to john and one's 3 tommy cushions. it's very hard, they beat you everything. audio stuff. find out about some on storage, info, migrant, reliable news to migrate. the the, the, we need to restart the great adventure of nuclear power in france. france is building 6 new nuclear reactors, maybe even 14 and the united states, the world's biggest producer of atomic energy, wants to save the climate with new nuclear power plants. we have some really in

vicious net 0 goals for the climate. and nuclear power is the clean option for that . no other country is currently building more nuclear reactors than china. are really looking for energy, whatever. and 12 years after that because she mate disaster, even japan wants to build new reactors. 12 germany is facing out nuclear power. other countries are ramping up their capacity. why is saving the planet without atomic energy possible? maybe one country or another can do it. but as a plan and we can't live without it and pretty significantly. but who can still build nuclear power plants today? and at what price the,

we take a trip to find out the. our 1st stop is washington dc, where the us is facing a huge political challenge as one of the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases. it wants to, it has to clean up its act. the aim is to switch to clean electricity production within about 10 years. the us department of energy is response vote for this herculean task in the context of the size and scale and variability of the grids around the united states, making sure that the grid is reliable across all of those places does in many places require real significant amount of firm, like ready to roll, 247, base load energy. and right now a lot of that is provided by unabated fossil catherine huff, pets, the office of nuclear energy. in the search for alternatives to gas and coal. the

us department of energy has been looking back for successful experiments in idaho over 70 years ago, could prove to be a solution for the future to come to a place today were, were born on this very spot. united states produced the 1st electricity from nuclear energy on december 20th, 1951, a reactor 1st generated enough electricity to light up for light bulbs. nuclear has been a stalwart part of about 20 percent of our electric grid and creating a backbone of clean firm power and would probably have to grow it pretty significantly, probably double or possibly triple the amount. a new reactor has just been added to the grid in georgia, and the 2nd is planned soon. the united states is still counting on nuclear power. the fact that they have more and more atomic waste piling up leads them undeterred,

spent nuclear fuel is important to manage responsibly. it does need to be disposed of eventually. but there are technological solutions. we see finland making progress almost ready to begin operating or how's the tory and those activities give us real confidence that this is a solved challenge in the us. nuclear power is booming again, great hope being placed in s large or small modular reactors. the idea is to use known technology and essentially shrink it the, the new reactors will be pre fabricated in factories. similar to ready made homes. and the real, i cannot promise. and the readiness to commercialize that new generation is hitting right now, right alongside the sort of challenges around climate and the acknowledgement and

the importance of energy security. all of these things are converging in a moment where, you know, i hope that the industry can meet it. the u. s. isn't the only country putting it states in these compact nuclear power plants, the back to europe. poland has so far lag behind when it comes to generating clean carbon neutral electricity for on this in a very difficult situation because we have a high dependency on the close of course. so we invest in a new way, but, but this is not the image source, and that's can be stable energy up any time. and we believe the best way to, to, to change this an edge and makes this to deploy. and it's out and that you can see the model usually on the etzky is the press spokesman for orleans didn't those

green energy. there aren't get any nuclear power plants in poland. the company is planning to install the whole fleet of s m, ours in the etzky wants to show us where one of the small reactors will be installed. we drive to most sort of income to hours, northeast of warsaw. that was the best of my as the one, the templates click on file because so for example, in case of a dw extra 100 and the construction face is going to have a 24 and the 30, the $36.00 the 6 months. so it's much, it can be the flow to much faster than a lot sure. no power power plants. and so on the other hand, this case of a, this investment allows the to, to be enforced by

a new type of invest source. for example, the private company like this and those are getting older and energy generation is at the heart of the local economy. and most of the bank so far it's been produced by burning coal. the existing co fire front subaru shutting down successfully to coming to incoming. the costs indicates that they need to be replaced with a new source of energy. according to orland sent those green energy, atomic energy can supply the necessary power. the 1st s, m r could be built in the nearby area. the advantage of the small nuclear power plants is that they can generate a comfortable amount of electricity as coal fired plants. so the local grid can still be used. poland is working together on this nuclear power plant with the energy company, p g in toronto. the canadians will be the 1st worldwide to deploy this type of s,

