| 21 October 2010 |
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| CORPORATE: Consent sought for Polish energy buyout |
| Would-be builder of Poland's first nuclear power plant Polsksa Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) has applied for consent from the country's antitrust authority to buy an 84% stake in rival utility Energa SA, seen as a vital step in its nuclear construction plans. |
| NEW NUCLEAR: EdF tenders for turbine halls |
| Electricite de France (EdF) has launched a tender for the supply and construction of turbine halls for proposed new EPR-based nuclear power plants in France and the UK. |
| INDUSTRY TALK: Construction of new Tsuruga units delayed |
| Japan Atomic Power Co (Japco) has announced a further delay in the start of construction of the Tsuruga 3 and 4 nuclear power reactors. The company said that construction, which was scheduled to begin this month, had been postponed due to delays in safety checks by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti). |
| INDUSTRY TALK: All change at shut-down Bulgarian reactors |
| Licences for two shut-down reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy plant have been formally transferred to state radioactive waste enterprise DP RAO by the country's nuclear regulatory agency in a move that heralds the implementation of decommissioning work at the units. |
