![]() Since we Voices don’t like to stay negative for too long, we invite you to join us at the 2020 edition of Stand Up for Nuclear at the location nearest you – find it here – and/or at the French edition which we are organizing on September 27 in Paris!Ī signal from citizens is essential if we want to see favorable political or industrial decisions be made. Whether in today’s industry or in future technology, whether small business or large customer, whether citizens in their own name or players in the sector, anywhere and everywhere on the planet, all of us who favor generation of nuclear electricity are concerned and must react. Yet just because ITER, too, is ultimately part of the “family” does not mean that the project should be the target of unjustified sanctions on its operations. Except that, although ITER has lost “only” 7.5% of its budget from the EU, the European research program Eurofusion will suffer a 20% reduction while the overall research envelope for everyone else has been re-evaluated upwards. Up to now, the slogan has been: “ITER is not nuclear power, it is scientific research”.Įxcept that Greenpeace – with whose name Voices are now associated for life has just renewed its attacks on the project. Finally, nuclear energy, already under serious threat from the European taxonomy project, will also not have access to the 750 billion € European recovery package that will almost double the European budget.Īh, but the front-row darling is still there : fusion! ITER. In France, the Astrid advanced-reactor project was terminated and we haven’t heard of any sequel. SMRs are making history – but only in America. Like all front-line soldiers, small businesses and mid-caps in the sector – the industrial fabric that holds everything together – are also the first to fall. The market for nuclear goods and services is slow to recover. The production of units 1 and 2 at Fessenheim, which are still shut and will remain shut, was quickly replaced by predominantly fossil capacity in both France and Germany. We can point to the realization that the 2019-2022 period will have seen 26 premature reactor closures within the space of only 3 years, or the exclusion of nuclear from the European Commission’s “green” recovery budget, or further delays in Brazil’s 35-year-old Angra-3 project, or Hitachi’s decision to abandon the Wylfa new reactor build project in Wales, or more delays in the startup schedules of Europe’s two flagship EPRs, Flamanville-3 and Olkiluoto-3. they come on top of the previous ones and precede the next ones, and 2. These news items don’t come as a surprise, they aren’t even the worst we’ve ever seen, but they still have two characteristics that make them ever more serious: 1. Indeed, in this post-summer of 2020, when enthusiasm and newfound energy are the order of the day, we supporters of nuclear energy are facing several items of bad news (and a few good ones like the 470 million€ dedicated to nuclear energy in the French economic stimulus plan, or the first design approval of a new type of reactor, a Small Modular Reactor, by US safety authorities). ![]() It’s the time to assume our responsibilities, to stick together and get cracking! Welcome back to everyone, we wish you a good restart. “And when He was finished, and the world reactor fleet was purring along, the Human Genius decided to rest, and He created the summer holiday.“ ![]() Chronicles of the other nuclear – Volume 2
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