m, r o, p g, which is already started to preparation, work and licensing process plans to have for it's similar already in 2028. we believe that the 1st as a mountain fall on it can be, can be read the a year or 2 later. the 1st s, m, r is set to be built here before 2030 with others to follow suit. and poland is not the only newcomer to nuclear power that we're on the turkish, mediterranean coast. here a remarkable project is underway. the a cool you nuclear power plant is expected to provide 10 percent of turkey's electricity in the future. you solar. yeah, we hope that the 1st reactive will be in operation by the end of 2023, and produce electricity from then on the what's unusual here

is that full reactors are being built simultaneously. all with the same technology, the it's outpacing projects in europe and the us, the older folk home today. there are $422.00 reactors in operation worldwide and $57.00 under construction. what i'd like you to do, did it 25 percent of the european union's electricity comes from nuclear power where they didn't purchase and they get to the turkish president ridge of type air to one speech at a ceremony in spring 2023 celebrated a huge milestone in mark the 1st time nuclear fuel was deliberate to turkey and had a special guest to join to online visit the russian president, my dear friend mister, put in last, move them congratulations on this momentous achievement and always dispute closure me personally and in the name of my country,

i would like to thank you mister pool and all the authorities of the russian federation who have supported our project from the start religion from the city. the nuclear power plant is being built in turkey, but belongs to russia. the russian state owned nuclear power company. russ at thom, has invested $20000000000.00 it planned and is currently building the nuclear power plant and will later operated even the atomic waste will be transport it to rush at the end. the turkey will simply buy the electricity at a fixed price. it's going to be russian, it kind of took your story and that's remember the turkeys i need to remember. so having this piece of critical infrastructure on the territory, financial member is something that a lot of western experts think might be so troublesome costs. but i should ask you is a professor of international climate governance and a sought after expert on russian energy policy. so far,

nobody was so outspoken enough to, to the question this product and stuff. so most likely this product is simply going to move forward as if the duplex of a situation doesn't change, isn't it? turkey has tried to build nuclear power plants in the past, but without success. this time it seems to be working. thanks to hell from russia, it's going to play in every country is going to have to make that choice for themselves, right? some partnerships are strong enough that you know, you can trust your neighbors and partners to be, you know, help or in the management of your energy technologies. but, you know, we certainly see we have a recognition of how, for example, russia and its invasion of ukraine has weaponized energy dependency. and i think that's something that every country is thinking about today in terms of how they

plan to control that they have over there on energy supply. but what kind of consequences could it have for turkey? and how much russia misuse the power plant? i mean, what kind of power russia can exercise over a plan like, like to in turkey. that's still been debated. so you can have experts who are more well optimistic. however, if you, especially the light of what has been happening last year. so in 2022 with the energy sector in the context of the war in ukraine. you know, the things that's, i don't seem plausible right though. marks might actually be co reality. right? so if there was some, i don't know the phase here in the reactor that might actually look out the entire, the power system in turkey. the so called him back out. and that's a very, very big well weapon patricia might be willing to

win. that would surely split privilege to mitigate that russian state own company. rosa tell me is active worldwide and is huge in the nuclear power business but will set them. and i would say that almost a half of the market is controlled by russia. and so that's really, i mean, is the largest player out there, and that's combining all the different elements to react to the final destruction, but also fuel which is a very profitable business. so taking together rush, a sweetie to largest player and international chemical russia is building new reactors all around the world in china and bangladesh, india, iran, egypt, and turkey. as well as in hungry and slovakia. and there have been talks with other nations. most of them has been quite immune

to external sharks, so we didn't see any influence of the function of disaster when it's a global portfolio. we also didn't see a decline of investments after the 2014 conflict she crane and the only section was getting you. and right now, we are also not seeing that much of a role back in terms of investments outside europe. after the war and ukraine started. how can this be possible? sanctions have been widely imposed on the russian energy sector. how did rosa to them remain unaffected? that's a question will return to later. the, our journey continues. what we want to understand is why in the age of renewable energy, or some countries building new nuclear power plants,

the one hour north of cologne is evens energy plant. siemens has been producing technology for electricity generation for decades. you understand that there is a senior vice president. he sees several challenges for a future where energy is produced, mostly by renewables for the 1st one. how can we ensure that we have a constant energy supply? includes the thing is not to these load us and principal on good days, meaning on days with the not the wind or sun, you can guarantee a large part of your energy supply from renewables, phone line in germany, for example, in 2022 in thoughts we could cover on average, around 50 percent of our electricity from renewables, and it just pulls all the energy up in front. on the other hand, there are days and longer phases where renewables contribute. less than 10 percent

