IEA and OECD/NEA: Nuclear to produce one quarter of global electricity by 2050
The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (OECD/NEA) published on 16 June its Nuclear Technology Roadmap. The results of the study show that nuclear could generate up to 25% of global electricity production by 2050. |
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Debate: does the world need nuclear?
A debate on nuclear power was organised by a small American non-profit making organisation, TED. It featured a nuclear advocate, Steward Brand, Writer and Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, and a nuclear opponent Mark Z. Jacobson, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University.
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FORATOM guest explains what long–term operation is
On 29 April, FORATOM organised in Brussels a Thematic Press Briefing on the Long-term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants. The guest speaker was Geert Backaert of the Belgian Nuclear Forum, who is also Project Manager for Long-term Operation at Electrabel GDF SUEZ. After the Press Briefing, he gave a short interview, in which he broadly defines of what long-term operation means, stressing that the length of operation of a plant can roughly be calculated as equivalent to that of the longevity of the main reactor pressure vessel (the only major component that can’t be replaced) – i.e. about 60 years.
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Plan to speed up Trawsfynydd nuclear decommissioning
Work on decommissioning the former nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, could be finished earlier than expected.
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