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    Two small fittings on the personnel lock of the security container were forgotten when starting up and nitrogen escaped during inerting... Nuclear power plantsPlag Philippsburg (Baden-Württemberg) Philippsburg II was started up in August 2001 with a defective emergency cooling system. Although the defect was discovered two weeks later, the reactor remained in operation illegally. Later...

  2. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    and SuedOstLink, which are intended to transport electricity from the windy north to the south and eliminate bottlenecks. The Federal Network Agency expects that the commissioning of the Ultranet direct current line from Düsseldorf to Philippsburg in Baden-Württemberg could be brought forward by one year to 2026. [...] Already in 2023, the number of approved route kilometers was...

  3. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    Energies covered around 2024 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 56. This emerges from projections by the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industry (BDEW). In total, renewable energy systems generated around 75,9 billion kilowatt hours of electricity from January to March...

  4. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    an innovative agricultural photovoltaic system was tested. Your solar modules depend on the sun and the light needs of the plants. It is a first in agriculture, at least in Baden-Württemberg: solar modules that not only follow the sun, but are also based on the needs of the plant. On a fruit farm in Oberkirch-Nußbach in the Ortenau district, such a novel...

  5. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    The party is not even putting together a list of candidates for the local elections in June. Mayor Boris Palmer told SPIEGEL that this weakness was his success. While the far-right party in Baden-Württemberg recently reached 16 percent in surveys, the university town of Tübingen remains an AfD-free island. For the local elections on June 9th, not even a...

  6. Newsletter

    of the new CEO Georg Stamatelopoulos. While high prices for electricity and gas burden customers, the energy company EnBW is making billions in profits: The supplier from Baden-Württemberg increased its earnings by more than half last year compared to 2022, as the Karlsruhe-based company announced on Wednesday morning. Accordingly, the adjusted...

  7. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    completed in 15 to 20 years. We must have solved all of our problems long ago," said Scholz in response to a student's question during a question and answer session at a vocational school center in Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg. The electricity that comes from such power plants costs many times more than the electricity from wind power , solar energy or other production sources cost, says Scholz...

  8. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    according to current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de February 17th France | landfill | Toxic waste Underground landfill on the border with Baden-Württemberg Final disposal of French toxic waste in Alsace is becoming more likely France's highest administrative court has overturned a court ruling that work on a landfill...

  9. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    Reproduce company. NATO has concluded an arms deal worth 1,1 billion euros with a German and a French manufacturer. The companies Junghans Microtec from Baden-Württemberg and the French arms company Nexter are to deliver 155 millimeter artillery shells, announced NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The contracts with the manufacturers were...

  10. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    installed and operated in church buildings. Church communities can lease their roofs in order to reduce the financial and organizational burden. The new monument protection guidelines in Baden-Württemberg make it easier to install solar systems. The heritage issues are put aside. There are similar projects in the Württemberg regional church and...

  11. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    from the Union camp. This is always something to keep in mind. Even after the end in Hesse, there are still five state governments in which black and green have to work side by side: Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. There the CDU is in coalition with its “main opponent”. And the Greens govern with a “party of yesterday”. * Finland |...

  12. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    local peace groups with the managing director of the Palmyra publishing house at the One World Center. After she failed, she contacted the Ministry of the Interior in Baden-Württemberg about the matter. Now Michael Blume, the state government's representative against anti-Semitism, is demanding that the lecture be examined. [...] His lecture at the One World Center "a one-sided...

  13. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    researched. Partly on special test tracks like in Italy, partly on public roads. A motorway section in Bavaria and a one-kilometer-long bus lane in Balingen in Baden-Württemberg are to become inductive... * Israel | War on Terror | Ceasefire Israel War: Terror cannot be fought through war Israel's campaign is reminiscent of the failed...

  14. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    would relieve the burden on the beleaguered government and restore national unity. Shortly before the attack, Netanyahu had assured that there was no threat from the Gaza Strip... * Bavaria | Baden-Württemberg | Wind power Expansion of wind power in southern Germany: Söder misses the energy transition The expansion of wind power is making progress. But it can't be that Bavaria and the green ruled...

  15. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    At the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant (Heilbronn district), damage was discovered in the system for treating radioactive wastewater during a routine inspection. According to a statement from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, two leaks were found in a pipeline at the end of September, resulting in acidic radioactive liquid escaping. However, the contamination caused is low...

  16. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    It was around 52 percent - an increase of almost five percentage points compared to the same period last year, as preliminary calculations by the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industry (BDEW) show. The expansion of renewable energies plays a central role for the federal government in achieving climate goals and...

  17. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    from ZEIT ONLINE on January 13, 2021. The author Timo Büchner describes an action by the right-wing extremist group Junge Revolution, which put up a banner with a racist slogan on a parking garage near Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg and distributed a video of it. For right-wing extremist reporters like Büchner, such cases are everyday business. But this...

  18. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    let. The reason: impending bottlenecks in the drinking water supply. Producing drinking water from the Baltic Sea would be "uncharted territory." An example from Baden-Württemberg shows that such a pipe system can work. There, water from Lake Constance is piped to the north of the state. Whether this can also work between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin and Brandenburg is now a question...

  19. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Wind energy should happen faster. Sun and wind are the key energy sources of tomorrow. Through electricity storage and power lines from the windy north to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, we will soon be able to use even more renewable energy. Even if the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. When wind power on land and wind power at sea are combined,...

  20. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    commissioning and violations of the relevant instructions have probably been common practice for several years. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf Nuclear power plantsPlag Philippsburg (Baden-Württemberg) Philippsburg II was started up in August 2001 with a defective emergency cooling system. Although the defect was discovered two weeks later, the reactor remained in operation illegally. Later...

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