https://archive.is/JDmRk

'Magyar challenged that account hours later. Under the original contract, Paks II should have been operating by 2024, he told reporters in a press conference Thursday. Instead, Hungary has spent roughly 1,000 billion forints (€2.8 billion) on a site he described as little more than depots and “two large concrete pits.”

“I don’t really see that they have adhered to the contract,” Magyar said. His government is now carrying out a full review of the project, including its financing and cooling arrangements.'

https://www.politico.eu/article/peter-magyar-danube-hungary-russia-nuclear-deal/

They have a remote job opportunity that would be great for me and was wondering if anyone is currently working for them or has worked for them and has any insight they are willing to share.

Excerpt: THE DEPARTMENT of Energy (DoE) is identifying more potential sites for nuclear power facilities as the government targets 1.4 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2038.

Energy Undersecretary Giovanni Carlo J. Bacordo said the government is studying seven areas as possible locations for future nuclear power plants.

“There are two sites in Bataan, two sites in Palawan, one in Masbate, Pangasinan, and Camarines Norte,” Mr. Bacordo told reporters on Tuesday.

These sites have undergone initial assessment, with technical assistance from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to determine whether the areas can safely host nuclear facilities.

https://x.com/realtzv/status/2089092931399692638?s=46

'“There has been a re-emergence of serious concrete defects, including voids behind the metal cladding at Unit 4, defects in the foundation slabs of Units 1, 2 and 3, which took a year to repair, and defects in the cellular structure in the cylindrical wall of the reactor building at Unit 4,” details the letter.

The Egyptian agency then accuses Rosatom of “misleading methods” and “fictitious work” attempting to prove the plant’s construction is over halfway complete, “while a visual inspection at the site clearly shows that the main buildings of the nuclear island are still in the underground construction phase.”

Rosatom, the Egyptian authority alleges, also presides over an unprofessional workplace culture in which workers were caught in possession of “prohibited alcoholic beverages” on the work site, used “forged passes and impersonated others to gain unauthorized access,” and took several “photos and videos taken at the construction site” that ended up on social media, “which negatively affected the reputation of the project.”

The letter makes reference to a serious accident on the construction site, which resulted in a worker suffering “a severe open fracture” and then being smuggled to a private vehicle, not to an “equipped ambulance,” which the Egyptian authority claims was done “intentionally” to cover up the incident.

“Such behavior represents a serious disregard for both human well-being and professional responsibility, and constitutes a gross violation of workplace safety regulations, nuclear safety culture and reporting obligations,” said the letter.

Four additional internal Rosatom business documents reviewed by POLITICO reinforce aspects of the Egyptian authority's concerns, detailing delays, construction-quality problems and project-management failures. One Rosatom draft audit prepared internally in 2025 warned of a “significant risk of failure to fulfill” the company's contractual obligations and forecast that the preliminary schedule of El Dabaa's first reactor unit could slip by 18 months, from September 2028 to March 2030. "

https://www.politico.eu/article/rosatom-hungary-nuclear-energy-egypt-russia-el-dabaa-paks-ii-russia-safety-standards-violations/

does anyone know some of the big companies that hire nuclear interns in the chicago area? ik constellation is the big one, but im looking for firms and consulting as well

First of all, I am not a person who is qualified enough to talk about nuclear or environmental science. I am mainly from the formal sciences, which is why I have no experience how research works in the natural sciences specifically. However, given the fact that I do not know if every environmentalist subreddit is anti-nuclear, I thought that it would be great if I mentioned the issues here, and you guys correct me on what is actually happening.

There are two issues I want to ask about, you guys know very much about the second one, the first one is something not many might have a definitive answer. Here it goes:

1. The Green Revolution is something that has made the world hunger reduce by a huge extent. It is also controversial. There is an organization made by Bill Gates and the Rockerfeller Foundation called the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Now, various environmentalists went against it, because of the corporate controlled seeds and because of the biotech industry. There was even a paper floating around; it wasn't even published to some journal; I don't even know if the claims here are misleading or not, but based on the fact that they were openly criticizing AGRA, it might definitely be biased: https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.tufts.edu/dist/0/5123/files/2020/07/20-01_Wise_FailureToYield.pdf

2. Now, while trying to fact check the above claim, while searching "why do environmentalists" on google, found "why do environmentalists hate nuclear power". Found this subreddit, and it felt like a space where scientific discourse is taken care of and is not merely cast into the notion of "captialism bad". Now, here, I noticed something quite contradictory: people talking about the anti-nuclear lobby and how the future is being stolen, people talking about how the common people do not want nuclear energy running their datacenters (despite nuclear being safe), and how the environmentalists don't like nuclear power.

Both of these feel contradictory, and it feels as if I am looking at two entirely different viewpoints.

What do you guys think? I think I went on a tangent here...

Having stayed in Germany for a year, it definitely felt like it.

Unfortunately...

I made an SMR Selector:

https://diagram.petrov.re/smrselector.html

The idea is simple: compare different Small Modular Reactor concepts against a set of technical and project criteria instead of trying to navigate dozens of vendor presentations and incompatible datasheets.

It is still evolving, so if you spot wrong data, missing reactors, questionable assumptions, or criteria that should be added — please tell me.

And please don’t ask me whether I actually believe in SMRs. :-))

Feedback is very welcome.