Ursula von der Leyen. A study in political reversal.
2011: as German Minister, supported accelerated nuclear exit after Fukushima.
2026: at Paris energy conference, calls it "a strategic mistake to turn away from a reliable, affordable, low-emission energy source."
Last German reactor: April 15, 2023.
France: Flamanville online December 2024.
Poland: new plant near Gdańsk, $40B+.
Netherlands: abandoned plans for 4 new reactors.
#Nuclear #Energy #Europe #EU #Energiewende
#nuclear
"The American Bureau of Shipping and South Korea's HD Hyundai have signed a joint development project for the conceptual design of a nuclear-powered electric propulsion system for a container ship."
Il y a quinze ans, la catastrophe de Fukushima semblait mettre un point d'arrêt au nucléaire civil (au moins au Japon).
Dans la sidération et pour combattre cette dernière, j'ai alors composé la première pièce de ce diptyque : https://tytoalba.bandcamp.com/album/ikarusu-villes-fant-mes
#Fukushima #Nuclear #Acousmatique #Electroacoustic #ExperimentalElectronicMusic
Der Tag, an dem die KI fast die Welt auslöschte.
1983 meldete das System „OKO“ fälschlich fünf US-Raketenstarts. Nur der Diensthabende Stanislaw Petrow bewahrte Ruhe: Er stufte es als Fehlalarm ein, meldete es nicht weiter und verhinderte so Gegenschlag und Atomkrieg.
Obwohl OKO nach heutigen Maßstäben keine echte KI war, ist dieser Fehlalarm der älteste Eintrag in der "AI Incident Database".
https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/27
#KI #AI #incident #nuclear #StanislavPetrov #ColdWar #TechEthics
15 Years After Fukushima: A Renewable Energy Future is Within Reach
https://wwindea.org/15yearsFukushima
#energy #Fukushima #WWEA #nuclear
"An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month. Serhii Tarakanov, Director General of SSE Chornobyl NPP, says the aim is for the repair work to be completed by 2030."
After Fukushima, Japan shut down its nuclear reactors. Now, the country is returning to nuclear energy, seen as a reliable low-carbon option. #japan #nuclear #fukushima
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0311/Japan-nuclear-Fukushima-energy
No, in the Germany power company oligopol (including E.ON and RWE), the companies running oil, coal and gas were the same ones running #nuclear. And nuclear lost that fight internally long before the Greens made it into the federal government.
Construction of the last nuclear reactors started in in 1982 (west) and 1984 (east).
Until recently, the nuclear power companies have lobbied for oil, coal and gas, and against renewables.
@kravietz
Look! An awakening! After seven years in office, the President of the European Commission has finally come to the conclusion that shutting down nuclear power plants was a mistake.
Admitting a mistake is the first step towards correcting it. We hope that (this time) it will not end with words and that (finally) the European nuclear industry will be rebuilt.
Let's return to this "mistake," because we must not forget where it came from. This mistake did not arise because someone accidentally got something wrong. For decades, well-organized organizations operated in Europe, which, under the guise of ecology, did everything they could to scare people about nuclear power plants. Everything was done to increase their costs. Jürgen Trittin of the German Green Party says outright that they raised the costs of nuclear power plants to make them unprofitable. People were scared with radioactive waste, of which there is so much and no one knows what to do with it. The fossil fuel industry, including the Russian one, benefited from this. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder secured himself a lucrative pension, and Germany wanted to profit from selling Russian gas from Nord Stream to Europe. A multitude of pseudo-scientific reports were written by pseudo-experts, just to prove that nuclear power is bad. And do you remember that as recently as 2019, the European Commission was debating a total ban on nuclear energy?
It wasn't a mistake. It was a well-organized campaign backed by huge amounts of money.
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116210549912837945
It's been 15 years since I was in my office building in Tokyo for that earthquake, resulting in my consulting work shutting down due to lack of power grid capacity, so I returned to the US.
Japanese friends called within 12 hrs of the main earthquake, panicked, as they weren't getting info about Fukushima (including Steve's reporting), but lived in Nasu, about 10 miles away from Fukushima. I advised they evacuate and they also moved to the US with their young daughter.
A good source of info is https://www.fairewinds.org/fukushima-related-content though i don't think they are still actively reporting on Fukushima, even though the cleanup is FAR from complete.
#Fukushima #Tohoku #Japan #Earthquake #Tsunami #Meltdown #Nuclear #Radioactive #Disaster
If we had such incredibility inquisitive crowds under every Greenpeace and WWF anti-nuclear poll as we have here, then #Germany would have likely not done what climate scientists described as “climate crime” 😄
https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/596f6287-bccc-4bb9-a8ae-12c4c5e15d33
I wonder where all these people pointing out the TV poll is “not representative” were when Germany’s ministry used brown coal (!) emission data for #nuclear power or WWF rigged the IPCC emission data for nuclear because they believed “it was too low”? 🤔
Just remembered that I did an explainer of a very interesting Swedish study about the hurdles new nuclear power has to clear to attract investors. The study is still worth the read, if you want to understand the real reasons why #nuclear power isn't being built already.
bsky.app/profile/jmko...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wr6esgkuixhvsge3ueraz6yb/post/3mgp7bklzac25
My opinion, as a former sort of an expert, about #nuclear power projects in the United States:
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3mgrq4a3l2q2f
This response I wrote may interest all the #energy and #nuclear folks in the #USA .
I explained *why* I believe loosening nuclear #safety #regulations during Trump's reign of error is more likely to be a kiss of death for nuclear industry, than the long-awaited renaissance.
Sad, really.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3mgrq47n27k2f
"European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced new financial support for innovative nuclear technologies and a European Union strategy for small modular reactors which aims to see them operational in Europe by the early 2030s."
fifteen years since the 3/11 earthquake struck, since I sheltered under a desk at my then workplace in Tokyo and watched the corners of the room rock open and closed like mouths, since the tsunami washed so many poor souls in Tohoku away, since the Fukushima meltdown that changed everything and nothing.
#march11 #tohoku #earthquake #tsunami
#fukushima #nuclear #meltdown
15 years since the 3/11 earthquake, since I sheltered under a desk in Tokyo while the corners of the room opened and closed like mouths, since the tsunami washed so many poor souls away, since the meltdown that changed everything #march11 #tohoku #earthquake #tsunami #fukushima #nuclear #meltdown
Von der Leyen i altres poderosos de la UE volen tornar a l'energia #nuclear.
És curiós que ho diguin la vetlla del 15è aniversari de l'accident de #Fukushima.
👉https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_nuclear_de_Fukushima_I
Fer una central nuclear duu 15 anys, mínim. En aquest temps, les energies #renovables ja haurem doblat la quota!
Són més flexibles, escalables, barates i distribuïdes.
Si no tens energia #solar, ves a la #cooperativa de la teva zona.
A #Mallorca, jo estic amb Som Serveis Energètics. T'ho recoman!
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