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Baltic NPP project still struggling to secure investors, future selling markets

As shown in this schematic view of planned power transmission from Baltic NPP (this map, from materials of the Russian Ministry of Energy, has been translated into English by Bellona), the future station’s output is planned to be supplied to substations in Lithuania (Klaipeda and Jurbarkas) and Lithuania’s Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant, as well as to Poland, via Tsentralnaya substation in Kaliningrad Region.

Source: Russian Ministry of Energy

Andrei Ozharovsky, Maria Kaminskaya, 22/04-2013

….Yet, there still seem to be no investors eager to get involved with the project. Furthermore, energy companies in neighboring Lithuania look just as hesitant about going into electricity supply contracts to purchase power from the plant, under construction just 10 kilometers from the Russian-Lithuanian border…..

……Baltic NPP director Buchelnikov, at the round table that took place in Neman in late March to discuss prospective building of the second unit at the site, was sparing in his offer of any hard evidence that the efforts to secure sufficient foreign interest for the station have been fruitful……..

MOSCOW – Baltic Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) – a new station that has been under construction in Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad Region since 2010 – still has no backing from private investors, nor any sales contracts to export future power to neighboring countries. European Union (EU) states there are no intentions to invest into power delivery infrastructure to buy the plant’s electricity. Two-plus years of meager marketing progress seem to cause doubt as to whether construction of a second unit makes solid economic sense. 

For the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant, under construction in Neman District, Kaliningrad Region, the issue of where to sell future electricity is still one of the most pressing. The two-unit 2,300-megawatt project developed for a region that is neither capable of (owing to the aged transmission and distribution infrastructure in place), nor particularly interested (because of sufficient power supplies) in, accommodating the enormous inflexible electricity deliveries of a baseload nuclear power plant apparently envisions producing electricity for no other purpose than selling it for export, either to Lithuania or Poland.

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April 22, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Fukushima Rad News 4/22/13: Rats Stop Spent Fuel Pool Cooling System For A Third Time

MissingSky101

Published on 22 Apr 2013

Dead rats halt Fukushima cooling system

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant briefly switched off a spent fuel cooling system on Monday after it found dead rats near a transformer.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says a worker found 2 dead rats in a box of an outdoor transformer connected to the cooling system for a spent fuel pool. One of them had apparently been electrocuted.
TEPCO halted the system at the No.2 reactor for about 4 hours until workers confirmed that it was working normally.
Company officials say the pool’s water temperature was 14 degrees Celsius when they restarted the system, and that this is far lower than its internal safety limit of 65 degrees.
Last month, a rat wandered into an outdoor switchboard at the plant and caused a power failure of up to 29 hours at spent fuel pools and some other facilities.
Monday’s trouble occurred as the plant operator is taking steps to keep small animals away from key electrical devices. The utility says it has not yet implemented measures for the transformer at the No.2 reactor.

IAEA ends review of Fukushima decommissioning plan
The International Atomic Energy Agency says the main and most immediate challenge in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is managing the accumulated radioactive wastewater.
An IAEA team of experts has wound up eight days of checking Japan’s efforts to decommission the crippled plant. The team conducted interviews with government and TEPCO officials and visited the site.

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April 22, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

TEPCO refuses to pay for nuclear decontamination – Claims no legal requirement!

…..Tokyo Electric Power Co. refuses to pay 10.55 billion yen ($106 million) for decontamination work around its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, saying it is under no legal obligation to do so…..AS

…..The ministry has not set deadlines for the payments, meaning there will be no delinquent charges. But if it cannot get TEPCO to pay the amount, the government might be forced to cover the costs with taxpayers’ money…….AS

freedomwv

Published on 22 Apr 2013

Message for the Evacuation Trial Team: Corrine Lepage

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Published on 22 Apr 2013

April 22, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Fed up? want a voice? – Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd

April 22, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Fed up? want a voice? – Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd

Dear citizens of the internet,

We are Anonymous.

Knowledge is free!

The United States Government is again attempting to control and censor the internet. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has just recently passed the house.

This bill would allow major internet entities such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google to voluntarily share your personal information with the U.S. Government. This will not only effect users in the United States, but also anyone with an account with these companies.

Knowledge is free!

This upcoming Monday, April the 22nd, we invite you to join Anonymous in a internet blackout. We encourage all web developers and website owners to go dark on this date. Display a message as to why you are going dark, and encourage others to do the same.

Knowledge is free!

We hope, just like the successful protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act, we can encourage the senate to stop this bill.

Spread the message, and inform the world.

We are Anonymous
We are the people
We are the internet

Knowledge is free!

April 22, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments