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[00:00:00] melt and quickly vaporize becoming plasma, so there's a
[00:00:04] constant supply of plasma like shoveling coal into a
[00:00:07] furnace, that's
[00:00:09] the same. the heat in this furnace is
[00:00:13] contained by magnetic fields generated by a complex array
[00:00:17] of magnets.
[00:00:19] they keep the plasma from touching the chamber walls because
[00:00:23] contact would cool it down instantly.
[00:00:26] designing the W7X magnet configuration required
[00:01:00] fusion startups worldwide taking a variety of
[00:01:02] approaches, they're aiming for success in the 2030s,
[00:01:06] which is practically tomorrow, but whether it will
[00:01:09] be the 2030s or the 2070s is something that no
[00:01:13] one can say for
[00:01:13] sure.
[00:01:18] for now the accelerator is undergoing
[00:01:21] I feel proud that we are taking action in maintenance with number of upgrades scheduled over the next few
[00:01:24] months, then W7X will be back
[00:01:27] and chasing new records.
[00:01:34] Did you know that nuclear fission, the process behind nuclear power
[00:01:38] today is considered more dangerous than nuclear
[00:01:41] fusion. Fission accidents can release massive amounts of
[00:01:45] radioactive material, as happened in Fukushima and
[00:01:48] Chernobyl. Fusion is safer and doesn't
[00:01:52] produce high-level radioactive waste that must be stored
[00:01:55] safely for millennia, yet Finland is betting a
[00:01:59] future power. by nuclear
[00:02:00] fission.
[00:02:05] the Olkiluoto peninsula
[00:02:08] exclusively on N1. on Finland's west coast is one of the country's most important
[00:02:11] energy hubs. It's home to three nuclear reactor
[00:02:15] units. The newest one went into commercial operation in
[00:02:18] 2023. The turbine hall is where the massive generators
[00:02:22] are located. They're driven by heat from the reactor, which is
[00:02:26] how the electricity is produced.
[00:02:31] Olkiluoto 3 has capacity of 1600 megawatts,
[00:02:34] making it one of the largest nuclear reactors in the EU.
[00:02:38] The facility covers about 14% of Finland's electricity
[00:02:41] production. The company's press officer says
[00:02:45] public concerns were minimal. We have been
[00:02:48] measuring for 40 years this, what people
[00:02:52] fear and what, what, how do they like nuclear power,
[00:02:54] and they they are like
[00:02:57] nuclear power a lot today, they are not... the
[00:03:00] waste, it's not a major concern anymore, we have
[00:03:04] a solution here in Olkiluoto, so the support for
[00:03:07] nuclear is good in every
[00:03:10] party, but there were some problems here
[00:03:14] too, construction was supposed to last from 2005 to
[00:03:17] 2009, but in the end it took 14 additional
[00:03:21] years. the project was plagued with delays including loose
[00:03:25] parts in the turbine and issues with the instrumentation and control
[00:03:29] system. After multiple repairs, the final cost hit
[00:03:32] 11 billion euros, about four times the original
[00:03:36] budget. So we were, we were pioneers, so there was
[00:03:40] a long break that nobody was building here in western
[00:03:43] Europe nuclear power,
[00:03:46] so the readiness to build was not
[00:03:50] very good, and also the power plant was new
[00:03:53] design and it was uh
[00:03:56] not designed in detail level so... plans
[00:04:00] were changed during the project, but
[00:04:04] there were no protests over the delays and soaring
[00:04:07] costs, and now the new plant is delivering
[00:04:10] electricity to the country. as in
[00:04:13] France, in Finland, nuclear energy is considered green
[00:04:16] energy. the operator has proudly called the New
[00:04:20] Reactor Finland's largest climate
[00:04:22] project.
[00:04:26] Finland is one of several European nations investing in nuclear.
[00:05:12] though has chosen the path of nuclear power.
[00:05:16] Here, people are convinced that ultimately electricity will
[00:05:19] be far cheaper with nuclear power than without
[00:05:22] it. The Finnish operators don't understand
[00:05:25] Germany's nuclear phase out, because big country
[00:05:29] like Germany, very big country, so if
[00:05:32] you want to reach reach 100% renewables
[00:05:36] in electricity systems, we haven't seen
[00:05:39] it yet in a big country, so all the...
