Newsletter XXVII 2021

June 14st to 21th

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June 21, 2021 - Russia and China out of play in the case of a nuclear power plant order in the Czech Republic

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Search for a repository in China

June 21, 2021 - China begins construction of underground laboratory

Translate with https://www.deepL.com/translator (free version)

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June 21, 2021 - Iran shuts down nuclear power plant after "technical error" for the time being

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June 18, 2021 - No eco-label for gas and nuclear: IPPNW warns of EU taxonomy plans

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Nationalisation

June 17, 2021 - Berlin buys back power grid from Vattenfall

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June 17, 2021 - Grohnde nuclear power plant: Opponents of nuclear power criticize dismantling plans

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June 17, 2021 - China confirms problems in nuclear reactor, denies radiation leaks

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June 16, 2021 - RWE tribunal meets at the "crime scene"

Kick-off in the Rhenish lignite district in Lützerath / those affected defend themselves against the RWE group and the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 

Date: Friday, June 18, 18 p.m. to Sunday, June 20, 16 p.m.
Location: Circus tent opposite Hofgut von Eckhardt Heukamp, ​​Lützerath 7A, 41812 Erkelenz

This weekend in Lützerath on the edge of the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine, RWE AG will be charged with climate crimes, damage to health, displacement and environmental destruction.

The entire "NRWE complex" is to be negotiated in the public RWE tribunal with prosecutors, a jury and many witnesses * inside and experts prepare further lawsuits.

"In its assessment of the ´crimes´ committed by RWE, the jury of the tribunal will primarily refer to the general declaration of human rights", explains Alfred Emilio Weinberg, member of the Attac Germany council.

In addition to the general health consequences of mining and converting lignite into electricity, RWE is also negotiating the often traumatizing consequences of displacement or forced resettlement in a civil society process.

Christiane Niesel from the RWE Tribunal explains: "We would like to offer people affected by forced resettlement a platform to be able to accuse this injustice." Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: "Nobody is allowed to arbitrarily encroach on their private life, their families, their homes ... get abandoned."

The Lützerath farmer Eckhardt Heukamp is suing the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to avert his expropriation by RWE. He will be one of the witnesses at the RWE tribunal. "I will definitely stay on my farm until the end," asserts Heukamp. "The RWE Group has been trying for years to take every means against me. But I hope my lawsuit will get through. I am very happy that I the back is strengthened by the RWE Tribunal. It is fitting that the Tribunal meets practically at the scene of the crime - only a few hundred meters from the edge of the open pit. "

As an expert at the Tribunal, the expert from the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), Tjan Zaotschnaja, provides information on the humanitarian and environmental impacts of coal mining in Kuzbass in southern Siberia. "RWE is an important importer and is therefore jointly responsible for the destruction of the environment in the land of the Schoren, severe damage to health and the displacement of the indigenous population up to and including fleeing into exile."

The RWE Tribunal will take place from June 18 to 20 in a circus tent at the Eckhardt Heukamp estate in Erkelenz-Lützerath. It is being prepared by climate activists, environmentalists and people threatened by forced resettlement in the Rhenish lignite mining area. Attac Germany, the umbrella association of critical shareholders and RLS NRW support the tribunal.

Further information:

www.rwe-tribunal.org and www.kritikeaktionaere.de/rwe/rwe-tribunal

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwetribunal

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NRWE_Tribunal

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwe_tribunal/

Contacts:

· Alfred Emilio Weinberg, Attac Germany, Mobil-Tel. 0172-4163788, alfred_weinberg@web.de

· Christiane Niesel, Coordination Group RWE Tribunal, Mobil-Tel. 0178-8050108, christiane.niesel@web.de

· Markus Dufner, umbrella association of critical shareholders, Mobil-Tel. 0173-713 52 37, dachverband@kritaktionaere.de

Yvonne Bangert, Society for Threatened Peoples, Advisor for Indigenous Peoples, y.bangert@gfbv.de , Tel. 0551/4990614

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Is Bill Gates now personally writing in the mirror?

June 15, 2021 - Iraq builds eight new nuclear power plants

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June 15, 2021 - Outdated nuclear reactors are so dangerous and expensive

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Warning of problems with pressurized water reactor

June 14, 2021 - What is behind the incident at the Chinese nuclear power plant

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Stockholm Sipri Institute

June 14, 2021 - Once upon a time there was nuclear disarmament

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News+ June 14, 2021

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Environmental disaster

The unpunished chemical war against Serbia: who finally condemns NATO?

With the final verdict against the Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladić, is the coming to terms with the war crimes in Yugoslavia really complete?

For seventy-eight days in 1999, without a UN mandate, NATO bombed Serbian hospitals, schools, waterworks and chemical plants. This first war of aggression with German participation since 1945 led to an ecological and human catastrophe. But churches, environmental organizations and Alliance 90/The Greens have remained silent to this day...

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Background knowledge

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reaktorpleite.de

Map of the nuclear world:

War crimes in Yugoslavia ...

The German version of this world map:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD

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The search in the reaktorpleite.de with the search term 

brought the following results, among others:

March 17, 2019 - Deadly dust - Uranium ammunition use and the consequences

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Wikipedia

Uranium ammunition

Uranium ammunition has been used to combat armored vehicles since the mid-1970s; so far, only one country, the USA, has admitted the use of this ammunition in war maneuvers.

Recently, several thousand tons of uranium ammunition were mainly used in the Second Gulf War, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, the Kosovo War, the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War.

Physical effect

At a distance of one meter, one kilogram of depleted uranium generates an annual radiation dose of 1 mSv, which corresponds to around a third of the intake from natural sources (2–3 mSv / year). Nevertheless, the dose rate it generates, if it acts over a long period of time or over a short distance, can damage the genetic make-up and trigger cancer. The real danger does not come from external radiation, but from dusts containing uranium or uranium oxide (internal radiation) ingested via the respiratory tract and food.

Chemical effect

Uranium has a chemical effect like many other heavy metals and, as a poison, damages the metabolism of the internal organs, primarily the kidneys ...

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AtomkraftwerkePlag

Uranium ammunition

Depleted uranium weapons

Uranium ammunition (also called uranium weapons or uranium projectiles) are weapons that contain depleted uranium (DU). Due to the high density of uranium, such weapons have a high penetration power and are therefore used against tanks, for example. In addition, when the target hits the target, intense heat is generated, which can set fuel and ammunition from tanks on fire.

Depleted uranium is a waste product that results from the production of fuel for nuclear power plants. It consists of 99,8% uranium-238 and 0,2% uranium-235 and can also contain traces of plutonium-239. Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4,468 billion years.

Damage to health

Uranium is harmful to health due to the ionizing radiation it releases and its chemical properties. The use of uranium weapons creates large amounts of uranium dust and uranium-containing aerosols, which are dispersed in the surrounding air and can endanger people. If these dusts and particles are inhaled or ingested with food, this leads to radiation exposure, which can result in cancer, leukemia or genetic damage. Since uranium is a heavy metal, liver and kidney damage can also occur.

So far there is no convention that would ban these weapons. Since 2007, the UN General Assembly has been devoting resolutions to the subject of uranium ammunition. They oppose the use of uranium ammunition IPPNW and the ICBUW (International Coalition to Outlaw Uranium Weapons).

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Further to: Newspaper article 2021

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