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The European Commission (EC) has approved development by Belgian Research Centre (SCK-CEN) and the Liège-based Centre for Metallurgical Research (CRM) of an advanced smelter for metal from dismantled NPPs. SCK-CEN said the furnace will encourage the creation of a circular economy in nuclear dismantling, by enabling more metal to be re-used than it currently possible using established smelting technologies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsec-approves-belgian-nuclear-melting-furnace-11532021
Nuclear energy must be included in a delegated act of the European taxonomy, 18 trade unions in the energy sector from 10 European Union countries have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission (EC). In a joint letter, the unions called for "a dialogue with the purpose of nuclear energy to play its full potential and build an economically efficient and socially just carbon-free Europe by 2050".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 28 July 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Unions-repeat-call-for-nuclear-s-inclusion-in-EU-t
Nuclear energy must be part of the European taxonomy in order to meet the objective of the Green Deal, thirteen trade unions representing energy and nuclear workers have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in a joint letter. Exclusion of nuclear power will not only have a negative impact on the European nuclear industry but also on electricity-intensive industries, they said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Unions-call-for-European-taxonomy-to-include-nucle