Newsletter XII - March 17th to 24.03.2021th, 17 - News+ March XNUMXth - Urenco: Phasing out uranium enrichment in NRW would be 'political issue of the first order'

Urenco, the British operator of uranium enrichment plants, is resisting calls for the branch in Gronau, Westphalia (UAG) to be closed as quickly as possible. Among other things, constitutional concerns stand in the way of this, and Germany is also bound by treaty. Deviating there would be a "political matter of the first order," according to an Urenco statement for a hearing on the subject in the Economic Committee of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament ...

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reaktorpleite.de

Map of the nuclear world:

Note: Shortly after Brexit, a British nuclear company warns Germany to comply with a 50-year-old toggle contract ...

The German version of this world map:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD

The search in the reaktorpleite.de with the search term


	Urenco

brought the following results, among others:

Expertise on nuclear waste

October 05, 2020 - Uranium exports to Russia apparently illegal

Nuclear waste exports from Gronau to Russia are highly controversial and possibly illegal - according to a legal opinion that the WDR is exclusive. The residues could be used for military purposes.

For German and Russian environmentalists it has always been clear: The export of so-called depleted uranium to Russia is illegal. Because from their point of view, the residue from the production of nuclear fuel by the URENCO company in Gronau in Westphalia is nothing more than nuclear waste. As such, it should not be exported abroad under German law.

From the point of view of the company - and the licensing authorities as well as the federal government - it is by no means waste, but rather a valuable material, since the depleted uranium can theoretically be used to manufacture new products - for example, after appropriate enrichment, fuel for nuclear power plants again. .

06 Jun. 2013 - Uranium enrichment: Urenco on the stock exchange? NRW state government: Hedge fund participation conceivable

Nuclear opponent: "Uranium enrichment is not a toy"

The Dutch government, in coordination with the German government and the UK government, is considering a possible IPO of the uranium enrichment company Urenco. This emerges from a letter that has now become known from the Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem to the Dutch Parliament on May 23 (see source below). The anti-nuclear power initiatives in Münsterland, Robin Wood and the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU) consider these plans to be irresponsible. They are demanding a clear veto from the federal government against the free sale of Urenco and also the immediate shutdown of the only German uranium enrichment plant in Gronau.

In the letter, Dijsselbloem announced that the parallel preparation of an initial public offering and a private sale should achieve a “maximum” selling price. With this, Dijsselbloem concretized statements made by EON boss Johannes Teyssen, who had announced an "open bidding process" in front of his shareholders at the beginning of May. EON and RWE hold the German third in the Urenco group ...

YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite"

Radioactivity worldwide ...

Will open in a new window! - YouTube channel Reaktorpleite - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower explains in clear and unequivocal terms who and what MiK is on his departure. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlxAvaG6dY&list=PLJI6AtdHGth3FZbWsyyMMoIw-mT1Psuc5 On his departure, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower explains in clear and unambiguous terms who and what MiK is.

AtomkraftwerkePlag

URENCO

Continued operation despite phasing out nuclear power

The fact that the federal government has not included the nuclear enrichment facility in Gronau in its nuclear phase-out plans could be because it is reluctant to terminate international nuclear energy treaties. URENCO, operator of the Gronau uranium enrichment plant, was founded in 1971 with the Almelo contract between Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain. The British and Dutch governments each own a third stake in URENCO, the German energy companies RWE and E.ON each share the remaining third at 50% ...

Studies and endowed professorships

Bruno Thomauske, RWTH Aachen University and the Gorleben report

The chair of Bruno Thomauske - a former head of the nuclear power division at Vattenfall, who also worked on the Gorleben report - at the Technical University of Aachen on the nuclear fuel cycle was sponsored by the energy company RWE, according to "Spiegel". Through Thomauske it was possible for the energy companies to train new specialists for the nuclear industry. For example, the new master’s course "Nuclear Safety Engineering" was set up at RWTH Aachen University in the 2010/11 winter semester. In addition to Thomauske, companies such as AREVA, RWE and URENCO were involved in the apprenticeship. The course was offered until 2018 ...

Wikipedia

Lobbying

Lobbying, lobbying or lobbying is a term taken from the English (lobbying) for the representation of interests in politics and society, in which individual persons or interest groups ("lobbies") try to influence the executive, the legislature - mainly by cultivating personal connections . Lobbying also influences public opinion through public relations work. This is mainly done through the mass media.

The term has negative connotations (secondary meanings), so interest groups do not appear under this term. Common names for lobbying are, for example, public affairs, political communication and political advice. Companies and organizations sometimes have an office in the capital or a representative in the capital, but also offices at the state governments.

In 2006, Thomas Leif and Rudolf Speth introduced the term Fifth Power for lobbying in analogy to the term Fourth Power for the mass media, which, however, is viewed by other authors as exaggerated. Thilo Bode headlined the glyphosate scandal 2017 in the newspaper for German and international politics, in the October 2018 issue: "Lobbyism 2.0: The industrial-political complex." ...

Military-industrial complex

The term gained popularity through the US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in his farewell speech on January 17, 1961 expressly warned against the entanglements and influences of the military-industrial complex in the USA. Eisenhower, who himself had once been Chief of Staff of the Army, like Mills saw the military-industrial complex as a danger to democratic institutions and democracy. Through the effect of this complex on jobs and economic power, the political leadership could be induced to want to resolve conflicts more militarily than politically and thus act as an extended arm of the armaments industry lobby ...

Further to: Newspaper article 2021

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Newsletter XII 2021

March 17th to 24st

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