1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - News+ April 14th - Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    müssen. Ansonsten sind die Subventionen nur Geschenke an die Aktionär*innen, die davon profitieren, dass die Allgemeinheit die Transformation ihrer Unternehmen bezahlen. 14. April Erneuerbare | Atomausstieg | Blackout Ein Jahr nach dem Atomausstieg: Atomkraft? Vermisst die jemand? Am 15. April 2023 gingen die letzten drei deutschen AKWs vom Netz, begleitet von Ängsten vor Blackouts und...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Stage. Let's take the coal. Despite all the prophecies of doom, coal-fired power generation in Germany was a quarter lower in the first year without nuclear power plants than in the previous year. Accordingly, despite the nuclear phase-out, CO2 emissions per kilowatt hour in the German electricity mix fell. Critics had predicted otherwise. The reasons for the balance sheet are varied. Purely in summary, the omitted...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Therefore, the lobbying and corruption influence of the fossil fuel and nuclear companies must finally be ended throughout Europe and beyond. News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ Nuclear phase-out | Electricity generation | WNISR Electricity from nuclear power is falling worldwide: It's not just Germany that is increasing. The share of nuclear power in electricity generation is falling worldwide. Some countries are building new nuclear power plants...

  4. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    as little coal as last time in 1959 Electricity suppliers did not have to resort to coal-fired power plants more often, but quite the opposite: in 2023 - despite the nuclear phase-out - Germany burned as little coal in power plants as it last did in 1959. The downward trend continued in the months of January and February 2024 in coal-fired power generation continues. This winter, 29 percent...

  5. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    arrived in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians ran towards the vans. The army released a video that is supposed to show the onslaught... * Bayern | Electricity prices | Grid expansion experts: Nuclear phase-out has nothing to do with high electricity costs Friends of nuclear power like to emphasize how climate-friendly, clean and cheap nuclear power is. The majority of experts see this when they appear in...

  6. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    demanded anti-nuclear initiatives on Wednesday in Hanover. The Lingen “Advanced Nuclear Fuels” (ANF) factory, like the uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, Westphalia, is excluded from Germany’s nuclear phase-out. The operator of the Lingen plant, the French nuclear company Framatome, also wants to operate there in the future under license and with the cooperation of the Russian state-owned company Rosatom...

  7. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    The last three nuclear power plants in 2023 led neither to rising electricity prices on the stock exchange nor to higher coal-fired power generation in Germany. Wholesale electricity prices will fall in 2023 despite the nuclear phase-out. In December 2023, the wholesale price on the spot market fell on average to 6,9 cents/kWh of electricity, a decrease of 24 percent compared to the previous month of November (9,1 cents/kWh), said the...

  8. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    their populations, but between the short-term financial interests of a few and the health and lives of a large part of the world's population... * Spain | Nuclear phase-out | Renewables | Storage Spain is phasing out nuclear energy from Madrid - Seven nuclear power plants are still in operation in Spain, but the phase-out of nuclear energy by 2035 has now been...

  9. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Nuclear facilities targeted. Their focus is primarily on the fuel element forge in Lingen, Lower Saxony, which, like the uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, Westphalia, is excluded from the nuclear phase-out. Fuel elements for nuclear power plants have been manufactured in Lingen since 1979. The factory is currently operated by the company “Advanced Nuclear Fuels” (ANF), a subsidiary of the French...

  10. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    our self-perception, a little lower. The last nuclear power plants in Germany were shut down a good six months ago. This is a great success for the citizens' initiatives, which pushed through the nuclear phase-out in a decades-long, tough fight not only against industrial interests, but also against all parties! And her early commitment to alternative energy has...

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

    It turns out that it cannot be operated economically. Two examples. Germany has said goodbye to nuclear energy – for now. Because if parts of the federal FDP had their way, the nuclear phase-out would probably be reversed. Even if the Liberals managed to force the restart of seven shutdown reactors, they would face enormous problems - the...

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

    A tenth of Liberian territory should therefore be placed under protection in order to create CO₂ certificates, leased to the company from the Emirates for decades... * Nuclear phase-out | Renewables | Electricity price | Nuclear power Has the nuclear phase-out increased our electricity prices? And how much nuclear energy does Germany now import from abroad? The most important questions and answers about...

  13. 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

    the existing warehouse and, above all, for the construction of a new Castor hall according to current safety standards. Now it's the NRW state government's turn! Nuclear-free climate greetings SOFA (immediate nuclear phase-out) Münster, Action Alliance Münsterland against nuclear plants www.sofa-ms.de, www.urantransport.de * November 4th, 2004 (INES? Klass.?) Balakovo nuclear power plant, RUS nuclear power plantsPlag Balakovo_(Russia) In the. ..

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

    open up. The right-wing conservative Yoon Suk Yeol has ruled the country since mid-2022. He has reduced support for the solar industry and is instead pushing for the nuclear phase-out. In Germany, however, things are now on the opposite course again: In addition to a new funding program for private households, the public sector is also increasingly supporting development activities...

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

    Rally against Castor transports The Münsterland action alliance against nuclear plants, the “Stop Westcastor” Jülich action alliance, the Gronau Environment Working Group, the SOFA (Immediate Nuclear Phase-out) initiative in Münster and the AgiEL alliance (nuclear power opponents in Emsland) are calling together with the citizens’ initiative “Kein Nuclear waste in Ahaus" to take part in the protest rally this Sunday,...

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

    would be represented. Nuclear (waste) policy in North Rhine-Westphalia does not only take place in the Rhineland and Münsterland. Many thanks to the BI in Ahaus for the invitations! Nuclear-free climate greetings SOFA (immediate nuclear phase-out) Münster www.sofa-ms.de * Nuclear waste | Konrad shaft | Würgassen interim storage facility in Würgassen: Nuclear waste can probably roll The Federal Waste Disposal Commission supports the interim storage facility in...

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

    but, among other things, due to an “overestimated influence” of the shutdown of German nuclear power plants on the price of electricity. Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, does not consider Sinn's thesis that CO₂ emissions in Europe have increased due to Germany's nuclear phase-out and coal burning to be tenable. European emissions trading works, said Schularick...

  18. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Wikipedia de Barsebäck nuclear power plant Since it is only 20 kilometers away from the Danish capital Copenhagen, the Danish government pushed for the nuclear power plant to be the first to be shut down as part of Sweden's nuclear phase-out... 1991 July 10, 1991 (INES 3) Bilibino nuclear power plant, RUS Atom power plantsPlag Bilibino (Russia) The incorrect design of the reactors and various leaks in the primary circuit...

  19. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    less bloc, please The climate movement could learn a lot from the former anti-nuclear movement. For the sake of the matter, she overlooked many political differences. Whatever you think about the nuclear phase-out, one thing is clear: the anti-nuclear movement was successful in achieving its goal. Late, but still. Which raises the question: What can other movements - especially climate activists -...

  20. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    caused a smoldering fire on the turbine, switched off automatically. Because of this breakdown and faulty dowels and anchors, the reactor was temporarily taken offline in the same month and finally taken offline on August 6, 2011 due to the federal government's decision to phase out nuclear power... * June 28, 2007 (INES 0 class?) Krümmel, DEU Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Krümmel With the incident that occurred on June 28...