Nuclear News Roundup Aug 23, 2017 Nuclear power is to remain a key component of Ukraine's energy mix under a new energy strategy approved by the cabinet at a meeting on 18 August. Under the strategy, nuclear's share of the country's electricity generation will remain at around 50% to 2035. World-nuclear-news.org A Senate hearing in South Carolina's capital Tuesday yielded no breakthroughs that could signal hope for breathing new life into the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station expansion project that was abandoned on July 31 by the project owners South Carolina Electric and Gas and state-owned utility Santee Cooper. Nuclearstreet.com Martin Schulz, the leader of the German Social Democrats (SPD), on Tuesday said that if he wins next month’s election he will ask the U.S. to withdraw its nuclear weapons from Germany. Politico.eu The auditor-general has found key nuclear-related contracts entered into by the South African. Department of Energy are irregular and unauthorised‚ according to documents seen by DA energy spokesman Gordon Mackay. Timeslive.co.za
