Nuclear Companies

Shortcut to this page: http://companies.nuclear-heritage.net This page provides an overview of some main nuclear companies operating worldwide and of the countries associated with their operations. These information may help international Anti-nuclear network activities to cooperate in resisting nuclear power.

Areva

 * close partner of TEPCO
 * is operator of Uranium mines McClean Lake (Areva Resources, formerly Cogema Resources) in Canada
 * is building an EPR reactor in Olkiluoto (Finland)
 * is stakeholder of the Uranium mine McArthur River in Canada (30,2%)
 * is stakeholder of the Uranium mill Key Lake in Canada (17%)
 * is operator of the new Uranium mine Midwest in Canada
 * is stakeholder of the new Uranium mine Cigar Lake in Canada (37%)
 * is stakeholder of the new Uranium mine Dawn Lake in Canada (23%)
 * wants to build new reactors in Ontario, Canada
 * offered to build an EPR in Alberta, Canada
 * transactions in Tchad
 * is operating uranium mines in Niger
 * Short film showing radioactive contamination of the public by Areva in Niger - Greenpeace reports that high radiation levels have been found on the streets of Akokan in Niger due to its proximity to uranium mines owned by Areva.
 * Webpage about Areva's uranium activities in Niger French
 * wants to start uranium mining in Finland - update: Areva sold their claims to Mawson, but took over a relevant share of Mawson at the same time
 * wants to start a uranium mine in Namibia
 * is financed by bank loans by :
 * Société Générale (F): 433.5 million €
 * HSBC (UK): 433.5 million €
 * Crédit Agricole (F): 339.9 million €
 * Citi (USA): 343.6 million €
 * BNP Paribas (F): 313.5 million €
 * BBVA (E): 264.8 million €
 * Natixis (F): 219.9 million €
 * RBC (CA): 183.6 million €
 * Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (J): 179.9 million €
 * JP Morgan Chase (USA): 134.9 million €
 * UniCredit Group (I): 134.9 million €
 * Nordea (S): 104.9 million €
 * RBS (UK): 104.9 million €
 * Santander (E): 104.9 million €
 * Bank of America (USA): 105 million €
 * Barclays (UK): 100 million €
 * Deutsche Bank (D): 44.9 million €
 * ING Group (NL): 44.9 million €
 * Westpac (AUS): 40 million €

France
Areva and the previous companies that were merged sooner or later in COGEMA/Areva have exploited over 200 mines in France. Just take the view in the West of Brittany. You can verify on the official MIMAUSA register that for those 10 mines, 3 of them have no information about when they were used, some kind of information which should be easy to remember. But antinuclear activists have to use Geiger counters to find the former mines and the contaminated soils, see the short report made by the French TV if you can understand French :
 * http://videos.sortirdunucleaire.org/spip.php?article111
 * http://programmes.france3.fr/pieces-a-conviction/51415247-fr.php (long report made by France 3 on former uranium mines)

On the former mine of l’Esparpière, the tails are covered by a thin film of plastic (about 1 mm), covered by 30 cm of earth. Remember: this is the show room for Areva, in Niger (far from the eyes of the TV), no soil and no plastic film prevent the wind from blowing the contaminated tails. But even in the show room, who will remember in a few centuries (or even decades) that no tree should grow on the tails, preventing from the early destruction of the supposed protection?

Finland
Areva sold a “commercial product” (the EPR) at a fixed price, but now, after years of delay, they claim that TVO should participate for the over costs because it’s a prototype.

