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00:00:00melt and quickly vaporize becoming plasma, so there's a
00:00:04constant supply of plasma like shoveling coal into a
00:00:07furnace, that's
00:00:09the same. the heat in this furnace is
00:00:13contained by magnetic fields generated by a complex array
00:00:17of magnets.
00:00:19they keep the plasma from touching the chamber walls because
00:00:23contact would cool it down instantly.
00:00:26designing the W7X magnet configuration required
00:01:00fusion startups worldwide taking a variety of
00:01:02approaches, they're aiming for success in the 2030s,
00:01:06which is practically tomorrow, but whether it will
00:01:09be the 2030s or the 2070s is something that no
00:01:13one can say for
00:01:13sure.
00:01:18for now the accelerator is undergoing
00:01:21I feel proud that we are taking action in maintenance with number of upgrades scheduled over the next few
00:01:24months, then W7X will be back
00:01:27and chasing new records.
00:01:34Did you know that nuclear fission, the process behind nuclear power
00:01:38today is considered more dangerous than nuclear
00:01:41fusion. Fission accidents can release massive amounts of
00:01:45radioactive material, as happened in Fukushima and
00:01:48Chernobyl. Fusion is safer and doesn't
00:01:52produce high-level radioactive waste that must be stored
00:01:55safely for millennia, yet Finland is betting a
00:01:59future power. by nuclear
00:02:00fission.
00:02:05the Olkiluoto peninsula
00:02:08exclusively on N1. on Finland's west coast is one of the country's most important
00:02:11energy hubs. It's home to three nuclear reactor
00:02:15units. The newest one went into commercial operation in
00:02:182023. The turbine hall is where the massive generators
00:02:22are located. They're driven by heat from the reactor, which is
00:02:26how the electricity is produced.
00:02:31Olkiluoto 3 has capacity of 1600 megawatts,
00:02:34making it one of the largest nuclear reactors in the EU.
00:02:38The facility covers about 14% of Finland's electricity
00:02:41production. The company's press officer says
00:02:45public concerns were minimal. We have been
00:02:48measuring for 40 years this, what people
00:02:52fear and what, what, how do they like nuclear power,
00:02:54and they they are like
00:02:57nuclear power a lot today, they are not... the
00:03:00waste, it's not a major concern anymore, we have
00:03:04a solution here in Olkiluoto, so the support for
00:03:07nuclear is good in every
00:03:10party, but there were some problems here
00:03:14too, construction was supposed to last from 2005 to
00:03:172009, but in the end it took 14 additional
00:03:21years. the project was plagued with delays including loose
00:03:25parts in the turbine and issues with the instrumentation and control
00:03:29system. After multiple repairs, the final cost hit
00:03:3211 billion euros, about four times the original
00:03:36budget. So we were, we were pioneers, so there was
00:03:40a long break that nobody was building here in western
00:03:43Europe nuclear power,
00:03:46so the readiness to build was not
00:03:50very good, and also the power plant was new
00:03:53design and it was uh
00:03:56not designed in detail level so... plans
00:04:00were changed during the project, but
00:04:04there were no protests over the delays and soaring
00:04:07costs, and now the new plant is delivering
00:04:10electricity to the country. as in
00:04:13France, in Finland, nuclear energy is considered green
00:04:16energy. the operator has proudly called the New
00:04:20Reactor Finland's largest climate
00:04:22project.
00:04:26Finland is one of several European nations investing in nuclear.
00:05:12though has chosen the path of nuclear power.
00:05:16Here, people are convinced that ultimately electricity will
00:05:19be far cheaper with nuclear power than without
00:05:22it. The Finnish operators don't understand
00:05:25Germany's nuclear phase out, because big country
00:05:29like Germany, very big country, so if
00:05:32you want to reach reach 100% renewables
00:05:36in electricity systems, we haven't seen
00:05:39it yet in a big country, so all the...
