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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Nuclear power production in France jumped to its highest levels in three years over the first nine days of January, marking an 18% jump in nuclear generation from the same period in 2023 ...

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.