[00:05:43] for the for this challenging
[00:05:44] effort
[00:05:47] that that you can hopefully do without nuclear
[00:05:50] power, but our solution is is
[00:05:53] nuclear and renewables together. the
[00:05:57] Finns have also found a solution for the nuclear
[00:05:59] waste. geologist Johanna
[00:06:03] Savunan is on her way to the construction site near the power
[00:06:06] plants. at more than 450 m below
[00:06:10] ground, the world's first permanent. repository for
[00:06:13] high-level radioactive waste is taking
[00:06:16] shape.
[00:06:19] Underground tunnels will soon store spent fuel rods for thousands of
[00:06:23] years. The nuclear waste bunker has attracted worldwide
[00:06:27] attention.
[00:06:29] I feel proud,
[00:06:33] a difficult matter and not just waiting for some
[00:06:37] others to show the way. I feel that this
[00:06:40] is an issue that needs to be... solved and I'm I feel proud
[00:06:44] that Finland is doing exactly that.
[00:06:47] 300 m long and carved into granite bedrock,
[00:06:51] the tunnels will one day store highly radioactive nuclear
[00:06:55] waste. An elevator will bring the copper canisters
[00:06:58] filled with spent fuel elements down into the
[00:07:01] repository. Each canister will be placed in a
[00:07:05] hole. The holes and the tunnel will be plugged with
[00:07:08] bentonite and the tunnel finally will be sealed with concrete.
[00:07:13] The Onkalo repository will go online in
[00:07:16] 2026. The waste will remain here for over
[00:07:19] 100 thousand years until it is only minimally
[00:07:22] radioactive. Radioactive waste is quite
[00:07:26] a difficult subject and
[00:07:29] people don't know a lot about it, so
[00:07:33] people tend to be afraid of something they don't know
[00:07:35] about.
[00:07:37] Many Finns place great trust in the work of their
[00:07:40] scientists. They... believe that nuclear power is the
[00:07:44] best choice and that a mix of wind power and nuclear
[00:07:48] energy will secure an emissions-free
[00:07:50] future.
[00:07:55] Finland attaches great importance. Finland places great value on energy
[00:07:58] independence, and over the past decades that's worked quite well
[00:08:02] thanks to their use of nuclear power. So you could say
[00:08:06] their decisions make sense for them, but you also need to keep in mind that
[00:08:10] other countries might decide things differently.
[00:08:42] That sets it apart from many countries in the world, including Finland,
[00:08:46] where the search followed a completely different process and the public
[00:08:50] debate was very
[00:08:50] different.
[00:08:55] Finland is the first country in the world to develop a long-term
[00:08:59] storage plan for its nuclear
[00:09:01] waste,
[00:09:04] will supply the Finns with
[00:09:07] electricity for decades to
[00:09:09] come.
[00:09:15] By 2030, Germany aims to generate 80%
[00:09:19] of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar
[00:09:22] power. A key part of this green energy
[00:09:26] transition is battery storage. It
[00:09:29] stores excess energy for later use when demand is high,
[00:09:33] that helps stabilize the power grid and prevent
[00:09:36] overloads.
[00:09:42] The energy transition is happening right here in Wasem, a battery
[00:09:46] energy storage system is being built, a 4-hour
[00:09:49] system. It will deliver 50 megawatts of
[00:09:52] power enough to supply a mid-sized German city
[00:09:56] of 100 thousand to 150,000 people for four
[00:09:59] hours.
[00:10:02] Of course it has to make economic sense, we're a business, so it has to pay
[00:10:06] off. Kevin Galla is an electricity
[00:10:09] trader for a major German energy company.
[00:10:13] Soon he won't just be selling electricity from gas and hard coal
[00:10:16] power plants, he'll also be buying and storing
[00:10:19] it.
[00:10:22] By spring 2026, a new battery. system will be running
[00:10:26] here, it can deliver 50 megawatts of
[00:10:29] electricity about the output of a small gas
[00:10:32] plant for 4
[00:10:33] hours.
[00:10:36] because it's plugged straight into the grid, the battery can store
[00:10:40] surplus renewable power and release it when demand
[00:10:43] rises, turning those swings into
[00:10:46] profit.
[00:10:49] ultimately we're taking a business risk, but we believe
[00:10:52] flexibility is key for the energy transition.
