Drone strike breaches Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Chornobyl NPP Accepts Novarka's New Safe Confinement Into Operation

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  Starts 11/08/2017CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoUkraine's Chornobyl NPP states it accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter into operation on 8 November 2017 (chnpp.gov.ua^[2]).

  Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  EBRD-backed remediation of Kyrgyzstan's Mailuu-Suu tailings dam

  European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentMailuu-Suu, Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan

  Starts 12/31/2030SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: the remediation works agreement covers "seven years of remediation works" with a "contract scheduled completion date" of 31/12/2030.

  A €23M EBRD-backed grant funds a seven-year project to relocate radioactive uranium tailings from Mailuu-Suu's most dangerous dam, away from the Fergana Valley's water supply.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm Is Formally Opened in the North Sea

  VattenfallNorth Sea, ~70 km west of Sylt, Germany

  Starts 04/30/2015CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE11.4 years agoVattenfall's^[3] press release "DanTysk offshore wind farm formally opened" states the formal opening took place on 30 April 2015 in Hamburg.

  Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Rosatom Delivers ITER's Last Poloidal Field Coil to the Cadarache Site

  RosatomITER site, Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

  Starts 02/10/2023CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.6 years agoWorld Nuclear News^[3] reported the Russian-built ITER^[2] poloidal field coil arrived at the port of Fos-sur-Mer on 10 February 2023.

  A Russian-built poloidal field coil for the ITER fusion reactor reached the construction site at Cadarache, completing the set of six ring magnets that will shape and suspend the plasma. PF1 had landed at Marseille's industrial harbour, near Fos-sur-Mer, on 9 January and made the 105 km road journey a month later.

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• Aerospace09/21/2026@BuildDesk

  The First B-21 Raider Arrives at Ellsworth Air Force Base

  Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, USANorthrop Grumman·…

  

  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED74% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsA year with no day, per militarytimes.com^[1]: Gen. Dale White "confirmed that the first operational aircraft of the stealth bombers are on track for a 2027 Ellsworth delivery as initially projected in February", so the pin takes the last day of that year.

  The US Air Force’s first operational B-21s are due "on the ramp" at their first operational base in South Dakota in 2027. The stealth bomber programme has raised production capacity by 25%, heading for about seven aircraft a year and a fleet of at least 100.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Finland's Onkalo Repository Set to Bury Nuclear Waste

  PosivaOnkalo, Eurajoki, Finland

  Starts 12/31/2026SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "Phase 4, the encapsulation and burial of areas filled with spent fuel, will begin in 2026."

  Finland's Posiva began drilling the first deposition hole at the Onkalo repository, a step toward becoming the world's first facility to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel.

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• Infrastructure09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  The US Abandons Its Secret Ice City, Camp Century

  Camp Century, Greenland Ice SheetUnited States Army

  

  Starts 12/31/1966CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE59.7 years agoHappened as dated, per taskandpurpose.com^[3]: "Camp Century continued to operate as perhaps the Army's most remote outpost until 1966 when it was closed down."

  The US Army shut down Camp Century, its secret nuclear-powered base carved into the Greenland ice sheet to conceal a mobile missile network under Project Iceworm, after the tunnels it depended on began collapsing.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Bohunice V1 Nuclear Reactors Fully Dismantled

  JAVYSBohunice Nuclear Power Plant, Jaslovské Bohunice, Slovakia

  Starts 07/29/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The two VVER-440 V-230 reactors in Slovakia were decommissioned and disassembled on site".

  Slovakia finished fully dismantling the Soviet-era V1 reactors at Bohunice in July 2022, one of the few nuclear plants taken apart down to the reactor vessels.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Vogtle Unit 4 Enters Commercial Operation

  Georgia PowerVogtle Electric Generating Plant, Waynesboro, Georgia, USA

  Starts 04/29/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation" on "April 29, 2024".

  Georgia's Plant Vogtle Unit 4 entered commercial operation in April 2024, completing the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in the US in over three decades.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Vostok Oil Ships First Crude From Its Arctic Megaport

  RosneftBukhta Sever, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

  Starts 09/06/2026CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE17 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Rosneft loaded the first cargo onto the... tanker Valentin Pikul after President Vladimir Putin formally commissioned the project on September 6."

  Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

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