Newsletter XIV 2022 |
April 01-07
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Nuclear Power Accidents
This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of the civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only came to the public in a roundabout way...
Excerpt for this month:
3 April 1960 (INES 4) WTR-2 reactor, Waltz Mill, USA
5 April 1968 (INES 5 NAMS 5) nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
6 April 1993 (INES 4 NAMS 4,8) nuclear factory Tomsk 7, RUS
7 April 1989 (Broken Arrow) Submarine K-278 sank south of Bear Island, USSR
10 April 2003 (INES 3 NAMS 3,9) Paks, HUN
April 10th to May 15st, 1967 (INES ? Class.?) Nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
10 April 1963, Submarine SSN-593 sank 350 km from Cape Cod, USA
11 April 1970 (Broken Arrow) Submarine K-8 sank in the Bay of Biscay, USSR
11 April 1968, Submarine K-129 sunk 2900 km northwest of Hawaii, USSR
19 April 2005 (INES 3) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
21 April 1957 (INES 4) nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
26 April 1986 (INES 7 NAMS 8) Chernobyl, USSR
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07. April
renewable | Franceh| reactor breakdown | Electricity price
Electricity export from Germany:
Renewables for France
In the first quarter, Germany again delivered a lot of electricity abroad. This also has to do with problems in French nuclear power plants.
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United States | Europe | Russia
Sit back and watch Europe commit suicide
If the US goal is to destroy Russia's economy with sanctions and isolation, why is Europe in economic free fall instead?
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Europe between hammer and anvil...
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Fast restarting is not possible at all
Nuclear power advocates in Japan ignore the risks
The number of nuclear power advocates in Japan is growing and calls for a restart of the nuclear power plants are getting louder. But this demand is far from reality, as it is unlikely that exactly that will happen.
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Government promises to avert damage
Fishermen continue to oppose the water being diverted from Fukushima
Many fishermen in Japan continue to oppose the water being diverted from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The head of the national fisheries cooperative told Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday that the derivation would remain opposed as negative effects on the industry are expected.
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Coastal cities are sometimes sinking faster than sea levels rise
The causes of land subsidence on the coasts are often man-made. The consequences could be more frequent floods, researchers warn.
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Longer nuclear power plant running times push significant amounts of green electricity from the grid
New study on nuclear power in the EU
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Renewables: Is the turbo coming now?
The federal cabinet has passed draft laws that are intended to get the expansion of sun, wind & Co. going
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April 07, 1989 - K-278, Komsomolets - the November-class nuclear submarine (The project 627 Variant A) sank south of Bear Island with two nuclear torpedoes on board at about 1800 meters depth, 42 sailors died ...
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06. April
Tensions between the great powers
How the Arctic is being militarized
The war in Ukraine is a turning point for NATO's Arctic policy. Norway draws conclusions from this – and invests heavily in the military.
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Germany wants green electricity
From 2035, electricity in Germany should be generated almost entirely from renewable energies and thus be almost greenhouse gas neutral. Federal Minister of Economics Habeck presented a catalog of measures.
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energy dependency
Scholz rejects the continued operation of nuclear power plants
According to Chancellor Scholz, it is "not a good plan" to let the nuclear power plants run longer. The systems are not prepared for continued operation.
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France | EDF | reactor breakdown | Electricity price
EDF reactor Cattenom 3 (1,3 GW) fails for another 3,5 months
EDF has extended the outage of its Cattenom 3 nuclear reactor (1,3 GW) in north-eastern France by 3,5 months, transparency data showed on Wednesday. The reason is ongoing investigations into corrosion damage.
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Solar systems, storage tanks, heat pumps: Renewable energies are experiencing a boom
Germany fears for the supply of gas, oil and coal. The sales figures for solar systems, storage tanks and heat pumps continue to rise.
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IPCC report: Global CO2 emissions to be halved by 2030
Climate crisis - According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, urgent action is needed. The good news: Global emissions can be halved by 2030 at an affordable price – if everyone pulls together
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The Urenco Report
SOFA (Immediate nuclear phase-out) Münster has now published a second, updated and expanded edition of the Urenco Report. Title: "Urenco: Uranium enrichment plant in Gronau and centrifuge research in Jülich - a threat to nuclear phase-out and peace". On 51 pages, the global business of the uranium enricher Urenco is traced using publicly accessible sources and the connections to Gronau and Jülich are established. It's about Urenco's problematic customer base, the military dimension of uranium enrichment and centrifuge development, the unresolved nuclear waste problem and the dangerous plans to build new small and large reactors - and it's also about Urenco's nuclear business in Russia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates - our supposed new energy ally.
