1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - News+ April 21st - Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    the Sverinogolovskoye district marked as a flood zone. There is a uranium mine called Dobrovolnoye in this district. It is therefore operated by companies that belong to the state atomic energy authority Rosatom. Alexei Shvarts, former head of Alexei Navalny's regional office in Kurgan, explained that there are hundreds or thousands of drill holes in the deposit. He...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Ursula von der Leyen, CDU, who once supported the nuclear phase-out under Chancellor Merkel, showed her true colors here: her long-standing U-turn towards full support of nuclear energy. Below is an excerpt from her speech: “I also note that following the global energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many countries are seeking a new...

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

    By 2050 no one will die in traffic accidents. A dozen speed traps and the police are supposed to ensure this with increased checks... * Great Britain | EPR | Emirates | Sizewell C nuclear power plant: United Arab Emirates want to invest in European power plants. Building new nuclear reactors is expensive. The UAE is therefore being ensnared as possible investors, as Great Britain is doing...

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    These include, among other things, irregularities at suppliers. The extent to which these are relevant to safety issues at the facility was not mentioned. [...] According to statistics from the International Atomic Energy Agency, 165 of the 415 reactors still in operation worldwide are 40 years old or older. 38 have even been running for 50 years or longer. The reactors are usually designed for 40 years...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Munich tz at the weekend after 30 countries had spoken out in favor of the further expansion of nuclear energy at a conference in Brussels (Nuclear Energy Summit). The reason: Nuclear energy is essential for combating climate change because it does not emit any CO2. The nuclear lobby has been campaigning for a renaissance of nuclear power for decades. So far in vain, since many...

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

    Last year came from renewable sources, electricity generation from gas comes in second place and electricity production from coal comes last." Accordingly, coal and nuclear energy only provide eight percent of RWE's profits. [...] Will not be extended but the extraordinarily high profits at RWE. Because prices in wholesale have now risen significantly again...

  7. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    their original plans. The existing plants in Dukovany, South Moravia, and Temelín, South Bohemia, are affected. Prague - the Czech Republic has significantly expanded its tender for the expansion of its nuclear energy industry. Instead of a new reactor in the South Moravian nuclear power plant Dukovany, there are now plans for "up to four new units" in Dukovany and in the South Bohemian Temelín power plant...

  8. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    reports... * Nuclear lobby | Renewable | WNISR nuclear lobbyist elected to the board of the Renewable Energy Research Association Union and FDP, together with the right-wing radical AFD, are trying to give nuclear energy in Germany a future again. They justify this with currently high electricity prices and a weak expansion of renewable energies. The Union and FDP have...

  9. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    But Paris is not only sticking to its nuclear plans, but is even expanding them. Despite cost explosions and breakdowns, some people in Germany are still babbling about supposedly “cheap nuclear energy” and calling for a renaissance. Even China has now lost its hat. The nuclear company CGN has pulled out of the EDF project in Hinkley Point due to the cost explosion. It has...

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

    Nuclear energy too slow - a maximum of one new nuclear power plant in operation by 2035 While the expansion of renewable energies in France can be carried out at a high pace, the expansion of nuclear energy in France is hardly getting anywhere. With the Flamanville nuclear power plant (1.650 MW), only one new nuclear power plant is under construction - and has been since 2007. The last date given by EDF for the...

  11. 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

    and extend Sizewell B for a further 20 years until 2055."... Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * SMR | Uranium fuel | HALEU Nuclear energy: How Britain beats Russia on nuclear fuel from Wanting to push the market Great Britain is relying on small, modular reactors for nuclear energy. Investments are also being made in new fuels...

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    2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th News+ Poland: Also the Tusk government relies on nuclear energy ** Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to April 13th News+ Shell pleads not guilty ** Newsletter

  13. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    it happened again and again. The fact that they are currently being adopted so uncritically again is evidence of a rapid loss of knowledge among the population and politics. Declarations that electricity prices will fall with nuclear energy or that the problems with nuclear waste will solve themselves are populist slogans. He hopes that society will be wise enough not to repeat old mistakes...

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

    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 – There are still seven nuclear power plants in operation in Spain, but the phase-out of nuclear energy by 2035 has now been confirmed. As the Reuters news agency reports,...

  15. 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”

    and the supervisory authorities kept the worst incident in the history of German nuclear technology secret. The course of this accident refutes the safety philosophy of nuclear energy production at its weakest point: the incorrect actions of humans in relation to a highly complex machine system are not predictable. December 25, 1988 Big sloppiness New highlight of the...

  16. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    should have been rejected... * IAEA | SMR | COP28 IAEA calls for more nuclear power at the world climate conference Without nuclear power, climate neutrality cannot be achieved, says the International Atomic Energy Agency. She is now officially announcing this in Dubai. The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emphasized on the second day of the World Climate Change Conference in Dubai that nuclear power is necessary to...

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

    to invest, but he hasn't exactly grown. News+ background knowledge Top of page Background knowledge ** The map of the nuclear world Whether large or small reactors, nuclear energy is too expensive and too dangerous... The "Internal Search" with the search terms United States | SMR | Nuscale brought the following results, among others: June 13, 2023 - Dream of cheap mini reactors evaporates...

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

    which is used for passive emergency cooling, to open... Nuclear power plantsPlag Netherlands In 1955, construction began on the High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, with which the aim was to gain experience with nuclear energy... In December 2021, the new government announced announced that it wanted to build two new nuclear power plants and provide five billion euros for this. In addition, the duration of the Borssele nuclear power plant...

  19. 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

    which is active in the fields of uranium conversion, uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel production. TWEL is a subsidiary of Atomenergoprom and is therefore subordinate to the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy of Russia (Rosatom). According to its own information, TWEL is the monopoly supplier of nuclear fuel for Russian nuclear power plants, research reactors and ship reactors. The company...

  20. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Münster - Wind energy will be the most important energy source in the electricity sector in Germany in 2023. At the same time, the share of hard coal and lignite has fallen significantly since the beginning of the year, despite the phase-out of nuclear energy. In Germany, the wind and solar energy markets are developing very dynamically this year. From January to September 2023 alone, wind...