The IAEA team focused on aspects related to the safe LTO of Sweden's Oskarshamn 3 nuclear power unit during the visit, which followed a similar mission two years earlier.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/iaea-carries-out-fresh-lto-review-mission-to-oskarshamn
⚡ Carbon intensity of electricity generation on 2026-10-17 (gCO₂eq/kWh):
🇩🇪 Germany: average 286 (lowest 199 at 14:00, highest 373 at 01:00)
🇫🇷 France: average 25 (lowest 20 at 01:00, highest 35 at 20:00)
Cleanest grid: 🇫🇷 France
Source: ENTSO-E, own calculation based on IPCC emission factors. Generation only, excluding imports/exports. Times are Dutch local time.
#CO2 #EnergyTransition #Germany #France
"The American Bureau of Shipping and the US Department of Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance modern commercial nuclear technology at sea."
"What was it actually like to use a Soviet computer designed to monitor an RBMK nuclear reactor?"
"ČEZ has submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment documentation to the Ministry of the Environment for its Rolls-Royce SMR small modular reactor project in Temelín."
#Nuclear #News
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/czech-smr-environmental-impact-assessment-submitted
V Congresso dell’industria dell’energia nucleare (IGEOS, IGEOS Nuclear) a Varsavia - da Associazione Italiana Nucleare
https://associazioneitaliananucleare.it/v-congresso-dellindustria-dellenergia-nucleare-igeos-igeos-nuclear-a-varsavia/
Punti chiave del congresso:
Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has submitted a licence application to take over responsibility for the nuclear facilities at Kjeller ahead of their decommissioning.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/nnd-applies-to-take-over-kjeller-nuclear-facilities
⚡ Carbon intensity of electricity generation on 2026-10-16 (gCO₂eq/kWh):
🇩🇪 Germany: average 360 (lowest 230 at 12:00, highest 462 at 18:00)
🇫🇷 France: average 47 (lowest 30 at 13:00, highest 61 at 08:00)
Cleanest grid: 🇫🇷 France
Source: ENTSO-E, own calculation based on IPCC emission factors. Generation only, excluding imports/exports. Times are Dutch local time.
#CO2 #EnergyTransition #Germany #France
Poland's Ministry of Energy, PEJ and PGE have signed an agreement defining the principles of cooperation in preparing the construction of the country's second nuclear power plant.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/agreement-signed-on-second-polish-nuclear-power-plant
"The project for a 1,200 MWe AES-2006 VVER unit in Finland was terminated by Fennovoima a few weeks after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war."
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/hanhikivi-1-termination-decision-cases-to-continue
RE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/117371676652751786
Another lesson in why self-hostable open source software is actually important.
The US space and energy agencies have signed a new MoU establishing a framework for end-to-end collaboration across the full spectrum of space nuclear development.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/nasa-doe-join-forces-for-new-era-of-space-technologies
@RadicalAnthro look what just arrived in the mail!
Oh wow, de kop doet eigenlijk geen eer aan hoe groot dit nieuws is. Het start het stuk met:
"Bijna een derde van het aangevraagd vermogen op de wachtlijst voor stroomaansluitingen komt van datacenters. Dat laten netbeheerders aan Nieuwsuur weten. Dat komt neer op 15 Gigawatt; goed voor het aansluitvermogen van ongeveer 15 miljoen huishoudens. Nederland telt 8,5 miljoen huishoudens."
Daarmee wordt de toon gezet: boe datacenters. En prima, maar het mist denk ik het punt. Die 15 GW is EEN DERDE van alle aanvragen. Dus stel we verbieden alle datacenters, dan is er nog steeds 30 GW aan nieuwe aansluitingen in behandeling.
Dat is dan nog steeds grofweg een verdievoudiging van ons huidige energienet. Die raming op €200 miljard om die netwerkuitbreiding voor elkaar te krijgen geloof ik dan wel.
Anders gezegd: met 60 GW zitten we voorbij de 500 TWh aan elektriciteit. Er staat geen termijn bij, maar ik neem aan dat we het hebben over 2050. We zitten nu op ~130 TWh. Als de 70 GW wind-op-zee gebouwd gaan worden (en daar lijkt het overigens steeds minder op), levert dat zo'n 215 TWh per jaar op, een stuk minder dan de helft. Zon en wind-op-land voegen samen nog eens 100 TWh toe.
Zelfs met 0 datacenters komen we ongeveer 100 TWh te kort. Dat zijn acht grote kerncentrales. Laat dat even bezinken.
The start of production in the sixth cascade of new uranium enrichment capacity at Urenco's National Enrichment Facility in New Mexico means 75% of the capacity expansion has been completed.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/milestone-for-urenco-usa-expansion-project
⚡ Carbon intensity of electricity generation on 2026-10-15 (gCO₂eq/kWh):
🇩🇪 Germany: average 349 (lowest 205 at 13:00, highest 434 at 04:00)
🇫🇷 France: average 47 (lowest 32 at 14:00, highest 62 at 22:00)
Cleanest grid: 🇫🇷 France
Source: ENTSO-E, own calculation based on IPCC emission factors. Generation only, excluding imports/exports. Times are Dutch local time.
#CO2 #EnergyTransition #Germany #France
"The first unit at Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant achieved criticality - a self-sustaining nuclear reaction - at 15:34 on Sunday, 11 October."
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bangladeshs-rooppur-1-achieves-criticality
Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced it has employed equipment it has developed to excavate a full-scale deposition hole for used nuclear fuel disposal at its demonstration site.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/hyundai-ec-tests-repository-excavation-equipment
Hydraulic tests to check the primary circuit systems and equipment at unit 1 of Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant have been completed, paving the way for hot functional tests to begin.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/hydraulic-tests-completed-at-turkeys-akkuyu-1