Nuclear energy

The European Parliament at a plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday adopted a resolution on Turkey that calls on Ankara to abandon its plans to build Turkey’s first Akkuyu nuclear power plant. A total of 477 MEPs voted for the non-binding resolution, 64 against.

An explosion occurred at French utility EDF's Flamanville nuclear plant on Feb. 9 in which there may have been some injuries but from which there was no nuclear risk, French newspaper Ouest France reported on its web site, citing local police.
   

If a procedure to privatize the Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) project takes place, it will certainly be successful, Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has said.

"We can only saw what the real investment interest is after a privatization procedure," Petkova has told the Bulgarian National Television in an interview.

The Central and Eastern Europe Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management Conference 2016 is due on Thursday and Friday in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, organizers say.

The leading nuclear decommissioning event will be held on December 08-09 in Novotel Sofia, bringing together a number of guests from across the CEE region and speakers from international institutions.

TOKYO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry has almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Nov. 27. 

The Central and Eastern Europe Nuclear Decommissoning and Waste Management Conference 2016 is due at the beginning of December in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, organizers say.

The leading nuclear decommissioning event will be held on December 08-09 in Novotel Sofia, bringing together a number of guests from across the CEE region and speakers from international institutions.

Petar Dimitrov, a former Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy, has been indicted over the sale of old equipment made for the ditched Belene plant to the Russian company involved in the project.

Greece took part in the ConvEx-2d emergency response drill for a possible nuclear accident under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on October 5 and 6.

Names of Bulgarian and EU officials and representatives of regulators and operators to attend the Central & Eastern Europe Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management Conference 2016 have already been announced.

The Japanese prime minister in office when the Fukushima nuclear disaster took place in March 2011 has said he regrets recommending Japanese nuclear technology to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, citing the risks posed by earthquakes and terrorism.