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

    auch in Katar, Bahrain und Saudi-Arabien. Im Sultanat Oman sind bei heftigen Regenfällen 19 Menschen getötet worden, darunter zehn Schulkinder. * Klimaziele | CO2-Emissionen | Verkehr(t)sminister Expertenrat für Klimafragen Verkehr verfehlt Klimaziel zum dritten Mal In Deutschland wurde 2023 weniger CO2 ausgestoßen, der Verkehrssektor hat seine Klimaziele aber deutlich verfehlt. Politisch wird...

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

    487 Tonnen unverbrauchtes HEU besäßen die USA, wovon 361 Tonnen für Nuklearwaffen verfügbar seien, bilanziert der International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), eine unabhängige Gruppe von Experten für Rüstungskontrolle, die die Meldungen der Staaten an die IAEA auswertet. Russland hortet sogar 680 Tonnen. Daran kann man sehen, was die Abrüstungsverträge letztlich wert waren. Nichts wurde...

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

    Wer freut sich da nicht über sonnige Tage mit sommerlichen Temperaturen? Der Natur allerdings täte es gut, wenn es in den kommenden Wochen auch immer mal wieder regnen würde. Zwar haben mehrere Experten offiziell das Ende der landesweiten Dürre erklärt. Seit 2018 kämpften viele Regionen landesweit mit extremem Wassermangel. In den Sommern regnete es in vielen Jahren wochenlang überhaupt nicht...

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

    His book “The longer we remain silent, the more courage we will need. How dangerous the AfD really is” was recently published. ntv.de: In the first few years after the AfD was founded, experts assumed that it would harm the party if the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified it as extremist. This has already happened in three federal states, in Thuringia in 2021 - but the survey results are...

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

    50.000 fake user accounts in German tried to stir up discontent against the federal government and undermine support for Ukraine, according to an analysis by ministry experts. Müller said that the network agency is currently preparing this information for court and sending it to Brussels, where the EU Commission will take care of it... *...

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

    Federal Constitutional Court: The protection of democracy cannot tolerate games. The Union is withdrawing from talks about securing the Constitutional Court, even though its ministers and experts are in favor of it. This is embarrassing and short-sighted. One of the important sentences with which politicians react to the threat to democracy is definitely that of...

  7. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Look at Trump. Because he can also be trusted to do anything... * Rosatom | Framatomes | Lingen fuel element factory Report warns of Rosatom deal Russian entry into nuclear factory alarms experts In order to make Eastern European nuclear power plants independent of deliveries from Russia, a factory in Lower Saxony is to step in for production. This is why French-Russian cooperation...

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

    The four blocks could cost around two trillion crowns (80,3 billion euros), which the state would have to raise and which it does not have. Míl also drew attention to the lack of qualified experts working on similar designs. * Fossil power plants | Natural gas | Hydrogen Climate-neutral electricity system Coalition agrees on power plant strategy light The once planned...

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

    But it wasn't a simple accident or a one-off event - that became clear because more than two dozen districts wanted to take action against the supposedly illegally dumped hazardous waste. Experts emphasize that a large company like Tesla should have known better. * Repair Right to repair is correct - under one condition For consumers it must be so...

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

    apparently to increase dissatisfaction against the traffic light government and undermine support for Ukraine. On behalf of the Department of Strategic Communications at the Federal Foreign Office, experts analyzed Elon Musk's short message service

  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

    with the aim of verbally smuggling anti-democratic ideas into the mainstream. When people talk about “globalists” and “remigration” in right-wing circles, like-minded people and extremism experts immediately know what is meant. To outsiders who are not familiar with the vocabulary of the scene, these terms may initially sound harmless, perhaps even scientific. Included...

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

    The level of seismic activity does not correspond to the measured values, since the explosive power of a hydrogen bomb is normally many times higher than that of a fission bomb. Rather, experts assume it is a fission bomb boosted using hydrogen. The People's Republic of China, which has often supported North Korean positions in the past, condemned the test in...

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

    Newsletter LII 2023 December 24th to 31st *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    North Korea | IAEA | Yongbyon North Korea probably puts second nuclear reactor into operation Another reactor has probably been put into operation in the controversial Yongbyon nuclear complex in North Korea. Experts speculate that the plutonium obtained will be used to build new tactical nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna was very concerned. The exit of...

  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”

    Now, according to the Bloomberg news site, there is another setback in financing. China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN) stopped financing the power plant, which experts see as a new sign of tensions between London and Beijing. CGN has missed several payments in recent months, causing Electricite de France SA (EDF), which jointly...

  16. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    at the World Climate Change Conferences (COPs). This was also the case in Dubai this year. [...] The IPCC, as a scientific and intergovernmental body, includes 195 states that send experts. [...] In fact, the IPCC itself does not conduct research. However, he evaluates thousands of studies from all over the world and compiles the results in his reports. Hundreds are involved...

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

    USA ignores the most pressing problem at the world climate conference Without phasing out oil, gas and coal, global warming cannot be limited to a tolerable level - all experts agree on that. Nevertheless, the topic is controversial at the UN climate conference. How do the world powers China and the USA position themselves? At the World Climate Conference in Dubai, the two largest...

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

    increasingly frequent and severe storms, droughts, floods and forest fires. The past few months have brought a series of temperature records; experts believe that 2023 is likely to be the warmest year since records began. As of the end of October, according to Copernicus, the average temperature was 1,43 degrees above the pre-industrial average... * Migrants |...

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

    Chainsaw, you can apply for CO₂ certificates - and sell them for a lot of money to companies that offset their emissions, want to be green and are suddenly "climate neutral". Experts estimate that this market with compensation projects could generate a trillion US dollars worldwide as early as 2040. But upon closer inspection, many forest projects turn out to be fraudulent...

  20. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    Electricity market expert Huneke from Agora Energiewende explains that the price of electricity is generally falling. This is already clear on electricity exchanges. According to experts, renewable energies will increasingly dampen electricity prices. "The more renewable energy systems with their low prices are in the electricity system, the less expensive wholesale gas power plants determine the electricity price,"...

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