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UAE Considers Investment in European Nuclear Power Projects

POWER Magazine

The state-owned nuclear energy group of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expressed interest in supporting nuclear power projects in Europe. The news comes just weeks after the fourth unit […] The post UAE Considers Investment in European Nuclear Power Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Nuclear power output expected to break global records in 2025

The Guardian: Energy

Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects Nuclear power generation is likely to break records in 2025 as more countries invest in reactors to fuel the shift to a low-carbon global economy, while renewable energy is likely to overtake coal as a power source early next year, data has shown.

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Nuclear renaissance in Europe? | FT Energy Source

Financial Times: Energy

As countries including France, the UK and Sweden look to pivot back to nuclear power to help them meet net-zero targets, questions remain over safety, radioactive waste and where they’ll find the vast amounts of money and expertise needed to build and manage new reactors

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Hitachi ditches UK nuclear power projects

Business Green

Hitachi has officially scrapped plans to build new nuclear power plants at Wylfa on Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire amid ongoing struggles to drum-up additional financing for the high profile projects, it confirmed today, dealing another major blow to the nuclear industry's ambitions in the UK.

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Sweden remains Europe’s largest net power exporter

Envirotec Magazine

Sweden retained its position as the biggest net exporter of power in Europe during the second half of last year. That was the standout highlight of a new report on the European electricity market by energy data analyst EnAppSys. The report describes the value of imports and exports in Europe during the last six months of 2022.

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Atomic fission without borders: the looming threat of Germany’s nuclear neighbours

Energy Transition

But five of the nine states – France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Czech Republic – along its periphery host nuclear power plants. And Germans, many of whom still remember the radioactive cloud from the Chernobyl meltdown wafting over central Europe in the spring of 1986.

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In winter 2022-23 Europeans got serious about energy conservation. But can they do it again?

Energy Transition

Facing embargoes on Russian fossil fuels and high energy prices, Europe survived last winter largely because of renewable energies, and the hard-nosed scrimping and saving of both Europe’s private sector and citizenry – not because of nuclear power.