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14. up to 19. December
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Nuclear Power Accidents
This PDF file contains an almost complete list of known accidents and releases of radioactivity. As new information becomes available, this PDF will be expanded and updated...
Excerpt from the PDF file for this month:
02 December 1949 - (INES 4 - NAMS 3,8) Hanford Nuclear Plant - At the secret experiment "green run"259 to 444 TBq of radioactivity were released ...
06 December 1972 - (INES 3 - NAMS 1,6) Sellafield nuclear plant - one of many incidents in Sellafield ...
07 December 1975 - (INES 3) Greifswald NPP - An electrician triggered a short circuit on the primary side of the block transformer of block 1 ...
19 December 1989 - (INES 3) Vandellòs NPP - The security systems were badly damaged by a fire ...
31 December 1978 - (INES 4) Belojarsk NPP - In the turbine house of Unit 2 of the Belojarsk NPP, a ceiling plate fell on a turbine oil tank and caused a major fire. 8 people suffered high doses of radiation while organizing the reactor emergency cooling ...
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France | reactor breakdown | Evolutionary Power Reactor EPR | World map - France
December 19, 2021 - France's glitch reactors
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France | World map - FRA - Marcoule - ASTRID
December 19, 2021 - "Nuclear power is part of national greatness"
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December 19, 2021 - The EU Commission will probably not decide on "sustainable nuclear power" until January
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December 19, 2021 - UN fails to agree to ban killer robots
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December 18, 2021 - Energy supply - Mini reactors as nuclear power of the future?
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December 18, 2021 - Arctic heat record
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December 17, 2021 - Scholz sees the discussion about "sustainable nuclear power" as overrated
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December 17, 2021 - Incendiary speech against pragmatism in the nuclear age
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December 16, 2021 - France has to shut down two reactors
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Gronau | World map - RUS - Novouralsk
Groundbreaking resolution in the Münster City Council:
December 16, 2021 - No uranium transports through the city of Münster - Shut down UAA Gronau
Yesterday evening, the Münster city council, in the presence of Vladimir Slivyak, co-chair of the Russian environmental organization Ecodefense and this year's winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, called for the end of uranium transports through Münster in a resolution. This would particularly affect the transport of uranium waste from the uranium enrichment plant in Gronau to final storage in the Russian nuclear city of Novouralsk.
The Münster city council is also calling for an end to uranium enrichment in Gronau and for the single-track railway line between Gronau and Münster to be de-dedicated for the transport of radioactive materials. Nationwide, it is the first municipal resolution of this kind. Greens, SPD, Volt, Linke, ÖDP / The Party / International voted in favor, CDU, FDP and AfD against.
“We are very pleased that the Münster city council has taken up a longstanding demand by the Russian environmental movement and speaks out against further transports of uranium waste from Gronau to Russia. That gives us hope that this nasty uranium export will now be stopped. We demand from the new federal government, but also from Urenco, to respect and implement the resolution from Münster, ”said Vladimir Slivyak after the council meeting in Münster.
Ecodefense was supported yesterday evening by Students for Future Münster and SOFA Münster - we of course also welcome the groundbreaking resolution!
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France | EDF | reactor breakdown | Electricity price | World map - France
December 16, 2021 - Price driver nuclear power
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December 16, 2021 - The West's fear of the anarchists
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December 16, 2021 - Warmth spurt triggered "Little Ice Age".
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Netherlands | World map - Netherlands
December 15, 2021 - Netherlands: New government returns to nuclear power
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Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty
December 15, 2021 - Stockholm Initiative excludes nuclear weapons ban
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Switzerland | World map - Switzerland
Lobbying in parliament
December 15, 2021 - Law against lobby felt just before the crash
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December 14, 2021 - Is climate change fueling wars and conflicts?
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December 14, 2021 - Test for the axis: Europe's dispute over "green" nuclear power
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News+ December 14, 2021
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Fewer weapons to solve human problems
Nobel Prize winners call for two percent disarmament for the climate
Extreme poverty, pandemics, global warming: Nobel Prize winners are demanding that fewer weapons be used to free up money to solve humanity’s problems.
More than fifty Nobel Prize winners are calling for the costs of humanity's greatest problems - including the climate - to be financed through a global reduction in arms spending. In an appeal entitled "A Simple Proposal to Mankind - A Global Peace Dividend," they propose that all member states of the United Nations negotiate a five-year cut in their defense budgets by XNUMX percent each.
In this way, the security of all countries is increased and the risk of wars reduced. An enormous sum would be free...
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Background knowledge
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reaktorpleite.de
Map of the nuclear world:
Nuclear phase-out and disarmament, MIC do not like that ...