00:05:43for the for this challenging
00:05:44effort
00:05:47that that you can hopefully do without nuclear
00:05:50power, but our solution is is
00:05:53nuclear and renewables together. the
00:05:57Finns have also found a solution for the nuclear
00:05:59waste. geologist Johanna
00:06:03Savunan is on her way to the construction site near the power
00:06:06plants. at more than 450 m below
00:06:10ground, the world's first permanent. repository for
00:06:13high-level radioactive waste is taking
00:06:16shape.
00:06:19Underground tunnels will soon store spent fuel rods for thousands of
00:06:23years. The nuclear waste bunker has attracted worldwide
00:06:27attention.
00:06:29I feel proud,
00:06:33a difficult matter and not just waiting for some
00:06:37others to show the way. I feel that this
00:06:40is an issue that needs to be... solved and I'm I feel proud
00:06:44that Finland is doing exactly that.
00:06:47300 m long and carved into granite bedrock,
00:06:51the tunnels will one day store highly radioactive nuclear
00:06:55waste. An elevator will bring the copper canisters
00:06:58filled with spent fuel elements down into the
00:07:01repository. Each canister will be placed in a
00:07:05hole. The holes and the tunnel will be plugged with
00:07:08bentonite and the tunnel finally will be sealed with concrete.
00:07:13The Onkalo repository will go online in
00:07:162026. The waste will remain here for over
00:07:19100 thousand years until it is only minimally
00:07:22radioactive. Radioactive waste is quite
00:07:26a difficult subject and
00:07:29people don't know a lot about it, so
00:07:33people tend to be afraid of something they don't know
00:07:35about.
00:07:37Many Finns place great trust in the work of their
00:07:40scientists. They... believe that nuclear power is the
00:07:44best choice and that a mix of wind power and nuclear
00:07:48energy will secure an emissions-free
00:07:50future.
00:07:55Finland attaches great importance. Finland places great value on energy
00:07:58independence, and over the past decades that's worked quite well
00:08:02thanks to their use of nuclear power. So you could say
00:08:06their decisions make sense for them, but you also need to keep in mind that
00:08:10other countries might decide things differently.
00:08:42That sets it apart from many countries in the world, including Finland,
00:08:46where the search followed a completely different process and the public
00:08:50debate was very
00:08:50different.
00:08:55Finland is the first country in the world to develop a long-term
00:08:59storage plan for its nuclear
00:09:01waste,
00:09:04will supply the Finns with
00:09:07electricity for decades to
00:09:09come.
00:09:15By 2030, Germany aims to generate 80%
00:09:19of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar
00:09:22power. A key part of this green energy
00:09:26transition is battery storage. It
00:09:29stores excess energy for later use when demand is high,
00:09:33that helps stabilize the power grid and prevent
00:09:36overloads.
00:09:42The energy transition is happening right here in Wasem, a battery
00:09:46energy storage system is being built, a 4-hour
00:09:49system. It will deliver 50 megawatts of
00:09:52power enough to supply a mid-sized German city
00:09:56of 100 thousand to 150,000 people for four
00:09:59hours.
00:10:02Of course it has to make economic sense, we're a business, so it has to pay
00:10:06off. Kevin Galla is an electricity
00:10:09trader for a major German energy company.
00:10:13Soon he won't just be selling electricity from gas and hard coal
00:10:16power plants, he'll also be buying and storing
00:10:19it.
00:10:22By spring 2026, a new battery. system will be running
00:10:26here, it can deliver 50 megawatts of
00:10:29electricity about the output of a small gas
00:10:32plant for 4
00:10:33hours.
00:10:36because it's plugged straight into the grid, the battery can store
00:10:40surplus renewable power and release it when demand
00:10:43rises, turning those swings into
00:10:46profit.
00:10:49ultimately we're taking a business risk, but we believe
00:10:52flexibility is key for the energy transition.
00:11:25in the same energy again and again, sometimes it's
00:11:28just tiny price differences, but over time you scoop up the
00:11:32returns. this business model has been tested for about
00:11:3510 years with a 15 megawatt hour pilot
00:11:38system. German grid operators have received speculative
00:11:42requests for battery projects totaling 500
00:11:45gigawatts, far above the country's peak demand.
00:11:49if all were built, their combined capacity could for a few
00:11:52hours match the output of roughly 500.
