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French nuclear plants to help fund energy goals: PM
2013-09-21 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: France will use some of the proceeds from its nuclear power plants, alongside a new carbon tax, to help fund an overhaul of the country's energy policy, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Saturday. He did not specify the size of the contribution from nuclear power or how it would be applied. Ayrault was detailing objectives set out by President Francois Hollande on Friday to cut fossil fuel use to support a long-term goal to halve energy consumption. In addition to the flagship carbon...
Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant
2013-07-15 09:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Around 30 Greenpeace activists climbed fences to break into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France at dawn on Monday, saying they wanted to expose security flaws and demand its closure. The activists, dressed in red, said they reached the walls of two reactors at the Tricastin plant, one of France's oldest. EDF denied they had got into any "sensitive areas" and said production was not affected. Interior Minister Manuel Valls called for an investigation into the intrusion which raised...
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Nuclear fuel leaves French port for Japan, first since Fukushima
2013-04-18 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A shipment of highly radioactive nuclear fuel to Japan left the port of Cherbourg in northern France on Wednesday for the first time since the Fukushima disaster, French energy group Areva said on Thursday. The shipment of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) is likely to be controversial in Japan, where public opposition to nuclear power and reactor restarts remains strong a month after the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 catastrophe. France's state-owned nuclear group, whose activities range from...
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