Newsletter XXX 2021

07. to 12. July

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July 12, 2021 - Environmental risk nuclear power plant: BUND sues against fuel element exports

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July 12, 2021 - Nuclear war: "Germany would be a strategic target"

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July 12, 2021 - New cracks discovered in the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant

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July 11, 2021 - Japan's plutonium stockpile has risen to 2020 tons in 46,1

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July 10, 2021 - EU sustainability label: Conservatives and liberals want nuclear power to be greenwashed

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July 09, 2021 - Hamburg wants to use city roofs to generate energy

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July 09, 2021 - Genkai Nuclear Power Plant has to test its earthquake resistance

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disarmament

July 08, 2021 - US plans new path to nuclear weapons elimination

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"Nothing to swear to the engineer" - plans to ward off asteroid collisions

July 08, 2021 - China's idea to save the earth

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July 08, 2021 - Nuclear power: New cracks discovered in pipes of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant

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July 07th, 2021 - Nuclear weapons protest more topical than it has been for a long time

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Solar energy

July 07, 2021 - Record! Efficiency of almost 69 percent for thin-film photovoltaics

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Hungary and Slovenia

July 07, 2021 - Nuclear power plants on shaky ground

 

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News+ July 07, 2021

 

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Russian radiation ship scrapped

Chernobyl of the polar sea rehabilitated

A fuel-crammed freighter has long been a radioactive hotspot in the Barents Sea. Now the "Lepse" was scrapped in the interim storage facility.

"It's nice that the story ended like this," says Oscar Njaa from the Norwegian environmental protection organization Bellona. "The far north has now become a safe place." After almost three decades, the clean-up of one of the most dangerous radioactive legacies of the Soviet Union has finally been completed. All that is left of the 85-year-old "Lepse", which was nicknamed "floating Chernobyl" in the media...

 

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Background knowledge

 

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reaktorpleite.de

 

Map of the nuclear world:

Examples of shining legacies around Murmansk ...

 

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 

     
  Nuclear waste Russia  
     

 

brought the following results, among others:

 

January 29, 2020 - Climate Change - Soviet nuclear waste: a ticking time bomb in the Arctic

 

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Wikipedia

 

Nuclear waste problem of the Russian Navy

The nuclear waste problem of the Russian Navy arises from the operation, decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear reactor-powered ships, including submarines. A solution to safely dispose of highly radioactive waste in the long term is not yet known. 

Many decommissioned ships are initially left in the naval bases. In the year 2000, about 120 decommissioned nuclear submarines were moored in Sajda Bay.

Fuel rods and the like from operation and disposal are temporarily stored in a number of facilities (Andrejewa Bay, etc.).

The Yablokow Report by 1993 by Alexei Wladimirowitsch Jablokow stated that at that time the Soviet Union had dumped garbage with a total radiation of 2,4 million curie (89 quadrillion Becquerel), including 18 reactors from submarines or from an icebreaker ...

 

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AtomkraftwerkePlag

 

Nuclear waste in the Arctic and Antarctic

According to an article in "Zeit" from 1999, many contaminated nuclear submarines of the Soviet Northern Fleet, including the radiating reactors, were simply disposed of in the Arctic Ocean. In addition, accidents occurred in the Arctic in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions of the Soviet nuclear fleet, exposing seafarers to radiation and contaminating the environment. 1989 z. B. a fire on the nuclear submarine Komsomolets, which led to short circuits in the reactor controls and water ingress. After the submarine sank, warheads containing plutonium were exposed and corroded; they are said to have been sealed in the meantime ...

 

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YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite"

 

Moving images on the topic:

Arctic nuclear cemetery

An Production from 2013 ...

 

Will open in a new window! - YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite" playlist - radioactivity worldwide ... - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJI6AtdHGth3FZbWsyyMMoIw-mT1Psuc5Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...

This playlist contains over 120 videos on the topic

 

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Further to: Newspaper article 2021

 

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