World Nuclear Energy News

Russia: A new federal programme is to be launched that will boost nuclear electricity generation in the country over the next decade. The plan – part of the Ministry of Atomic Energy’s (Minatom’s) ‘Energy Efficient Economics’ programme – will be implemented in 2002-2005 and continue until 2010. By 2005, generation capacity of Russian nuclear plants should reach 25.24 GWe and 30.05 GWe by 2010.

Legislation limiting the operating lifetime of Germany’s 19 operating nuclear power reactors to 32 years has been ratified by the German parliament. The lower house of parliament passed the new law – signed in June – with votes from the Social Democrat/Green Party coalition. No approval is necessary from the upper house of parliament. Under the new law, all of Germany’s reactors will be shut down within the next 20 years.

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