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

    Rosatom. Great Britain also continues to rely on nuclear power. Nine reactor blocks are currently still in operation and 36 are being dismantled. Two new EPR reactors are currently under construction (Hinkley Point C-1 and -2), and two more are planned for the Sizewell C site. In addition to Belgium, Switzerland and Spain are currently planning to phase out nuclear energy: The four reactors in the...

  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?

    approximately 40 statements from the AfD that meet 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 nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C, which will be completed in 2027 and was expected to cost up to £26bn, is now unlikely to arrive before 2030...

  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

    Energy use 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 lesson about the market and power. News on the subject of cheap nuclear power. The Chinese group China Nuclear Power Group (CNG)...

  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”

    very quick implementation options... * Great Britain | EDF | Hinkley Point | CGN electricity even more expensive: European flagship nuclear power plant no longer gets any money The construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is a key element in the UK's strategy to reduce CO₂ emissions and increase its energy independence. The departure of an important investor...

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

    almost two weeks after Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister. Two new reactors are planned for Sizewell C, essentially a copy of the Hinkley Point C reactor currently under construction near Bristol in the west of England. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project has come into discussion because the construction costs have increased from the equivalent of 2015 billion euros since construction began in 21 to now up to 38...

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

    June UK | China | EDF | Hinkley Point | Costs of British nuclear power This is where tensions between China and the West manifest themselves in British nuclear energy. Construction of Hinkley Point C, one of Europe's largest nuclear reactors, is progressing with Chinese involvement, exclusive satellite images show. But it is already a reminder of escalating costs. And it...

  14. 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...

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

    Newsletter XXXI 2022 August 01st to 06th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

  16. 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...

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

    Newsletter XXXIV 2021 August 02nd to 06th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge *** Atomic bomb dropped 76 years ago: August 06th, 2021 - Hiroshima remembers on a small scale * August 06th 2021 - Nuclear waste final storage search: Environmental associations sharply criticize the process * August 06, 2021 - North Atlantic Current close to collapse? * August 05, 2021 -...

  18. Newsletter VI - February 02nd to 08.02.2021th, 02 - News+ February XNUMXnd - Green electricity - Safely through the dark doldrums

    in Andes * February 04th, 2021 - Unauthorized fuel exports from Lingen * February 04th, 2021 - Reportable leak in the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant * February 03rd, 2021 - Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant - British reactor costs more * February 03rd, 2021 - A matter of trust Nuclear waste storage search? BUND criticizes rapid digital participation in unfinished interim report * February 02, 2021 - Number of attachments...

  19. Newsletter V - 27.01. - 01.02.2021/27/XNUMX - News+ January XNUMXth - Crediting in the EU budget: Fusion costs nice climate balance

    Wind power * January 28, 2021 - Heat pump market in Germany grows by 40 percent * Fuel elements from Lingen to Doel January 27, 2021 - Outrage over further nuclear exports * January 27, 2021 - Hinkley Point C is delayed until at least 2026 Translate with https://www .deepL.com/translator (free version) * January 27, 2021 - EU power grid: Substation in Croatia caused almost...

  20. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018

    in new nuclear power plants fall to five-year low Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Austria's lawsuit dismissed! July 12, 2018 - Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant may be publicly funded * Expensive reactors July 04, 2018 - Nuclear phase-out is probably also coming in the USA * New generation of nuclear power plants July 03, 2018 - EPR nuclear power plant goes online in China ***...

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