Bruce Power
Bruce Power Limited Partnership is a Canadian business partnership composed of several corporations. It exists as a partnership between Cameco Corporation (31.6%), TransCanada Corporation (31.6%), BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust (31.6%), the Power Workers Union (4%) and The Society of Energy Professionals (1.2%) [1]. It is the licensed operator of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, located on the shores of Lake Huron, roughly 250 kilometres northwest of Toronto, between the towns of Kincardine and Saugeen Shores.
 * operates a number of NPPs in Canada
 * wants to build and operate a new reactor in Alberta/CA (as successor of Energy Alberta)

Cameco
Cameco Corporation is the world's largest publicly traded uranium company, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 2008, it was the world's second largest uranium producer, accounting for 15% of world production.
 * operates a number of uranium mines in Canada

EdF

 * is a French state company
 * EdF is building an EPR reactor in Flamanville (France)

EnBW Kraftwerke AG

 * operator and owner of several NPPs in Germany: Philippsburg-1 (1979 - 890 MW), Philippsburg-2 (1984 - 1,392 MW) , Neckarwestheim-I (1976 - 785 MW; operator: EnBW Kernkraft GmbH, owner: 70 % Neckarwerke Stuttgart AG (is part of EnBW), 18.18 % Deutsche Bahn AG, 9.09 % EnBW Kraftwerke, and others) , Neckarwestheim-II (1989 - 1,310 MW, operator: Gemeinschaftskernkraftwerk Neckar GmbH (is part of EnBW), owner: EnBW Kraftwerke AG)

Energy Alberta
Energy Alberta Corporation was created in 2005 to provide nuclear power to the energy-intensive development of the oil sands resources in northern Alberta. The company was founded by Hank Swartout, CEO of Precision Drilling Corporation, and Wayne Henuset, co-owner of Willow Park Wines and Spirits in Calgary, Alberta. In 2007 Energy Alberta was acquired by Bruce Power of Ontario. Bruce decided to relocate the site to Whitemud.
 * wants to build and operate a new reactor in Alberta/CA

EON

 * is operator of several NPPs in Germany : Brokdorf (1986 - 1,410 MW; 80 % EON, 20 % Vattenfall), Grafenrheinfeld (1981 - 1,275 MW; operator + owner: E.ON Kernkraft) , Grohnde (1984 - 1,360 MW; operator: Gemeinschaftskernkraftswerk Grohnde GmbH, owner: 83.3 % E.ON Kernkraft, 17.7 % Stadtwerke Bielefeld) , Isar-I/Ohu (shut down) , Isar-II/Ohu (1988 - 1,400 MW; operator: E.ON Kernkraft GmbH, owner: 80 % E.ON Kernkraft, 25 % Stadtwerke München) , Unterweser-Esenshamm (1978 - 1,345 MW; operator + owner: E.ON Kernkraft GmbH) (shut down)
 * is stakeholder of several NPPs in Germany : Brunsbüttel (1976 - 771 MW; owner + operator: Kernkraftwerk Brunsbüttel GmbH & Co. OHG - 33.3 % E.ON Kernkraft, 66.7 % Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH), Emsland/Lingen (1988 - 1,329 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems GmbH, owner: 87.5 % RWE Power, 33.3 % E.ON Kernkraft) , Gundremmingen-B (1984 - 1,284 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerke Gundremmingen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, owner: 75 % RWE Power, 25 % E.ON Kernkraft) , Gundremmingen-C (1984 - 1,288 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerke Gundremmingen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, owner: 75 % RWE Power, 25 % E.ON Kernkraft) , Isar-I/Ohu (1977 - 878 MW; operator + owner: E.ON Kernkraft GmbH) , Krümmel (1983 - 1,346 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerk Krümmel GmbH & Co OHG, owner: 50 % E.ON Kernkraft, 50 % Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH)
 * is stakeholder of several other atomic facilities in Germany : GNS - Gesellschaft für Nuklearservice (Society for Nuclear Service), interim repository Ahaus, interim repository Gorleben, Uranium enrichment facility Gronau, and via GNS also stakeholder of the DBE - Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Bau und Betrieb von Endlagern mbH (mining for a final disposal site in Gorleben)
 * wanted to build a new reactor in Finland (formerly main stakeholder of Fennovoima)
 * wants to build a new reactor in the UK (together with RWE)

