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Only three per cent of the water on our planet is fresh water; only a small proportion of this can be used as drinking water. Climate change is having an increasing impact on the security of our drinking water supply, and not just in arid regions. Forward-looking and sustainable management of drinking water resources is therefore important.
Geothermal power plants utilise the heat from the earth's interior to generate energy in the form of electricity and heat. This is possible at temperatures of as low as 100 degrees Celsius. GRS is investigating how geothermal power plants can be operated safely and reliably.
An overall maintenance inspection refers to the scheduled shutdown of a nuclear power plant for the inspection, maintenance and modernisation of parts of the plant. Various tasks are carried out during an overall maintenance inspection.
Fuel assemblies contain the nuclear fuel with which a nuclear power plant is operated. Depending on the reactor type, fuel assemblies differ in their structure.
In 2011, the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site in Japan. The accident was classified at the highest level of the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).
L. Friedenberg, O. Czaikowski, K. Jantschik, A. Pogalski, BGE-TEC, BGR, IfG, Sandia, TUC, UU
What happened last year in the field of nuclear energy? What developments can be observed internationally? The following overview shows the situation broken down by continent (Europe, America, Asia and Africa). Australia/Oceania is not included, as no nuclear power plants are operated there. After a brief summary, those countries are presented for each continent which either operate reactors or which are planning to start or are already building NPPs.
S. Hagemann, T. Meyer, H. Mönig, B. Bischofer, K. Jantschik