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WNISR2019 Assesses Climate Change and the Nuclear Power Option

Fri, 10/04/2019 - 11:10

The Global Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2019 (WNISR2019) is taking place on 24 September 2019 at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. The event is opened by CEU...

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New coal curtain in Europe? Two-speed Europe? The new Visegrad+ platform set up today in Prague, want to prevent this

New coal curtain in Europe? Two-speed Europe? The new Visegrad+ platform set up today in Prague, want to prevent this

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 16:19

The share of renewables in all four Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; also V4 countries) is one of the lowest in EU-28 and well below the EU average. Energy policy designers...

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Former MVM CEO sentenced to five years in jail; lost taxpayer money will be hard to recover

Wed, 04/10/2019 - 16:00

The former CEO of Hungary’s state energy giant, MVM, was sentenced to five years in jail at the end of February. István Kocsis and his accomplices also have to repay 2 billion Hungarian forints...

Cracks a little, oozes a little, but it’s ours - The Püspökszilágy Atomic Graveyard

Tue, 03/12/2019 - 15:41

Immense background radiation, high activity waste in the storages, toxic waste leakage into the ground water - such news got through to us from several sources apropos of the waste disposal facility...

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Investigative Journalists Team Up with Experts To Uncover Details About Nuclear Plants And Radioactive Waste Sites

Mon, 11/19/2018 - 12:16

Hungary is home to a number of nuclear facilities. While the Paks nuclear power plant is known to everybody, the nuclear disposal site in Püspökszilágy is less recognized. Besides, there are several...

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The Great ‘Revolvers’ – The Revolving Door Effect in European Energy and Climate Policy

Wed, 05/02/2018 - 14:23

A new study, launched today during the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, finds that revolving doors in Europe are a widespread phenomenon. Although the research is far from being exhaustive, only in...

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REBUS – 5th Project meeting and Transnational Exchange Event, Poland

Tue, 02/13/2018 - 16:48

The 5th Interregional Exchange Event of the REBUS project was organized on the 31st of January and 1st of February 2018 in Krakow, Poland, gathering representatives from 8 EU countries to jointly...

The environmental license for the Paks II project is unlawful and unfounded

Mon, 05/08/2017 - 17:14

Energiaklub and Greenpeace Hungary submitted an appeal against the environmental license of the Paks II project as the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) used as a basis for the license is missing key...