00:11:58with growing flexibility, more storage systems and more
00:12:01collocations, meaning more pairing of renewable plants with in-site battery
00:12:05storage, the price gaps will gradually
00:12:07disappear.
00:12:12On April 28th, 2025, Spain and
00:12:15Portugal were hit by a massive blackout.
00:12:18Voltage spiked beyond safe limits, shutting down over
00:12:2220 gigawatts of plants, including four. nuclear
00:12:25reactors, the grid's heartbeat its
00:12:28frequency, became unstable, could
00:12:31battery storage systems have prevented
00:12:33it?
00:12:35we've observed the same thing that happened in Spain and Portugal here in our control
00:12:39room,
00:12:43Hendrick Neumann, CTO at transmission grid
00:12:46operator, helps keep Germany's grid
00:12:49stable. He says a blackout like the one that happened in
00:12:52Spain and Portugal can't happen in Germany. thanks to backup
00:12:56systems, but if batteries are to join that safety
00:12:59net, they must do more than store energy, they need to
00:13:03help steady the grid's pulse by supplying reactive power on
00:13:07demand.
00:13:10you can think of reactive power like lubricant and an
00:13:12engine. an engine needs oil to run
00:13:16smoothly.
00:13:19in Spain, power was restored within 12 to 16
00:13:22hours. investigators say high.
00:14:25The question is, can batteries deliver during the dark doldrums, those long
00:14:28stretches with little sun or
00:14:30wind?
00:14:33Battery storage is being put to the test here, what role
00:14:37will they play in tomorrow's energy system? With mega
00:14:40batteries on the rise, do we even need new backup gas
00:14:44plants at
00:14:45all?
00:14:49Dilk Uvazawa is a researcher at Aachen Technical
00:14:52University. He studies how the power grid will.
00:15:25strong, but in the following days it
00:15:27dropped.
00:15:30the weak winter sun didn't add much.
00:15:33gas plants stepped in with up to 15 gigawatts.
00:17:07months, but producing hydrogen takes a
00:17:11lot of energy, ideally from renewable
00:17:14sources, that's what makes it green hydrogen, and
00:17:18it's being produced in places you might not
00:17:21expect.
00:17:25the Pfaffenhausen wastewater plant does more than treat
00:17:28sewage, it's also hosting an experiment.
00:17:32Andreas Hashman and lead the
00:17:35project, their goal is to produce.
00:19:07pilot program, but one day it could supply the region for
00:19:115 days when renewables fall short.
00:19:15green transition expert Florian Egley likes the
00:19:18idea, but says that even at scale it won't produce enough
00:19:21hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industry like steel
00:19:24production. that's why government and industry are looking to
00:19:28hydrogen from Africa, but Egley warns against putting too much
00:19:31faith in the plan.
00:19:35we analyze what it costs to...
00:20:37costs are the main reason prices will soar, interest rates
00:20:41are now much higher than the expected 4
00:20:43to 8%. In Sudan rates are over
00:20:4626%. These unexpectedly. high
00:20:50costs for green hydrogen from Africa could slow Europe's
00:20:53shift to clean energy in heavy industry, and
00:20:57that means sustainability targets won't be met,
00:21:01and that would also hurt
00:21:02Africa.
00:21:06Europe and Africa share a long and often difficult
00:21:09history, so when we plan major investments, we need to
00:21:13make sure they bring real benefits to local
00:21:15communities.
00:30:21Dear viewers, welcome to the 76th edition of Scanner
00:30:23of the week, I am Ilija Kovačić, I am Ivan Govedarica, before you is
00:30:27the sports review of the week through the prism of Sport Klub journalists, here's what you will
00:30:31see, among other things, in the next hour on
00:30:33N1.
00:30:36The coach of the Serbian national football team Veljko Paunović announced the list of
00:30:39players he is counting on in the upcoming period. The team is expecting its first
00:30:43match against Greece already on September 24th in
00:30:47Belgrade.
00:30:50As the decision date approaches, stories about
00:30:54elections in the Football Association of Serbia are heating up. On October
00:30:5717th, someone leaves, someone will come, someone...