1. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Rosatom. Auch Großbritannien setzt nach wie vor auf Atomkraft. Aktuell werden noch neun Reaktorblöcke betrieben, 36 befinden sich im Rückbau. Aktuell sind zwei neue EPR- Reaktoren im Bau (Hinkley Point C-1 und -2), zwei weitere sind für den Standort Sizewell C geplant. Den Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie geplant haben – neben Belgien – derzeit die Schweiz und Spanien: Die vier Reaktoren in der...

  2. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    available, expected for June. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2029, with the first tests no earlier than 2036. [...] EDF is currently building three EPR reactors in Europe: two in England (at the Hinkley Point C plant in the southwest of the country) and one in France (at the plant Flamanville in Normandy). In all three cases there are significant delays. [...] The “Nuclear Alliance”, a group of...

  3. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    could take over or subsidize. This would be a classic CFD (Contract for Difference) financing model, not for new ones as in the case of the British Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction, but in this case a subsidy model through the back door for the aging, existing French nuclear fleet. * Subsidies | Meyer Burger Swiss solar manufacturer What...

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

    expensive. They are almost never completed at the originally planned cost and almost never on the planned date. In Great Britain, for example, the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant has been under construction since 2016. It was actually supposed to be finished in 2025, then 2027, but the commissioning date has now been pushed back to possibly 2031. The expected costs have increased since construction began...

  5. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    show. In this article we show around 40 statements from the AfD alone that correspond to this definition... January 23rd EDF confirms further delays and cost increases in the construction of Hinkley Point EDF announces delay at Hinkley Point C and increase in project costs The British Hinkley Point nuclear power plant C, which was due to be completed in 2027 and cost up to £26bn,...

  6. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    The peak of around 13.000 MW (mid-1990s) has shrunk to currently only 6.500 MW (9 nuclear power plants at four locations). [...] According to current plans, the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant with block C1 should be online on June 01st, 2027 and block C2 on June 01st, 2028. But there are many indications that this already postponed schedule cannot be adhered to and that...

  7. 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

    Modular reactors are expected to go into operation in about 10 years. The role of modular reactors in Britain's energy policy After the experience with the cost explosion at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, modular reactors are the great hope. They could be made in factories, British officials told Bloomberg. And with them, power plants could be built faster and cheaper...

  8. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    around 20 billion increased. After 18 years of construction, the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland cost eleven billion euros instead of the planned three billion. Unfulfillable climate protection promise And the Chinese partner company has just pulled out of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Great Britain due to skyrocketing construction costs. The estimated 33 billion euros will be spent by the French...

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

    ten years) Loss of income due to the planned reduction of the nuclear power share in the electricity mix amounting to 5,7 billion euros annually. Increased costs of the two planned EPR reactors (Hinkley Point C). [...] In 2022, numerous nuclear power plants had to be temporarily shut down due to maintenance problems and corrosion damage to 16 reactors; At times the...

  10. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    and community centers are the focus. The new possibilities open up a broader perspective for the sustainable use of energy in historic buildings... * Great Britain | EDF | Hinkley Point nuclear power: Chinese can also count After cost explosion, China partner is withdrawing from the construction of Hinkley Point C in Great Britain. France's EDF group is facing mega losses. A...

  11. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    80 percent has been solar and wind in the last five or six years. This is due to the lower costs and the very quick implementation options... * Great Britain | EDF | Hinkley Point | CGN electricity even more expensive: European flagship nuclear power plant no longer receives any money The construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is a key element in the United Kingdom's strategy to...

  12. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    of 3,2 gigawatts. For comparison: British wind turbines already had a capacity of over 28 gigawatts last year, and the trend is rising rapidly. * Great Britain | Hinkley Point | Construction time | Cost increase for nuclear power expansion in Great Britain: England's radiant C-side citizens are suing against the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. The government wants to...

  13. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    (INES ? Klass.?) Akw Embalse, ARG * We are looking for current information. If anyone can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de June 3rd Great Britain | China | EDF | Hinkley Point | Costs of British nuclear power This is where the tensions between China and the West manifest themselves in British nuclear energy. The construction of Hinkley Point C, one of the largest nuclear reactors...

  14. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    Oleksandra (40), a well-dressed woman in a hooded wool coat and Nike sneakers, has come to redeem her sewing machine... May 18 France | EDF and EPR | Flamanville | Hinkley Point Nuclear power: France is accelerating into a dead end Law passed to build new nuclear power plants more quickly: extremely expensive and risky. In Germany, electricity prices are not...

  15. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    is nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” (German: Weltuntergangsgletscher) because of its importance for a crucial tipping point in climate change... * France | Flamanville | Hinkley Point | EDF debts France's bankrupt nuclear company is deep in the red. The taxpayer should be liable for the debt while the wait for the next disaster begins. News from the cheap...

  16. Newsletter XXXIII 2022 - August 14th to 21st - News+ Brainwashed? – Strategic communication!

    Kiev will lose almost two-thirds of its mineral resources, the report says. As a result, Russia would deprive the country of its most important economic pillars... * New nuclear power plant | Flamanville | Hinkley Point C | Olkiluoto Nuclear offensive remains off The energy crisis in Europe has not yet brought any orders to the nuclear industry. Instead, older reactors collapse while construction costs for new...

  17. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    Meanwhile, France, a nuclear power country, is struggling with numerous problems with its expensive and vulnerable nuclear power plant fleet. The energy supplier EDF Energy finally shut down the British nuclear reactor Hinkley Point B‑1 in the southwest of the country on Monday after the first unit of the twin power plant, B‑2, was taken off the grid at the beginning of July. This is how the shutdown wave continues in the country...

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

    How much oil and gas companies benefit from the war The companies make great money thanks to the high prices. This is fueling the debate about special taxes. But there is a small problem. *Hinkley Point | Great Britain | EDF Nuclear power trouble again for EDF, now in Great Britain New "black week" for the French electricity supplier: Exploding costs and further delays...

  19. Newsletter LIII - November 19th to 25.11.2021th, 19 - News+ November XNUMXth - Glasgow was yesterday

    for $ 9,4 billion in Namibia * November 22, 2021 - Ukraine: Contract signed with US company to build nuclear reactor * Evolutionary Power Reactor EPR November 22, 2021 - Study shows: Hinkley Point C is cleaner than renewable energies Translated with www .DeepL.com/Translator (free version) IMHO At the risk of repeating myself: Anyone who believes that nuclear technology is clean...

  20. Newsletter XXXIV - August 02nd to 06.08.2021th, 02 - News+ August XNUMXnd - Collective electricity self-sufficiency still blocked

    For the first time in Central Europe, it is cheaper than electricity from new nuclear power plants. According to the "Frankfurter Rundschau", if you take the electricity price of the new nuclear building project - Evolutionary Power Reactor EPR - Hinkley Point in Great Britain as a benchmark, where a public price calculation took place for the first time, solar energy was also cheaper than nuclear energy in 2014. According to calculations by...

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