1. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Nuclear energy has long since passed its peak. In mid-2023, 32 reactors were online in 407 countries, compared to 20 438 years ago. There are only notable new buildings in the USA and China... * Brazil | Rainforest | Consumption Tropical hardwoods often come from illegal felling The popular hardwood Ipe comes largely from illegal deforestation, a Swedish study finds....

  2. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    because the hydrogen required is produced from coal or natural gas using steam reforming. The Haber-Bosch process releases 450 million tons of carbon dioxide every year... * China | HTR-PM | Shandong China's demonstration HTR-PM enters commercial operation The world's first modular high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear power plant has entered commercial operation...

  3. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    FRA December 2, 1949 (INES 4 | NAMS 3,8) Hanford nuclear plant, USA * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de December 2nd China | United States | fossil | COP28 Exit from oil, gas and coal China and the USA ignore the most pressing problem at the world climate conference Without an exit from oil, gas and coal...

  4. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    156, December 2023: *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 XNUMX Content: “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! China: HTR future in the stars? South Africa – on the way to the next bankruptcy Jülich THTR nuclear waste soon on the streets? Interest in mini nuclear power plants is only mini! Climate lawsuit against RWE in Hamm! Car madness...

  5. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    would like to reach an agreement on plastic pollution. The third of five rounds of negotiations took place in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in mid-November... * United States | China | CO2 emissions Energy policy China is tipping - in the right direction The best news of this week has once again been almost overlooked: China's CO₂ emissions are expected to...

  6. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    of up to 100 percent. Regarding Germany, the authors note that politicians have started a smart meter offensive and the penetration rate should increase to 2030 percent by 95... * China | Offshore | Wind energy Revolution in wind energy: China's giant outperforms Siemens and Ørsted Siemens Energy and Ørsted report losses, while China with a mega wind turbine...

  7. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    Private sector e.g. B. used at airports... Weapons export The largest arms suppliers in the world are the United States of America, followed by Russia, Germany, France, China and Great Britain. All of these countries have highly developed defense industries and are in competition with each other to develop new and more effective weapon systems. The numbers...

  8. 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

    and was submitted for signature in 1996. However, it has not yet come into force because not enough countries have ratified it. The nuclear powers USA and China, among others, have not yet ratified the CTBT... * CO2 | Banks are fueling the climate crisis with loans for large-scale fossil fuel projects How 422 carbon bombs are killing the 1,5 degree target Banks are financing...

  9. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    get a list... * South Korea | Solar cells | Investments The South Koreans are coming From dream cells to floating systems: solar companies from South Korea show how to compete with China. Now they also want to enter the German market. [...] data from the International Energy Agency show that the South Korean solar industry operates at several levels of the value chain...

  10. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    I think the Americans didn't want the compromise between Ukraine and Russia. The Americans believe they can keep the Russians down. Now it is the case that two actors, China and Russia, who are limited by the USA, are joining forces. Americans believe they are strong enough to keep both sides in check. According to my humble...

  11. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    - According to North Korean information, the test was carried out successfully on October 9, 2006. Numerous governments around the world sharply criticized the bomb test; Even China, which is allied with North Korea, was threatened with consequences... Punggye-ri (test site) List of nuclear weapons tests Nuclear weapons A - Z North Korea "de facto" nuclear weapon state | "De-Facto" Nuclear Weapon State North Korea signed in 1985...

  12. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    The SPD always suffered from this, but this time it benefited them. In addition, the Merkel bonus was lost at the Union, there were fights for the leadership and a puppet show between Söder and Laschet... * China | Electric cars | Battery technology How China is decarbonizing its public transport Part 2: China is a pioneer not only in electric cars, but also in the electrification of public transport. The...

  13. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    without further ado from the branch premises. You don't want to talk, he says. Shortly afterwards, however, the same employee storms onto the street and insults the climate activists: “You'd better go to China and get upset there,” he snaps. They would like to give him the opportunity to explain his frustration, but no: “I don't talk to anyone.” Saturday morning, Friedrichstrasse in front of the “Quartier Zukunft”....

  14. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    and the impotence of the UN Security Council when it comes to war or peace. As long as the five permanent members of the Security Council can only make unanimous decisions and the USA, China, Russia, France or England have veto rights, this so-called Security Council remains ineffective. The USA vetoed the Iraq war, Russia took care of the war in...

  15. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Ukraine and its escalation, which the local government has willingly accepted, leading to nuclear war and nuclear winter with potentially up to five billion deaths or confrontation with China, which the West wants to deny its proper place in the global community. In particular, this involves consistently ignoring all scientific warnings about the unfolding...

  16. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Practice". * September 9, 2016 (5th atomic bomb test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia North Korean nuclear weapons program On September 09, 2016 at around 2:30 a.m. CET, earthquake monitors in South Korea, China, the USA and Europe registered a magnitude 5,3 earthquake in North Korea. A few hours later, North Korea announced the successful test of a nuclear bomb... Punggye-ri (Test Site) List of...

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

    The Soviet Union carried out a total of 715 tests with 969 individual explosive devices... Nuclear weapons A - Z Nuclear weapon states There are nine nuclear weapon states but only five are “recognized”. The United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom - the states that also have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council - are named "nuclear weapon states" in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because they...

  18. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    National Park - an unexpectedly clear victory for the largest Ecuadorian nature reserve, in which the Huaorani Indians and thousands of animals and plants, some of which are threatened with extinction, live... * China | CNNC | Hualong One | Saudi Arabia competes for US offer China wants to build a nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia In order to expand its influence in the Middle East, China is applying to build a nuclear power plant...

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

    Ludwigshafen am Rhein, in first place on the list, has almost 1 percent of the entire area covered with asphalt or concrete. The situation is similar in Mannheim and Rüsselsheim am Rhein... * Solar China | Solar boom Solar revolution: How China and Brazil are shaping the global energy market Energy and climate – compact: Solar boom in the People's Republic dwarfs the rest of the world. Brazil takes...

  20. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    relies on rare earths There is a huge deposit of the sought-after metals on the Arctic island. Given the current demand, expensive exploitation would also be worthwhile. STOCKHOLM taz | It is intended to break China's monopoly position and at the same time create dazzling prospects for investors - this is what the Australian mining company Tanbreez says about its new mining project: It wants rare earths...