To cool down, nuclear power plants pump water from local rivers or the sea, which they then release back into water bodies at ...

French engineering firm Fives Nordon has received an order from state-owned power utility EDF to build 300 pieces of ...

A record-breaking heat wave in Europe has forced the shutdown of at least three nuclear reactors due to rising river ...

France's nuclear safety authority has approved an extension to the operating life of 20 nuclear power stations to 50 years ...

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in ...

Record river heat in summer 2025 forced nuclear plants in France and Switzerland offline — not from failure, but because the ...

Saying it had “fallen behind” in the nuclear energy race, Mr. Macron said France would also build a prototype small modular reactor — a new type of scaled-down nuclear power plant — by ...

French nuclear regulator ASNR suggests extending the lifespan of EDF's 1300MW reactors beyond 40 years with necessary ...

France has announced plans to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors in a move that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a buffer against volatile energy prices.

Environmentalists cite safety concerns, but France continues to push nuclear power as a way to achieve energy independence. World. France Presses Ahead with Nuclear Power. May 1, 2006 3:07 PM ET.

France's power producers have lifted clean energy output to six-year highs so far this year and generated around 95% of all the country's power supplies from clean energy sources - far exceeding ...

By the 1980s France possessed both a vibrant civil nuclear power industry but also robust nuclear military might. The formerly energy-poor nation now sold electricity at a profit to its neighbors ...