. French state-held uranium conversion and enrichment specialist Orano SA is reviewing options to boost the capacity at its Georges Besse II plant to 11 million separative …

Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said on Monday that bogus allegations against Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities must come to an end. Addressing the annual conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday, Eslami insisted on the need for an impartial verification of Iran’s nuclear program by the Vienna-based …

Belgium announced on Friday that its Doel 3 nuclear reactor will disconnect from the grid and cease operations, even as the country fears blackouts this winter. It is one of four reactors at the Doel plant near the port of Antwerp, and is the first nuclear reactor to shut down …