Here you can find the whole report:
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06 April 1993 - (INES 4 - NAMS 4,8 - 3500 TBq) - Tomsk 7 Seversk, RUS - serious radioactive accident in which a tank of the Siberian Chemical Combine SCGP containing a highly radioactive solution exploded.
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05. April
Helmsdorf tailings disposal facility | Wismut | Uranium mining
A Barleber tells: The big dam break of the Wismut
A large dam failure on April 7, 1961 changed the lives of many residents of Oberrothenbach in the Ore Mountains forever. A Barleber remembers the incident.
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agreement in the federal government
In the future, wind turbines may be built closer to radar systems
Distance rules have so far slowed down the expansion of wind energy. Now the federal government is relaxing the requirements in the vicinity of radar systems. Economics Minister Habeck speaks of a “bold exclamation mark”
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Nuclear transport | Garching | Ahaus
Greens against nuclear transport from Garching to Ahaus
The Greens in the Bavarian state parliament reject the transport of spent fuel elements from the FRM II research reactor in Garching to the Ahaus interim storage facility in North Rhine-Westphalia. "So it makes absolutely no sense to carry out an expensive and highly dangerous transport across the country," said Claudia Köhler on Tuesday after a visit to Ahaus. "The Ahaus interim storage facility has been approved until 2036. What will come after that is unclear." Before final storage in a final repository that does not even exist, the nuclear waste would also have to be reworked ...
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French reactors are rotting: Electricity prices explode overnight
Germany is groaning under the rising electricity prices - and some people enviously glance at neighboring France, where nuclear power is still an important part of the generation strategies and the end customer electricity price is much lower than in Germany. However, a look at the European electricity exchanges shows that the French are currently paying many times our prices in day-ahead trading.
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Time is running out
The new IPCC report makes it clear: The world has the tools to deal with the climate crisis, but they must be used much more quickly and consistently. Europe's role is to lead the global transition away from coal, oil and gas, rather than artificially delaying it.
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Putin and the German windmill
Sanctions A freeze on deliveries of Russian metals would have serious consequences for Germany's energy transition
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Kyrgyzstan: Remediation of contaminated sites completed at two locations
In Kyrgyzstan, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), work to clean up the legacy of uranium mining and processing in the villages of Shekaftar and Min-Kush has been successfully completed. According to the EBRD, this benefits both the environment and the health of the population. Particular attention was paid to sustainable measures.
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04. April
Every year again: blackout alarm in France
However, the country was very lucky that the cold spell did not come until April, because now renewable energies can partially close the power gap
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Anyone see through?
information war | Propaganda | Disinformation | fracking
Natural gas from Germany
Putin's propaganda against fracking
For years, the Russian government has supported environmental groups fighting fracking. In Germany, too, the promotion of domestic natural gas had no political chance – until now. Will the impending embargo change the situation?
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Logically, we all put our trust in the sinister warlord Putin at this point, but is there any evidence other than rumors and claims?
The above article thankfully names names:
"Russia is funding the anti-fracking movement in the US," one claimed harold hamm, the CEO of Continental Resources.
So reported the former NATO Secretary General Fogh Rasmussen As early as 2014, Russia had supported environmental protection organizations "in order to maintain Europe's dependence on Russian gas".
The newspaper "The World' recently quoted an informant who told scientists at the Martens Center for European Studies had reported that Russia had so far paid around 82 million euros to European climate protection associations.
"Follow the money" and get to the bacon....
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Algeria is turning the gas screw
"Germany absolutely supports MidCat," says the German ambassador in Madrid. Is the Spanish government thwarting an important project?
