War and Nuclear Energy: Risks Are Enormous for Power Industry and World

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:11:00 +0000

Nuclear power can be a highly important component of a country’s energy security strategy. This is true for several reasons. Nuclear plants provide consistent baseload power that is not dependent on weather

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Russia Hits Ukrainian Power Stations with Christmas Day Attacks

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:10:16 +0000

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, reported power outages across large areas of the country after Russia fired missiles against DTEK power stations in strikes on Christmas day. DTEK said […]

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IAEA Embarks on Unprecedented Mission to Inspect Nuclear Power Plant in Ukrainian ‘War Zone’

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:07:39 +0000

An expert team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Kyiv and is readying to inspect Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) for damage from weeks of shelling. The development marks a significant breakthrough for the agency, which has for the past month pleaded with Russia and Ukraine to allow it to […]

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Silent Ride to Safety: Tesla Wensrit

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 20:33:20 +0000

With the images of refugee centers overflowing, young children sleeping on the street with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, the volunteers of Tesla Wensrit took it upon them to get as many  Ukrainian families as possible to safety, using what they had: their cars.  

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Daphne Bramham: Russia's invasion has united 'The West' in a way not seen for decades. But can it last?

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:01:22 +0000

Is it possible that Russian President Vladimir Putin knows that market-based, liberal democracies no longer have the backbone or foresight to stand up to autocrats like him?

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Eight of 15 Ukrainian Reactors Remain in Operation After Three Weeks of War

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:43:04 +0000

Ukraine’s nuclear regulator informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on March 16 that eight of the country’s 15 nuclear reactors were in operation despite the ongoing Russian invasion. Of the four sites with operational units, two of six at Zaporizhzhya, three of four at Rivne, one of two at Khmelnytskyy, and two of three […]

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