1. Newsletter X 2022 - March 07th to 11th - News+ Will the world end sooner than capitalism?

    If implemented, it is estimated that 43.700 people would have died immediately and 518.000 would have developed cancer. The clean-up and renovation work would have cost two trillion US dollars... ** Wikipedia Global warming Current global warming or global warming (colloquially “climate change”) is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans...

  2. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    and too expensive. Too many federal and state ministries and committees are working on the energy transition at the same time, the division of tasks is unclear, coordination is problematic... ** Wikipedia Hydraulic Fracturing Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for short (...) is a method for generating, expanding and Stabilization of cracks in the rock of a deposit in the deep underground with the aim of...

  3. Newsletter VII 2022 - February 13th to 19th - News+ Repository Onkalo - These tunnels should solve the biggest nuclear power problem

    6.500 tons of spent fuel will be stored. "According to current plans, the final repository should be operated until 2112 and sealed for the long term by 2120." ** Wikipedia Olkiluoto repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. Part of the repository is intended for low- and medium-level radioactive waste. The first site investigations were carried out in 1980...

  4. Newsletter VI 2022 - February 08th to 12th - News+ Energy Outlook USA: Renewable energies displace power generation from natural gas

    back and has been below 100 for many years now... (IAEA | PRIS: United States of America - 93 REACTORS IN OPERATION - 2 REACTORS UNDER CONSTRUCTION - 40 PERMANENT SHUTDOWN REACTORS) ** Wikipedia United States#Energy Supply The electricity consumption of the United States was approximately 2014 terawatt hours per year in 3.913, with 12.950 kWh per year the USA has the tenth highest...

  5. Newsletter V 2022 - February 01st to 07th - News+ Nuclear energy brings France a fiasco - and is still a religion

    World market leader, and nuclear power plants were operated with French technology in 11 countries. However, in 2014, AREVA was facing bankruptcy and had to be rescued with state aid... ** Wikipedia Flamanville nuclear power plant The Flamanville nuclear power plant consists of two pressurized water reactors that are in operation, each with a net output of 1330 MW, and one that has been in operation since December 2007...

  6. Newsletter IV 2022 - January 22 to 31 - News+ Four nuclear-armed states are ready for war - this treaty could stop them

    December 28, 2021), 86 states have signed the ban treaty, 59 states have ratified or acceded. The Prohibition Treaty came into force on January 22, 2021... ** Wikipedia Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty The Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty (abbreviated AVV; English Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, abbreviated TPNW) is an international agreement that regulates the development,...

  7. Newsletter III 2022 - January 15th to 21st - News+ Advancing the energy transition: The mills of the plain

    included, the nuclear factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, the Euratom Treaty has not been terminated to date... ** Wikipedia Energy transition in Germany The energy transition in Germany describes the efforts to transform the existing fossil-nuclear energy system energy system towards a sustainable energy system on...

  8. Newsletter II 2022 - January 07th to 14th - News+ Draft EU taxonomy: chance of nuclear power surviving?

    Institutions in which the federal government is involved are members of lobby organizations such as the German Atomic Forum or the Nuclear Technology Society and support them with contributions... ** Wikipedia Regulation (EU) 2020/852 Taxonomy Regulation The regulation contains the criteria for determining, whether an economic activity can be classified as ecologically sustainable (taxonomy), in order to...

  9. Newsletter I 2022 - January 01st to 06th - News+ EU considers nuclear power plants to be climate-friendly

    Institutions in which the federal government is involved are members of lobby organizations such as the German Atomic Forum or the Nuclear Technology Society and support them with contributions... ** Wikipedia Regulation (EU) 2020/852 Taxonomy Regulation The regulation contains the criteria for determining, whether an economic activity can be classified as ecologically sustainable (taxonomy), in order to...

  10. Newsletter LIX - December 27th to 31.12.2021st, 27 - News+ December 2021th, 3 - Billions for Angra XNUMX

    sea ​​beach away. On May 28, 2001, due to an accident during interim storage that was kept secret for months, 22.000 liters of radioactive water leaked into the Atlantic... ** Wikipedia Angra Nuclear Power Plant The construction of the nuclear plant is based on an agreement between the German federal government and the Brazilian one Military regime in 1975. The nuclear power plant consists of...