[00:11:25] in the same energy again and again, sometimes it's
[00:11:28] just tiny price differences, but over time you scoop up the
[00:11:32] returns. this business model has been tested for about
[00:11:35] 10 years with a 15 megawatt hour pilot
[00:11:38] system. German grid operators have received speculative
[00:11:42] requests for battery projects totaling 500
[00:11:45] gigawatts, far above the country's peak demand.
[00:11:49] if all were built, their combined capacity could for a few
[00:11:52] hours match the output of roughly 500.
[00:11:58] with growing flexibility, more storage systems and more
[00:12:01] collocations, meaning more pairing of renewable plants with in-site battery
[00:12:05] storage, the price gaps will gradually
[00:12:07] disappear.
[00:12:12] On April 28th, 2025, Spain and
[00:12:15] Portugal were hit by a massive blackout.
[00:12:18] Voltage spiked beyond safe limits, shutting down over
[00:12:22] 20 gigawatts of plants, including four. nuclear
[00:12:25] reactors, the grid's heartbeat its
[00:12:28] frequency, became unstable, could
[00:12:31] battery storage systems have prevented
[00:12:33] it?
[00:12:35] we've observed the same thing that happened in Spain and Portugal here in our control
[00:12:39] room,
[00:12:43] Hendrick Neumann, CTO at transmission grid
[00:12:46] operator, helps keep Germany's grid
[00:12:49] stable. He says a blackout like the one that happened in
[00:12:52] Spain and Portugal can't happen in Germany. thanks to backup
[00:12:56] systems, but if batteries are to join that safety
[00:12:59] net, they must do more than store energy, they need to
[00:13:03] help steady the grid's pulse by supplying reactive power on
[00:13:07] demand.
[00:13:10] you can think of reactive power like lubricant and an
[00:13:12] engine. an engine needs oil to run
[00:13:16] smoothly.
[00:13:19] in Spain, power was restored within 12 to 16
[00:13:22] hours. investigators say high.
[00:14:25] The question is, can batteries deliver during the dark doldrums, those long
[00:14:28] stretches with little sun or
[00:14:30] wind?
[00:14:33] Battery storage is being put to the test here, what role
[00:14:37] will they play in tomorrow's energy system? With mega
[00:14:40] batteries on the rise, do we even need new backup gas
[00:14:44] plants at
[00:14:45] all?
[00:14:49] Dilk Uvazawa is a researcher at Aachen Technical
[00:14:52] University. He studies how the power grid will.
[00:15:25] strong, but in the following days it
[00:15:27] dropped.
[00:15:30] the weak winter sun didn't add much.
[00:15:33] gas plants stepped in with up to 15 gigawatts.
[00:17:07] months, but producing hydrogen takes a
[00:17:11] lot of energy, ideally from renewable
[00:17:14] sources, that's what makes it green hydrogen, and
[00:17:18] it's being produced in places you might not
[00:17:21] expect.
[00:17:25] the Pfaffenhausen wastewater plant does more than treat
[00:17:28] sewage, it's also hosting an experiment.
[00:17:32] Andreas Hashman and lead the
[00:17:35] project, their goal is to produce.
[00:19:07] pilot program, but one day it could supply the region for
[00:19:11] 5 days when renewables fall short.
[00:19:15] green transition expert Florian Egley likes the
[00:19:18] idea, but says that even at scale it won't produce enough
[00:19:21] hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industry like steel
[00:19:24] production. that's why government and industry are looking to
[00:19:28] hydrogen from Africa, but Egley warns against putting too much
[00:19:31] faith in the plan.
[00:19:35] we analyze what it costs to...
[00:20:37] costs are the main reason prices will soar, interest rates
[00:20:41] are now much higher than the expected 4
[00:20:43] to 8%. In Sudan rates are over
[00:20:46] 26%. These unexpectedly. high
[00:20:50] costs for green hydrogen from Africa could slow Europe's
[00:20:53] shift to clean energy in heavy industry, and
[00:20:57] that means sustainability targets won't be met,
[00:21:01] and that would also hurt
[00:21:02] Africa.
[00:21:06] Europe and Africa share a long and often difficult
[00:21:09] history, so when we plan major investments, we need to
[00:21:13] make sure they bring real benefits to local
[00:21:15] communities.
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