Fortum

 * owner and operator of the Finnish NPP Loviisa including a final repository for L/MAW
 * Fortum is by more than 50 % owned by the state.
 * Fortum also owns:
 * 26.6 % of TVO
 * 40 % of Posiva
 * 45.5 % of Oskarshamn NPP (Sweden)
 * 22 % of Forsmark NPP (Sweden)
 * 93 % of OAO Fortum (Russia)

GKT
Gemeinschaftskernkraftwerk Tullnerfeld Ges.m.b.H. (GKT) was the constructor and supposed to become operator of the failed Austrian Zwentendorf NPP. It was founded and the General Shareholders decided on March 22, 1971 to construct a 700 MW hot water reactor in Zwentendorf in Lower Austria with the contract going to Siemens. The state of Austria and its Federal States were stakeholders of this company:
 * state of Austria:
 * Verbund AG: 50%
 * Federal States represented by their federal state energy suppliers:
 * Tirol (TIWAG): 13,34%
 * Lower Austria (EVN AG): 10,83%
 * Steiermark (Estag): 10%
 * Upper Austria (OKA): 8,3%
 * Kärnten (Kelag): 3,33%
 * Salzburg (Salzburger AG für Elektrizitätswirtschaft (SAFE)): 2,5%
 * Vorarlberg (VKW): 1,67%

GNS
The Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH (GNS) is the operator of the :
 * interim repository for high level radioactive waste in Gorleben TBL-G (D)
 * interim repository for low and medium level radioactive waste in Gorleben ALG (D)
 * interim repository for high level radioactive waste in Ahaus TBL-A (D)
 * federal state collecting facility of Lower Saxony (D)

It is shareholder of the :
 * Acta Technologie GmbH, Alzenau (D) (100%)
 * BLG - Brennelementlager Gorleben GmbH, Gorleben (D) (100 %)
 * WTI - Wissenschaftlich-Technische Ingenieurberatung GmbH, Jülich (D) (100%)
 * DBE - Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Bau und Betrieb von Endlagern für Abfallstoffe mbH, Peine (D) (75%)
 * BZL - Brennelement-Zwischenlager Ahaus Gmbh, Ahaus (D) (55%)

GNS has addition sites in: Pilsen (CZ), Creys-Malville (F), Maubeuge (F)

Shareholders of GNS are the German nuclear power plant operators EnBW, eon, RWE and Vattenfall.

It is the trademark owner of the Castor and CONSTOR concrete container for the transport of high level radioactive waste as well as the POLLUX container for the longterm storage of high level radioactive waste and a specific container for waste from research reactors called "GNS 16".

Iberdrola
Electric utility that owns (Iberdrola Generación) all the 6 nuclear power plants that exists in Spain (Almaraz 52%, Ascó reactor ll 15%, Cofrentes 100%, Garoña 50%, Trillo I 50%, Vandellós II 28%) that generates 6,709 MW. The oldest is from 1971 and the newest from 1988. Iberdrola has a campaign against renewable energy producers, considers nuclear as "essential", while at the same time is using greenwashing.
 * Wants to build nukes in France (in Penly) in partnership with EDF-Suez and in the United Kingdom with EDF and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).

PGE

 * state-owned energy holding Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE, Polish Energy Group)
 * has been appointed by the Polish government as the strategic investor for the first commercial Polish NPP
 * at the end of 2009, PGE Energia Jądrowa S.A., a dedicated company within the PGE holding, was set up to "develop nuclear power generation in Poland"

Posiva

 * Posiva Oy was established in 1995 to manage the final disposal of spent fuel
 * owned by: TVO (60 %) and Fortum (40 %)

Source: lecture of Tapio Litmanen, University of Jyväskylä :
 * Posiva, nuclear waste company, suggested Olkiluoto to be a final disposal site in May 1999
 * The municipal council of Eurajoki made a positive statement on the decision in principle in January 2000
 * The Government made the decision in principle on the 21st of December 2000
 * The Parliament ratified the decision on the 18th of May 2001