The German version of this world map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD
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Am 31 December 2021 3 reactors are shut down:
Brokdorf, grohnde and Gundremmingen.
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Am 31 December 2022 will be the last 3 reactors in Germany
taken off the grid:
Emsland, Isar and Neckarwestheim.
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Search the reaktorpleite.de:
The search for
disarmament
brought the following results, among others:
September 29, 2021 - Germany's militarization: not an issue on election evening
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June 10, 2021 - Green election program needs concrete steps for nuclear disarmament
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YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite"
wikithek - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower - 01:55 am
Warning of the military-industrial complex (Deep State)
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Lion Documentaries - 52:30
The New Cold War - More Nuclear Weapons for Europe?
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Raw data - 01:38:43
Documentary: Why We Fight - America's Wars - The Military-Industrial Complex
Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...
This playlist contains over 130 videos on the topic
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Ecosia
This search engine is planting trees!
Keyword search: disarmament
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Abrüstung
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AtomkraftwerkePlag -
Research platform on atomic energy
Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty
On July 7, 2017, representatives of 122 countries passed a draft of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was signed by numerous countries on September 20, 2017 and ratified from that date. However, the nuclear powers do not plan to sign the treaty, nor do most of the NATO countries, including Germany. They consider the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to be sufficient.
The signatory states undertake in the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty, among other things, not to develop, test, manufacture, otherwise procure, possess, store, pass on, use or threaten to use nuclear weapons.
The treaty entered into force on January 22, 2021 after being ratified by 51 states ...
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Nuclear phase-out in Germany
Moratorium and exit decision
In spring 2011 the last decade of the use of atomic energy was heralded in Germany. After Chancellor Angela Merkel had agreed an extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants with the energy companies on September 5, 2010, the Fukushima disaster of March 11, 2011 led to a U-turn in energy policy.
On March 14th, the federal government decided on a moratorium for three months. Seven older reactors, which were supposed to be subjected to a "comprehensive safety review", were taken off the grid: Biblis A and B, Brunsbüttel, Isar 1, Neckarwestheim I, Philippsburg I, Unterweser.
Since nuclear power had lost support in the majority of the population and in all political forces, the black and yellow federal government decided on May 30, 2011 to take all nuclear power plants off the grid by 2022. The decision to withdraw and to amend the Atomic Energy Act was formally passed on June 6th by the cabinet and justified by Angela Merkel in the government declaration of June 9th.
On June 30, 2011, the nuclear phase-out was decided by a clear majority in the Bundestag and confirmed by the Bundesrat on July 8, 2011. On August 1, 2011, the law was finally signed by the former Federal President Christian Wulff ...
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Wikipedia
disarmament
refers to the unilateral (unilateral) or - by two (bilateral) or several (multilateral) states - agreed reduction of military potential (soldiers, weapon systems). The ideal long-term goal would be the complete abolition of military resources in order to curb or completely exclude the use of force between states. Disarmament is intended to promote the enforcement of the prohibition of violence under Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations (there is no obligation to complete disarmament). In another vague usage of the language, disarmament also includes arms control, which, however, differs significantly from the older conception of disarmament in terms of the stability of nuclear deterrence and does not share its negative view of armaments.
Disarmament in reality
Most of the so-called disarmament talks were and are less about reducing existing capacities and more about arms control or arms restrictions. This mutual control is intended to allow the construction of certain weapons such as B. prevent nuclear medium-range missiles.
The idea of disarmament developed under the conditions of deterrence policy during the Cold War. Real opportunities for disarmament arose particularly in the end of the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Against the background of demonstrations with several hundred thousand people for disarmament and against the arms race, one of the few examples of actual disarmament took place: the INF Treaty of 1987, with which medium-range missiles were bilaterally abolished by the Soviet Union and the USA.
The economic consequences of disarmament are often seen as a problem in connection with disarmament. States with a highly developed arms industry are difficult to persuade to convert arms. On the other hand, a “disarmament” or “peace dividend” is expected due to the savings in armament expenditure ...
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Nuclear phase-out
The political decision of a state to discontinue the operation of nuclear power plants and to forego nuclear energy for electricity generation is referred to as nuclear phase-out, also nuclear power phase-out or nuclear waiver. Italy has so far completely phased out the generation of atomic energy, while other countries such as Germany, Belgium and Switzerland have announced or initiated a nuclear phase-out. Austria did not put its completed Zwentendorf nuclear power plant into operation as early as 1978 after a referendum, and other countries canceled some of the nuclear programs that were well advanced.
The nuclear phase-out is an important part of the energy transition; However, this is much broader and provides for the complete conversion to renewable energies as well as the complete abandonment of conventional energy sources (nuclear fuels and fossil fuels) in the long term ...
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Further to: Newspaper article 2021
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