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of 4,9 percent. According to the IEA, an increase of eight percent was recorded in India, while consumption in Indonesia increased by eleven percent. Demand there is increasing because more electricity is being generated and hydroelectric power plants are providing less energy. According to the International Energy Agency, coal consumption in Europe fell by 23 percent and in the USA it fell by 21 percent. This...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
is running, that could change, the topic is being 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 must also admit that cheap nuclear power did not exist and in the future...
live and work." Scholz appeals to the almost 200 states that are deliberating in Dubai until mid-December to get involved in the energy transition... * World Climate Conference | COP28 120 states want to triple electricity generation from renewable energy sources. At the World Climate Conference in the United Arab Emirates Numerous states have joined the project to increase their electricity generation...
about it. In the last 23 years, the government has never had a debate with the anti-nuclear movement. The opposition parties criticize the Akkuyu project primarily because of the expensive electricity, but they do not take a clear position against nuclear energy. However, if you look at public opinion polls, there is a clear rejection of nuclear power. In the reports from the...
According to a report by the former IE director Frans Saris, on November 16, 2001, there was an officially concealed accident at the High Flux Reactor (station blackout = total power failure), in which a core meltdown was just on the verge of occurring. Due to a failure of the external power supply, the pumps that provide reactor cooling were suddenly without power...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
1975 (INES 5) Sosnowy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 11th Renewables | Electricity price | CO2 price Less dependent on gas Renewable energies should reduce electricity prices The expansion of renewable energy in Germany is not making as much progress as hoped. He would ensure...
and a 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 was killed and there are driving bans in some areas. 1,2 million households in France are on lockdown due to...
The plan includes, among other things, an acceleration of approval processes and better access to financing options for companies. The EU wants to increase the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix to at least 2030 percent by 42,5. This requires a massive expansion of renewable energies. In the wind energy sector, the installed capacity is expected to be around 204.000 MW...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
They took part in a historic demonstration by Jewish peace groups in Washington DC, with thousands of participants. Her latest article in Haaretz is headlined "Without water and electricity from Israel, people in Gaza face dehydration and illness." Hass is the only Israeli-Jewish journalist who has lived in Gaza and the West Bank for 30 years and from there...
and further by ship to the MSZ Machinery Manufacturing Plant JSC in the small town of Elektrostal, 60 kilometers from Moscow, are already available, reports Umweltfairaendern.de... * Solar power | EnBW | Electricity storage Retrofitting is also being examined. EnBW is making battery storage standard in new solar parks. Solar power is an important part of the energy transition in Germany. A big...
Estimate tripled to $135 million, and initial operational difficulties led to financial losses. In 1966, the year it went into operation, the reactor produced only $300.000 worth of electricity and tiny amounts of fuel. After an accident on October 5, 1966, it was repaired for four years, but even after that it never reached full performance. [...] The reactor is...
After the end of cheap gas from Russia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is relying on energy production at sea. The Baltic Sea is to become a gigantic wind power plant. The aim is to produce cheap electricity and later also hydrogen. The Danes were the first to set off. Nysted Havmøllepark, just 30 kilometers from the Mecklenburg coast, was the first...
A revolution is needed to curb the global climate crisis in a relatively mild manner. Better: Many revolutions. For fossil-free buildings, for net-zero traffic, for 100 percent green electricity, for a clean industry and for natural agriculture. The German share in the necessary global halving of emissions must be large and growing... * Health |...
far.” * Great Britain | Energy transition | Offshore | Cost increase Slow energy transition British tender for offshore wind farms ends without a bid By 2050, Great Britain wants to almost triple its electricity production on the high seas. But there was not a single bidder in a tender for subsidized wind farms. Inflation is said to be to blame. When tendering for...
contribute to climate protection than the federal government's solar package allows, says the co-inventor of the Renewable Energy Act, Hans-Josef Fell. He calls for a fixed feed-in tariff for solar power from fields and the abolition of the expansion cap. [...] With this solar package, the Bundestag has another Herculean task ahead of it in the fall. In order to accelerate solar expansion as much as...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
The emergency diesel generator of unit 1, which was running at full load, was switched on while idling. After the reserve network was established, it was noticed that this diesel would not have fulfilled its emergency power function due to a malfunction. According to the HSK authority, there would theoretically still have been a cross-connection to the emergency diesel of the switched off block 2, but this diesel is also in maintenance...
“according to the current state of science and technology,” explained Matthias Eickhoff from the Münsterland Action Alliance against Nuclear Facilities. * Network fees | Wind power Bavaria | Kini Jödler Dispute over electricity tariffs: Are electricity price zones poison? Different tariffs in the north and south are damaging the industry, some claim - rightly so? A cool fact check. Bavaria's Prime Minister and election campaigner Markus...
Reactor failure THTR - problems
a military matter. Nuclear researchers have to submit to the wishes and demands of the military. However, a few things were already completely clear to the strategists back then: Nuclear power plants for generating electricity do not make economic sense: they are too dangerous, too expensive and because of the incredibly high costs for disposal, they are simply not competitive... But if the electricity and that... .
* France's colonial past and Orano's uranium mines Niger is also about uranium and exploitation Niger is the seventh largest uranium producer, but three quarters of its residents are not connected to an electricity grid. There is not a single active gold mine in France. Nevertheless, this formerly criminal colonial state has the fourth largest gold reserves in the world at 2 tons. The...
1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events
Vandellòs 1 was then permanently shut down. (Costs approximately US$931 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Vandellós (Spain) Two reactors originally supplied electricity at the site. Vandellós-1 was a 500 MW gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor (GCR) whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was commissioned on February 11, 1972. In 1990 he was...
