1. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    for the vote... * Nuclear power vs. renewables - sun and wind make more sense Chancellor Scholz doesn't think new nuclear power plants make sense. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected calls for a return to nuclear power in Germany, pointing to high costs and long construction times. "If someone now decides to build a nuclear power plant, according to the current...

  2. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    fossil energy. This is the only thing you should support them with. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, digitalization plays a central role. [...] Meanwhile, calls for a return to nuclear power are becoming louder. The head of the chemical association VCI, Markus Steilemann, recently called for three to six of the recently decommissioned nuclear power plants to be brought back online in order to...

  3. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    was inhabited. Critics complain that this would mean that indigenous people would no longer be able to get back tribal areas from which they had already been expelled... * New nuclear power plants | Nuclear waste | CDU re-entry into nuclear power: warning signs in Lower Saxony The CDU wants nuclear power back. What a return to work would mean ecologically and financially can be seen in Lower Saxony. The...

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

    of scale, mass and learning effects from the nuclear industry suggests that an average of 3.000 SMR would have to be produced before it would be worthwhile to start SMR production. If we were to return to nuclear energy, we would have to accept long operational, safety and accident risks. Extensive interim storage and fuel transport would still be required. Also...

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

    criticize plans for new nuclear power plants Monika Schnitzer: Nuclear power is not a permanent solution for Germany. Monika Schnitzer, the chairwoman of the Economists, has rejected the return to nuclear power. “Nuclear power is not a permanent solution for Germany. New nuclear power plants would be an economic aberration,” said the Munich economist to “Welt”...

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

    He, then Environment Minister, went from being a fan of nuclear power plants to being an ardent supporter of the phase-out. The reactors here are too dangerous. He confirmed this just two years ago. Now he considers it necessary to return to work for "three, four, five years"... April 21st Last Generation | activists | Climate protest calls for objectification 1.400 experts support climate protests The debate...

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

    more will be produced from nuclear power plants. The construction of new facilities would also be too expensive and time-consuming, and the major conflict over the storage of nuclear waste, which was initially pacified, would flare up again if it were to restart... * Lobby | Taxonomy | Greenwashing “Greenwashing” in the EU: Nuclear energy and gas receive the eco-label From January 1st, nuclear energy and gas are considered...

  8. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    and environmental associations from North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony as well as the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection are calling for a protest on October 01, 22 against nuclear power plant life extensions and the return to nuclear power through the back door. The demonstration starts at 13 p.m. at Lingen train station and then leads through the city center to the market square, where the final rally will also take place...

  9. Newsletter XXXIV 2022 - August 22nd to 31st - News+ Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of damage to pipes hidden

    warns of the consequences of climate change Climate change is also hitting NRW hard. Environment Minister Krischer speaks of a “climate crisis” – and warns of serious consequences. *CSU | Duration | Scheuer calls for the construction of three new nuclear power plants. In view of fears that Germany could experience an energy shortage in the winter, the CSU in particular is pushing for the continuation of nuclear power....

  10. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    of “suicidal attacks.” * Term debate | orchestrated | Supply fears orchestrated nuclear debate? Citizens' initiative asks questions about "Isar 2" The citizens' initiative for environmental protection Lüchow-Dannenberg commented on the ongoing debate about a return to nuclear power in a press release on Sunday: The citizens' initiative for environmental protection Lüchow-Dannenberg (BI) finds numerous...

  11. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2020

    November 18, 2020 - Eon sees huge potential for photovoltaic systems on roofs * November 12, 2020 - Nina Scheer: No nuclear power after 2022! * November 10, 2020 - RWE and EON before re-entering nuclear power plant construction: participation via Urenco in nuclear power plant plans in England * Warsaw is opening the door for US nuclear companies in Europe. November 04th, 2020 - EU climate goals - energy transition in Polish *** 01 02...

  12. THTR Circular No. 134 January 2011

    short-lived daughter products (e.g. TI-208), which as gamma emitters make the handling, reprocessing and "recycling" of U-233 more difficult." (21) Thorium: Trojan horse for the re-entry into breeder technology and reprocessing A reprocessing, in the plutonium and uranium is separated from spent fuel in order to be able to reuse it, so...

  13. THTR Newsletter No. 109 November 2006

    held, but the tug-of-war is taking place behind the scenes over a particularly explosive topic: the re-entry into nuclear research, which is being diligently pushed by Research Minister Pinkwart and Economics Minister Thoben. For decades, research on the controversial high-temperature reactor (HTR) line was carried out in this center. But now the last atomic professors are retiring. The...

  14. THTR Newsletter No. 77 November 02

    They could hardly have been radioactively contaminated spherical fuel elements, but rather "demonstration balls" as they were passed around at various VEW lectures. Getting back into action with THTR? Top of page The information service "Environmental-Communal Ecological Letters" reported on June 26, 6 about a conference of the Heinrich Böll Foundation to prepare for...

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