  11. Newsletter LVIII - December 20th to 26.12.2021th, 20 - News+ December XNUMXth - Blackout-proof with green electricity: Is Germany armed against dark doldrums?

    decided and confirmed by the Federal Council on July 8, 2011. On August 1, 2011, the law was finally signed by former Federal President Christian Wulff... ** Wikipedia Energiewende is the German-language term for the transition from the unsustainable use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy to a sustainable energy supply using...

  12. Newsletter LVII - December 14 to 19.12.2021, 14 - News+ December XNUMX - Nobel Prize winners call for two percent disarmament for the climate

    decided and confirmed by the Federal Council on July 8, 2011. On August 1, 2011, the law was finally signed by the former Federal President Christian Wulff... ** Wikipedia Disarmament refers to the unilateral (unilateral) or - by two (bilateral) or several states (multilateral) - agreed reduction of military potential (soldiers, weapon systems). Ideal...

  13. Newsletter LVI - December 08th to 13.12.2021th, 08 - News+ December XNUMXth - The Greens must act now

    decided and confirmed by the Federal Council on July 8, 2011. On August 1, 2011, the law was finally signed by the former Federal President Christian Wulff... ** Wikipedia Nuclear phase-out A nuclear phase-out, also known as nuclear power phase-out or nuclear renunciation, is the political decision of a state to stop the operation of nuclear power plants and to rely on nuclear energy...

  14. Newsletter LV - 01/07.12.2021/01 to XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX - News+ December XNUMX - How many of our greenhouse gas emissions are we attributing to China?

    of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is intended to supply fuel elements for the HTR... At the end of 2021, both reactors reached a self-sustaining chain reaction (criticality)... ** Wikipedia China's energy industry rose due to rapid industrialization and the increase in living standards (quality of life). the energy requirement increases sharply. In 1985, about thirteen times as much...

  15. Newsletter LIV - November 26th to 30.11.2021th, 26 - News+ November 30th - Solar world record: HZB tandem cell achieves almost XNUMX percent efficiency

    Kilowatt hours. Four percent loss on the inverter corresponds to 5.000 kilowatt hours, which is roughly equivalent to the average annual consumption of a family of four... ** Wikipedia Solar cell A solar cell (also known as a photovoltaic cell) is an electrical component that transmits radiant energy, usually sunlight, directly into electrical energy...

  16. Newsletter LIII - November 19th to 25.11.2021th, 19 - News+ November XNUMXth - Glasgow was yesterday

    over 130 videos on the topic ** Ecosia This search engine plants trees! Keyword search: Results of the 26th World Climate Conference https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Results+26th+World Climate Conference ** Wikipedia UN Climate Conference For a long time, the focus of the climate conferences was on a follow-up protocol to the The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and with it a new internationally binding...

  17. Newsletter LII - November 13th to 18.11.2021th, 13 - News+ November XNUMXth - The "great statesmen" of this world are puppets of the military

    over 130 videos on the topic ** Ecosia This search engine plants trees! Keyword search: Military-industrial complex https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Military-industrial%20Complex ** Wikipedia Military-industrial complex The term military-industrial complex (MIK) is used in socially critical analyzes to describe close cooperation and the mutual...

  18. Newsletter LI - November 06th to 11.11.2021th, 06 - News+ November XNUMXth - Is this megalomania or the end of the climate crisis?

    around. In the 1970s, various plans for larger tokamaks emerged in America, Japan, Europe and the Soviet Union in order to achieve greater fusion performance for the first time... ** Wikipedia Nuclear fusion Nuclear fusion refers to nuclear reactions in which two atomic nuclei form a new nucleus merge. Nuclear fusion reactions are the reason why the sun and all...

  19. Newsletter L - November 01st to 05.11.2021th, 01 - News+ November XNUMXst - Immediately, immediately

    and cited France as a role model, which would make it easier to achieve climate goals by sticking to nuclear power. The CDU's energy expert, Klaus-Peter Willsch, made a similar statement... ** Wikipedia World Climate Conferences (WCC) A first “world climate conference” under the umbrella of the UN, the First World Climate Conference (WCC-1), took place from 12th to 23rd February 1979 in Geneva and was...

  20. Newsletter XLIX - October 27th to 31.10.2021st, 27 - News+ October XNUMXth - Garching reactor

    Stocks of highly enriched uranium in 2017 were estimated at 1.340 tonnes, while separated plutonium stocks were estimated at 230 tonnes (military stocks) and 290 tonnes (civilian stocks)... **Wikipedia Highly enriched uranium HEU) is used when the content of the easily fissile isotope 235U in a material containing uranium...