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New status report confirms: Nuclear power plays an increasingly minor role

The new World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024 clearly confirms this: "Contrary to widespread perception, nuclear power remains irrelevant in the international market for electricity generating technologies. Solar plus storage might be the game changer for the adaptation of policy decisions to current industrial realities", the authors summarize the development.

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The logo of Nihon Hidankyo, illustration by Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nihon Hidankyo awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

The Japanese anti-nuclear weapons organization Nihon Hidankyo will be awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. This was announced by the Nobel Committee in Oslo on October 11. The organization of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, will receive the peace prize for its commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons.

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Honoured for their life's work: Anna Rondon and Claus Biegert, Photo: Uranium Film Festival

Claus Biegert honored for his Life's Work

At this year's Uranium Film Festival, Claus Biegert, who founded the Nuclear Free Future Award and has been instrumental in the work of the Nuclear Free Future Foundation for 20 years, and Navajo activist Anna Rondon, who heads the New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute in New Mexico/USA, were honoured with the Honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards. The awards were presented to the two during the International Uranium Film Festival at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock.

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Wladimir Sliwjak, Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, photo: Right Livelihood Award

"Rosatom Is Putin’s Geopolitical Arm"

The French energy corporation Framatome operates the German nuclear fuel facility in Lingen through its subsidiary Advanced Nuclear Fuels. Two years ago, the state-owned French energy company EDF attempted to collaborate with the similarly state-owned Russian nuclear energy group Rosatom in a joint fuel element production venture, but those plans were scuttled following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Framatome launched this joint venture in France, but still intends to produce fuel elements for Soviet-designed nuclear power plants in Lingen, Eastern Germany, with Russian help. Franza Drechsel and Horst Hamm spoke with scientist Vladimir Slivyak and anti-nuclear campaigner Matthias Eickhoff about why French state-owned companies are enriching Russian uranium on German soil and what implications it has for the environment, the energy grid, and European geopolitics.

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News about the Nuclear-Free Future Awards

The Nuclear Free Future Awards will be continued in cooperation with Claus Biegert, co-founder of the NFFA, Beyond Nuclear (USA) and IPPNW (DE).

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Turkey before the Start of the Nuclear Age

Turkey's first nuclear power plant is due to be connected to the grid soon. We asked Özgür Gürbüz, co-founder of the Turkish environmental protection organization Ekosfer, how the Turkish public perceives the entry into the nuclear age.

Interview: Horst Hamm

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France's nuclear Plans - with the Support of the EU Council of Ministers

When reforming the electricity market in Europe, the EU Council of Ministers decided that new and existing nuclear power plants may be subsidized by the state. Anti-nuclear activists in France are protesting against this decision. They are now hoping that the EU Parliament will stop the plans.

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Meet the 2022 NFFA winners

Anthony Lyamunda from Tanzania, Libbe HaLevy from the USA, Cécile Lecomte from France and Malte Göttsche and Irmgard Gietl, both from Germany, were awarded the Nuclear Free Future Award last year. You can meet the award winners in a Zoom meeting.

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"Uranium mining is a disaster for Niger"

Almoustapha Alhacen on the situation of uranium mining after the military coup in July 2023.

Interview: Franza Drechsel and Horst Hamm

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Call for a worldwide peace action against the threat of nuclear war

August 6 marks the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The organization Humanity for Peace calls on anti-nuclear initiatives and peace groups to participate in the worldwide peace action.

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