Thema: Kernkraft

Atomkraftgegner empört

Stromriesen gehen gegen Ausstiegsplan auf die Barrikaden

Düsseldorf – Die deutschen Kernkraftwerksbetreiber gehen gegen die Pläne der Bundesregierung für den Atomausstieg auf die Barrikaden. RWE-Chef Jürgen Großmann forderte in einem Brief an Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) deutlich längere Laufzeiten für das Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen B. Nach seinen Vorstellungen soll der bayerische...

07.06.2011

NTD: Nuclear power in Germany

Germany To Be Nuclear-Free by 2022

Time's running out for the Biblis nuclear power plant in Germany. It and the country's other 16 nuclear reactors will be closed by 2022. The Fukushima disaster in Japan led Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government to do a rapid policy U-turn, only nine months after Merkel said she was going to extend the plants' lifespan by over a...

01.06.2011

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Anti-Government Protests Continue in Tokyo

Japanese protesters march through the streets of Tokyo demanding the government take responsibility for the accident that caused radiation to leak into the sea. Anti-nuclear demonstrations have become common here since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged nuclear reactors in northern Japan. But one former lawmaker says this...

19.04.2011

NTD: fukushima

Japan Raises Nuclear Accident Severity to Level 7

Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to a level seven on Tuesday, putting it on par with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Officials say the rating reflects the initial severity of the crisis, but radiation levels are much lower now. [Hidehiko Nishiyama, Nuclear & Industrial Safety...

13.04.2011

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Japan Stocks Slip, TEPCO Hits New Low

Japanese stocks fell on Tuesday, with the Nikkei average ending at 1.06 percent at 9615.55. The Tokyo Electric Power Company fell to an all-time low as workers battled to contain a radiation leak triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami. The company's shares plunged as low as 18 percent to 362 yen on uncertainty over the safety...

06.04.2011

Ehemaliger Umweltminister Töpfer

Auf der Suche nach einer Welt ohne Kernkraft

Berlin – Der frühere Umweltminister Klaus Töpfer steht vor großen Herausforderungen. Unter seiner Leitung soll ein 14-köpfiger "Rat der Weisen" die Weichen für die künftige Energieversorgung stellen. Der Auftrag für diese heikle Mission nach der Atomkatastrophe in Japan kommt direkt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU), die sich...

04.04.2011

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Japanese Emperor Visits Evacuation Center

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit families sheltering at an evacuation centre in Tokyo on Wednesday. Kneeling to talk to earthquake, tsunami and nuclear evacuees housed within small partitions in a sports venue, the Emperor and Empress slowly made their way around the temporary shelter. The Emperor previously made an...

01.04.2011

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Japan Begins Water Distribution in Tokyo

Local government officials in Tokyo have started distributing bottled water to families with babies under a year old. Boxes of water bottles started arriving at local city offices on Thursday, to be distributed to parents in need of clean water. [Takashi Sakai, Sinjuku Ward Crisis Manager]: "We are distributing three, 550 milliliter bottles to...

25.03.2011

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Japanese Fishermen Fear Radiation in the Sea

Much of this fishing port in Takahagi was washed away by huge tsunami waves on March 11th. And now fishermen, who evacuated the area, are just getting around to untangling nets and cleaning up the wreckage. But as they try to clean up the port so the surviving boats can go out to sea again, a new problem is weighing on their minds. Further...

24.03.2011

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Japan's Markets React Sharply to Earthquake Disaster

Japanese financial markets fell sharply on Monday, after the most devastating natural disaster in the country's history, as eyes at home and abroad turned to its nuclear power industry. With estimates of more than 10,000 casualties and over $100 billion in damages, investors looked for safe havens until specifics from the worst earthquake...

15.03.2011

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Explosion at Nuclear Plant in Japan

Local television broadcast pictures of an explosion at a nuclear plant in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. Smoke billows from the 40-year-old Daichi 1 nuclear plant. The explosion blew off the roof of the unstable reactor, raising fears of a disastrous meltdown. NHK television said the outer structure of the building which houses the reactor...

14.03.2011

EnBW kämpft für längere Laufzeit eines alten Kernkraftwerks

Berlin – Nach dem Stromkonzern RWE hat auch der Karlsruher Versorger EnBW beim Bundesumweltministerium eine Laufzeitverlängerung für ein altes Kernkraftwerk beantragt. So soll der 30 Jahre alte Atommeiler Neckarwestheim I nicht wie geplant 2009, sondern 2017 vom Netz gehen, wie das Unternehmen am Donnerstag in Berlin bekannt gab. Zugleich...

21.12.2006

Störfall in Forsmark entfacht neue Atomkraftdebatte

Stockholm/Frankfurt - Der Störfall im Atomkraftwerk Forsmark hat sowohl in Schweden als auch in Deutschland die Debatte über das Für und Wider der Atomkraft neu entfacht. Eine Woche vor der Parlamentswahl in dem skandinavischen Land forderte die Linkspartei (VP) im Stockholmer Reichstag, die die sozialdemokratische Minderheitsregierung...

04.08.2006