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Saint-Paul-lez-Durance (dpa) – All components are there: In high halls northeast of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, huge magnetic coils, vacuum containers and shiny large components made of metal are stored.

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When put together, they are to result in the Iter nuclear fusion reactor, a mammoth project that will produce climate-friendly energy in the future.

The start of assembly of the tokamak reactor is a historic moment, said Iter boss Bernard Bigot on Tuesday at a ceremony for the new construction phase. The hardest part of the work now lies ahead of the team. The structure is like a giant 3D puzzle that has to be put together according to the schedule, says Bigot.

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The corona pandemic had recently slowed down activities on the major construction site near Cadarache, around 60 kilometers northeast of the French port metropolis of Marseille.critical analysis of to kill a mockingbird However, they were not completely interrupted. In addition to the EU, the USA, Russia, China, India, Japan and South Korea are involved in the project. The costs are estimated at more than 20 billion euros, construction began in 2010.

During the pandemic, it was not easy to ensure the production and delivery of components from the countries, said the Iter boss at the celebration to which France’s head of state Emmanuel Macron had invited. Bigot calls what is supposed to emerge from this a “star on earth”.

The Iter reactor will generate energy from the fusion of hydrogen atoms – and thus imitate the way the sun works. To do this, a hydrogen plasma is heated to 150 million degrees Celsius. The resulting hot plasma must be enclosed in the combustion chamber without contact by extreme magnetic fields. The first plasma should be used in 2025 and physicists should be able to start experiments, Bigot said.

The reactor is then scheduled to be loaded with deuterium-tritium and attempts to generate energy from nuclear fusion begin in 2035. According to Iter, there is no provision for the reactor to record the energy as electricity. However, the experimental facility should pave the way for future fusion power plants to generate electricity.

Proponents hope that nuclear fusion will provide an almost infinitely available energy source without climate-damaging emissions or the risk of a core meltdown like in nuclear power plants.

Critics, however, see Iter as too expensive. Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, nuclear expert for the Greens in the Bundestag, speaks of a “billion dollar grave without a happy ending”. The commercial applicability of the technology is in the stars and in the best case it will be possible towards the end of the century, criticizes the Green politician. “Germany and the EU are heading towards a dead end at full throttle, there is no other way to describe this madness.”

And critics also believe that fusion energy is simply coming too late. In the fight against climate change, greenhouse gas emissions would have to drop significantly beforehand and renewable energies would have prevailed by then, so the arguments. Heinz Smital, spokesman for Greenpeace Germany on nuclear power, calls the Iter reactor an “expensive toy”.

“Systems for generating electricity from renewable energies are already much more efficient and inexpensive today and will continue to improve over the next 50 years,” said Smital. Smital criticizes that even if the Iter system is fully built and functioning, it will not generate any electricity.

Another problem with the research project, which goes back to a meeting between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, is the complicated organization. More than 30 countries are involved: EU, USA, Russia, China, Japan, India and Korea – and everyone should benefit as equally as possible from the mammoth project.

Fessenheim (dpa) – The controversial Alsatian nuclear power plant Fessenheim on the border with Germany has been shut down for good.

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The second pressurized water reactor of the oldest nuclear power plant in France was disconnected from the power grid on Monday evening, said the French energy company EDF. Fessenheim has been seen by critics as a safety risk for years – opponents of nuclear power had been calling for the reactor to be shut down for years. But the end of Fessenheim will not mean the end of nuclear energy in France.

The first reactor block of the power plant on the Rhine, which has been producing electricity since the end of 1977, had already been taken off the grid at the end of February. The shutdown of the second block had started on Monday afternoon a few hours earlier than planned. German politicians and environmental activists had welcomed the closure.

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French President Emmanuel Macron had promised at the end of 2018 to shut down Fessenheim by 2020. Employees and residents, however, had repeatedly criticized the shutdown.

Meanwhile, France’s Economics and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire emphasized that France would continue to rely on nuclear power in the future. “I am an advocate of nuclear energy,” Le Maire told BFMTV on Tuesday morning. It enables low CO2 emissions and independence, according to Le Maire. However, it would be unreasonable to continue to rely 75 percent on nuclear energy for electricity generation. So they want to go from 75 percent to 50 percent by 2035, announced Le Maire.

France is still considered the “atomic country” of Europe. After Fessenheim’s shutdown, EDF says it will operate 56 reactors across the country. After the USA, France is still the second largest producer of nuclear power in the world. Minister Le Maire reiterated that France would wait to make a decision to build new nuclear power plants – at least until the new pressurized water reactor in Flamanville on the English Channel went into operation. “If we think long-term, nuclear energy is still relevant,” stressed Le Maire.

For right-wing populist Marine Le Pen, the shutdown of Fessenheim is a “catastrophe”. It is a “cheap political maneuver” and a violation of French sovereignty. In Germany, however, the shutdown was largely welcomed. “We are relieved that the shutdown of the second reactor in Fessenheim took place on schedule,” said the Freiburg government president Bärbel Schäfer. The end of Fessenheim means more security and a better quality of life for the people in the region. Fessenheim is only a few kilometers from Freiburg im Breisgau and the Swiss city of Basel.

The international medical organization for the prevention of nuclear war IPPNW was also pleased about the end of the nuclear power plant. “The shutdown of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant was long overdue. Despite significant safety deficiencies and the more than 200 incidents, the operators apparently repeatedly outweighed short-term economic interests over the wellbeing, health and safety of the population,” said co-chairman Alex Rosen.

The region around the municipality of Fessenheim in the Haut-Rhin department in southern Alsace is now to become a green and cross-border showcase project. Projects for sustainable energy generation are to be implemented in a Franco-German innovation park. However, it will be decades before the site of the nuclear power plant itself can be used. According to the operator, the preparations for the dismantling are estimated to take five years, the dismantling itself then takes another 15 years.

Berlin (dpa) – Lower Saxony’s Grohnde and Emsland nuclear power plants are to be shut down by the end of the Corona crisis – this is what Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, Member of the Green Party, demands.

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“Under the given circumstances, the German nuclear power plants are less relevant than ever to the system,” wrote the chairman of the Bundestag Environment Committee to Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) and the Environment Ministers of Lower Saxony and Bavaria. The Bavarian nuclear power plant in Gundremmingen, which was taken off the grid on March 20, should also remain shut down as a precaution.

According to the letter, the annual revisions of the Grohnde and Emsland nuclear power plants are due in April and May. Hundreds of external specialists are busy with the work for weeks, wrote Kotting-Uhl. “The risk that the nuclear power plants would become hotspots for the further spread of the coronavirus is inappropriate and unnecessary.” The revisions should therefore be suspended.

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A spokesman for the Federal Environment Ministry in Berlin referred to the responsibility of the health authorities: “Of course, health protection now has absolute priority,” he told the dpa. “If the health authorities come to the conclusion that a large number of foreign workers in a nuclear power plant are not responsible, then a revision cannot take place.” In addition, “of course there are no safety discounts on nuclear safety.”

Kotting-Uhl also relied on figures from the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management, according to which electricity consumption on March 25 of this year was 6.8 percent lower than on March 25 of 2017 to 2019. In view of the reduced production in the Industry, it is likely that this trend will continue, wrote Kotting-Uhl.

Nordenham (AP) – The Castor train with nuclear waste from the British nuclear power plant Sellafield left the port of Nordenham in Lower Saxony on Tuesday evening with the destination Biblis. This was announced by a spokesman for the GNS transport company.

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For Germany it is the first major return transport of nuclear waste in Castoren in nine years.