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 ...

The French electricity giant will oversee the construction of British reactors at the plant. London hopes to complete 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 energy utility EDF will invest around 1.1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) in the Sizewell C nuclear project in ...

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 ...

French Energy Minister Marc Ferracci has consistently driven a hard bargain in negotiations with the U.K, calling for the two plants to be negotiated together. “We have to find a way to consolidate ...

France's nuclear power generation accounts for around 70 percent of its electricity mix, and when its reactors are fully operational, it is a net exporter of electricity to other European countries.

The document contains one noteworthy pledge: to reduce nuclear generation to 50 per cent the energy mix by 2035. With France’s electricity consumption expected to remain flat, this would require ...

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.

As Europe strives to curb carbon emissions, Germany and France are at odds over whether nuclear power is clean. German public opinion has forced the closure of nuclear plants as France forges ahead.