Framatome wants to provide nuclear fuel to live on the Moon and go (faster) to Mars

2023-11-10 09:00:00 After a Framatome Defense division in 2020, Framatome Healthcare in 2021, EDF’s 75%-owned industrial nuclear subsidiary, Framatome, announced in mid-October the creation of a Framatome Space. More of an umbrella brand for the company’s space-related activities than a new division, Framatome Space should enable the company “to consolidate partnerships in the United States … Read more

between France and Germany, a compromise under high tension

2023-10-23 04:30:02 Dor months, unprecedented tensions have opposed France and Germany over the reform of the European electricity market. And, for ten years, the two countries have been throwing the virtues of their respective models in each other’s faces: a strong nuclear matrix for Paris, a mix of fossil and renewable energies for Berlin. Read … Read more

Russian Long-Range Aircraft and Nuclear Missile Exercises: Updates on Strategic Parity and Arms Race

2023-10-25 16:34:34 Long-range Tu-95MS aircraft also fired cruise missiles, which have a shorter range and were sometimes used in strikes in Ukraine. “Under the leadership of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin, a training exercise was conducted (…). Training firings of ballistic and cruise missiles took place,” the Kremlin announced. Defense … Read more

Open Letter to the Belgians: Achieving Success with the Vivaldi and the Challenges Ahead

2023-10-24 15:02:16 Do you think that all your partners have read your open letter to the Belgians in mid-July? Do you still have hope of achieving success with the Vivaldi? Certainly, that’s why I wrote this letter. If they fail to achieve something, politicians are too likely to self-justify or blame others. This is not … Read more

Europe’s Largest Construction Site: Penly Nuclear Power Plant Expansion and EPR 2 Reactor Construction

2023-10-21 18:49:51 It is a construction site which is set to become “the largest” in Europe. In Penly, in Seine-Maritime, the current nuclear power plant, already equipped with two reactors, is set to expand, as EDF announced this week. This is where the first two EPR 2 reactors will be built, a new model announced … Read more

Resolving Differences: Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz Discuss the Electricity Market in Hamburg

2023-10-16 18:04:24 Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz addressed the issue of the electricity market in Hamburg last week. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP DECRYPTION – The ministers of the Twenty-Seven are trying this Tuesday to break the deadlock. The CEO of EDF will be received by Borne on Thursday. Warning, hot topic. In Hamburg, last week, Emmanuel Macron … Read more

Former President’s Residence at Mar-a-Lago: Australian Billionaire’s Revelations and Potential Security Concerns

2023-10-06 20:10:00 According to > and the New York Times, the scene took place in April 2021 at the former president’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, a club of which Australian Anthony Pratt is also a member. This billionaire, who runs one of the largest cardboard packaging companies in the world, then shared this information … Read more

Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion: Achieving Net Energy Gain for the Second Time

2023-08-06 23:33:47 Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California obtained a net increase in energy for the second time. A group of scientists from the United States achieved a very important milestone for the second time: a net energy gain in a nuclear fusion reaction. This result fuels the dream of a near … Read more