Three European nuclear reactors will be shut down at the end of 2019 On 20 December, the BKW’s Mühleberg nuclear power plant in Switzerland was shut down after 47 years in operation. Since 1972, the power plant, which has a single 372 MWe boiling water reactor (BWR), has generated some 130 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. BKW decided on the plant shutdown in 2013…
Russia and Ukraine have agreeed on basic principles of gas transit Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met in Berlin last week for very…
Unit 5 at the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant loaded exclusively with Westinghouse fuel In Ukraine, there are 15 nuclear units in commercial operation at four…
European Commission approves Slovak state aid to Hornonitrianske bane Prievidza The European Commission has approved plans by the Slovak government to…
Record growth of solar power in Poland Poland has a registered record growth of solar PV installed capacity in…
German parliament approves climate protection law The German Bundestag (the lower house of parliament) has approved a major…
IAEA assesses climate change effects on the energy sector A new publication called Adapting the Energy Sector to Climate Change…