Rusatom Overseas
"Rusatom Overseas, a subsidiary of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, was founded in 2011 with the aim of promoting Russian nuclear technology on the global market. Rusatom Overseas acts as an integrator of ROSATOM's complex solutions in nuclear energy, manages the promotion of the integrated offer and the development of Russian nuclear business abroad, as well as working to create a worldwide network of ROSATOM marketing offices. Dzhomart Aliev is the Director General of Rusatom Overseas."
 * is negotiating since April 2013 with Fennovoima about joining the Pyhäjoki NPP project in Finland

RWE

 * wants to build a new reactor in the UK (together with EON)
 * wants to build a new reactor in Belene (Bulgaria): 49% of the project are owned by RWE
 * is owner (RWE Power) of five nuclear power plants in Germany: Biblis-A (1974 - 1,167 MW), Biblis-B (1976 - 1,240 MW) , Emsland/Lingen (1988 - 1,329 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems GmbH, owner: 87.5 % RWE Power, 33.3 % E.ON Kernkraft) , Gundremmingen-B (1984 - 1,284 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerke Gundremmingen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, owner: 75 % RWE Power, 25 % E.ON Kernkraft) , Gundremmingen-C (1984 - 1,288 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerke Gundremmingen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, owner: 75 % RWE Power, 25 % E.ON Kernkraft)



RWE Greenwashing Campaign

 * the German RWE company started a greenwashing advertising campaign in Germany in 2009 with a short film ("RWE Energy Giant"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMV0e_cFAI, translation:
 * It can be so easy to make big changes.
 * If you are a giant.
 * Move forwards
 * critics published a new version ("RWE Energy Giant Lie - The Truth About The Ad") of the film with critical comments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTjHASBVA0Y&NR=1, translation:
 * Only 0.1 Percents of RWE's power station's capacities are from wind power stations.
 * Tidal power plants has RWE: none. They only exist on their drawing board.
 * Many pylons origin from the prewar period. Some years ago some of them broke for age reasons.
 * RWE produces every year 170,000,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide. This is 20 % of the German total.
 * RWE owns five nuclear power plants. Where are they in this film???
 * You've got to be kidding, RWE! You won't cheat us!
 * Greenpeace changed the film a bit ("The RWE Energy Giant"), pointing to the nuclear power of RWE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZFGYG7acz4, translation:
 * 15 % of Germany's electricity came from renewable energies in 2008.
 * Only 2 % was the amount of renewable energies of the electricity production of RWE.
 * RWE: really less renewables
 * The anti-nuclear campaign "Atomausstieg selber machen" (="make nuclear phase-out yourself") published another version of the short film ("RWE Energy Giant - Director's Cut"): http://www.youtube.com/atomausstieg09?gl=DE&hl=de, translation:
 * It's a shame if you don't make ANY big changes
 * although you are a giant.

Siemens

 * is stakeholder of Areva
 * nuclear operations in: Germany (Headquarter; built NPPs), France (EPR Flamanville via Areva), Finland (EPR Olkiluoto via Areva; Uranium mining via Areva), Canada (Uranium mining via Areva)

TEPCO

 * Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated
 * it is (was until Fukushima?) the world's no. 4 power company
 * operator of the Fukushima I Daiichi NPP (J)

Vattenfall

 * is owner and operator of several NPPs in Germany: Brokdorf (1986 - 1,410 MW; 80 % EON, 20 % Vattenfall), Brunsbüttel (1976 - 771 MW; owner + operator: Kernkraftwerk Brunsbüttel GmbH & Co. OHG - 33.3 % E.ON Kernkraft, 66.7 % Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH) ,  Krümmel (1983 - 1,346 MW; operator: Kernkraftwerk Krümmel GmbH & Co OHG, owner: 50 % E.ON Kernkraft, 50 % Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH)

Urenco

 * operates uranium enrichment facilities in Gronau (D), Almelo (NL), Capenhurst (GB) and Newmexico (USA)
 * details of ownership on Sofa Münster website