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The new guidelines for the localization of nuclear power plants in Italy were issued while the country's energy leaders attended a Paris meeting on nuclear power.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the world must not choose between poverty and protecting the environment. With nuclear energy, he said, we can change our economies towards new forms of power generation.

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.

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...

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.

Kuwait and France have signed an agreement on nuclear cooperation amid suggestions that the Gulf state is interested in buying a stake in Areva.

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 ...

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.

One reactor at France's Cruas nuclear power plant was forced to shut down this morning when rainstorm debris affected cooling water intakes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

France's nuclear regulator has suspended decommissioning operations and castigated a plant operator after discovering that plutonium inventory was much higher than thought.

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.

Shipments of compacted metallic waste resulting from the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel have been sent by rail from France back to Switzerland and the Netherlands for final disposal.

A joint venture is to be created to manufacture nuclear fuel from Kazakh uranium using French technology and sell it to the Asian market as an integrated product.

Politically motivated shutdowns of nuclear power plants look set to be put off for at least ten years, after an official report said the country could not manage without nuclear.

An extensive swap of generation assets and electricity drawing rights between Electricité de France (EdF) and German companies EOn and ENBW, including rights to 800 MW of nuclear generation, is being hailed as a triumph for European competition.

Plans by gas and electricity supplier Centrica to acquire a minority stake in nuclear utility British Energy from Electricité de France (EdF) have been approved by the UK's consumer and competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading.

[Reuters, 7 July] Germany's EOn would like a majority stake in France's third new reactor. The company said that this would help open up the French power market, which is dominated by Electricité de France (EdF). EOn CEO Wulf Bernotat said, "A cooperation usually goes well if both partners...

No generic problems have been found that would affect the ability of France's 900 MWe reactors to enjoy a 40-year operating life, the country's nuclear regulator has told plant operator Electricité de France (EdF).

The supervisory board of France's national nuclear company Areva has finalized steps to be taken to finance the group's long-term development plan. These include selling a stake of about 15% and the possible sale of its power grid operations.