The third Plenary Meeting of the European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF) took place in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 3 and 4 November 2008, almost exactly a year since ENEF was launched in the Slovakian capital. Around 200 participants attended, representing all the stakeholder groups engaged in the ENEF process. These included the Prime Ministers of the two ENEF host countries - Robert Fico of Slovakia and Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic - government ministers, high-ranking officials from the EU institutions, senior representatives of the European nuclear industry, NGOs, civil society and financial experts

Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico, announced on 3 November 2008 that construction of units 3 and 4 at the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia had begun. The two new PWR reactors will each have a capacity of 440 MWe and are due to be completed in 2012 and 2013 respectively. The decision to reactivate the construction of the two reactors, which had begun in 1986 but was halted in 1992 due to lack of funding, was made after Slovakia’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority had given its final go-ahead

Nuclear energy could provide 20% of the world’s total electricity by 2050, says Nuclear Energy Outlook

On 16 October, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency launched its first ever Nuclear Energy Outlook (NEO). Using the latest available statistics, the NEO provides projections up to 2050, analyses different potential growth scenarios, assesses current trends and future challenges and forecasts how the future use of nuclear energy is likely to develop within the timescale

Eighty-five people took part in a FORATOM seminar entitled Public Opinion and Nuclear Power on 7 October, in Brussels. Among the participants were international pollsters, industry representatives, MEPs, senior EC officials, NGOs and other stakeholders.