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Lemke and Habeck present cornerstones for faster wind power expansion and uniform species protection rules
The aim of the Federal Government is to accelerate the expansion of wind energy for reasons of climate protection and with the aim of reducing dependence on Russian energy imports. In the future, clear and binding rules for the protection of species should apply to the expansion of wind energy
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Cuba explores energy cooperation in Berlin
The Cuban Minister for Energy and Mines, Nicolás Liván Arronte, is currently in Berlin and took part in the Berlin Dialogue on the Energy Transition 2022 ...
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Runtime | Nuclear lobby | Kini Jödler
Ministry of Economic Affairs: Lifetime extension of nuclear power plants not recommended
Due to the dependence on Russian gas and the high prices, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder is calling for nuclear power again. Why that doesn't work.
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03. April
Radiant waste anniversary
The first nuclear waste was stored in the former Asse salt mine 55 years ago
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Putin | Russia | NATO | United States
The defenders of US supremacy and the "Putin understanders"
The two irreconcilable positions: 1. "Don't give in to Putin!" – 2. «Nato away from Russia's borders!»
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Vladimir Sergiyenko: "When diplomacy fails, the guns speak"
About war crimes, abducting children and the Russian logic that has grown out of history.
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Poland is open to stationing American nuclear weapons
Poland's Deputy Prime Minister believes it makes sense to extend nuclear sharing to NATO's eastern flank and is calling for 50.000 more US soldiers. He criticizes the attitude of the federal government to the Ukraine war.
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02. April
"Putin is a war criminal"
Carla del Ponte calls for an international arrest warrant for Putin
Geneva The former chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for the genocide in Rwanda has asked the International Criminal Court to issue an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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research ethics | Investigated - Part 1
Why three climate researchers are no longer researching the climate
Humanity has known all the basics about the climate crisis for decades - and still isn't stopping it. What does that do to those who produce this knowledge? Our author spoke to climate scientists who have quit their jobs and are now approaching saving the planet differently.
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uranium | Exception for nuclear transports
Russian aircraft with fuel elements for nuclear power plants delivered to the Czech Republic
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What's up, can Westinghouse not deliver the VVER fuel elements yet?
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I'm Ukrainian - and I can't see blue and yellow anymore
War Reports Our author Marija Hirt is Ukrainian and has been living in Germany for years. She sees the solidarity with her old homeland with mixed feelings
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01. April
In the Papa-Mobil to the Ukraine
When the Pope goes to Kyiv and everyone comes with him
A great peace trek is what is needed now. With the faith leaders of the world. Absurd? Maybe. A pipe dream.
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uranium | Economy and Environment
Anything goes replaces the energy transition
Due to the turmoil on the raw materials markets, climate protection is falling out of the political spotlight. Even coal and nuclear are becoming popular again
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Nuclear power advocates for BASE President "intellectually difficult to understand"
Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, believes that the Ukraine war in particular shows the dangers of nuclear power.
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Ukraine | Russia | Propaganda
Example Mariuopol: War crimes and propaganda
In the West, the Ukrainian narrative is almost unconditionally adopted that only Russian troops are perpetrating atrocities. But it is not that easy.
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"Putin is a flawless all-democrat murderer"
The gentle, wise Arik Brauer and the radical, angry Wolf Biermann: both combined a militant humanism and devastating experiences with dictatorships. On March 24th, Biermann consequently accepts the Brauer Prize. His current book is called "Mensch Gott!"
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Ukraine | Russia | Propaganda
Zelenskyj's heroic resistance clouds the brains of many
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy is defending himself against Russia's attack with all means, including the media. He's successful at it. But is that good?
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News+ April 01
Corona | Putin | information war | Media | WiP
economy of attention - 1 | 2
The first part was about the audience's attention in the face of different scenarios that are, however, quite comparable in their effect. The conclusion: when there is a rumble, a crash and sparks fly, people are wide awake and fully engaged. But if there is nothing exciting to see or hear apart from a concerned commentator and a few angry residents, no one is interested, even if the information is perhaps vital for the viewers' survival.
Media:
The truth and all the other victims
Two years ago, Corona pushed all other important topics out of the headlines.
Since then, the number of Corona infections has risen to dizzying heights and the number of Corona deaths only knows one direction anyway, uphill.
"So far, around the world 482 million cases of infection have been counted worldwide. This compares to 6,0 million deaths with diagnosed COVID-19 Illness."
