BERLIN, Nov. 14 (UPI) — German power company RWE is offering consumers a zero-carbon energy plan fueled mostly by nuclear power plants.
Der Spiegel said the “Pro-Climate Power” derives 68 percent of its power from nuclear sources and 32 percent from hydroelectric energy. (more…)
1&1 Internet - one of the world’s largest web hosts - will build its next European data center inside an abandoned nuclear fuel facility.
Built in the late 1980s, Hanau, Germany’s ‘New MOX’ plant was supposed to process fuel for nuclear reactors, making mixed oxide rods from enriched Uranium and Plutonium. But thanks to local protests, it was never turned on, and in 1995, it was abandoned by owner Siemens AG. Then, more than a decade later, after it escaped from nuclear control legislation, 1&1 came calling. (more…)
BERLIN (AP) — Almost 15,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators protested Saturday against a shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste being transported to a storage site in northern Germany, police said.
German police were working to free three demonstrators who had chained themselves to railway tracks near the western city of Woerth, preventing the shipment from crossing from France into Germany. (more…)
BERLIN: Some 500 students demonstrated Friday against the disposal of reprocessed nuclear waste at a temporary storage center in northwest Germany, police said.
A train carrying the waste was due to leave France Friday, with trucks taking it the final miles (kilometers) to the storage facility near the town of Gorleben early Monday. (more…)
FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 3 (UPI) — A German politician has called for shutting down seven nuclear power plants because they are not safe from a terrorist attack.
Hermann Scheer of the Social Democratic Party said Germany’s seven oldest nuclear power plants should be shut down because their outer shells wouldn’t protect the nuclear core against targeted terrorist attacks using kidnapped passenger planes. (more…)
Remember that “The Simpsons” episode where Homer gains so much weight he plugs the cooling tower? Hilarious stuff. Laugh out loud funny.
This joke EnergySolutions is playing on all of us - nuclear regulators, the governor and Utah residents? Not so funny. (more…)
The construction of Bulgaria’s second NPP in Belene (the Danube) turned out to be the apple of discord in the energy giant RWE, reported the German Die Welt. The RWE were short-listed as the NPP strategic investor. The company CEO, Jurgen Grossmann plans the company’s participation in the project despite the resistance of RWE Supervisory Board. (more…)
FRANKFURT, Oct 20 (Reuters) - German nuclear power plant operators EnBW and RWE confirmed they will keep two reactors running beyond 2009, when a general election might change nuclear policy.
The two companies on Monday confirmed a weekend media report which said the Neckarwestheim 1 and Biblis A installations will run at least well into 2010, although under the nuclear exit law they should have shut next year. (more…)
STUTTGART, Germany: A German engineer has acknowledged that he helped procure parts for a centrifuge system that authorities say was meant for Libya’s now-abandoned nuclear weapons program, a court said Thursday.
Gotthard Lerch went on trial in June, accused of supplying Libya with sensitive technology in the knowledge that the country was seeking atomic weapons. Prosecutors have accused him of playing a key role in the network led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. (more…)
WASHINGTON: Germany has returned more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of highly enriched uranium fuel to the U.S. for safeguarding from terrorists or potential misuse, the government said Tuesday.
The National Nuclear Security Administration said the spent fuel shipment was transported by ship and rail under secret and secure conditions. Spokeswoman Casey Ruberg said the material was secured at a site in the southern state of South Carolina on Sept. 23. (more…)
