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

    complain. At the same time, the transparency project demands that the traffic light coalition introduce the promised transparency law and thus allow pseudonymous inquiries. * Nuclear waste | Nuclear lobby | SMR mini nuclear power plants criticized as “fantasies” by the nuclear lobby The EU Commission sees nuclear power as the form of energy of the future. However, a new study commissioned by the federal government warns...

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

    French energy group Engie) and its subsidiary RED have published a white paper on how advanced reactors, including small modular reactors (SMR), can provide energy for data centers. "Powering the 4th Industrial Revolution - Pioneering Data Center Partnerships with Advanced Nuclear Technology"

  3. 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

    as long as possible and to extend Sizewell B for another 20 years until 2055."... Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * SMR | Uranium fuel | HALEU Nuclear energy: Same as Great Britain Russia wants to force Russia out of the nuclear fuel market. Great Britain is relying on small, modular reactors for nuclear energy. It is also investing in new fuels...

  4. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2024

    ** Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th News+ Psychological explanations for doing nothing: Why the climate crisis seems to leave many people indifferent ** Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit of shareholders against NuScale Power ** Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th News+ The necessary change needs more...

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

    also includes a huge battery that can temporarily store the solar power... * January 3, 1961 (INES 4 | NAMS 2,9) NRTS Idaho Falls, USA In this accident in what was essentially the first Small Modular Reactor (SMR), 3 people and 41 died TBq of radioactive radiation were released (cost approx. 26 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia The accident can be found in the Wikipedia article "Idaho National...

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

    to the conclusion that nuclear energy cannot be the solution... * The nuclear industry is bankrupt, the military-industrial complex and the nuclear lobby are demanding trillions of US dollars. Global SMR expansion needs a new Marshall Plan In recent years, evidence has mounted that a comprehensive expansion of nuclear energy capacity is essential to...

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

    Israeli security circles reported, but were said to have dismissed them as an "imaginary scenario" by a high-ranking Israeli military intelligence officer... * 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 now officially announces this in...

  8. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Interest in mini nuclear power plants is only mini! NuScale and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems consortium announced that they have given up the development and construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in Idaho (USA). The reason was the growing costs and the dwindling interest of energy companies in committing to the technology in the long term. The reactor design was the only thing...

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

    of the first black student at the University of Mississippi and had the right-wing extremist General Edwin Walker, who led the protests against it, imprisoned... * Nuclear industry | SMR | Cost explosion Future of nuclear energy: Why it doesn't work without subsidies Nuclear energy is still seen by some as a hope for a clean energy supply. But it turns out: she is...

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

    up to double-digit billions. There could also be fines from the EU, as Germany may also be violating EU law with the new law... * United States | SMR | NuScale | NRTS Idaho "Small Modular Reactors" mini nuclear power plant will not be built Setback for the advocates of SMR technologies: The small nuclear power plant planned as a showcase project in the West...

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

    said Greenpeace energy expert Bastian Neuwirth: “In doing so, the federal government is slowing down the necessary climate-friendly transformation of the economy and risking the climate goals.” * United States | SMR | NuScale | NRTS Idaho First mini-nuclear power plant in the USA was abandoned The first mini-nuclear power plant should have been built in the state of Idaho by the end of the decade. But the project was stalled...

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

    Harvard much faster than a free society would like: How far has this democracy already progressed in the process of decay?... August 15th Nuclear lobby | Greenwashing | SMR | Hydrogen IP3 and GEP Partner for Surry Green Energy Center IP3 Corporation (IP3) and Green Energy Partners LLC (GEP) have formed a joint venture to create the Surry Green Energy...

  13. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... January 3, 1961 (INES 4 | NAMS 2,9) SL-1, NRTS Idaho Falls, USA In this accident in what was essentially the first Small Modular Reactor (SMR), 3 people died and 41 TBq of radioactive radiation was released (Costs approx. 26 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia The accident can be found in the Wikipedia article "Idaho...

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

    that no nuclear waste factory or nuclear waste repository can be imposed against the citizens. Creating trust can only be achieved through co-determination and real participation on an equal level. * Renaissance | SMR | Resistance The hype about a nuclear “renaissance” The eternal dangers of small modular reactors (SMR). The new push for nuclear energy isn't just coming from the nuclear industry or...

  15. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Financial speculation should be removed and agricultural subsidies should be given to ecological, regional businesses, Rackete set the first substantive accents... * Slovakia | Westinghouse | AP1000 | SMR JAVYS of Slovakia signs AP1000 and AP300 agreements Westinghouse Electric Company has entered into letters of intent with Slovakian company JAVYS regarding the possible use of its...

  16. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    and solar modules in the USA will receive 110 million dollars per year - until 2029," calculates the CEO of Meyer Burger, Gunter Erfurt, in an interview with ZDFheute... * Idaho | SMR | Cost explosion | NuScale Another expensive nuclear The dream project for cheap mini-reactors fizzles out in Idaho For its energy transition, the USA wants to double its nuclear capacity by 2050. The solution is...

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

    April 1986 (INES 7 | NAMS 8) Chernobyl nuclear power plant, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de April 15th Renaissance | EPR | SMR | WNISR State of the nuclear industry "Plans do not produce electricity" The renaissance of nuclear power has been announced for decades, but the numbers tell a different story, says...

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

    Hydrogen produced using nuclear power – is not taken into account in the calculation. A distinction continues to be made between green and low-carbon hydrogen. * Euphoria | WNISR | SMR costs are enormous, benefits are questionable: research into concepts for new types of nuclear reactors is being carried out around the world. It will finally end in mid-April. Germany is phasing out nuclear energy and will...

  19. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    without knowing whether it is really tight." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends the storage of CO2 as one of many necessary measures in the fight against climate change. * Nuclear phase-out | SMR | Reactor decrepit Nuclear power: Goodbye energy and climate - compact: In The lights will soon go out in the last German nuclear power plants, but some dream of a renaissance...

  20. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    would: a Ukrainian breakthrough, a Russian breakthrough and a stalemate that roughly corresponds to the current military front lines... *** January 11 Sweden | New nuclear power plant | SMR Nuclear instead of wind power: New nuclear power plants planned in Sweden Sweden's right-wing coalition is setting the course for new nuclear power plants. This is intended to prevent electricity bottlenecks and high prices. STOCKHOLM taz |...

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