Newsletter XIII 2021

September 20 to 23

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September 23, 2021 - 60.000 MW offshore capacity: Foundation presents potential study

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September 23, 2021 - Gewessler presents expert opinion in the EU dispute: nuclear power is not sustainable

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September 23, 2021 - Commentary: The bullshit bingo of the energy transition

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September 22, 2021 - Wind power: Innovation undesirable

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Energy transition

September 22, 2021 - Solar company Greencells - unnoticed to the high-flyer

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September 21, 2021 - RWE: Additional profits through emissions trading

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Japan is fighting with nuclear waste

September 21, 2021 - Japan wants to dispose of radioactive equipment from nuclear power plants abroad

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September 20, 2021 - Study: Road traffic only covers 36 percent of the cost requirement

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Media | WDR | Armin Laschet

Current hour for the Hambach Forest:

"I wanted to clear the forest"

The Hambach evacuation took place under a “pretext”. This is what NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet says in a video.

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September 20th, 2021 - Disarmament for the climate: No exceptions for the military in the climate agreements

World Day of Peace and UN Climate Change Conference

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September 20, 2021 - Chernobyl continues to shine: German experts take measurements in the exclusion zone

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News+ September 20, 2021

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Climate strike / uranium waste export Russia / Gorleben / shaft Konrad

Dear friends,
now Friday, September 24th, there is another nationwide climate strike by Fridays for Future. Two days before the federal elections, the aim is again to demonstrate en masse on the streets for a real energy transition - out of coal and nuclear, towards real climate protection, which can also achieve the Paris climate goals - and for global climate justice.

There are demos in countless places - here in Münster at 15 p.m. from the main train station.

Of course we call for participation - advertise yourselves, help with mobilization. The climate movement has already set a lot in motion, but we need more pressure. All party election rallies have made this abundantly clear.

And there is news about uranium waste exports from Gronau to Russia. The left asked again in the Bundestag:

https://www.hubertus-zdebel.de/uran-aus-gronau-von-und-nach-russland/

Allegedly, no new uranium waste exports are planned "at the moment", but the uranium waste store in Gronau is filling up again rapidly - and we fear that it could start again after the NRW state elections next May at the latest.

What is bizarre is the information from the federal government that it has no idea whether "re-enriched" uranium has been transported back from Russia to Gronau. That is not recorded. Urenco has assured that everything will go as agreed. This is nuclear supervision live ...

Finally, some good news from Gorleben: The failed repository mine is now to be dismantled over the next few years - 44 years of persistent protest and resistance won in the end! The price: 113 castors with highly radioactive nuclear waste are still in the neighboring interim storage facility (identical in construction to Ahaus), without there being any secure disposal. The massive nuclear waste problem continues to be postponed - and 6 nuclear power plants, the UAA Gronau and the fuel element factory in Lingen are still producing new nuclear waste on top of it every day. And Mr. Laschet keeps talking about the "quick" exit from "nuclear energy" was a mistake. He would let the remaining nuclear power plants continue running without hesitation - if he could.

The Konrad shaft is not as far as it is in Gorleben. But there, too, the resistance continues unabated. At the beginning of the month over 21 signatures for the immediate abandonment of the second failed repository project (for medium and low-level radioactive nuclear waste) in Hanover were handed over. When will politics finally see that it is also for the shaft: Game over !!

Atomic greetings

SOFA (Sofortiger Atomausstieg) Münster, action alliance Münsterland against nuclear facilities

www.sofa-ms.de, www.urantransport.de

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Background knowledge

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reaktorpleite.de

Map of the nuclear world:

When the camera is rolling, everyone wants to save the climate.
What we are waiting for, however, is action ...

The German version of this world map:

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

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Search the reaktorpleite.de

with the keywords:

brought the following result, among other things:

April 06, 2020 - Nuclear waste rolls through NRW

Sebastian Weiermann / neue-deutschland.de

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YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite"

Monitor - 07:27

German nuclear waste to Russia (Mayak)

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Terra X Lesch & Co - 07:38

Without coal and nuclear power - are we running out of electricity?

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ZDF Magazine Royale - 18:21

Nuclear waste: no final repository in sight!

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Arte - 01:38:26

Nuclear waste nightmare

Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...

This playlist contains over 100 videos on the topic

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Ecosia

This search engine is planting trees!

Keyword search: nuclear waste

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Atommüll

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AtomkraftwerkePlag

Konrad shaft

Nuclear licensing procedure

The Konrad mine, a former iron ore mine in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, is to be differentiated from other potential repositories in that its suitability went through a nuclear process that was confirmed by the Federal Constitutional Court.

From 1975 to 1982 the shaft was tested for its suitability as a repository for low and medium level radioactive nuclear waste, including by the Research Center for Health and the Environment (GSF). After the suitability was confirmed, an application was made in 1982 to initiate a plan approval procedure. After a period for inspection and objections (290.000 were submitted!), A public hearing took place in 1992. In 2002 the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment issued a planning approval decision with a maximum storage capacity of 303.00 cubic meters.

The Konrad shaft has been converted for use as a repository since 2007. The operator is the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) ...

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Wikipedia

Radioactive waste

Storage in the open air

The open storage of radioactive waste in the open air is not permitted in any country in Western Europe. The open storage of containers with radioactive waste in the open air is problematic because of the increased corrosion of the storage containers under weather conditions and solar radiation. In Central Europe, the permanent open storage of containers with radioactive waste is not politically desirable or legally permissible in any country.

As a political way out, the export of containers with radioactive waste is being promoted as a legal measure by various governments. As a rule, there is no control of the foreign storage locations. The storage is uncritically commented on by local security officers in the recipient countries because of a lack of education and overriding economic interests.

Hypothetical scenarios of a plane crash, fire or a similar accident in the vicinity of the container cannot be mastered either by preventive measures or by immediate measures due to a lack of preparation. The most recent forest fires in the vicinity of storage locations show the endangerment of the atmosphere from fires and the ashes being carried out by the wind.

In October 2009 there was coverage for the film Nuclear waste nightmare It is publicly known that France has been secretly transporting a not inconsiderable part of its nuclear waste to Siberia since the 1990s. In the city Seversk, home to more than 100.000 people, almost 13% of French radioactive waste is stored in open-air containers in a parking lot. It also became public that Germany is exporting even larger quantities of radioactive waste to Russia. It is depleted uranium in the form of Uranium hexafluoridewhich should be further processed ...

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Further to: Newspaper article 2021

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