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Siemens agrees IP settlement
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On 1 October Siemens Energy agreed to pay $104 million to settle an investigation with US authorities, after it used stolen trade secrets to inflate bids for contracts five years ago. The company discovered the misconduct in 2020 and ‘voluntarily reported the incident to the customer’ and to General Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The proposed settlement with a US court in Virginia results from allegations of the theft of trade secrets that Siemens Energy had used in its bid to provide gas turbine equipment and servicing to Dominion Energy in 2019.
The settlement is subject to approval by the court, scheduled to be heard on 5 December.
An initial case brought by General Electric was settled between the two companies in 2021. Siemens Energy said that the new settlement with the US Department of Justice would resolve the case.
Russia ‘planning to target Ukraine’s nuclear plants’ Ukraine War update
Ukraine’s president Zelensky claimed in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September that Russia is planning deeper attacks on his country’s nuclear power plants, warning of what he characterised as potential nuclear disaster. He said he had received intelligence showing that Moscow was using satellites provided by other countries to gather information about Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure. Russia has repeatedly targeted energy facilities across Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned a month ago following an air strike near the perimeter of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and only 100m from the only remaining high voltage line, that safety at the plant in Russian- occupied Ukraine was deteriorating.
The plant was seized by Russian forces early in the war and has come under repeated attacks, for which each side has blamed the other. Zelensky claimed in his speech that Russia had destroyed ‘all of Ukraine’s thermal power plants and a large part of its hydroelectric capacity’. The 1.8 GW Trypillya thermal power plant near Kyiv, the largest electricity provider for three regions, including Kyiv, was completely destroyed by Russian strikes in April.
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• Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi reported on 10 October that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is located near the frontline of the war, and is currently under Russian control, has restored its connection to a 150 kV power line that could be used as a back-up option for the plant, although the supplies of electricity needed for reactor cooling and other essential functions remain fragile. The 150 kV line was reportedly damaged in shelling late in September. During the military conflict, the ZNPP has been relying on two power lines – one 750 kV and one 330 kV – for off-site electricity but both have suffered repeated disconnections as a result of the fighting. Before the conflict, the ZNPP had ten power lines available. During early October the IAEA team has continued to hear explosions, including some blasts close to the ZNPP, although no damage to the plant has been reported.
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