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Money talks: Nuclear power play

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The low-rate world

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Nuclear power

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China wants its nuclear industry to grow dauntingly fast

UPON learning (via a terse government statement) that their bustling port city in eastern China had been tipped as the likely site of a plant to recycle used nuclear fuel, residents of Lianyungang took to the streets last month in their thousands. Police, whose warnings against demonstrations were ignored, deployed with riot gear in large numbers but only scuffled with the protesters, who rallied, chanted and waved banners in the city centre for several days. “No one consulted us about this,” says one woman who participated in the protests. “We love our city. We have very little pollution and we don’t want a nuclear-fuel plant anywhere near us. The government says it is totally safe, but how can they be …
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Nuclear power: A glowing future

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Simon Long hosts as Money talks investigates why UK Prime Minister Theresa May has reversed course on a new nuclear power plant. Also: the great pensions reckoning facing economies worldwide and how a tech paper tiger is breaking new ground for innovators in Berlin

 

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Money talks: Nuclear power play

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Art of the lie

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GERMANY’S largest utilities, E.ON and RWE, used to be known in the stockmarket as “widows’ and orphans’ paper”, so dependable were their profits and dividends. Those days are long gone. Since 2011, when the government stepped up its support for wind and solar energy and decided to abandon nuclear power after Japan’s Fukushima disaster, the share prices of both firms have plunged by two-thirds.
That is why both firms are splitting in two. Their aim is to free up their renewables businesses, allowing them to thrive relatively unencumbered by debts, while underpinning their earnings with boring but reliable returns from running electricity down pylons, poles and wires. Dirtier power-generating assets, exposed to the vagaries of climate politics and commodities prices, are being put into separate companies. In a culmination of this process, on September 12th E.ON plans to spin off Uniper, a new firm into which it has separated …
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German power companies: Breaking bad

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A platform for all shoes

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One of Europe’s most interesting technology companies sells shoes and threads

A platform for all shoes

PAST the rolling hills, grazing ponies and sleepy villages of North Rhine-Westphalia, in west Germany, a convoy of trucks converges on Mönchengladbach. Here a hangar the size of 13 football fields encloses the logistics centre of Zalando, Europe’s biggest online vendor of clothing and footwear. Inside, people pack boxes with shoes, jeans and handbags; and thousands of parcels progress at fairground speed up and down a 14km conveyor belt where they are weighed, labelled, scanned and sorted before tumbling down slides into trucks bound for 15 countries. Last year Zalando shipped 55m orders, over 100 per minute, from three such warehouses.
The firm’s founders, …
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Zalando: Fashion forward