Posts in the category "Climate"

The exemptions granted to 4 nuclear power plants (out of 18) for their thermal discharges, in the current context of heat wave, generate a lot of comments. Let us recall, once again, that these discharge temperature and upstream-downstream temperature constraints (which concern all thermal power plants) aim to protect ecosystems, and essentially impact the electricity…

Misperception of risk ⚠️x🎲 ! The Swiss Federal Office of Public Protection (OFPP) 🇨🇭 produced this risk diagram at the end of 2020, positioning events according to their probability of occurrence and their expected damage (here in financial cost). The more an event is located in the upper right, the higher the risk it represents…