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16% of France's power supply blocked amid protest - as nuclear reactormaintenance disrupted. Around 16% of the country's total power productionwas disrupted, according to data from grid operator RTE, as thousandscontinue to protest against President Macron's pension reforms. Sky News 11th April 2023 https://news.sky.com/story/french-strikes-disrupt-power-supply-and-nuclear-reactor-maintenance-12855013

An environmental group on Tuesday sued to block Pacific Gas & Electric fromseeking to extend the federal operating licenses for California´s lastnuclear power plant. A complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court byFriends of the Earth asks the court to prohibit the utility fromsidestepping its 2016 agreement with environmentalists and plant workers toclose the twin-domed…

Economics Minister Robert Habeck believes that Germany's forthcomingphase-out of nuclear energy is irreversible, despite all opposition. Afterthe shutdown on April 15, the last three power plants would "go intodismantling sooner or later," the Green politician told the newspapers ofthe Funke media group. Der Spiegel 10th April 2023 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/atomausstieg-ist-laut-robert-habeck-unumkehrbar-a-249bb7e1-b652-4c38-8494-e66bb2789815

After decades of hard work by many courageous people, Germany is phasingout nuclear power. So that this success can finally become reality, we wantto demonstrate with you in Munich. Ever since Greenpeace Germany wasfounded in 1980, we have been fighting against the military and civilianuse of dangerous nuclear power, for example in Wackersdorf, Gorleben andGundremmingen.…

Two huge vessels have arrived off the coast of Somerset as offshore workcontinues on the UK's newest nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C. NamedNeptune and Sea Challenger, they are 'jack-up' vessels, used to create sixvertical shafts into the seabed. The shafts will be used to installcomponents for the power station's cooling water system. The plant…