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

    Until next week, that could change, the topic will be discussed - but it is also the number one point of contention. Because not everyone draws the same conclusions from the Paris Agreement... * France | EDF | Electricity price Definitive end to “cheap” nuclear power in France Now the French government and the EDF group also have to admit that cheap nuclear power did not exist and...

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

    20 states called for the expansion of nuclear power. The aim is to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, it said. The USA, France, Great Britain and the host country United Arab Emirates are among those involved in the joint declaration. Russia and China, which also have a large number of nuclear power plants, have not signed... *...

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

    the financial markets reacted positively to the election results. The shares of Argentine companies on the New York Stock Exchange have now risen by 23 percent, government bonds by 6 percent... * France | Food | PFAS Paris warns against privately kept eggs due to PFAS contamination According to health authorities, the soil around Paris is excessively contaminated with so-called eternal chemicals...

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

    Electricity was generated using sun, wind, water and biomass. The lost nuclear power was largely covered by imports, especially from the Nordic countries. But wind power was also imported from France – and nuclear energy. Both are significantly cheaper than the electricity produced by German coal or gas power plants. Because they have to spend a lot of money on fuel...

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

    for aerospace and defense technology. The largest weapons manufacturers in terms of sales come from the United States of America as well as Russia, Germany and France. In addition to military aviation, the naval sector and the area of ​​land systems, important sub-areas of the armaments and defense industry also include the secret service,...

  6. 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

    have been killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since October 7, including 15 children and one woman. Israelis considered it “their God-given right to settle there.” * France | Storm | Atlantic coast Hurricane Ciarán: 1,2 million households in France without power People in Brittany are most affected. A truck driver died, partly...

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

    The four workers were cleaning pipes on Wednesday when a drain hose suddenly came loose and sprayed them with the contaminated liquid waste... * France | Final repository | highly radioactive | Nuclear waste Nuclear waste in France: Bure becomes a final storage facility The French Constitutional Court will allow nuclear waste to be stored underground in the hamlet from 2035. The...

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

    overestimated yourself? Gerhard Schröder: I assume so. Do you think your peace plan can be resumed? Gerhard Schröder: Yes. And the only ones who can initiate this are France and Germany. But how can you trust the Russians? In January 2022 it was said that the Russians did not want a war with Ukraine. Then, when the Russians invaded Donbass, it was said that the...

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

    Ministry of Environment. This confirmed to the portal that the French operator Framatome and the Russian TVEL, which belongs to the state nuclear company Rosatom, have founded a joint venture in France that will produce nuclear fuel in the Lingen fuel element factory. According to information from Umweltfairaendern.de, Framatome not only wants to continue...

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

    Environmental Science & Technology magazine published. [...] After the first nuclear test in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the USA, the Soviet Union and China (later also France and Great Britain) tested their nuclear weapons by exploding them above the ground until the 1970s. This led to severe radioactive pollution of the atmosphere, which...

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

    earlier. Nevertheless, huge sums of money are still being invested in nuclear power. The power of MiK and the nuclear lobby is unlimited, not only in nuclear bomb countries such as America, China, France, Great Britain, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia, but also in Germany and... See: Dreaming about nuclear fusion * France | OECD | Nuclear lobby | MiK industrial groups and...

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

    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 doesn't care about the UN in the war in Ukraine...

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

    has. An EU study showed that in three of the eleven countries examined, all participants had BPA levels above the limit value that is considered safe. These are France, Portugal and Luxembourg. Bisphenol A is a synthetic chemical found in many plastic products - including reusable water bottles, toys, thermal paper and the...

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

    Whether the inventory actually represents a turning point will only be assessed in December. Only then will we know whether a bad climate report card leads to better climate summits. * France | Nuclear waste | Bure anti-nuclear movement Small farmers against nuclear toilet Internationalist protest camp in France mobilizes trade unionists and farmers In Lorraine, near Bure, the busy...

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

    replaced by a new version. There was no longer any talk of 16 instead of the previous 6 nuclear reactors or of Pourmokhtari's announcement of three times as much nuclear power within 20 years... * France | Uranium mining | Orano energy costs: Why we pay dearly for France's nuclear power The costs for France's nuclear power plants are constantly rising. Now Niger could also no longer be a uranium supplier. The...

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

    leading the way in obstructing anti-corruption investigations in the country. Ironically, Curruchiche is the head of the special prosecutor's office against impunity and is considered just as corrupt... * France | Term extension | Tricastin Litschauer/Greens on nuclear power plant lifetime extension: France is acting irresponsibly Greens: EU Commission must ensure cross-border EIA Vienna (OTS) -...

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

    shows global forest fires and their development over time. In recent years, climate change has led to a significant increase in the frequency and size of fires. Paris, France). A study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) recently showed that climate change has significantly increased the risk of forest and bushfires. On a global average, the fire season is...

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

    KAZ August 30, 2003, submarine K-159, RUS * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de August 12th Niger supplies uranium for France and keeps the nuclear waste Military coup in Niger: uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons? For years, France's nuclear power plants were powered by uranium from Niger. The environmental and...

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

    is also building walls in Ahaus, but of course had time yesterday for Rheinmetall to be there at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new weapons factory... Nuclear-free climate greetings SOFA Münster www.sofa-ms.de * France's colonial past and Orano's uranium mines In Niger it is also about uranium and exploitation Niger is the seventh-largest uranium producer, but three-quarters of its residents are unconnected...

  20. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    EDF proposed classifying the event at level 1 on the INES scale, but the safety authorities opted for level 2. (Cost?) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Civaux (France) On May 12, 1998, a serious accident occurred at Civaux-1 . Due to a fatal design flaw, a pipe broke under the influence of extreme temperature changes. The...