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The THTR newsletter Newsletter XX 2024 May 12th to... *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current information + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas the nuclear industry. Some of the events were never made public through official channels, so this information...
gebannt. Allein mit der Ankündigung eines „Aktionsplans“, um umstrittene Entscheidungen und Richterberufungen der PiS-Vorgängerregierung rückgängig zu machen, machte die Kommission im Februar Milliardenhilfen für Warschau frei. Rund 137 Milliarden Euro sollen bis 2027 fließen. Die waren zuvor gesperrt, weil die rechte PiS-Regierung nach Ansicht aus Brüssel die Unabhängigkeit von Richtern und...
must decide on the requested expansion permit in the next few weeks. * Banks | finance | Coal industry Despite climate vows, banks support coal industry with hundreds of billions of euros. Leading financial institutions from all over the world vow to become climate neutral. That doesn't stop them from providing massive amounts of money to the climate-damaging coal industry. Deutsche Bank also...
Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industry (BDEW). In total, renewable energy systems generated around 75,9 billion kilowatt hours of electricity from January to March, around nine percent more than in the same period last year. Onshore wind turbines alone would have produced 39,4 billion kilowatt hours, more than a quarter of...
spares the super-rich The middle class in Germany and Austria pays more taxes than billionaires and multimillionaires. In Switzerland they have to give up more. BERLIN taz | 73 billion euros: This is how much the German state could earn if wealth taxes were raised to Swiss levels. The Swiss tax level would bring in around 5 billion euros for Austria....
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
Millions of searches on Google and countless routes on Google Maps have to be processed, videos streamed and transfers carried out. In Germany, data centers will have consumed almost 2023 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity in 20. That's almost twice as much as the entire city of Berlin (12,5 billion kWh) needs per year, writes the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
wage earners. Then an NGO employee who works at the risk of his life will, if in doubt, only have himself to blame if Western military values kill him. The billionaire investor Warren Buffett, now over 90 years old, once rightly said: “There is class warfare and my class is winning.” That's what it's all about... * United States | Presidential election | dictatorship | Imperialism...
about "changing the circumstances in which making the right decisions is so difficult"... * France | Duration | cracks | Lifespan | Flamanville energy policy France's nuclear billion dollar hole New construction of European pressurized water reactor in Flamanville delayed - and more expensive The completion of the French nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant) Flamanville is delayed again. Since...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
At the beginning of January 2024, six of nine nuclear power plants were shut down. One nuclear disaster follows another. The future belongs to renewables. The sun sends us 15.000 times more energy than all eight billion people currently consume. The solar age begins - the sun wins. Goodbye nuclear power! The world's largest solar plant is currently being built in the United Arab Emirates... * Climate protection |...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
from the Federal Environment Agency is not up to date. The authority has not yet taken the budget crisis into account. This has resulted in the federal climate and transformation fund missing 60 billion euros. When Habeck argues that the government spared key climate protection projects during the austerity measures, that is only half true. [...] After all, there is talk of enormously rising CO2 prices...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
The Federal Statistical Office announced that of the electricity generated in Germany in 2023 was generated from wind power. This means that electricity feed-in from wind power has reached a new high of 139,3 billion kilowatt hours. Coal remained the second most important source of electricity generation, but its share fell by almost a third to 2022 percent compared to 26,1. [...] Renewable energy...
Western Poland is also supplied, as is Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. * Investment | Power grid | Network expansion The Federal Network Agency is planning five mega routes, 4800 kilometers of new lines, an estimated 76 billion euros in additional costs: The Federal Network Agency has presented its new plan to expand the electricity networks. As always, the paper is likely to cause debate. The Federal Network Agency has new plans...
“Location would be in danger”. However, the numbers don't show that. In 2023, the Federal Republic recorded a whopping export surplus of 4,1 percent of economic output, which corresponds to around 200 billion euros. Germany is very successful on the world market. The whispers about “competitiveness” also have a different purpose: the Liberals and the CDU/CSU want tax cuts...
austerity measures and instead large-scale investments in climate protection and social cohesion. As a first step, Fridays for Future is calling for a special fund of 100 billion euros - for the expansion of local transport and the introduction of climate money, but also for an ecological agricultural transition and for natural climate protection... * Israel | Egypt | Palestinians |...
Roundup gave him cancer. The decision is the latest setback in the company's efforts to fend off thousands of similar lawsuits, potentially worth billions of dollars in damages. Several other appeal courts had previously come to the same conclusion in similar proceedings... * February 6, 1974 (INES 4-5) Sosnovy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR Wikipedia...
(free version) * United States | Defense industry | Weapons deals US arms industry Record sales made in the USA USA exports armaments for 238 billion US dollars The USA handled a record volume of armaments exports last year. The US State Department said on Monday (local time) that the total value of military goods and...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
This means higher electricity bills for households in the future. Households in France will have to dig deeper into their pockets for nuclear power in the future. The state-owned nuclear company EDF has debts of almost 65 billion. One reason: Until now, he had to sell part of his nuclear power at a fixed price - previously for 42 cents per kilowatt hour, well below production costs. With this...
Between 1965 and 1970, the Livermore Lab released approximately 650.000 curies (23.700 TBq) of tritium into the air from the chimneys of the tritium facility (Building 331). Note: One curie corresponds to 37 billion radioactive decay processes per second, in Becquerels 37 GBq. After the 1965 accident, not much data is available on wind patterns, precipitation, etc., but after the 1970 accident,...
Not only economic fields but also social classes? “Fridays for Future” in particular now focuses on those who are the decision-makers in the climate crisis. Those who invest billions in oil, gas and coal do not want to fulfill customer wishes, but rather make as much money as possible. Last year, a Guardian investigative team researched that...
Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support
| Black market economic ranking of countries: The bankrupt Greeks in first place Greece's economy was named by the “Economist”. How can that be when the black market is booming and billions of taxpayers' money is being lost? What a surprise: the former bankrupt state of Greece was named the “best economy of the year” for 2023 by the British business magazine Economist...
