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Any circumvention could hurt the U.S. effort to cut funds to Russia. It also hurts U.S. attempts to build its own uranium supply chain.
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French state-owned energy group EDF said on Tuesday its teams were shutting down the new Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor to carry out technical checks after the plant triggered an automatic halt for the second time this month.
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Italy’s Edison is interested in participating in a government project to develop new generation nuclear power in the country, the chief executive of France’s EDF subsidiary said on Tuesday.
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Le réacteur nucléaire EPR de Flamanville (Manche) s’est arrêté automatiquement lundi alors que des essais étaient en cours près de deux semaines après son premier démarrage, a-t-on appris auprès d’EDF.
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Saudi Arabia plans to scrap light-touch oversight of its nuclear facilities by the U.N. atomic watchdog and switch to regular safeguards by the end of this year, the kingdom said on Monday, a step the watchdog has long been calling for.
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China’s coal output rose 2.8% in August from a year earlier, statistics bureau data showed on Saturday, on higher thermal power generation and robust chemical industry demand.
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Russian officials and managers are perplexed by President Vladimir Putin’s surprise threat to limit exports of strategic commodities in response to Western sanctions, and wonder if it can be realised without hurting Russia more than the West.
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South Korea generated more electricity from nuclear reactors than from coal and natural gas for the first time during the opening half of 2024, and plans to add four more nuclear plants to its power fleet by 2038.
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Vietnam is considering resuming plans to develop nuclear power to ensure national energy security and to support economic growth, according to a government document reviewed by Reuters.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow should consider limiting exports of uranium, titanium and nickel in retaliation for Western sanctions.
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Finland’s TVO has identified the cause of the Olkiluoto 2 nuclear generator fault and expects the plant to return to production at the end of September, in line with an earlier estimate, the company said on Thursday.
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French power regulator CRE recommended that state-regulated household power prices be set at least 10% lower from February 2025 to ease the financial burden on the population.
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The opening of Turkey’s first nuclear plant has been delayed after Germany’s Siemens Energy withheld key parts, prompting Russia’s Rosatom, the builder and owner, to buy them in China, the Turkish energy minister said on Wednesday.
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Poland will this week send a request for European Commission approval of a plan to finance its first nuclear power plant, a top energy security official said on Wednesday.
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French electricity producers are bracing for a potential surge in taxes, according to four sources with knowledge of the matter, as concerns grow that a new administration will revive a recent proposal to tax large power plants.
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The governments of France, Germany and Britain condemned the transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia, said they would cancel bilateral air services agreements with Iran and work towards sanctioning airline Iran Air.
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A slight recovery in the German chemicals sector lost momentum in the second quarter, a report by the VCI industry body said on Tuesday, as both domestic and foreign orders slowed in the April-June period, especially in the pharmaceutical branch.
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A former salesman for a manufacturer of laser welding machines was arrested on Monday on charges that he conspired to evade U.S. export control laws in order to sell his company’s products to a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom.
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U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi hopes to hold talks with new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian by November on improving Iran’s cooperation with his agency, he said on Monday.
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Emirates Nuclear Energy Company and the Nuclear Power Cooperation of India signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday for the maintenance and operations of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, India’s foreign ministry said on X.
