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EBRD’s Energy Sector Strategy ignores nuclear
20 December, 2023
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has released its Energy Sector Strategy 2024-28. EBRD says it “prioritises the urgent need to accelerate the decarbonisation of energy through scaling up renewables, enhancing grids and storage, promoting zero-carbon fuels and phasing out unabated fossil fuels.

France and Germany move towards resolving nuclear differences
19 October, 2023
The European Union (EU) Energy Council, meeting in Luxembourg, have reached agreement on reforming the EU electricity market, resolving the long-running dispute between France and Germany over the role of nuclear power. France has welcomed a decision that nuclear power should be included in future state-supported models, while Germany insisted that this must not lead to unfair competition through publicly funding ageing reactors abroad. The proposal now moves on to the European Parliament, where concessions on nuclear and coal power could still meet opposition.

GBN and the promise of net zero nuclear
18 October, 2023
With the pressing need to meet ambitious Net Zero commitments, Great British Nuclear is a key step in the right direction as it fosters development of quick-to- build SMRs. But for all the promise of the UK emerging as a nuclear energy exporter there is still a long way to catch up.

Fuelling high temperature SMRs
30 August, 2023
High-Temperature Reactor Fuel Technology is needed for upcoming High-Temperature Small Modular Reactor projects to replace fossil fuels and to tackle climate change. Reviving HTR fuel technologies that were first developed decades ago opens the door to a new generation of low-carbon industrial heat processes

Keeping OL1 up on top with upgrades
15 February, 2023
In its latest long maintenance outage the TVO team conducted a wide range of maintenance and upgrading activities at OL1. Sauli Suoniemi, Maintenance Manager at OL1 And OL2 tells NEI about their strategy and its execution.