For a long time, the environmental movement fought primarily against nuclear power instead of taking the climate crisis seriously. Our author has been reporting on this since the 1970s and is now asking himself, shortly before the last nuclear power plants are shut down: why?From Nicholas PiperI encountered a nuclear power plant for the first time in my stamp collection. On the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 1959, the GDR published a series with highlights of socialist development such...
It's about a plant for the production of uranium. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the enrichment machines have been "significantly" modified since November. source site
nuclear weapons Disarmament treaty with USA: Moscow doubts extension An intercontinental missile test in Russia: The "New Start" treaty obliges the USA and Russia to reduce their operational nuclear warheads to a maximum of 1,550 each. photo © Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP/dpa It is the only remaining nuclear disarmament agreement between the two countries: the "New Start" treaty. Washington accuses Moscow of endangering the entire agreement. Russia counters. After recent criticism from the United States, Russia has confirmed its...
Status: 02/01/2023 05:23 In Belgium, the country's most controversial nuclear reactor finally shut down in the evening. After 40 years, unit two of the Tihange nuclear power plant near Liège was shut down at 10:45 p.m. After 40 years of operation, the controversial Tihange 2 nuclear reactor near the German border in Belgium has finally gone offline. The kiln was switched off at 10.45 p.m. in the evening, as reported by the Belgian news agency Belga, citing the operator Engie...
Belgium Controversial nuclear reactor Tihange 2 is finally off the grid The Tihange nuclear power plant is about 60 kilometers from Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia. photo ©Oliver Berg/dpa In Germany there has long been criticism of the Belgian nuclear power plants from the 1970s and 1980s. A controversial reactor near the German border has now finally been shut down. After 40 years of operation, the controversial Tihange 2 nuclear reactor near the German border in Belgium has finally gone offline....
Status: 01/31/2023 9:11 p.m In 2010, the US and Russia agreed to limit the number of nuclear warheads. But as a result of the Ukraine war, the inspections are on hold. Washington now sees the entire agreement in jeopardy. The US has accused Russia of failing to comply with the New START nuclear arms control treaty. A statement by the US State Department said Moscow would not allow the inspections agreed in the treaty on its territory. This calls into...
nuclear weapons US accuses Russia of violating disarmament treaty An intercontinental missile test in Russia: The "New Start" treaty obliges the USA and Russia to reduce their nuclear warheads to a maximum of 1,550 each. photo © Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP/dpa It is the only remaining nuclear disarmament agreement between the two countries: the "New Start" treaty. Washington is now accusing Moscow of threatening the "viability of nuclear arms control." The United States accuses Russia of failing to meet...
energy policy:France relies on Ukrainian nuclear powerJan 29, 2023 11:32 amReading time: 3 minsOpen detailed viewThe Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is the largest nuclear facility in Europe - and it came under fire during the war. (Photo: Uncredited/dpa)Brussels wants to enter into a partnership with the Ukrainian government to import hydrogen. France and eight other European countries are demanding that the nuclear industry also benefit from this. Environmentalists are alarmed.from Björn Finke, BrusselslistenNoticeSplitfeedbackIt will be about further...
The party leader made the first serve himself: At the Epiphany meeting of the FDP in the Stuttgart Opera, a cheerful Christian Lindner demanded that Germany, "this country of engineers and technicians", now needs a "technology freedom law". So that "everything that is possible can also be developed with us". The green coalition partner in Berlin should have pricked up their ears by then. Because when the FDP says "openness to technology", they usually also mean technologies that make the...
Status: 01/25/2023 11:14 a.m In the fight against the climate crisis, Poland relies on nuclear power. The first nuclear power plant is to be built in the village of Choczewo on the Baltic Sea. The population supports this with a large majority, but there is also resistance on site. By Kristin Joachim, ARD Studio Warsaw What appears from afar to be a group of friends walking along the beach is, up close, a protest. The thirteen members of the "Ostsee-SOS"...
