ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine to see the construction of a new enclosure over the reactor at the destroyed nuclear power station.
Project goals can be a moving target amid intensifying inflation, climate change and supply chain disruptions roiling the global marketplace, say this year’s Top 225 International Design Firms.
Originally due to finish in 2026, an accident during a large concrete placement will likely affect the schedule of the project, about 30 miles southwest of Stuttgart.
Labor PM Keir Starmer's government formed Great British Energy to undertake early project work to reduce private
sector developer risk and boost technologies such as carbon capture and
storage, hydrogen and wave and tidal energy.
Project developer has spent $36 billion on the continuing London-Birmingham phase and $2.2 billion on canceled phases. Closing down canceled work will add another $130 million.
Global developers are advancing nuclear fusion technology and engineering to scale an energy source they say has zero emissions, no meltdown risk and more security, as data centers and AI push power demand.
