Beyond the solar energy captured through panels, space agencies around the world are betting on nuclear reactors as the basis of their lunar and Martian colonization strategies for the coming decades. Due to this, some companies are developing different types of proposals. focusing on such important aspects as modularity and portability to be able to … Read more
AFPThe kerncentrale in Neckarwestheim in Baden-Württemberg NOS News•today, 17:04•Amended today, 5:07 PM The last three German nuclear power plants were officially closed after this weekend. They actually had to close last year, but due to the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, that closure was postponed in the fall. Today, the nuclear power … Read more
NOS/Frank Renout ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 19:14 Frank Renout corresponding France Frank Renout corresponding France The French fear a blackout this winter. A large number of nuclear power plants are idle and the fear is that there will soon be insufficient electricity to power all households and businesses. France has eighteen nuclear power plants with a total of … Read more
According to the Iranian agency, the hackers managed to break into the information system and email of one of the companies operating at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The agency blamed a foreign country for the attack, without providing further details. Earlier, Tehran claimed that the information systems of its nuclear organizations have been attacked … Read more
The Ukrainian nuclear company Energoatom announced this Monday that the last external line of the plant Zaporižia it had to be disconnected as a result of the latest bombings by Russian forces launched Sunday on substations in the territory controlled by Ukraine. “The Russian terrorists fired again on the electrical substations. critical infrastructure in the … Read more
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
Russia’s Rosatom is the world’s largest exporter of nuclear reactors and maintains an almost monopoly position on the fuel used to generate electricity. The company has not yet been sanctioned by the United States or Europe. – In Ukraine, these reactors provide more than half of all electricity and also about two-fifths of electricity production … Read more
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
The nuclear industry in Ukraine is also divided between Russia and the West. Its 17 reactors in operation are all Soviet-type. Here, in fact, in the 1980s, the Kremlin decided to concentrate an important part of its energy production from the atom. Lately, however, Kiev had separated from Moscow for fuel. Now supplies are coming … Read more
France will resume the construction of nuclear reactors to ensure energy independence, meet its climate targets and keep electricity prices under control. This was announced today by French President Emmanuel Macron. The statement comes at a time when European countries are facing sharp increases in electricity and gas prices. – “In order to ensure France’s … Read more