Europe will not be able to achieve its objective of climate neutrality by 2050 without the use of nuclear energy and the bloc must therefore end its “negative discrimination of nuclear”, Hungary’s...
Finnish regulator prepares for SMR licensing
Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (Stuk) has published a report discussing the safety assessment and licensing of small modular reactors (SMRs).
Fortum, Tractebel to assist in Estonian SMR deployment
Estonia's Fermi Energia has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Finnish power company Fortum and Belgian engineering firm Tractebel to cooperate on studying the deployment of small modular...
Rolls-Royce plans mini-nuclear reactors for UK by 2029
The firm said the deployment of small modular reactors could make build costs more predictable and affordable, lowering the price of electricity for consumers
Brussels’ green cash credentials questioned
The European Commission got a rude awakening from its green dreams as critics assailed its financial plans to tackle climate change.
Nuclear ‘excluded’ from EU’s new Just Transition Fund
The EU’s regional policy Commissioner Elisa Ferreira revealed on Tuesday (14 January) details of the €100 billion Just Transition Mechanism, a key financial component of the European Green Deal that...
Europe’s nuclear energy solution
With the EU’s Green Deal now official policy, a fierce debate has raged over how the bloc will drastically reduce carbon emissions while also having to decide which long-term solution to adopt –...
Launching the Just Transition Mechanism – for a green transition based on solidarity and fairness
On 14th January 2020, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal’s Just Transition Mechanism and the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan.