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Westinghouse Bankruptcy Will Kill US Nuclear Expansion Plans in India

Westinghouse Bankruptcy Will Kill US Nuclear Expansion Plans in India

Westinghouse, a leading nuclear reactor manufacturer has filed bankruptcy in U.S. dealing a blow to the nuclear power industry. Newsclick spoke to Prabir Purkayastha, on the impacts this will have globally and in India. The filing ends the takeover of Westinghouse by Toshiba, one of a handful of nuclear contractors left worldwide. It will also have an impact on India, as Westinghouse was a part of the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Maison de la Résistance in Bure, France

Maison de la Résistance in Bure, France

While nations in Africa and Asia are coming under tremendous foreign pressure to adopt nuclear energy as the answer to their energy problems, the nations that are trying to sell nuclear reactors to them are actually at the end of the road of their nuclear dreams. Nuclear energy is noRead More

‘Serious defects’ in Areva’s reactors being supplied to India: Nuclear Industry Report

‘Serious defects’ in Areva’s reactors being supplied to India: Nuclear Industry Report

Homepage July 20, 2015 at 12:43 pm 0 comments

Areva’s debacle features in a reputed nuclear industry report released on Wednesday. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2015 noted that the French state-controlled integrated nuclear company “is technically bankrupt after a cumulated four-year loss of €8 billion and €5.8 billion current debt on an annual turnover of €8.3 billion”.

Nuclear energy production dips by 7% after Fukushima: World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013

Nuclear energy production dips by 7% after Fukushima: World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013

Two years after the Fukushima disaster started unfolding on 11 March 2011, its impact on the global nuclear industry has become increasingly visible. Global electricity generation from nuclear plants dropped by a historic 7 percent in 2012, adding to the record drop of 4 percent in 2011. This World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013 (WNISR) provides a global overview of the history, the current status and the trends of nuclear power programs worldwide.