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No nuclear power in estonia on partial information

Tuumainfo (Nuclear info) portal disseminates fact-based information about technical, economical, environmental, health-related, social and many other aspects of theoretical small modular nuclear reactors in order to balance public discussions on the building, operating and waste managing of nuclear power in Estonia and elsewhere. Read about the background and various risks related to small modular reactors and what are the actual solutions to the pressing energy questions.

Estonia is not a nuclear country, but a group of local nuclear enthusiasts from a start-up Fermi Energia are lobbying the government to support the idea of constructing one of the first experimental small modular nuclear reactors anywhere in the world on the shores of the Baltic sea in the early 2030s. With US venture capital and nuclear lobbying firm Last Energy and Tractebel from Belgium among shareholders and in cooperation with Vattenfall of Sweden, VTT and Fortum of Finland, the questionable idea is gaining speed. Environmental NGO Estonian Green Movement (Friends of the Earth Estonia) has created this website to gather information about this plan and its shortcomings.

News from Estonia

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Small Modular Reactors – the Estonian need or distraction?

November 27, 2021

On November 30 the Estonian Green Movement will host international and local nuclear energy experts. We will seek clarity on the question of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors as an inescapable need in the Estonian future energy mix, or as a focus-grabbing distraction. The evening will bring some pre…

Twisted words and facts in the nuclear debate starting in Estonia

Recently, the Minister of the Environment approved the composition of the National Nuclear Energy Working Group, which consists mainly of officials with no background in specific nuclear energy. Doubts arise as to whether it is possible to competently analyze the possibilities of introducing nucl…

Estonia needs a balanced discussion on the risks of nuclear energy

On March 12, 2021, Fermi Energia, a private company engaged in the marketing of nuclear energy, sent a letter to several state institutions, in which the head of the company Kalev Kallemets strongly questioned the critical opinions of independent energy experts about the potential for nuclear ene…

News from the world

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Ministers close to deal that could end China’s role in UK nuclear power station

September 25, 2021

Ministers are closing in on a deal that could kick China off a project to build a £20bn nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast and pump in tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer cash instead – a move that would heighten geopolitical tensions. The government could announce plans to take a stak…

French nuclear firm trying to fix ‘performance issue’ at China plant

The Guardian – Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent EDF subsidiary reportedly warned of ‘imminent radiological threat’ at Taishan nuclear power plant A French nuclear company has said it is working to resolve a “performance issue” at a plant it part-owns in China’s southern Guangdong prov…

Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station review – so boring it’s a masterpiece!

The Guardian – Stuart Jeffries This programme was so boring. How boring? Let’s put it this way. It dealt with a 130-metre-long boring machine that is boring three boreholes under the Bristol Channel’s Jurassic bedrock. It’s a machine even more boring than the one boring through the Chiltern…