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• Areva granted uranium mining rights in Jordan

  France's Areva has been granted exclusive rights to mine for uranium in the central region of Jordan under an agreement signed with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission. Posted Feb 22 2010, 09:19 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: France, jordan, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, agreement, mining, jaec

• Areva into solar now

  France's nuclear company Areva is to launch a solar power business on the basis of the acquisition of US-based Ausra, a specialist in concentrated solar power. The move "reflects Areva's strategic objective to be the world leader in concentrated solar power and will further strengthen and diversify its renewables portfolio," said the company. The move comes after last month's reorganisation, which separated renewables activities from the nuclear reactor business, and the acquisition of a 30% stake in German wind technology specialist Repower two years ago. Posted Feb 09 2010, 10:00 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, France, acquisition, U.S., solar, ausra

• Fusion projects building for the future

  Work is set to begin on the first building to be constructed at the Iter platform in France after a contract for the Coil Winding Facility was signed. Meanwhile, vital materials test facilities in Japan are progressing. Posted Jan 19 2010, 11:21 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, France, fusion, ITER, nuclear, nuclear fusion, coil, winding

• Nuclear agreement for Kuwait and France

  Kuwait and France have signed an agreement on nuclear cooperation amid suggestions that the Gulf state is interested in buying a stake in Areva. Posted Jan 15 2010, 10:52 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: France, agreement, Kuwait, cooperation, nuclear, AREVA Inc.

• French-German asset swap completed

  Following approval by the relevant antitrust authorities, Electricité de France (EdF) and German utilities EOn and Energie Baden-Weurttemburg (EnBW) have completed the swap of assets and rights representing more than 1200 MWe in generating capacity, including 800 MWe of nuclear generation. The deal - agreed last October - sees German energy supplier EnBW, already jointly controlled by EdF, acquire drawing rights for 800 MWe from EOn's German nuclear power plants, EOn's majority shareholding worth 256 MWe in the Rostock coal-fired power station and a drawing right for 159 MWe from another EOn coal-fired power station at Buschhaus. In return, EOn takes on EnBW's electricity drawing rights for 800 MWe of power from EdF's French nuclear power plants. In addition, EOn becomes the sole shareholder in SNET, France's only private-sector energy supplier, through the acquisition of EdF and Charbonnage de France's 35% stake in the company (EdF's 18.75% stake in SNET has been transferred to EOn). The swap forms part of a 2008 commitment made by EOn to the European Commission to promote competition in the German market by divesting a total of about 5000 MWe of its generation capacity and its German transition system network. The transactions also form part of a divestment program announced by EdF in February 2009 aimed at reducing its net financial debt by at least €5 billion ($7 billion) by the end of 2010. Posted Jan 06 2010, 11:30 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: EDF, Germany, France, nuclear, Energie Baden-Weurttemburg, asset, swap, EOn. ENBW

• France puts into future nuclear

  Next-generation nuclear is to receive a billion-euro boost thanks to a French investment program. Meanwhile the country's main nuclear research body has been re-branded. Posted Dec 15 2009, 10:55 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: France, capacity, forecast, demand, nuclear, support, investement, future

• Storm shudown at Cruas

  One reactor at France's Cruas nuclear power plant was forced to shut down this morning when rainstorm debris affected cooling water intakes. Posted Dec 02 2009, 07:50 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: France, nuclear, shutdown, power plant, water, leakage, cooling, cruas

• EdF to help Polish utility go nuclear

  Poland's largest power utility, Polska Grupa Energetyczna, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Electricité de France which could see the two companies cooperating in the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant. Posted Nov 18 2009, 11:26 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: EDF, France, Electricité de France, Poland, cooperation, nuclear, Polska Grupa Energetyczna

• Protesters take chilly Baltic cruise

  Six Greenpeace activists yesterday boarded the Happy Ranger , a cargo ship transporting steam generators from France to the Areva EPR under construction at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland. Posted Nov 17 2009, 11:10 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, EPR, France, steam generator, activists, greenpeace, ship

• France, Poland agree to nuclear cooperation

  France and Poland have signed a joint declaration on energy, environment and climate that calls for France to assist Poland in the construction of nuclear power plants. It will also provide assistance in training and R&D. Posted Nov 06 2009, 11:12 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: France, Poland, agreement, research, technology, cooperation, nuclear, accord

• Contract for Ignalina waste repository

  A consortium led by France's Areva has been awarded a contract to design a near-surface repository for low- and intermediate-level waste at Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant. The facility will be modelled on a French repository. Posted Nov 02 2009, 11:41 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Lithuania, France, fuel, waste, intermediate level, ignalia, low level

• New nuclear for Sellafield

  New reactors look likely near Sellafield after a large potential site for a power plant was purchased by Iberdrola, GdF-Suez and Scottish & Southern. Up to 3.6 GWe of nuclear capacity is planned. Posted Oct 28 2009, 09:27 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Sellafield, France, Spain, Scotland, capacity, GdF-Suez, scottish & southern, iberdola

• Step up in cooperation

  International nuclear inspectors are now at Qom, the newly disclosed uranium enrichment site in Iran. The departure of the inspectors from Vienna was confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 24 October, as was a positive reaction to plans to meet Iran's needs for research reactor fuel. France, Russia and the USA have all approved a scheme to provide 19.5% enriched uranium to a reactor used, among other things, to make medical isotopes in Tehran. The uranium will be taken from Iranian stocks enriched to less than 5% and further enriched in Russia before being made into finished reactor fuel in France. Iran is still to give its final approval for the plan, which the IAEA hopes will come soon and "signal a new era of cooperation." Posted Oct 26 2009, 12:40 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Uranium, Russia, Iran, France, fuel, reactor, international atomic Energy Agency

• Plutonium cleanup suspended after mix-up

  France's nuclear regulator has suspended decommissioning operations and castigated a plant operator after discovering that plutonium inventory was much higher than thought. Posted Oct 15 2009, 10:51 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: France, plutonium, maintenance, clean up, plant, spill, operations

• Euro utilities eye £2.3 billion BE stake

  The potential sale of a 20% stake in UK nuclear power plant operator British Energy by Electricité de France has attracted interest from a variety of European utilities. Posted Oct 15 2009, 10:38 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: British Energy, EDF, UK, France, Electricité de France, acquisition, sale, operations