. and the bottom was being the got sample tense as well as it was down. siemens energy has a system to simulate the energy transition. what happens on the grid? give all the coal nuclear and gas fired plants are switched off, leaving only renewables to generate power. the one challenge is that there are entire days or weeks with hardly any wind or sun. the 2nd challenge is that in the short term, even within seconds, renewables can cause huge fluctuations in the power grid. just like also about us from there are certainly some surprises if you could have an entire wind park that suddenly stops supplying power. and you have a shortfall of $500.00 megawatts, which doesn't have to be that puts the grid under enormous pressure, little and grid stability is crucial units. somebody take this on the phone and

pull some of those on besides nuclear power. there are a couple of ways to stabilize the grid and offset these fluctuations in a carbon neutral way. one is hydrogen power plants. another is energy storage. by the process of some video, hydrogen. we're still just at the beginning, the normal fortune. we've made enormous progress, but when i see it from the infrastructure side, we need to scale up massively for the production of green hydrogen over the next 2 years. it's kind of a little bit in this. now if i may talk about storage capacity, the challenge is how do we create competitive storage capable of storing large quantities of energy over long periods of august, and also making an interview by the side. plumb suffice doc, i think it will take a few more years until we're able to offer a competitive solution to result. and um, they're not gonna get both ideas are very promising,

but there is no guarantee they'll pan out as hoped. which is why many countries are still relying on nuclear energy or are starting a new with it just us about fuel not the fact is there are over $400.00 nuclear power plants in operational and around 50 under construction. they have to live on so, so nuclear energy is still very relevant for many countries and it'd be advantages that it's very efficient and it has high capacity with a very high supply security. other honestly, i've always have the challenge, of course, is the high costs and the issue of the disposal of radioactive waste upsets around the globe. more and more countries are striving for a higher percentage of nuclear power generation around 20 percent. one aim is grid stability. so what should the energy mix of the future look like? i think the i'm on board. i don't think there's one clear answer and i can go know

every country has different requirements and once you've done well, every country has to manage its own energy triangle and find the best balance between security of energy supply things we cannot make efficiency. and of course environmental sustainability, but if i don't think there is one single solution in the room, in the future, sun and wind energy will generate most of our electricity. how can we balance out the fluctuations? the different countries will rely on different solutions. we're back in the united states where revolutionizing entire sectors of the economy is all in a day's work. we meet with jacob dewitt to be frank like the typical model for nuclear, just because it won't work and it hasn't worked. and so it has, you know, we have to change, you know, and then when we're starting the company, i think we had enough confidence having seen how startups could be successful, pioneering and being able to deliver nuclear was just there. it was to,

i mean there's a too good of an opportunity to which goal is clear. with his started o'clock, he aims to conquer the energy market with a new kind of reactor known as the 4th generation. so we're working on basically 3 projects right now for our 1st 3 reactors. one of those is in idaho, and the other 2 are in ohio. the 1st could be connected to the grid as early as 2026. the company's vision of nuclear energy is also a rebranding. and for us that was an important thing about how we also have purchased the design of the actual building in the plan. not just to have it looks like sort of what people are used to saying something different, something that's a little more appealing and something that's built more naturally or almost organically around with the power sources. generation for reactors, like the ones okla, we'll build our

a departure from traditional reactors. the developers say the vision process brings a decisive advantage really, to chose this technology is because you can actually take to use your waste from today's reactors and recycle it in america alone. the energy content in the, in the, in the waste inventory is the used fuel inventories in the us. with our system. there's enough energy there to power the entire country for over a 150 years. pretty neat. there reactors with supply power to data centers in the future. so it's no surprise that sam, ultimate, among others, has invested in the startup the old man, the co creator of chat, t b t is even helping to take o go public. the aim is to raise $500000000.00 to bring the many power plants to market as quickly as possible. cause a number of advantages that i make him best position to succeed. in addition, i believe that we're close doing is one of our best thoughts to get out of the

energy crisis and get into this world of energy abundance. as promising as it all sounds, startups working on generation for reactors, are facing a significant obstacle right now. they need a special kind of enriched uranium for their nuclear power plants. that is a massive bottleneck right now. um, frankly, the, the west sort of the european and american supplies just don't exist right now. the world has, as of recently been significantly reliant upon, you know, russia's enrichment capacities. the truth is this new generation of reactors is not the only type dependent on russian. many other nuclear power plants are to back to europe. we want to see why there's such a bottleneck and uranium enrichment in the nuclear industry uranium or his mind in different countries and has to be processed in several stages to be used for atomic

