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 ENGIE Doubles Down On Renewables And Reaffirms Closure Of Belgian NuclearIndustry

 ENGIE Doubles Down On Renewables And Reaffirms Closure Of Belgian Nuclear
Industry. ENGIE’s renewables share at 34%, up from 28% in 2019, with 2030
target 50%; 2021 renewable capacity 34.4GW. CEO Catherine MacGregor
confirms shutdown of ENGIE’s Belgian nuclear fleet by end of 2025,
despite big contribution in 2021.

 Seeking Alpha 17th Feb 2022

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4487924-engie-stock-doubles-down-renewables-closure-belgian-nuclear

February 19, 2022 Posted by | EUROPE, politics | 2 Comments

Beleagured Vogtle nuclear project delayed yet again

 Southern Co.’s beleaguered Vogtle nuclear project is getting pushed back
again after the company discovered documentation issues that will delay
completion by as much as six months, prompting a $920 million charge.

The Unit 3 reactor may not go into service until March 2023 and Unit 4 may not
be complete until the end of next year, Chief Executive Officer Thomas
Fanning said in an interview Thursday. The delays are yet another setback
for the only nuclear plant under construction in the U.S.

The Vogtle project in Georgia is now about seven years behind schedule and costs have
doubled. The project will be the first new nuclear units built in the
country in the last three decades.

 Bloomberg 17th Feb 2022

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-only-nuclear-plant-being-built-in-the-u-s-is-delayed-yet-again-1.1724974

February 19, 2022 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

No end in sight as the French nuclear industry reduces its output

 There may be no end in sight for the European power crunch this year, even
after the winter season ends. Low nuclear power generation in France, a
major producer and exporter of nuclear-powered electricity in Europe, could
send power prices on the continent higher in the spring.

France gets more
than 70 percent of its total electricity from nuclear power generation and
is a major exporter of electricity, including to the UK. France’s EDF
stopped two nuclear power plants at the end of last year after finding a
fault at one during routine maintenance.

This brought the total number of
nuclear plants out of operation in December to four, which accounted for 13
percent of the current power availability in France.

Last week, EDF revised down both its 2022 and 2023 nuclear output estimates. As part of its
control program on the French nuclear fleet, EDF revised its 2022 nuclear
output estimate from 300 – 330 TWh to 295 – 315 TWh, the company said
on February 7.

Days later, EDF revised down its 2023 French nuclear output
estimate from 340 – 370 TWh to 300-330 TWh, to reflect a heavy industrial
program with 44 reactor outages for maintenance and inspection, including 6
ten-year inspections, plus 2 scheduled outages starting in 2022 that will
continue into 2023.

Another reason for the nuclear output downgrade is “the
continuation of the control and repair programme on the pipes potentially
affected by the stress corrosion phenomenon, which is still ongoing,” EDF
said.

 Oil Price 17th Feb 2022

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/More-Bad-News-For-European-Energy-Markets-As-French-Nuclear-Generation-Drops.html

February 19, 2022 Posted by | business and costs, ENERGY, France | Leave a comment

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marks 40th anniversary of Nuclear Free Wales Declaration

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Wales is to mark the 40th
anniversary of the Nuclear Free Wales Declaration with a webinar, a new
website, and an exhibition touring Wales. The exhibition will visit
locations in all 8 of the County Councils that existed in 1982, including
at the Eisteddfod in Tregaron, and finishing in the Senedd in early
December.

Wales was declared ‘nuclear free’ on 23 February 1982 after
local authorities around the country refused a UK Government instruction to
draw up civil defence plans, including the establishment of nuclear bunkers
from which the aftermath of a nuclear war would be “managed”.

After opposition to the government’s plans, all eight county councils
eventually refused to participate and passed resolutions declaring
themselves nuclear-free zones. The Nuclear Free Wales Declaration
emphasised that the whole of Wales was declared a nuclear-free zone, and
that the people of Wales wished to live in peace without the threat of
nuclear war. Nation Cymru 17th Feb 2022https://nation.cymru/news/exhibition-to-mark-40-years-since-the-nuclear-free-wales-declaration

February 19, 2022 Posted by | UK, weapons and war | Leave a comment

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