Our report intends to dispel myths about small modular reactors (SMRs) providing cheap and clean energy fast. This is a hope shared by Bill Gates as well as many governments including Belgium, the US...
This report provides an overview of nuclear power plants under construction globally in March 2022. According to the official statistics of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 52 reactor...
There is no operating nuclear power plant in the majority of European countries: 26 of 44 countries have no reactors. Within the EU, 14 of the 27 member states say no to nuclear: Ireland, Denmark...
Our experts have compiled a comprehensive study on the risks, difficulties and costs associated with radioactive waste generated during everyday operation and by nuclear power plant disasters. They...
Introduction “The Russians are already in the pantry” [1]goes an adage from a 1965 movie, ‘The Corporal and Others’, which sounds familiar for every Hungarian. For centuries the perception of the...
We do not need nuclear power to secure Hungary's future energy needs. 50% of the total primary energy use, and more than 80% of the produced electricity could be provided by renewable sources, while...
In November 2015 the European Commission opened an in-depth state aid investigation into Hungary's plans to provide financing for the construction of two new nuclear reactors in Paks. This gave...
In the first twenty years of operation, the project company will need yearly 330 million EUR capital injections from public money to keep the project going, and pay-off is feasible only if wholesale...