1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Die Abschaltung des Reaktors und der Brennstoffaustausch habe länger als geplant gedauert, hieß es Mitte März. Olkiluoto 3 ist ein Europäischer Druckwasserreaktor (EPR), an dem Framatome (damals Areva) und Siemens seit 2005 gebaut hatten. Vor einem Jahr ging er regulär ans Netz. Ursprünglich sollte er 2009 Strom ins finnische Netz speisen, die Baukosten steigerten sich von ursprünglich...

  2. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    of 955 MW of electricity each, which went into operation in 1980 and 1981. The owner and operator of the system is the French company Électricité de France (EDF). The manufacturer was Framatome (today AREVA). In 2011, the French Institute for Nuclear Safety (IRSN) criticized the operators for not having taken sufficient account of the fact that there were...

  3. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    As a state-owned company, this increases the French national debt ratio. EDF faces further major financial burdens. These include: Takeover of Areva's power plant construction division (2,5 billion euros) at EPR Flamanville 3: Increased construction costs (from 3 to 10,5 billion euros) and the question of whether the steel used for the reactor pressure vessel meets the high requirements. .

  4. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    It was subsequently realized not with the German Framatom GmbH, but with Framatom's French parent company. Framatome GmbH [...] The former Areva GmbH and its subsidiaries in Germany - Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH (ANF) and DSR Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH - employed around 2016 people at the end of December 3.800. The ANF manufactures in...

  5. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    which exploits Niger's largest uranium mine on the outskirts of the city of Arlit in the Sahara desert and has a contract until 2040, is 63,4 percent owned by the majority state-owned French Orano Group, formerly Areva... * Nuclear lobby | European Commission | Taxonomy Sustainability has become less important with the triumph of the nuclear lobby If you listen to the nuclear alliance consisting of 14 EU countries, which...

  6. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    ISSN: 2455-3220, Volume 03, Issue 10, September 2017). In 2013 there were mass protests by the affected population in the uranium mining areas in Niger against the French nuclear company Areva, which is now called Orano. No wonder - uranium mining in Niger has led to huge environmental destruction. There are 20 million tons of radioactive waste in stockpiles in Niger. You will be...

  7. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    that flowed from sockets in the EU. The city is home to a large uranium mine, previously run by the French company Orano (which until recently operated under the more popular name Areva). Agadez, in turn, is one of the most important stopovers on the migration routes from the south of the continent via Libya, Tunisia and Algeria to Europe. And not only that: it is also...

  8. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    of 955 MW of electricity each, which went into operation in 1980 and 1981. The owner and operator of the system is the French company Électricité de France (EDF). The manufacturer was Framatome (today AREVA). In 2011, the French Institute for Nuclear Safety (IRSN) criticized the operators for not having taken sufficient account of the fact that there were...

  9. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    the Spanish Energy Minister confirmed that the reactor would officially be shut down for good on July 6th, 2013... July 23rd, 2008 (INES 0 class?) Tricastin nuclear power plant, Pierrelatte, FRA The operator Areva reported that uranium-contaminated wastewater leaked on July 08th and flowed into the Rhone. On July 23, around 100 people were “mildly contaminated” by radioactive particles. (Costs approx. 8,6...

  10. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    and outrage. "We've beaten them before, and you can damn well bet we'll do it again." * July 23, 2008 (INES 0 class?) Tricastin, FRA The operator Areva reported that on July 08, uranium contamination Wastewater had leaked and flowed into the Rhone. On July 23, around 100 people were “mildly contaminated” by radioactive particles. (Costs approx. 8,6...

  11. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    Plane crashes or unrecognized security vulnerabilities. Or in the worst case, through attacks like the ones Ukraine has suffered as a result of Russia's war... * Poland | Westinghouse | Areva government in Poland wants to get into nuclear power - and relies on crisis group Energy and Climate - compact: Government is aiming for new nuclear power plants. But their meaning is being questioned throughout Europe. Warsaw may regret...

  12. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    of 955 MW of electricity each, which went into operation in 1980 and 1981. The owner and operator of the system is the French company Électricité de France (EDF). The manufacturer was Framatome (today AREVA). In 2011, the French Institute for Nuclear Safety (IRSN) criticized the operators for not having taken sufficient account of the fact that there were...

  13. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    form the reactor core with the other internals. They contain the nuclear fuel. The operator is Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH (ANF), a subsidiary of Framatome GmbH (formerly Areva NP, now Orano). According to its own information, the company not only develops, licenses and manufactures completely ready-to-use fuel elements, but also supplies nuclear fuel in powder and...

  14. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    - at the same time, Germany is supporting the development of new fossil export infrastructures, particularly in Africa. Environmental organizations warn of a “fossil dam breach”. * France | Areva | EDF Was what? Yes, there was something! July 08th + 23rd, 2008 (INES 0-1 class?) Tricastin, FRA The operator Areva reported that uranium-contaminated wastewater leaked on July 08th and flowed into the Rhone...

  15. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    - X accidents The La Hague reprocessing plant is located in the Manche region on the English Channel in northwestern France, 25 km west of the city of Cherbourg. According to the owner AREVA (Orano since 2018), it is the leading industrial facility for the reprocessing of used fuel elements in the world... Construction of La Hague began in 1961 after the French...

  16. Newsletter V 2022 - February 01st to 07th - News+ Nuclear energy brings France a fiasco - and is still a religion

    but the power of the president. The influential nuclear lobby includes the electricity producer Électricité de France (EDF), the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), the nuclear company AREVA (now Oreno), the nuclear regulator ASN, the operators and a cadre group "Corps de Mines" of around 500 engineers . France has long been considered one of the world's leading players in nuclear power...

  17. Newsletter LIX - December 27th to 31.12.2021st, 27 - News+ December 2021th, 3 - Billions for Angra XNUMX

    Angra III was purchased in 1985 for 750 million DM and has been stored since then, at a cost of $20 million annually. The report from 2,5 on which an intended German Hermes export guarantee for Areva/Siemens in the amount of 2010 billion euros is based is criticized by environmental associations as a “convenience report”. So it remains unclear to what extent the system against...

  18. Newsletter LVIII - December 20th to 26.12.2021th, 20 - News+ December XNUMXth - Blackout-proof with green electricity: Is Germany armed against dark doldrums?

    Nuclear power plants on and off Bad news today from Finland, where the scandalous Olkiluoto 3 reactor became "critical" for the first time - with a 12-year delay, numerous construction breakdowns and lawsuits between the manufacturers Areva and Siemens, quadrupled construction costs - and fuel elements from Lingen! What madness! However, things are not looking rosy for the nuclear lobby elsewhere: In France, several...

  19. Newsletter LIII - November 19th to 25.11.2021th, 19 - News+ November XNUMXth - Glasgow was yesterday

    Construction work was auctioned off to a private “consortium of the cheapest” in 2021. The entire nuclear technology, neatly packed in boxes, has been waiting to be used since 1985. By the way, the Areva/Siemens 1350 MW reactor only cost 750 million DM as a kit, but today up to 20 billion euros plus

  20. Newsletter XXV - June 01st to 07.06.2021th, 01 - News+ June XNUMXst - Trinational resolution against fuel elements: Joint venture in Lingen

    Events up to June 2019 have been counted. The owner of the plant in Lingen is Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH, which under a different name was initially 100% owned by Siemens, and since 2001 has been 100% owned by AREVA NP, in which AREVA holds two thirds and Siemens holds one third. From 2006 to 2008, the fuel element plant fell under the management of the former Executive Vice President Dr....

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