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

    For example, steel, steel products and iron, gold and diamonds, including jewelry, cement, asphalt, wood, paper, synthetic rubber and plastics may be used. * US Government | Small Modular Reactor | Safety mini-reactors: US government relies on nuclear power for data centers In order to promote compact reactors, the US Secretary of Energy wants to remove hurdles in approvals and thus the...

  2. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    High-ranking representatives from around 35 countries took part in the Belgian EU Council Presidency. Von der Leyen specifically promoted the construction of small modular reactors (SMR) as a promising technical innovation. “There are already more than 80 projects worldwide and some of our Member States have a strong interest in these reactors...

  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

    | lawsuit | Electricity production costs US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power Portland, USA - Small modular nuclear power plants (Small Modular Reactors, SMR) or mini-nuclear power plants are presented by the nuclear industry as a pioneering alternative to large nuclear power plants. A major SMR developer is the listed...

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

    A huge battery that can temporarily store the solar power also contributes to this... * January 3, 1961 (INES 4 | NAMS 2,9) NRTS Idaho Falls, USA In this accident in what was essentially the first Small Modular Reactor (SMR), 3 people died and 41 TBq of radioactive radiation were released (cost approx. 26 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia The accident can be found in the Wikipedia article...

  5. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    studies have shown this. The IAEA does not say which ones exactly in its communication. It's about "building a low-carbon bridge to the future." This also requires investments in small modular reactors, with which nuclear power plants can be built more easily and operated more flexibly. IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi called for a fair environment, which is currently not the case...

  6. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Info: https://sofa-ms.de/ Interest in mini nuclear power plants only mini! NuScale and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems consortium announced that they have given up the development and construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in Idaho (USA). The reason was the growing costs and the dwindling interest of energy companies in committing to the technology in the long term. The...

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

    Arizona, Idaho, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming will be supplied with energy. It was a showcase project for small nuclear reactors, known as Small Modular Reactors (SMR). This new technology is not only strongly supported by the US government, it has enthusiastic supporters in politics and the media around the world. However, it is...

  8. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    out of. There could also be fines from the EU, as Germany may also be violating EU law with the new law... * United States | SMR | NuScale | NRTS Idaho "Small Modular Reactors" mini nuclear power plant will not be built Setback for the advocates of SMR technologies: The small nuclear power plant planned as a showcase project in the western United States has been canceled for cost reasons...

  9. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    | NRTS Idaho First mini-nuclear power plant in the USA was abandoned The first mini-nuclear power plant should have been built in the state of Idaho by the end of the decade. But the project was stalled. Small Modular Reactors are intended to actually produce cheap nuclear energy. Unlike large nuclear power plants, they are supposed to be manufactured centrally in a factory and then...

  10. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Atomic bombs. Today, August 15, 2023, I find the above article in WNN, which wonderfully illustrates the perfect implementation of this strategy. A site for 4 to 6 new Small Modular Reactors (SMR) not far from the Surry nuclear power plant in Surry County in beautiful Virginia will become the “Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC)”. Not a word about atom..., nuclear..., reactor or anything like that, such evil...

  11. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... January 3, 1961 (INES 4 | NAMS 2,9) SL-1, NRTS Idaho Falls, USA In this accident in what was essentially the first Small Modular Reactor (SMR), 3 people died and 41 TBq of radioactive radiation was released (Cost approximately US$26 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de Idaho National Laboratoy The accident can be found in the...

  12. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    The fact that this lifting process went much further than it should have gone is still unclear today... * January 03, 1961 (INES 4 | NAMS 2,9) NRTS, Idaho Falls, USA In this accident in what was essentially the first Small Modular Reactor ( SMR) around 41 TBq of radioactive radiation was released. - Wikipedia List of accidents at nuclear facilities In the National Reactor Testing Station Idaho, the...

  13. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    delivered to the tenants in the balance sheet, explained Winkler. Further simplification: The sales tax for such photovoltaic systems should fall to zero... * Austria | Czech Republic | Small Modular Reactor Join forces against small nuclear reactors (SMR) in the Czech Republic National councils and NGOs from the Mühl- and Waldviertel together - motion for a resolution in parliament After it became known...

  14. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    The required budgetary resources would be offset by savings on oil and gas imports of 160 billion euros over a period of 15 years... * SMR | Thorium | Sodium Small Modular Reactors What do small nuclear power plants do and how do they work? [...] Smaller reactors – less waste? In addition to the problems that nuclear power plants cause during their lifetime...

  15. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    takes more concrete forms In the energy crisis, neighboring Poland continues to build new nuclear power plants. “Small Modular Reactors” are to be built in Legnica, just 200 kilometers southeast of Frankfurt (Oder). Another one is planned near Danzig. *Ukraine | Nuclear disaster | Rocket fire Is a nuclear catastrophe looming in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine? Both warring parties...

  16. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    against the climate crisis. UN Secretary-General António Guterres emphasized this in a speech. In it he appealed to students not to work for climate-damaging companies. * Small Modular Reactor | Nuclear waste | Boom nuclear power: Small reactors exacerbate disposal problem SMR reactors generate up to 30 times more radioactive waste than normal nuclear power plants Not a good alternative:...

  17. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    to SMR Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Brazilian colleague Jair Bolsonaro discussed the possible construction of small modular reactors (SMRs) in Brazil at a working meeting in the Kremlin. * Climate protection: Coalition accelerates the energy transition The Ministry of Economic Affairs' plans provide for a climate-neutral power supply by 2035 - and more...

  18. Newsletter III 2022 - January 15th to 21st - News+ Advancing the energy transition: The mills of the plain

    firmly believes in the success of the lawsuit. And is supported by another EU member state. * BASE | Report from the German Federal Office for Nuclear Waste Safety: Small Modular Reactors - what can be expected from the new reactor concepts? MR concepts (“Small Modular Reactors”) go back to developments in the 1950s, in particular the attempt to use nuclear power as...

  19. Newsletter VIII - February 16 to 24.02.2021, 16 - News+ February XNUMX - Nuclear power plants light GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy establishes Canadian SMR company

    and construction time), the market risks (electricity price developments), which are difficult to estimate, are an ever-present problem for the overall financing and investors of such mammoth projects. The nuclear industry is trying to revitalize the market for nuclear power plants with so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMR), a type of light nuclear power plant. The term “small nuclear power plants” is also relative. GE Hitachi...

  20. Newsletter III - January 15th to 21.01.2021st, 15 - News+ January XNUMXth - New money for new nuclear reactors

    What is/was TRISO? THTR newsletter No. 152 Dec. 2019 - Supply energy to the “soldiers in the open field” with TRISO and Mini-HTRs! Urenco develops and supports TRISO fuel elements for Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in order to continue to do good business with enriched uranium in the future, especially in the USA, Canada and Great Britain. “TRiststructural-ISOtropic” is a nuclear fuel made from triple...

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