Conflict nuclear power. Theses for current supply with and without nuclear power

In the context of a lecture at the 2nd Internationally Renewable Energy Storage Conference at 19th to 21st November, 2007, in Bonn (Federal Republic of Germany), the author of the contribution under consideration reports on theses for current supply with and without nuclear power. (1) Theses for current supply with nuclear energy: Due to a relative amount of 17 % of nuclear energy in the world-wide energy production and due to the present reactor technology, the supplies of uranium amount nearly 50 to 70 years. The security of the nuclear power stations is controversially judged in the public and policy. In a catastrophic accident in a nuclear power station, an amount of nearly 2.5 billion Euro is available for adjustment of damages (cover note). The disposal of radioactive wastes is not solved anywhere in the world. The politically demanded separation between military and civilian use of the nuclear energy technology is not possible. The exit from the nuclear energy is fixed in the atomic law. By any means, the Federal Republic of Germany is not insulated in the European Union according to its politics of nuclear exit. After legal adjustment of the exit from the nuclear energy the Federal Republic of Germany should unfold appropriate activities for the re-orientation of Euratom, Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The consideration of the use of nuclear energy in relation to the risks has to result that its current kind of use is not acceptable and to be terminated as fast as possible. (2) Theses for current supply without nuclear energy: The scenario technology enables a transparency of energy future being deliverable for political decisions. In accordance with this scenario, the initial extra costs of the development of the renewable energies and the combined heat and power generation amount approximately 4 billion Euro per year. The conversion of the power generation to renewable energies and combined heat and power generation requires new participants such as industrial companies, industrial concerns, municipalities and private people. In order to progress the development of the renewable energies, the renewable energy law must remain unchanged for longer time. One of the most efficient technologies for the reduction of carbon dioxide is the simultaneous generation of power and heat by means of combined heat and power generation. The demand to dispense with coal and to use natural gas instead of coal, ha a wrong idea about the delivery risks and price risks of the gas supply and increases the dependence from imports. The technology of the separation and storage of carbon dioxide is not necessary, in order to reach a reduction of the carbon dioxide from 80 % to the year 2050. Due to the environmental sequences and climatic sequences connected with the power generation electricity should be used rationally. The change of the German national economy requires the dismantling of unnecessary current consumption, the development of the combined heat and power generation and the development of renewable energies