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Worldwide nuclear energy diminishing

Another drop in nuclear generation, World Nuclear News, 05 May 2010 …Annual generation of nuclear power has continued on a slight downward trend, decreasing 2% last year to 2558 TWh, according to the latest estimates……One factor in nuclear power’s perfomance since 2007 has been the prolonged shutdown of large reactors at Kashiwazaki Kariwa in Japan following the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki earthquake. …….Two reactors came back into service during 2009 with five still under repair.

Last year saw the shutdown of four reactors but the start-up of only two. Closures included France’s Phenix, a prototype fast reactor which produced 233 MWe, and Lithuania’s Ignalina 2 which produced 1185 MWe but has been closed early as a condition of EU entry. This was the last of the EU-motivated shutdowns that have taken away a total of 4806 MWe since 2002.

May 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, reactors