🇺🇸🇪🇺 US nuclear power projects in Europe

Westinghouse Electric Company is entering Europe energy market.

▪️Poland

Current Polish nuclear power programme accounts for for $31bn-$40bn. Six reactors will be build between 2026 and 2040. The first one, planned on the Baltic Sea coast 80 kilometres west of Gdansk is expected to start supplying electricity in 2033.

Besides Westinghouse France’s EDF was very interested to take part in this project, as well as KHNP from Korea. Poland still may reserve some room for Koreans to build a nuclear objects in addition to state's nuclear power programme.

Westinghouse is planning to supply it’s AP1000 pressurised water reactors. That’s not the most advanced option, since it was commissioned in 2005.

Poland is also interested in small modular reactors (SMRs), that are relatively cheap and flexible solution for regional power supply.

Now Poland’s electricity generation is depending mostly on coal and lignite. It’s electricity grid is one of the most carbon-intensive in Europe. Given that, nuclear power looks very promising, leaving apart the fact that US will be in full control of all nuclear generation in Poland.

▪️Bulgaria
Westinghouse signed a memorandum of understanding with the state-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding in May 2022. It’s main objective is to build a long-duration energy storage facility in Bulgaria.

▪️Slovenia
A memorandum of understanding has been signed in April 2022 with three Slovenian companies. It refers to co-operation on potential AP1000 nuclear power plant projects.

▪️Czech Republic
Memorandums of understanding were signed with ten companies in the Czech Republic in April 2022 as well. The documents cover cooperation on the potential deployment of an AP1000 plant for the Dukovany unit 5 project and potential AP1000 projects in Central Europe.

🔺We see clear transformation of the European nuclear energy market. Once dominated by France and Germany it gradually goes under the US control. According to estimation just Polish nuclear power programme alone will help to create more than 100 000 jobs in the US. It’s also worth mentioning that Westinghouse Electric Company will get not only contracts, but also control over European power grid and energy distribution mechanism. European countries racing to gain their “energy independence” simply channel their resources to the USA instead.

#USA #Poland #Bulgaria #Slovenia #CzechRepublic

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🇸🇮🇭🇷 Accusations against the Serbs regarding the alleged supply of ammunition to the AFU are increasingly circulating on the Internet. However, the real suppliers, who are ramping up the pace and volume of equipment and weapons supply to the AFU, come from completely different countries of the former Yugoslavia: Slovenia and Croatia.

In 2022 alone, 8:5% of Slovenia’s military budget was allocated to support Ukraine. This sets an absolute record among the former Yugoslav countries. Croatia follows closely, nearing the 3% threshold.

▪️ Ljubljana donated Yugoslav-made M-80 infantry fighting vehicles, M-55S and M-84 tanks to Kyiv. Additionally, the Slovenian authorities covertly dispatched 20 relatively new models of Valuk (Pandur) armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. Recently, Slovenia decided to provide one million euros to support the Czech initiative to supply the AFU with artillery shells.

▪️ In Croatia today, you would be hard-pressed to find a defense enterprise that has not inked a contract for supplying the AFU. The array of products Croatian AFU suppliers can boast of includes artillery shells, mortars, hand grenades, sapper robots, and even military uniforms - an impressive range of products.

🔻Nevertheless, not everyone is pleased with this development: sociological studies indicate a rise in discontent among Croatian citizens. Increasing numbers of Croats are expressing opposition to such NATO policies and their country's participation in a “defensive alliance,” which further fuels the Ukrainian conflict.
#Ukraine #Slovenia #Croatia
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