Why the first six EPR2s will cost much more than the 52 billion eurosinitially planned by EDF. During a hearing in the Senate, the executivedirector of EDF's new nuclear projects, Xavier Ursat, indicated that thefirst six EPR2s will cost more than the 52 billion euros announced in 2021.A first slippage in costs including the new…
Push for funding comes weeks after Hinkley Point C costs were revised up to £46bn Jonathan Leake, 13 February 2024 British taxpayers have been asked to stump up cash to fund nuclear powerplants being built in the UK by the French energy giant EDF. Bruno LeMaire, France’s finance minister, said on Tuesday he would be…
JUAN COLE, 02/14/2024 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The South African government lodged an urgent complaint on Monday at the International Court of Justice against the plan announced by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to attack Rafah in southern Gaza, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees from elsewhere, have been pushed by the…
On February 9, 2024, the ICJ announced that from February 19-26 it will hold public hearings on the request for an Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. Fifty-two States and three international organizations have expressed their intention to participate in the oral…
The first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species. report waslaunched today by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Speciesof Wild Animals (CMS), a UN biodiversity treaty, at the opening of a majorUN wildlife conservation conference (CMS COP14). The landmark reportreveals: While some migratory species listed under CMS are improving,nearly half (44 per cent) are…