Die privaten Haushalte in Deutschland haben im 1. Halbjahr 2023 im Durchschnitt 12,26 Cent je Kilowattstunde Erdgas gezahlt. Strom kostete die Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher durchschnittlich 42,29 Cent je Kilowattstunde. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) weiter mitteilt, stiegen die Gaspreise damit gegenüber dem 2. Halbjahr 2022 um 31,3 %, die Strompreise um 21,0 % https://perma.cc/5A9Q-ZG6T

Suisse: L’anno prossimo un’economia domestica standard pagherà 32,14 centesimi per chilowattora (ct./kWh), che corrisponde ad un aumento di 4.94 ct./kWh https://perma.cc/U6F8-WPR6

In Italia paghiamo l'elettricità più cara d'Europa: la colpa è del gas https://perma.cc/ZY3C-JYQP

La Svizzera è tra i Paesi in cui il costo dell’energia pesa meno sul bilancio familiare https://perma.cc/XN59-UBPK

Nell'UE i prezzi più alti dell'energia elettrica per i consumatori non domestici in Italia (0,17 EUR per kWh), i più bassi in Danimarca (0,07 EUR per kWh) nel primo semestre del 2019 ... vs €0.25 per KWh nel 2023 (1.47x)
https://news.1rj.ru/str/AfDFakten/539

Nell'UE i prezzi più alti dell'energia elettrica per i consumatori domestici in Germania (0,31 EUR per kWh), i più bassi in Bulgaria (0,10 EUR per kWh) nel primo semestre del 2019 https://perma.cc/S2TR-48MG
vs €0.4125 per KW 2023 = 1.3x für Deutschland
Italy 0.38 vs 0.23 2019 = 1.65x

Korea had the highest level of public acceptance before the accident (86.9 percent), followed by China, Bulgaria, Russia, and Bangladesh. Greece had the lowest public acceptance rate among the 42 countries (11.4 percent), and the level of public acceptance in Austria and Morocco was below 20 percent (Fig. 1). After the accident, the level of public acceptance in 40 countries declined (Morocco and Spain were the exceptions). As expected, Japan had the largest decrease in public acceptance rates (22.8 percent), followed by Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, Bangladesh, and China.

Although Spain's acceptance level increase was not statistically significant, Morocco had a 15.3 percent increase in acceptance. One possible reason for Morocco's counter-trend is that the proportion of people who had heard about the leakage of radiation from the nuclear reactor in Japan was smaller in Morocco (78.8 percent) than in the other countries (88.3 percent).

Despite this bias, it is clear that for most well-studied groups, greatly elevated radiation levels can occur up to thousands of kilometers away from the disaster site. For example, recorded radiation levels in mushrooms were up to 13,000 Bq/kg in Denmark in 1991 (Strand- berg 2003) and up to 25690 Bq/kg in Norway in 1994 (Amundsen et al. 1996).

According to the International Nuclear Event Scale by the International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclear accidents have also occurred in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former USSR, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States; and incidents have been recorded in Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States (Sovacool 2010).

The environmental consequences of nuclear accidents, although potentially drastic, are easily marginalized in policy debates—these include fallout of radioactive sub- stances, biological contamination, and even changes to the behavior, physiology, and morphology of species (Møller & Mousseau 2006).

Some European countries such Italy and Austria to name only a few, have already renounced nuclear energy and closed down their existing nuclear power plants. Others, like Germany and Switzerland have announced, following the Fukushima reactor catastrophe that they plan to abandon nuclear power in the near future: Germany by the year 2022 and Switzerland by the year 2034 or slightly later.

Many people living near nuclear test sites were subsequently affected by radioactivity and some regions in the vicinity of these test sides were, years later, still heavily contaminated.

Unfortunately, for most of these contaminations and incidents, lile to no data has been published on the num- ber of affected persons and the health and environmental implications. Only in 2009, did the French government decide that people living near French nuclear test sites on French islands in the South Pacific Ocean affected by nuclear tests should receive indemnity payments.

The crash over Canada of a Russian satellite (Kosmos 954) in 1978 powered by a nuclear reactor, scattered radioactive debris all over Northern Canada.

Two US military aircraft carrying nuclear weapons, crashed, one of them near Palomares in Spain (1966) and the other near Thule in Greenland (1968); the bombs didn’t explode, but a major regional contamination came as a consequence of the crash.

A medical instrument containing a 137Cs source put away on scrap near Goiânia in Brazil (1987) where the radiation source was not dispose safely, causing an im- portant contamination of the scrap dump, four deaths and some 50 injured.

And finally three heavy reactor accidents with severe damage to the installations:

At the (underground) Experimental Nuclear Power Plant (CNL) near Lucens/VD in Switzerland (1969), fortunately with no environmental consequences, as the report to the Swiss Authorities concluded

At the Windscale Nuclear Reactor in Cumberland (now Sellafield), Cumbria, UK (1957),

At the nuclear power plant of TMI5 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the US