1. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    according to a record share of 2023 percent of EU electricity in 27 - for the first time, renewables will make up more than a quarter of the energy mix... February 6th United States | Westinghouse | AP1000 | Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant Further Delays for Vogtle 4 Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Co., says vibrations in a cooling system at Unit 4 of the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant...

  2. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    to build. In the USA, Westinghouse had to file for bankruptcy in 2017 after very bad experiences with the construction of two nuclear power plants: the VC Summer project was abandoned. At the Vogtle nuclear power plant, construction times have doubled and costs have exploded. A reactor is still under construction. The French counterpart Framatome looks similar. The parent EDF has 65 billion...

  3. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    The company perished due to the construction. The first completely newly designed nuclear power reactor in more than 30 years has gone online in the US state of Georgia. With its 3 megawatts, the Vogtle 1100 nuclear power plant is expected to be able to supply an estimated 500.000 households and companies with electricity. Kim Greene, the head of the responsible company Georgia Power, praised the new reactor despite...

  4. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    passive safety systems are described. Four AP1000 units are currently operational in China - two in Sanmen and two in Haiyang - and two units are scheduled to come online at the Vogtle site in the US over the next year. AP1000 technology has also been selected for planned new nuclear power plants in Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria. According to Westinghouse, the...

  5. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    According to the research, a local company called Saniral is responsible for the clear-cutting. The company did not respond to a written query... * United States | Westinghouse | Vogtle New construction of power plant capacity in the USA in 2023: over 50 percent solar output Washington - In the USA, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) is publishing data on the planned expansion of...

  6. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    that Westinghouse was driven into bankruptcy by its disastrous nuclear projects in South Carolina and Georgia. The first project was canceled mid-construction and the second, Plant Vogtle, is now years behind schedule and well behind the original commissioning date of 2016, with costs continuing to escalate and...

  7. Newsletter VII 2022 - February 13th to 19th - News+ Repository Onkalo - These tunnels should solve the biggest nuclear power problem

    and astronauts? Scientists want to find out using plastic dolls that they send into space. ** February 18 United States Further delay in commissioning of Vogtle AP1000s Vogtle Unit 3 is now expected to be commissioned by the end of the first quarter of 2023, with Unit 4 following in the fourth quarter of 2023, Georgia Power said. Furthermore, explained...

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