2011 Nuclear Power Politics 
Circle of Blue
JULY 25, 2025
Water is being used as a strategic and political tool. In Syria, beginning in 2011, drought and groundwater depletion drove rural unrest that contributed to the civil war, which displaced millions of people. We should expect to see that more often as the water supply crisis is exacerbated.” Aaron Salzberg, former U.S.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Cooperation between Russia and China on fast breeder reactors Civilian nuclear agreements and cooperation between countries are not uncommon, especially between nuclear supplier countries and those looking to expand and develop nuclear power programs. U-235) for China’s CEFR.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
United Nations experts will assess plans to release treated radioactive water into the ocean from a closed nuclear power plant in Japan. HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine.
A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2021
The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .
Law Columbia
JUNE 1, 2022
Japan is the world’s 5 th largest CO 2 emitter, with 85 % of emissions deriving from the energy sector, which heavily relies on the use of coal-fired power plants. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels.
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
It has therefore drafted a proposal(2)- a Delegated Regulation - which sets out screening criteria for investments in nuclear energy, effectively declaring nuclear energy part of the sustainable finance taxonomy. There are no good arguments to call nuclear a sustainable investment at one time and not sustainable a moment later.
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