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

    Ten new conventional nuclear reactors should be built in Sweden and put into operation between 2030 and 2040, she recently announced at a press conference. This would allow the country's nuclear power production to be tripled and total electricity production to be roughly doubled. Which would cover the presumed needs for 2045. [...] However, the announcement had a catch: the rest of the...

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

    as huge population centers. And yet both are perhaps more important for Europe than many capital cities. Arlit is the place where around 25 percent of the nuclear power that flowed from sockets in the EU originated last year. The city is home to a large uranium mine, which is currently run by the French company Orano (which until recently operated under...

  3. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    According to the specialist information service IWR, it was even 6,5 gigawatts. [...] This is all the more remarkable since the Union and the AfD are currently running a campaign that says Germany is dependent on importing French nuclear power. But that is obviously not the case. On the one hand, because renewable energy sources now cover just over half of domestic demand. And on the other hand, because the...

  4. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    go on. It ended on April 15th. One minute before midnight, the Neckarwestheim II reactor, the last of Germany's 36 nuclear power plants, went offline. Since then, the production of nuclear power and nuclear waste has been history - a major social conflict that lasted for decades seems to have ended with a great success for the anti-nuclear power plant movement. [...] Nevertheless, the joy over the...

  5. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Jörg Haider with this squaring of the circle. Even back then, not everyone wanted to believe that. But Haider needed money and sold almost half of the country's Kelag shares to the German nuclear power company RWE. In 2012, his successor Gerhard Dörfler sold a further 12,6 percent of Kelag. Irony of fate: Even back then, SPÖ chairman Peter Kaiser warned of the consequences of the sale....

  6. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    to implement a green and low-carbon energy transition and build a new energy system... * Power supply | Disinformation | Bild-Zeitung No, Germany doesn't need nuclear power from France - Bild is lying again The fact that the tabloid magazine Bild has a very tense relationship with the truth, journalistic principles and differentiation in general is nothing...

  7. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    have. Accordingly, some ammonia plants could be excluded from the renewable energy targets. This could allow France to use nuclear power for more of its ammonia production... * Desert | Drought | Drought World Day Against Desertification Deserts and droughts – a global problem Today is World Day against Desertification and Drought. In Europe people know him...

  8. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    be imported to combat bottlenecks. It was week one after the shutdown of the three remaining nuclear power plants - and the previously expressed fears were confirmed: the share of nuclear power in the German electricity mix fell from five percent to zero percent within one day - and Germany had to rely on foreign sources to power the country to keep going. [...] “With the switching off of...

  9. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    | Electricity requirements Energy supply without nuclear power How Germany currently generates electricity The last German nuclear power plants are off the grid: Since mid-April, the German energy supply has had to make do without nuclear power. Which energy sources fill the gap that has arisen? A look at the current daily data from the Federal Network Agency. The use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in...

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

    Airbus fleet meets the Commission's requirements. And even just under a fifth of the aircraft from low-cost flight providers such as Easyjet and Ryanair would then be "green"... * Turkey | Renewables | Price nuclear power | Akkuyu | Uranium Atlas Turkish Uranium Atlas shows how expensive nuclear power is / Turkish-language edition of the Uranium Atlas published The Turkish-language edition of the...

  11. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    left to forces of the right and the extreme right... *** April 7th Slovakia | Mochovce | Taxpayers pay loss | Leag research by the organization Global 2000: Dubious deal with nuclear power The coal company Leag is said to have never bought the electricity generated by the Mochovce nuclear power plant and made a profit from it - at the expense of the Slovakian state. FREIBURG taz | The Mochovce nuclear power plant in...

  12. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    ob kohlenstoffarme Brenn- und Kraftstoffe auf die EE-Ziele angerechnet werden sollen. Die Bundesregierung habe sich dafür eingesetzt, dass diese Kraftstoffe – wie zum Beispiel mithilfe von Atomstrom erzeugter Wasserstoff – nicht in der Rechnung berücksichtigt werden. Es werde weiterhin zwischen grünem und Low-Carbon-Wasserstoff unterschieden. * Euphorie | WNISR | SMR Kosten enorm, Nutzen...

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

    Debts from the “nuclear adventure”, which have massively reduced the energy supply company's ability to invest in modern electricity generation to date... * Renewable | Hydrogen | Nuclear power Renewable hydrogen: Turning red into green Green may also be the name given to the hydrogen that was produced using nuclear power. It would be better to expand renewables. The EU is...

  14. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    of random winnings with blackout. Macron is making a fool of himself with his statements about the climate crisis. We recently showed that Great Britain is also threatened with a blackout because of its dependence on French nuclear power, as France has moved from being an exporter of electricity to an importer. Because nuclear power is very expensive and unprofitable without massive subsidies, the French electricity giant EDF is threatening...

  15. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    dafür ist unter anderem die bayerische Polizeikostenverordnung, sagte ein Sprecher gegenüber der taz... * Stromerzeugung | Bioenergie Neuer Leistungsrekord 2022 Strom aus Bioenergie überholt Atomstrom in Deutschland Die Bedeutung der Atomenergie in Deutschland geht 2022 immer weiter zurück, selbst die Bioenergie-Anlagen produzieren mittlerweile mehr Grundlaststrom als die letzten drei...

  16. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    Finland: The wind blows even in the dark winter Wind power The country in the far north needs a lot of electricity. For electric cars, but also for heating. For a long time it therefore relied on imports from abroad and nuclear power. Now Finland is changing course [...] The 4.000 megawatt hours that the country currently has left and can feed into the market come from wind power. For them, Finland has a little longer...

  17. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    will serve to test the suitability of the area for long-term storage of highly radioactive waste... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Poland | Nuclear power | Lubiatowo-Kopalino wind power? No, thanks So far, the country has mainly generated its energy from coal. That should change, but instead of promoting renewable energies, Poland is stepping into...

  18. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    CEO of the Swedish Uniper subsidiary “Barsebäck-Kraft”. She had presented plans for a “Clean Energy Park” near the decommissioned Barsebäck nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, in which “other fossil-free” electricity would be produced in addition to nuclear power... * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | economic growth | World Population Climate Council hides the influence of population growth As one of the largest...

  19. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    Magnet-equipped generator generated almost 15 MWh per hour... * Austria | Luxembourg | Taxonomy | Nuclear phase-out Continues trouble with nuclear power Austria is suing against the EU taxonomy, which classifies nuclear power as sustainable and sells it as "green". Luxembourg supports the lawsuit. In 2021, only 9,8 percent of nuclear power was produced worldwide, just over half of the peak in 1996. In...

  20. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    different. There are also tax issues, registration with the Federal Network Agency and with the network operator. He buys the excess electricity that is fed into the grid from the solar system... * Nuclear power | France | China | Renewable study on nuclear power: The nuclear era is gradually coming to an end. The share of nuclear energy worldwide continues to decline. While Germans complain about dilapidated nuclear power plants in France...

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