1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    beim Land Niedersachsen die Erweiterung der Produktion beantragt und will künftig auch AKW russischer beziehungsweise sowjetischer Bauart beliefern. In der EU laufen 19 solcher Reaktoren vom Typ WWER. Bereits vor mehreren Monaten hatte Framatome eine Kooperation mit dem russischen Staatskonzern Rosatom mit Sitz in Lyon gegründet. Nach Angaben der Anti-Atom-Initiativen stehen seit dem 12. April...

  2. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    per centimeter and charged 10.000 times faster than conventional electrolytes... * March 1, 2006 (INES 2) Kozloduy nuclear power plant, BGR When reducing the power in the Russian-designed pressurized water reactor (VVER), the operators found that 22 of 61 control rods were not connected to the Drive mechanisms could be moved. The operator had originally classified the incident as INES level 0, but the...

  3. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    Enable safety of the core materials used. SMRs have also been proposed to circumvent financing problems affecting conventional nuclear reactors with larger power (e.g. EPR, VVER) and several times higher capital costs. [...] prototypes The Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant has replaced the Bilibino nuclear power plant in 2020 and...

  4. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Enable safety of the core materials used. SMRs have also been proposed to circumvent financing problems that affect conventional nuclear reactors with greater power (e.g. EPR, VVER) and investment costs that are many times higher... BASE/Öko-Institut (2021) The Federal Office for Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) held a...

  5. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    be. Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) March 1, 2006 (INES 2) Kozloduy 5 nuclear power plant, BGR When reducing the power in the Russian-design pressurized water reactor (VVER), the operators found that 22 of 61 control rods could not be moved with the drive mechanisms. The operator had originally classified the incident as INES level 0, but the...

  6. Newsletter XXVI 2022 - June 26th to July 01st - News+ Study: Renewable energies more reliable than nuclear energy

    The first five disposal tunnels in the Onkalo underground repository near Olkiluoto have been completed. Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Egypt | Rosatom | VVER Egypt grants construction permit for Russian nuclear power plant The Egyptian Nuclear and Radiation Protection Agency (ENRRA) has granted the Russian state-owned nuclear company Rosatom permission to build a...

  7. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    Electricity prices are rising In France, a good half of the 56 reactors are shut down, probably for a long time. This provides an additional boost to electricity prices, including in Austria * Earthquake | Slovenia | VVER | Krsko Nuclear Power Plant Krško: Ball now in the Federal Government's court Independent earthquake risk assessment called for by GLOBAL 2000 petition and expert opinion from the Federal Environment Agency * Europe | Russia | Ursula...

  8. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    While there is widespread consensus to forego nuclear power, Great Britain is taking a completely different path. Prime Minister Johnson wants to lead his country away from its dependence on coal and gas from Russia. * VVER | Slovenia | Krsko | Slovakia | Bohunice | Mochovce Krsko: Public hearing on the extension of the term The public hearing on the planned extension of the term will take place at Graz University of Technology on Thursday...

  9. Newsletter XV 2022 - April 08th to 14th - News+ Russian gas and the German energy transition: perspective yellow vests

    sostenibile (Enea) have signed a contract to build a research reactor at the Romanian Institute of Nuclear Research in Pitești... * Since 1987 there have been four Russian VVER V-213 reactors in Dukovany... Czech Republic | Westinghouse | EDF | South Korea Westinghouse expands cooperation in the Czech Republic Westinghouse Electric Company has entered into...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012

    The expansion of nuclear energy was pushed forward and close cooperation with the former Soviet Union was agreed since 1988. This was followed in 1998 by an additional agreement that provided for the construction of two Russian VVER pressurized water reactors, each with an output of 1.000 MW, in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu (3). In 2000, the ongoing strategic partnership was sealed by the heads of government and the...

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