Tag: Nuclear energy
Record results for RWE – shareholders to receive higher dividends
RWE The Essen-based company posts billions in profits. (Photo: dpa) Eat The energy group RWE closes the crisis year 2022 with an operating profit (adjusted Ebitda) of 6.3 billion euros.…
“The nuclear phase-out is the wrong decision”
Karl Ludwig Kley From 2016, the 71-year-old will head the supervisory board at Eon. Eat He is considered the most powerful chief supervisor in Germany: in addition to mandates at…
“The nuclear phase-out is the wrong decision”
Karl Ludwig Kley From 2016, the 71-year-old will head the supervisory board at Eon. Eat He is considered the most powerful chief supervisor in Germany: in addition to mandates at…
EU Commission wants to simplify subsidies for nuclear power and renewables
Nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas The Greens criticize that the same conditions should apply to investments in nuclear power plants as to renewable energies. (Photo: REUTERS) Brussels Electricity prices in…
Iran and IAEA agree to monitor nuclear facilities more closely
IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi The talks between the nuclear authority and Iran were apparently successful. (Photo: AP) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has…
France forges nuclear alliance against Germany
Paris, Brussels France is sharpening its course against the federal government in the dispute over nuclear power in European energy policy. Together with ten allied member states, Paris increases the…
German-Iranian sentenced to death in Tehran
Protests against the Iranian regime in Munich The government’s actions against its own population have also been criticized abroad. (Photo: Reuters) Tehran The German-Iranian Djamshid Sharmahd has been sentenced to…
IAEA detects uranium enriched to 84 percent in Iran
nuclear facility in Iran Enrichment to about 90 percent is required for the construction of atomic bombs. (Photo: dpa) Vienna According to a media report, the UN Atomic Energy Agency…
Energy company EDF writes record loss of 18 billion euros
Nuclear power plant in Saint-Laurent-Nouan, France In total, EDF’s mountain of debt now amounts to 64.5 billion euros – and is becoming a problem for the French government. (Photo: REUTERS)…
Greens do not want to accept hydrogen from nuclear power
Berlin The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag is backing the federal government in the dispute with France over the definition of green hydrogen. According to Felix Banaszak, member of…
How Japan is arming itself against earthquakes through continuous improvements
Tokyo When the earth shook in Turkey, many skyscrapers became death traps. In Japan, they are refuges during earthquakes. One example is the 238-meter high-rise complex Roppongi Hills in Tokyo.…
Germany cannot outsource everything
Demonstration against natural gas production method fracking There is immense resistance to almost everything in Germany. Not only against fossil energies. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Fracking gas from the USA, nuclear…
EU targets Russia’s nuclear industry
Control center of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant Russia disconnected the largest European nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian grid and uses it for its own interests. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Kyiv…
Are France’s New Nuclear Power Plants Safe?
France’s nuclear offensive Six reactors of a new type are to be built by the middle of the next decade. (Photo: Getty Images, Reuters [M]) Paris, Penly In December 2022,…
Iran apparently expands uranium enrichment almost to weapons quality
Iran nuclear plant Iran seems to be pushing ahead with its uranium enrichments. (Photo: dpa) According to a report, Iran is continuing to advance its uranium enrichments. A report by…
CDU discusses the construction of new nuclear power plants
Demolition of a cooling tower at the Biblis nuclear power plant The last nuclear power plants in Germany are to be shut down in mid-April. The CDU is against it.…
Germany’s energy transition continues to fall short of targets
Electricity pylon in the evening light The expansion of the power grid is lagging behind the targets. This puts a strain on the energy transition. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The progress…
France is slowly returning to nuclear power
Cattenom nuclear power plant in France Many nuclear reactors in France are running again. (Photo: imago images/Arnulf Hettrich) Paris The warnings before the winter were drastic in France: Because of…
Nuclear Debate: Organized Irresponsibility
Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant The debate about extending the lifetime of nuclear power plants is in full swing. (Photo: dpa) It remains a mystery to this day why Olaf Scholz…
The Greens and the FDP are arguing about nuclear power plant terms
Robert Habeck The Economics Minister had to bow to the Chancellor’s word of power on the nuclear issue. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin The answer from Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck…