1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Klimakrise | Hitze | Starkregen | Bruttoinlandsprodukt Studie über ökonomische Schäden: Klimakrise schrumpft Weltwirtschaft Die Erderhitzung lässt nicht nur Gletscher, sondern auch den Wohlstand schmelzen, warnen Klimaforscher*innen. Auch in Deutschland. Die Klimakrise macht uns ärmer: Die Weltwirtschaft droht durch die Erderhitzung bis 2050 etwa um ein Fünftel zu schrumpfen, warnen...

  2. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Design of the control rods by the manufacturer Gidropress. In the event of a simultaneous loss of coolant (e.g. due to the supply line being torn off), its failure could have led to overheating and melting of the reactor core. The operator had originally classified the incident as level 0 on the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale, but the...

  3. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    rose rapidly, and the pressure vessel lid blew up after an explosion. After misunderstandings by the operating team, the reactor went out of control and the fissile material began to melt. To stop the chain reaction, hundreds of thousands of liters of highly radioactive water were released, which collected in the basement of the reactor. The evacuation of the buildings was...

  4. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    could be attractive... * Global warming | Glacier | Apocalypse Ice shelf melt inevitable: New York and Hamburg will sink into the sea Apocalypse The West Antarctic ice shelf will melt, even if global warming is limited to 1,5 degrees. This will cause the global oceans to rise by up to five meters. This would mean that not only New York would be doomed - but also Emden...

  5. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Israel and the countries justifying this policy." * October 17, 1969 (INES 4) Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant, FRA More than 50 kilograms of uranium fuel at the Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant began melting after the cooling systems failed. The plant had to be shut down and repaired. The reactor took a year to repair. (Cost approximately US$541,4 million) Nuclear Power...

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

    A law enforcement officer was taken into custody for questioning... News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** India | Freedom of the press | environmental activists | Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting India: floods and destruction - the last generation is right The warnings about the floods in the Indian state of Sikkim were ignored - because of the profit of a few. Parallels to the fight...

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

    By the end of the century, 90 percent of the colonies could be extinct. According to an analysis, emperor penguins are suffering massively from the disappearance of sea ice in Antarctica. Last year, the severe melting of the ice led to the death of all chicks in four out of five colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea, according to the study by the British Antarctic Survey. Satellite images...

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

    Reactor accident in 1986 particularly affected. A small proportion of the radiation can be traced back to the above-ground nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s... * Climate catastrophe | Glaciers are melting in Peru | RWE Group Corporations in court Floods, heavy rain and record heat. Who should pay for the damage? A growing number of plaintiffs are demanding that corporations comply...

  9. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    an operator the emergency feed water pumps. At first the event was classified as “extraordinary”; The incident was later investigated in more detail and it was found that a nuclear meltdown (melting of the reactor core) had almost occurred... Wikipedia en Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version ) Sierra Club DAVIS-BESSE...

  10. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    in combination with 2% zirconium melted in experiments that provided for a rapid increase in performance because fuel tubes became distorted. Through evaporation of the coolant NaK, the melting fuel was transported into the tubes of the cooling system and the criticality fell below, causing the reactor to shut itself down... There isn't much information on the English Wikipedia either...

  11. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    | 1989-1980 | 1979-1970 | 1969-1960 | 1959-1950 | 1949-1940 | Previously 1969 October 17, 1969 (INES 4) Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant, FRA More than 50 kilograms of uranium fuel at the Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant began melting after the cooling systems failed. The system had to be shut down and repaired. Repairing the reactor took a year. (Cost approximately US$541,4 million) Nuclear Power...

  12. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Design of the control rods by the manufacturer Gidropress. In the event of a simultaneous loss of coolant (e.g. due to the supply line being torn off), its failure could have led to overheating and melting of the reactor core. The operator had originally classified the incident as level 0 on the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale, but the...

  13. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Researchers warn that 80 percent of the volume could be gone by the end of the century. KATHMANDU afp/ap | The glaciers in the Himalayas provide water for up to two billion people. Still. According to scientists, they are melting faster than ever before due to climate change. According to a report released Tuesday by the International Center for Integrated Development of...

  14. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    an operator the emergency feed water pumps. At first the event was classified as “extraordinary”; The incident was later investigated in more detail and it was found that a meltdown (melting of the reactor core) had almost occurred. According to estimates by the IAEA, the accident was rated at least as INES 4, i.e. “accident”. Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States Sierra Club...

  15. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    become. Worse, representatives of the military-industrial complex are praised in the field of digital rights... * Glacier | Gulf Stream | Meltwater Ocean currents The great melting at the poles More and more fresh water is flowing into the sea at the poles. This threatens to change the currents in the oceans, and sooner or later Europe's "central heating" could fail. A new...

  16. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    – and in Germany the government is arguing about climate protection as if it were all still far away. Some people ask themselves: Are it really the “climate gluers” who are breaking the law? Glaciers worldwide are melting three times faster than climate researchers predicted 20 years ago. Temperatures have also reached new highs in Europe. Summer 2022 was the hottest...

  17. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Design of the control rods by the manufacturer Gidropress. In the event of a simultaneous loss of coolant (e.g. due to the supply line being torn off), its failure could have led to overheating and melting of the reactor core. The operator had originally classified the incident as level 0 on the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale, but the...

  18. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    Newsletter III 2023 January 15th to 21st *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  19. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    Newsletter XLV 2022 November 08th to 15th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

  20. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    Landlords would offer tenant electricity The plant had to be shut down and repaired. The repair of the reactor took a year. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf - Nuclear Power PlantsPlag...

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