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European Parliament seeks to keep regulation national and independent. European Union law should give national nuclear safety regulators the power to suspend unsafe...

It's time the EU de-politicised debate about nuclear energy. It was to be expected that the gas disruptions caused by the dispute between Russia and Ukraine would heighten...

For reasons of safety as well as security of supply, the EU would be wise to co-operate with Russia on nuclear power. Distrust since the Georgian debacle still hangs in the...

Nuclear power is entering a new era shrouded in the passing era's lack of transparency. The European Commission is to shelve, yet again, plans for EU-wide nuclear safety...

Regulators warn against common EU standards. The European Commission will scale down its ambitions for EU-wide nuclear-safety rules when it publishes a draft directive next...

Boosted by concerns about climate change, support now almost matches opposition. Support for nuclear energy has grown in Europe over the last three years but more people...

France will seek to re-legitimise nuclear power. Across the EU there is a growing view that nuclear power is one of the best ways to respond to the challenges of tackling...

The European Commission issued its first ever EU-wide nuclear alert on 4 June shortly after being warned by Slovenia about a water-leak in its nuclear plant at Krsko. The...

Every third lamp in Europe is powered by nuclear energy, yet most politicians still want to close the remaining 400 nuclear plants down. And their voters pretend to take them...

An interesting precedent was set at the last summit of EU leaders (8-9 March). Amid the pages of presidency conclusions about climate change lies a single paragraph about...

MEPs will next Monday (26 February) be asked to agree that nuclear power is essential in the fight against climate change and the struggle to secure energy supplies. An own...

Two of Bulgaria's four working nuclear reactors were shut down on 31 December, as a final step towards EU membership. The closure of the units at Kozloduy was a prerequisite...

Ireland is braced to be told by the European Court of Justice on Tuesday (30 May) that it will have to begin a legal challenge against the UK all over again in the EU...

The European Commission's energy Green Paper asks Europe to get ready for "a transparent and objective debate on the future role of nuclear energy in the EU". Although the...

By the year 2020 Europe will be up to 75 % dependent on Russia for oil and gas. Imagine what a warm glow this prospect induces in the Kremlin. Russia's bigshots can hardly...

The three main power producers in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - Lietuvos Energija, Latvenergo and Eesti Energia - signed on Wednesday (8 March) a memorandum on building a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel this month came under pressure from her government colleagues to rethink a previously agreed phase-out of nuclear power. Germany currently...

Disagreement in the European Commission over the future of nuclear power has pushed a package of proposals off its December timetable, European Voice has learnt. The nuclear...

One of the many double standards of European political conversation can be found in the deafening silence surrounding nuclear power. The hypocrisy and confusion are now a...

AS THE world hots up, so too does the debate surrounding the role that nuclear power should play in the world's future energy mix. Those championing nuclear as a clean,...