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from Lingen via the Netherlands to Russia. Hanau-based Orano NCS (Nuclear Cargo Service) GmbH is responsible for carrying out the planned exports. Corresponding new permits for transport by truck from the Advanced Nuclear Fuels (ANF) fuel element factory in Lingen via the Netherlands and onwards by ship to the MSZ Machinery Manufacturing Plant JSC in...
Newsletter XL 2023 October 1st to 7th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...
and want to vote on it in mid-October in the responsible committee for plants, animals, food and feed (SCoPAFF). The German Ministry of Agriculture is critical of renewed approval and describes it as “not justified”. What is Glyphosate? Glyphosate was distributed by Monsanto from 1974 onwards. The US chemical company mixed the organic phosphorus compound with...
25 percent of the electricity is generated by nuclear power and the current capacity of 5,5 gigawatts is to be increased to 24 gigawatts. To achieve this, the country needs a new generation of nuclear power plants. The then Energy Minister Kwesi Kwarteng granted approval for Sizewell C in 2022 just two weeks after Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister. For Sizewell C there are two new...
came the news that it was over at the end of the year. According to Eickhoff, the reasons for the closure of the just 15-year-old plant were the cheap competition from China and the far too long approval phases in this country. Germany can no longer fully produce wind turbines And Eickhoff is not alone in this: the wind gear manufacturer Zimm in Ohorn also reports that it has...
are piling up at Autobahn GmbH The FDP's economic policy spokesman in the Bundestag, Reinhard Houben, claims that the expansion of wind power is not happening faster "because we do not have enough permits for the transport of these wind turbines." In fact, applications are piling up at Autobahn GmbH. A fact check. In order to advance the expansion of wind power,...
Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson
Berlin - The largest decarbonization project in Germany to date has reached an important milestone. Yesterday (July 20.07.2023, XNUMX), the European Commission granted state aid approval for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) to support the decarbonization of steel production at Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg. Thyssenkrupp Steel...
Admission points to a deeper problem. And that is dangerous. Not just for the CDU, but also for democracy... * France | EDF EPR | Construction time | Penly Nuclear Power Plant EDF begins approval process for two new reactors in Penly EDF has announced that it has received the necessary approvals for the construction of two EPR2 reactors at the Penly nuclear power plant site in Normandy...
2024 possible The nuclear waste disposal company assumes that the nuclear waste from the interim storage facility in Jülich will be transported to Ahaus from spring 2024. The necessary approval is expected shortly. The relocation of the 152 Castor barrels with highly radioactive fuel elements from the shut down Jülich experimental reactor to Ahaus is the option...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
longer in Ahaus? The interim fuel storage facility in Ahaus will probably be needed for radioactive waste for many years to come. This is what representatives of the operator report. An extension of the current permit for the interim storage facility is not a concern, reported the employees of the Gesellschaft für Zwischenlager, BGZ. At the council meeting in Ahaus on Monday evening they emphasized that they needed...
Years. However, the reactor in Mülheim-Kärlich near Koblenz, which cost around seven billion marks (3,6 billion euros), was only in operation for a very short time. After the trial operation, it only ran for 100 days due to the lack of a building permit. In the GDR plants in Rheinsberg and Greifswald, the nuclear power era came to an end shortly after reunification due to safety concerns. A huge facility near Stendal remained a...
Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine
Russian and French companies have founded a joint venture. A spokesman for the Environment Ministry in Hanover said this on Wednesday. As the nuclear licensing authority, the ministry must decide on an application as to whether fuel elements for Eastern European nuclear power plants of a Russian type may also be manufactured under license in Lingen in the future. First the “New...
to reach. After six months of energy policy fire brigade operations, the EU Commission in Brussels and the traffic light government in Berlin have moved forward and are accelerating the approval process for new green electricity systems. This is also urgently needed, especially with wind energy... * Disposal | EnBW | Philippsburg disposal question in court Dispute over waste disposal -...
The construction and operation of renewable energy systems is therefore in the overriding public interest. A current ruling from Greifswald takes up this principle and calls for more speed from the responsible approval authority. The Greifswald Higher Administrative Court (OVG) decided in a ruling last week (February 07.02.2023, XNUMX) that a plaintiff wind energy company has a claim to...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
The Danish government has given several companies the green light to store CO₂ under the seabed. It's about millions of tons of carbon dioxide every year. Denmark has issued the first permits to allow companies to store CO₂ under the seabed of the North Sea on a larger scale. The approvals go to the TotalEnergies group and a consortium of companies...
Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk
Smaller, high-mounted agro-solar systems below one megawatt in particular are not taken into account, which inhibits private expansion by individual farms. Researchers criticize that the approval process is still too complicated. [...] An amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG 2023) this year created the first framework conditions for expanding...
Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all
It is said that exporting would not have solved the problem. However, it must now be clarified what happens to the fuel elements. They are currently still in the interim storage facility in Jülich, for which the permit has expired 10 years ago. To solve the problem, interim storage in Ahaus or a new interim storage facility in Jülich are being discussed. * Emsland | Fuel elements...
Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won
Set for 2025. Extensive tests and corresponding official decisions are now required for the planned continued operation of Doel 4 and Tihange 3. After being commissioned by the Belgian government, the Belgian supervisory and licensing authority FANK has presented a concept that explains the subjects, the timing and the standards for these tests....
Schweinfurt) was presented for the first time in Lower Franconia. The Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant site is also affected. The motivation is not just a desire for research, but also a practical one: the approval of the BZR interim storage facility in Grafenrheinfeld runs until 2046. Until then, there will be no final storage facility in Germany for the thousands of years of radiant residue. That's why the BGZ is planning...
100 to 150 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) amounts to 6 to 9 billion euros per year, according to Andreas Rüdinger from the IDDRI... * Bureaucracy | Renewable energies Bureaucracy madness: 66 folders submitted for approval The Bad Lauchstädt energy park innovation project with a wind farm, electrolyser and H2 storage started a year ago. The project is still fighting against numerous...
