Germany and Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas supplies cannot be eliminated in the short term without considerable economic damage.

Up until now, Europe has not announced an energy emergency plan. However, the latest figures show that Europe's gas storage capacity is only 26% full.

The US-Latvia FIRST project will draw on expertise from across government, industry, national laboratories, and academia for policy and technical exchanges focused on topics such as workforce development, stakeholder engagement, regulatory development, and familiarisation with advanced nuclear energy technologies, such as small modular reactors (SMRs), to support Latvia’s energy independence and security and climate priorities.

Deeply concerned by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the exposure of nuclear facilities to fighting and worrying public rhetoric, the undersigned scientists, engineers and professionals of the nuclear energy sector, represented by the American and European Nuclear Society:

The Polish Energy Policy to 2040 assumes that in 2033 the first nuclear unit with a capacity of between 1000MWe and 1600MWe will begin operation. The next units will be implemented every two or three years.

Turkey and the UAE have promising investment environments that offer many opportunities for investors and businesses, underscoring their aspirations to strengthen their economic partnership to establish a new era of sustainable growth.

According to the Turkiye Climate Change Perception Report, 79% of the participants see renewable energy as a good opportunity for economic development and 75% of them favor renewables for increasing the country's exports.

Turkey produced 203,069 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity from wind farms on Saturday, according to data provided by TEIAŞ.

Ukraine informed the IAEA that the Russian forces that have been in control of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) since 24 February had, in writing, transferred control of the NPP to Ukrainian personnel and moved two convoys of troops towards Belarus.

Russian gas deliveries to Europe on three key pipeline routes were broadly steady on Wednesday morning

In the global market, 70% of LNG is exported under long-term contracts. Therefore, the remaining 30% is sold to the country with the highest bid in the spot market.

Crude oil exported from countries including Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan moves through Russia’s energy export infrastructure.

The sanctions against Russia are the hardest we have seen against any country to date and in particular the decision to freeze $600bn of Russian foreign reserves is a first, which will have huge consequences in the long-term.

The dependence on Russian natural gas in Germany is so great that if supplies from Russia were to be stopped and the remaining quantities of natural gas distributed to Europe, Germany would have to reduce its natural gas consumption in the heating gas sector or in the industrial sector by 100 TWh per year .

During this week’s visit, the Director General will travel to one of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.