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

    which not only produce electricity, but also heat at the same time. These PVT modules can then be used in private homes, industry and municipal heating... * Finland | EPR | Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant Olkiluoto 3: Maintenance extended due to new defects The new EPR in Olkiluoto was actually supposed to be back online since April 8th. Now the operator has carried out the maintenance work...

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

    2025 seien »die vielleicht letzte Chance, eine Trendwende in der Mitte noch rechtzeitig zu schaffen«. IMHO Wer dem militärisch-industriellen Komplex nachrennt, gehört zum Establishment. * Finnland | Speicher | Fernwärme Weltgrößter Warmwasser-Langzeitspeicher Ab 2028 sind 90 GWh unterirdisch über Monate speicherbar. In der viertgrößten Stadt Finnlands beginnen die Arbeiten für den weltweit...

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

    Nuclear reactors operated. In the past 30 years, just two nuclear power plants have been built, the so-called third-generation pressurized water reactors (EPR) Olkiluoto-3 in Finland and Flamanville-3 in France. The Finnish reactor went online after 17 years of construction, and the French reactor is still not delivering a kilowatt hour even 17 years after construction began. In Slovakia there is another...

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

    not allowed to go east (yet). Quote: “We should give Olaf Scholz a proper march with cruise missiles.” Because he continues to refuse to deliver "Taurus" to Ukraine... * Finland | Olkiluoto | Maintenance work Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant does not produce electricity for over a month due to maintenance Helsinki - Finland's Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear power plant will be shut down for more than...

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

    and thereby charted the course for international climate policy in the coming years. In addition to various national elections in European countries - presidential elections in Slovakia and Finland, parliamentary elections in Portugal, Belgium, Austria and most likely Great Britain - 350 million people in the EU will also be able to cast their votes at the beginning of June. [...] Unlike the AfD...

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

    well over a million Palestinians are staying there. Most of them fled there before the war from other parts of the Gaza Strip, partly on orders from the Israeli military... * Finland | Power storage | Underground One of Europe's deepest mines is being converted into a battery. A huge prototype of a gravity battery is to be built in a Finnish mine. The mine...

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

    shows how wrong the EEG amendment initiated in 2009 by the then Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel was, according to which all EEG electricity had to be sold off on the electricity exchange... January 26th Finland | Olkiluoto | Nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 Defective seals discovered on Olkiluoto 3 The Finnish Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has announced that during inspections carried out in November and December 2023...

  8. 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

    EPR reactor model was intended to revive nuclear power after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and offer more power with greater safety. Three reactors are in operation, one in Finland and two in China. However, there were not only problems with the construction in Finland. EPR projects in France and Great Britain are also experiencing delays and cost explosions. The first EPR reactor...

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

    (free version) January 2 Sweden | Temperatures | Ice Age in Europe's north is shaking: Ice Age in Sweden: Minus 41,6 degrees Biting cold in the north of Europe: Sweden and Finland have recorded their coldest days of the winter so far. In northern Sweden the temperature fell to minus 41,6 degrees. The far north of Europe started the new year with freezing temperatures. In northern Sweden...

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

    fails due to desolate industry At the World Climate Conference, 22 countries declare that they want to triple nuclear capacity by 2050. These include many friendly and experienced nuclear power nations: the USA, France, Finland, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, South Korea and Ukraine. But Mycle Schneider shakes his head. "It works...

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

    and more comprehensive assessment of Kissinger's legacy, the National Security Archive hereby compiles a small dossier of declassified records... November 30 Finland | Olkiluoto | EPR | Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant Units 1, 2 and 3 Second defect within a few days Finland: Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor shuts down again after breakdown The third reactor of the nuclear power plant...

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

    to continue working politically on the text, nor for technical working groups on the scientific basis of the agreement. Both would be urgently needed to ensure the schedule, said Titze... * Finland | Olkiluoto | Shut down Fault in the turbine plant New Finnish nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 shut down Helsinki - The new Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland has shut down due to a fault in...

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

    by the federal government and the Bundestag remains comparatively low. In this country there are only 1000 devices per 38 households, while in Norway there are 625, in Sweden 503 and in Finland 438. These Scandinavian countries, together with Denmark, generally lead the rankings in the index. [...] Intelligent electricity meters and the associated interfaces are considered...

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

    an increased tax of 153 million euros was incurred. On June 19, 2013, the Spanish Energy Minister confirmed that the reactor would be officially shut down for good on July 6, 2013... August 18, Finland | Olkiluoto | Humidity Nuclear reactor in Finland taken offline due to increased humidity HELSINKI (dpa-AFX) - A Finnish nuclear reactor has been temporarily taken offline....

  15. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    supports the defense of Ukraine. Negotiations for a ceasefire never actually began, and NATO has only increased its forces thanks to the new membership of Finland (and Sweden, which is likely to follow soon). Nevertheless, tens of thousands of people have died, entire villages and even cities have been reduced to rubble, millions...

  16. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    for a new construction of EPR and SMR reactors, most recently by Markus Söder, the Bavarian Prime Minister. The EPR reactors are very expensive, as the examples in China, Finland, France and Great Britain show. When I see the European construction projects, they are at least 3,5 to eight times more expensive than planned. And they have a construction period of at least ten years...

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

    Promote wind power in Bavaria. He also seems to ignore the fact that nuclear energy is neither clean nor cheap. Where would the final storage facility be built in the Free State if the nuclear power plant was operated independently?... * Finland | Olkiluoto | EPR Finland puts new nuclear reactor online After twelve years of delay, a new nuclear reactor in Finland is now producing electricity. It is said to be the most powerful in Europe. The...

  18. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    Swedes, who do not have their own nuclear industry in the country, function in a timely manner? Only two nuclear power plants have been built in the EU in the last 30 years, the French EPR projects Olkiluoto 3 in Finland and Flamanville 3 in France. The Finnish reactor produced some electricity this spring after 17 years of construction and was then shut down again due to damage to the feedwater pumps...

  19. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    no longer sell to the EU. But nuclear fuel for European nuclear power plants and diamonds are still not on the sanctions list. With this, Russia continues to earn billions... * Finland | Series of mishaps | Olkiluoto nuclear power plant, Eurajoki, Southwest Finland Nuclear champion Finland – cause for envy? While the last nuclear power plants are being shut down in Germany, the country is still relying on...

  20. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    "to reiterate their desire to strengthen European cooperation in the field of nuclear energy." [...] The eleven signatories include Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia... * France | Global warming | Cooling water France's environment minister is fatalistic While France...

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