Perhaps the Biggest Winner in $Germany’s Election: #NuclearPower

The victorious #conservatives and the surging #FarRight both are big fans.

Alexander C. Kaufman, February 27, 2025

"Nuclear energy may be the big winner.

"Europe’s largest economy shuttered its last reactors two years ago in what was meant to be an irreversible exit from atomic energy. But surging energy prices and electricity demand are driving calls to revive Germany’s nuclear power industry.

"As the victorious Christian Democratic Union (#CDU) and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, wrote in their party manifesto, 'We are resolved to stick with the nuclear energy option, counting on research on nuclear energy in its 4th and 5th generation, small modular reactors, and fusion reactors. We are assessing the resumption of operation of the recently-shut-down nuclear power plants.'"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/germany-election-afd-conservatives-far-right-klaus-wiener-cdu-nuclear-powerthe-biggest-winner-in-germanys-election-may-be-nuclear-power/
#RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #NuclearTerrorism #Renewables #RenewablesNow #GermanPol #NuclearPowerNoThanks #Atomkraft #AtomkraftNeinDanke

Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s #energy grid could cause nuclear accident, #IAEA chief warns

Russia’s continued #attacks against Ukraine’s power grid heighten the risk of a #nuclear #accident, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned during his visit to Kyiv on Feb. 4.

https://kyivindependent.com/russias-attacks-on-ukraines-energy-grid-could-cause-nuclear-accident-iaea-chief-warns/

#Nuclear #escalation fears can’t override Ukraine’s right to defend itself

While Russia wields imperial dreams and #nuclear #threats, the world suffocates — both under the weight of #war and the smog of neglect

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-nuclear-escalation-fears-cant-override-ukraines-right-to-defend-itself/

#Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant faces 2nd blackout of the week after Russian attacks

This is the second time this week that the plant has been seriously threatened by a blackout, which could compromise conditions for safe operation and cause an accident.

At the moment, the plant is connected to the #Ukrainian power grid by only one transmission line.

https://kyivindependent.com/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-faces-2nd-blackout-of-the-week-after-russian-attacks/

Ukraine braces for winter freeze amid potential Russian strikes targeting nuclear power

After destroying much of Ukraine’s thermoelectric power generation, Russian air strikes increasingly aim to disconnect the country’s #nuclear plants from the electricity grid

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-wants-to-cut-off-ukraines-nuclear-power-plants/

#Ukraine wants UN nuclear watchdog foreign observers near all its nuclear plants

Intelligence shows #Russia planning to strike 3 power plants continuing its strategy of targeting, crippling Ukraine’s energy system

Ukraine only has 3 operating #nuclear facilities — #Rivne & #Khmelnytskyi in country’s west, & #Pivdennoukrainsk in south.

#Chornobyl is decommissioned, & #Zaporizhzhia has been under Russian occupation since 2022

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-discussing-with-atomic-agency-to-place-missions-near-all-its-nuclear-power-plants/

Russia considering changes to its nuclear doctrine due to developments “related to lowering the threshold for the use of #nuclear weapons”

#Putin has repeatedly made nuclear threats against the West. The threats failed to materialize

#G7 issued a statement on June 14 warning Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, noting Moscow’s "posture of strategic #intimidation."

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-considering-changes-to-nuclear-doctrine-putin-claims/

Polish FM - US will strike Russian troops in Ukraine if Russia uses nuclear weapons

#Putin has repeatedly made #nuclear threats against Ukraine & the West since the beginning invading #Ukraine in Feb 2022

“The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn’t kill anybody, we will hit all your targets (positions) in Ukraine with conventional weapons, we’ll destroy all of them,”

https://kyivindependent.com/polish-fm-says-us-will-strike-russian-troops-in-ukraine-if-russia-uses-nuclear-weapons/

Russia launched a satellite into space in Feb 2022 to test components for a potential anti-satellite weapon that would carry a nuclear device. However, the satellite that was launched didn't carry a nuclear weapon

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee warned in February of a “serious” but unspecified security threat from Russia. Reports then followed that the threat relates to Russia’s desire to “put a nuclear weapon into space.”

https://kyivindependent.com/wsj-russia-tested-space-based-anti-satellite-weapon-with-potential-nuclear-capabilities-in-2022/

Russia plans #FalseFlag attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Drone attacks against the occupied #Zaporizhzhia #Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on April 7 and 9 were part of a well-planned false flag operation by the #Russian Federation

#Ukraine dismissed the idea that Ukrainian forces were responsible for the strikes, pointing out that Russia’s allegations involve “low-power close-range #FVP-drones” breaching the plant’s heavy defenses

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-plans-false-flag-attacks-on-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-kyiv-tells-un/

Experts at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continue to be denied access to the reactor halls of units 1, 2, and 6 of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)

These restrictions are impeding the #IAEA’s ability to assess the safety & security, confirming reported status of reactor units, spent fuel ponds & safety equipment

https://kyivindependent.com/iaea-experts-continue-to-be-denied-access-to-reactor-halls-at-russian-occupied-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant/

IAEA experts can’t access 3 reactor halls at Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

For the past 2 weeks, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been denied access to the reactor halls of units 1, 2, & 6 of #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

This is the 1st time #IAEA experts have been denied access to a reactor hall that is in cold shutdown

https://kyivindependent.com/iaea-experts-cant-access-3-reactor-halls-at-russian-occupied-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant/

Russia claims drone attack on #Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

Three drones attempted to attack Kursk Nuclear Power Plant on the evening of Oct. 26, the Russian state atomic energy corporation #Rosatom claimed on Oct. 27.

Air defense systems in Kursk Oblast intercepted drones multiple times over the evening of Oct. 26, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-claims-drone-attack-on-kursk-nuclear-power-plant/

#IAEA: Previously reported mines remain at #Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

The monitoring mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has observed previously reported anti-personnel mines at the Russian-occupied #ZaporizhzhiaNuclearPowerPlant

The team confirmed that the previously reported mines remain in place

https://kyivindependent.com/iaea-observes-mines-at-russian-occupied-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-hears-explosions-distance-away/

Russian occupation authorities are suspending the operation of reactors at the #ZaporizhzhiaNuclearPowerPlant

Since Russian forces occupied the plant in March 2022, they have used it as a military base from which they launch attacks at Ukrainian-controlled territory across the Dnipro River

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-proxies-in-occupied-zaporizhzhia-suspend-reactors/