The Czech company VPMI invented a unique material for radiation shielding

Czech science has achieved extraordinary success. A group of researchers from the Prague startup VPMI holding, in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences, CTU and the Řež Research Center, has developed a unique ecological material that prevents the penetration of radioactive radiation and can bring significant progress in a number of fields. VPMI is now … Read more

Ten billion euros. This is how much the French will pay for the nationalization of their ČEZ. The Czechs will also profit from it

Current holders of energy giant EDF’s shares have made a 53 percent gain on the French government’s plan to nationalize the company. Among them is the popular Czech investor Michal Semotan from J&T. French government is offering 12 euros per share for the purchase of the remaining 16 percent stake in the energy company EDF, … Read more

Consider longer run times for nuclear power plants

– HANNOVER The minister also called for: “We need a reduction in electricity tax and corporate income tax for small and medium-sized businesses. And we have to protect those who can no longer afford electricity and heat in the foreseeable future.” Althusmann said there should be no electricity and gas cuts for defaulting customers for … Read more

Welcoming Jokowi, Putin Expresses Interest in Working on Nuclear Work in Indonesia!

Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin welcoming the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow. Putin said many things, one of which was about his desire to help develop energy nuclear in Indonesia. Putin welcomed Jokowi in Moscow on Thursday (30/6/2022). The contents of both remarks were uploaded … Read more

Russia Says It Can Cut US Power In Just One Step

loading… The lights are on at night in the skyscrapers of New York City, United States. Photo/REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz WASHINGTON – Russia’s decision to stop supplying enriched uranium to US power companies will take many of America’s nuclear reactors offline within a year. The move will cause electricity price spikes to exceed current price inflation. The … Read more

Bart De Wever (N-VA) (re)opens attack on Groen over nuclear power plants: ‘Van der Straeten negotiates to fail’

N-VA chairman Bart De Wever believes that Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten (Green) should be removed from the file on the extension of nuclear power plants. “She negotiates with Engie to fail.” As chairman of the largest opposition party, he even offered a change majority in The news from VTM. – In recent days, … Read more

Engie warns again for two winters without nuclear energy

In exchange for the lifetime extension of the Doel 4 and Tihange 3 nuclear power stations, the French company Engie wants a predictable, stable and viable investment regime and clarity about the future decommissioning of the nuclear power stations and the management of nuclear waste. – Engie, the parent company of Electrabel, today reprinted its … Read more

CEZ has set aside a space in Temelín where the first small modular reactor in the Czech Republic may be located

Relieving the Czech Republic’s dependence on Russian gas and resolving the transition to zero-emission energy. According to the South Bohemian Governor Martin Kuba (ODS), this can be the benefit of modular reactors, Kuba told ČTK. They could be in Temelín around 2034, the governor added. – CEZ Group has already signed memoranda of cooperation regarding … Read more

Engie warns nuclear power plants may not be ready until mid-2027, but government is unimpressed

– © MARC HERREMANS – MEDIA HOUSE – The extension of Doel 4 and Tihange 3 promises to be quite a job. At least if we are to believe Engie. Patching up the nuclear power plants to keep them open for another ten years will not be successful before mid-2027. Should we then fear that … Read more

Does the government have its back against the wall by keeping nuclear power stations open? “What are you going to do? Nationalize the whole thing, like Putin?”

– Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) and federal energy minister Tinne Van der Straeten (Green). – Now that the federal government will keep two nuclear power stations open longer, Engie has to have a hearty word. Open VLD chairman Egbert Lachaert suggested in ‘The seventh day’ that Belgium does not stand with its … Read more