News of the world

This article gathers pieces of information from the nuclear industry throughout the world. A digest follows. The European Commission has agreed with the plan proposed by United-Kingdom to finance the Hinkley Point C plant. The company Vattenfall claims damages of 4.7 billions eur os to German authorities for the stopping of its reactors. The Climate Action Plan has been launched in the U.S., this plan aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and proposes a guarantee fund of 12.6 billions dollars to sustain the development of innovative nuclear projects. The EU-APWR reactor of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been approved in Europe, this 1700 MW PWR-type reactor of 3. generation has complied with the 5000 requirements of the European electricity utilities. Concerning the Fukushima plant, TEPCO has announced that the complete remove of the 1331 fuel assemblies from the pool number 4 has been carried out 2 months ahead of the deadline. The European Council has approved the new energy plan whose aim is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% before 2030. According to the SFEN (French Society of Nuclear Energy) the E.U will have to mobilize all its carbon-low sources of energy, including nuclear energy to reach this ambitious goal. Today nuclear energy produced 28% of E.U. production of electricity and 55% of E.U low-carbon electricity.131 nuclear reactors are operating in Europe. In its last report, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) urges to develop low-carbon energy sources like renewable energies and nuclear energy. The IPCC advocates nuclear energy because it is one of the low-carbon energy sources that has proved its efficiency. (A.C.)