energy. the one of these processes takes place here at your income. we are in an enrichment class and that means we enrich natural uranium in order to make it a fuel for nuclear reactors around the ad. louder is the managing director of your ranko netherlands at the enrichment facility solid. uranium is deliberate in these large cylinders. it's then heated until it turns into a gas and a sped into centrifuges for the uranium $235.00 needed for nuclear power can be extracted. this in rich material has been in very high demand recently. to put things in perspective, in the year 2022, we have seen that or the book increased by 24 percent,

which is which is enormous. yeah. but where is all the demand coming from? well, we have seen a major disruption last year. 2022. due to the russian invasion in ukraine. many customers don't want to do business anymore with the russians. but that's not so easy. you ranko is the 2nd biggest player for enriched uranium on the international market. russia is number one before the war and ukraine. moscow delivered almost half of the world wide supply. many nuclear power plants in europe, in the us source there enriched uranium from russia. prussian us, uh, isolated themselves. i would even say a disqualified themselves to be part of that. that market. yes. we have taken show to emissions in order to ramp up a production because of the month of production has increased,

but on the longer term we need to invest in additional capacity. today we, we cannot simply cut all, all the all relations overnight. it takes a little bit of time the year, a tom supply agency estimates that it could take 7 to 10 years for europe to be independent of russian enrichment capacity. the u. s. is also still dependent on supplies from russia if russia decided suddenly to stop providing nuclear fuel or, or uranium products to europe, overnights, that will create a problem. so despite the fact the door is, so i'm going into the sanctions and over in your sectors, the nuclear fuel sector is not being sentient. and there's trucks causing the defendant and fuel being able to complains sloan to book every hour,

slip back here, and, and simply load it into the reactors. there are some western countries, so dependent on russia for nuclear energy that they can't impose sanctions, whether sanctions, problem for europe in the us really depends on how he would be designed. what would be the target of those sections? how would you imagine this happening? i expect that there would be functions, i guess in your sector, probably this year because i think that it's becoming politically or sustainable to keep the sector completely deployed, it's highest and pretend that nothing is going on. how is going to be designed, how far reaching is going to be? this is still an open question. the world wide demand for energy is storing. but if we want to keep climate change and check our electricity, production has to be carbon neutral within about 10 years time.

any talk of waiting for some additional breakthrough silver bullet technology is going to come in the future. and i swear and distracting us from 1st session committed right now. and if anything is uh excuse for not doing things now, but instead of waiting 420142015, then it comes medical clinic instruction. maybe we'd been waiting too long for that silver bullet. we kind of tried to pick a couple of favorite things that sounded good, maybe sound good, and as a result, we really compromise our ability to meet our broad energy objectives and climate objectives in a today. nutrition. if i really want to part of it by sort of somewhat, almost pretending it wasn't going to be just what i would call it was for the last, maybe 1020 plus years. we finish on me ready to take advantage of the atomic energy . could be part of the solution, but what less than should the west learn from russia's war and ukraine?

we need to be independent is about. so if i'm to actually care sector cook the source of acquiring, growing and gas sector. if something happens to, to the, to the sector, it's quite interesting calling me in the entire country and society seconds. when it comes to nuclear power, russia is at the forefront. if the western nations hope to rely on this technology in the future, they need to step up their efforts. so now we sketch up, which we can do, but it's gonna, it's going to take the question is, how much time is left the the diesel islands

along the river are home to the shoulders of bangladesh. every 6 months, their land, it's flooded by total weight for the funny does actually move, because i know what i'm going to do it. i'm gonna do like 2 bucks either reassessed . i don't funny job to as with our latest popular stuff to do, it gives the never ending cycle of destruction and rebuilding the in 75 minutes on dw the

w e news life from that israel intensifies its campaign and they've gone to a strip. the defense minister says he's very true. so now authorizing in the house of gaza city with full co ordination between land and sea forest. as israel's annual fund, bob, which of the territory continues g 7 leaders meeting in japan, quite a full humanitarian seems. 5 speaking at the g 7 meeting, you're a secretary of state down to me, blink and says israel cannot run gaza. that may be a transition period at the end of it.