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EU expands ambitions for regulatory role

Regulation and Safety

13 June 2013

The European Commission proposed today that European Union (EU) member states repeat comprehensive stress test safety checks at their nuclear plants every six years and ensure that radioactive releases in any accident are "practically eliminated."

Resolution on EU stress test lessons

Regulation and Safety

25 January 2013

The European Parliament's energy committee has approved a draft resolution recommending the speedy implementation of lessons learned from stress tests conducted at the European Union's (EU's) nuclear power reactors.

Stress tests show room for EU improvement

Regulation and Safety

05 October 2012

Safety is generally good at Europe's nuclear power plants although nearly all need to make some improvements, according to the European Commission's formally released findings on the results of stress tests. Some regulators are not entirely happy with the way the Commission has drawn its conclusions.

EU countries defend nuclear's climate role

Nuclear Policies

13 March 2013

A forthright statement by the governments of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and the UK  has called for 'neutrality of technology' in meeting future EU decarbonisation targets.

Rewriting the nuclear safety rulebook

Regulation and Safety

17 December 2012

Nuclear safety will be more holistic in the post-Fukushima era, as technical requirements broaden, regulators welcome more peer review and emergency planning is deepened.

Ohi restart gives Japan breathing space

Nuclear Policies

09 July 2012

The Japanese government has announced it will be able to scale back energy saving targets in some areas thanks to the restart of Kansai Electric's Ohi 3.