The nuclear meltdown in Fukuyama delivered live pictures of the statistical remaining risks of nuclear power plants but there are other subtler and more distant issues with nuclear energy. Just like other European states, Switzerland uses the Russian nuclear facility of Mayak for recycling its used nuclear fuel elements. This is without any doubt matchlessly…
Tag Archive: Nuclear Power
Saving Energy – Costing More
If there is a message to learn from the recent nuclear meltdown in Fukushima and the ongoing climate warming on which everybody could agree, it would probably be the insight that electricity is a scarce and more and more valuable good. Considering that, you would naturally assume that efficient energy use is promoted and rewarded…
Nuclear Energy – Conservaties Take a Stand for Cost Transparency
At the same time as in Japan the core of the nuclear plant of Fukushima is melting, German and Swiss right wing politician’s positions concerning nuclear energy are faltering. It is close to revolutionary that one of the leading newspaper publishes an article speaking of significant externalized (unaccounted) costs of nuclear power, hidden public subsidies…
Nuclear Industry in Switzerland – Most Expensive Campaign Ever
In 2013 Switzerland will have a national referendum whether to construct new nuclear power plants. Billions Swiss Francs of cheap benefits for the nuclear industry are at stake and therefore the industry invests heavily in order to preemptively persuade Swiss voters from their point of view. Years before the decision, the big nuclear companies employ…
