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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Under Hollande, France swung in an anti-nuclear direction, with plans to reduce nuclear power down to 50 percent of the energy mix, fuelled by the post-Fukushima panic. When Emmanuel Macron took power in 2017, he was still committed to this
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Poland plans to enter nuclear power. Three AP1000 reactors at the Choczewo site in the voivodeship of Pomerania. The European Commission granted formal approval for state aid in December 2025, including a capital injection of approximately
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Placement of nuclear reactor very much depends on the design of the reactor and nuclear regulations of the country. There is currently construction of LDR‑50 reactor in Salmisaari, Helsinki city centre. https://www.steadyenergy.c
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Linear No-Threshold model, and when are doses too small to matter?(thebreakthrough.org)
3 points by leonidasrup 7mo ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
In China there is already small-scale nuclear district heating. "China's Haiyang nuclear power plant in Shandong province has begun its sixth heating season, covering an area of nearly 13 million square metres - 500,000 square met
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Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed(politico.eu)
63 points by leonidasrup 7mo ago|125 comments
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Kazakhstan does uranium mining but doesn't do uranium enrichment. Other big uranium mining countries, which don't do uranium enrichment, are: Namibia, Canada, Australia, Uzbekistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
If you want to go off-grid I would recommend in addition to PV+batteries also a passive house. In the long-term costs nothing beats good thermal insulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house The grid connecti
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Yes, Germany has plenty of coal reserves. Germany has about as much subbituminous coal & lignite reserves as U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_reserves (But neither should Germany, U.S., China, India or any o
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Germany is very slowly starting to understand, exiting nuclear power and installing a lot of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar power, does not make your country independent of fossil fuels. China builds a lo
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
"After the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Green Party won the elections in 1998, the government of Gerhard Schroeder (SPD) reached what became known as the “nuclear consensus” with the big utilities (in 2000). They agreed to limit the
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
In 2024, the EU imported a little over €700 million in Russian uranium products out of a total of €22 billion Russian energy imports. https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-impor...
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
The BBC probably copied "the China lesson" from many renewables publications which present China as a beacon in deployment of renewables. https://cleantechnica.com/2026/03/15/when-fossil-fuel-suppli.
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
The reliance on Russian nuclear fuel services is a consequence of decisions made decades earlier in U.S. made during Bush era and later Obama era. "Following proposals from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Russia, and
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by leonidasrup 7mo ago
Gazprom has financially supported both SPD and CDU in Germany, indirectly through lobby organizations such as VNG (Verbundnetz Gas), Deutsch-Russische Rohstoff-Forum. https://correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2022&#x
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by leonidasrup 8mo ago
Running barefoot can feel nice, but in Africa wearing shoes could eliminate significant source of tropical diseases. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/17/h...
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by leonidasrup 8mo ago
For German speakers I recommend reading the book: "Akte Atomausstieg: Das Ende der Kernkraft und das Scheitern der Energiewende" by Daniel Gräber