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Construction would mostly be at existing coal plants, but Dukovany and Temelín nuclear sites also an option
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 04 November 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-approves-smr-roadmap-that-calls-for-deployment-in-early-2030s-11-5-2023
The German government has reached an agreement with the operators of Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 on keeping the nuclear power plants on standby to supply power over the coming winter if needed.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Accord-reached-on-keeping-two-German-reactors-in-r
Germany will shut down its last three remaining nuclear power plants at the end of 2022 as planned, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, BMWK) has announced. However, two of the plants, in the south of the country, will be kept on standby to supply power over the coming winter if needed.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 07 September 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Two-German-plants-to-be-held-in-reserve-temporaril
A majority of the German public are in favour of the continued operation of the country's three remaining nuclear power reactors beyond the end of this year, the results of two opinion polls show. There is significant support for keeping the units running for up to another five years and even to construct new reactors in order to secure energy supplies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 09 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Wide-public-support-for-keeping-German-reactors-on
US President Joe Biden has said at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Germany that the USA is committing $14 million toward a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study to provide the basis for the deployment of a small modular reactor (SMR) power plant in Romania. “This action is the next step in fulfilling the pledge made by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Romania President Klaus Iohannis at the 2021 UN Conference on Climate Change in Glasgow (COP26), where they announced their intent to deploy an SMR in Romania in partnership with US firm NuScale Power,” the State Department noted in a statement.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-commits-funding-for-romanian-smr-9815948
The US government, working with NuScale Power, is to provide USD14 million in support for the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study for Romania's deployment of a first-of-its-kind small modular reactor (SMR) plant as part of a flagship project launched at the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit in Germany.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Biden-pledges-USD14-million-for-Romanian-SMR-proje
"ZE PAK is considering many options, including participation in the construction of a nuclear power plant in Poland from scratch, which will most likely take many years”, said Tomasz Matwiejczuk, a spokesman for Polish billionaire Zygmunt Solorz, majority shareholder of ZE PAK and Polsat.
"Another option could be a capital investment in foreign assets, with one of the options analysed being a potential investment together with other reputable and experienced partners in the nuclear power plant already under construction in [Russia’s] Kaliningrad district”, Mr Matwiejczuk said according to Polsat.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 10 July 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/large-coal-plant-operator-interested-to-invest-in-nuclear-say-reports-7-5-2021
The US-led Leaders’ Summit on Climate, held on 22 and 23 April as a video conference, attracted 40 world leaders (presidents and prime ministers) including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Also taking part were some 24 other speakers at ministerial level (environment, defence, economy) in addition to Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, as well as almost 40 heads of environmental organisations, indigenous communities and leading businessmen, including Bill Gates. The event coincided with Earth Day, an annual event first held in 1970.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 27 April 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsleaders-summit-on-climate-attracts-world-leaders-businessmen-and-environmentalists-8699323
Shutting down the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in eastern France will lead to additional emissions of around 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year and the loss of thousands of jobs, writes Valérie Faudon, general delegate of the French Nuclear Energy Society (SFEN).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Fessenheim-closure-subverts-modern-envir
EDF has disconnected France's longest serving nuclear power unit - Fessenheim 1 - from the electricity grid, thus ending the reactor's 42 years of low-carbon electricity production. The unit was removed from the network at 2am on 22 February, as scheduled. The utility said the primary circuit cooling operations had been initiated to open the reactor vessel and unload its fuel. Unit 2 is scheduled for closure on 30 June.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Frances-oldest-reactor-ends-power-generation