Quote from www.corona-zahlen-heute.de from 01 April 2022
At the beginning of April 2021 the nationwide seven-day incidence at approx. 130 and existing protective measures were tightened. Today we are at one 7-day incidence from 1500 and all rotate freely ...
Since February 24, however, Putin's war has been raging and COVID-19 has had its day as a hot topic.
The truth died early, as is well known, long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Within a month are more than 23.000 people have been killed in this fratricidal war...
It's not about weighing the dead against each other, but about making it clear how the attention economy works.
Peaceful coexistence? Water under the bridge!
Celebrity slapping could become the new popular sport.
The slaps will be handed out and received in publicity on the stands and/or even on the open stage. It's good for the ratings, and this form of public relations is really cheap.
When a celebrity dishes out, nothing happens. He just has to apologise ruefully afterwards, and that is of course very welcome by the audience. When a wannabe celebrity hits a real celebrity, nothing much happens at first either, both share the interest of the yellow press and all in all we have a real win-win situation.
If there is permanent damage to the slapped, it could be costly for the thug, because how is he supposed to prove that the slapped had major damage before the slap?
Joking aside, we are obviously in times of a rising spiral of violence.
The cameras love it!
The language of Nuclear lobby or who hid the coconut?
In mid-March 2020, I read one in World Nuclear News (WNN), the nuclear industry's most important news organ Articles about the language and how the use of certain words in technical contexts can create ugly images in listeners' minds.
Words with Atom* generate e.g. images of Atomic bomb explosions and are therefore no longer desirable. Familiar and fear-inducing phrases such as Release of radioactivity are now paraphrased to make them sound harmless: Irregularities in the operation of the pressure restraint or something like that.
The entire communication of the nuclear lobby has changed. Bad words like atomic power or atomic energy are carefully avoided. In the external representations of nuclear industry as well as in the articles of pro-atom media and of course also in the parts of the Wikipedia that are directly or indirectly controlled by the nuclear industry, atomic power has long since become kernel- or core power (Kernkraft). These power of the kernels is of course CO2-free and at best produces head cinema pictures of wonderfully delicious nuts. And since nuts have been among the most popular and sought-after foods of primates since time immemorial - their taste and energy delighting human ancestors before they had even developed a concept of being human, nuts naturally have a thoroughly positive connotation and at best trigger salivation.
The whole monkey gang roars: "Bravo, excellent, good trick!"
The whole gang of Nuclear lobbyists thinks it's great when the topic isn't written at all anymore and they can do whatever they want completely undisturbed. Just like between 1942 and 45, when the Second World War was raging and people were busy surviving the war. The Media were firmly embedded and had no particular interest in questioning decisions made by their governments.
Questions about the sense or nonsense of the armament were and are considered unpatriotic.
As always...
So while we're distracted by all kinds of attractive images, the climate of our pretty, blue home planet is going downhill at an accelerating rate. Everything has it's price.
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Background knowledge
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reaktorpleite.de
Map of the nuclear world:
We have to take care of the world ourselves
great statesmen always have some wars to fight!
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The internal search:
brought the following results, among others:
March 10, 2022 - It's war, so the climate doesn't matter
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April 01, 2021 - Germany grants political asylum to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden!
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Those who speak the truth will be accused of lying and insulted by the horror clowns.
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YouTube channel - Reaktorpleite
climate:neutral - 11:24
War: Fatal for people and the climate!
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wikiTHEK - arte documentary - 01:54 - Excerpt from the arte documentary "Wy We Fight"
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Warning of the military-industrial complex (Deep State)
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Raw data dump - arte documentation - 01:38:43
Documentary: Why We Fight - America's Wars
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arte - 59:48
The True Story of the 1st Gulf War
Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...
This playlist contains over 150 videos on the topic
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Ecosia
This search engine is planting trees!
Keyword search: information war
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Informationskrieg
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AtomkraftwerkePlag -
Research platform on atomic energy
Influence and campaigns of the nuclear lobby
Atomic energy has always only been accepted by a minority of the German population. After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, their acceptance has fallen further. Politicians, the nuclear industry and their lobby organizations have been trying to counteract this for decades through public relations and image campaigns, mostly with little success.
The greatest success of the German nuclear lobby with the lifetime extension in 2010 was followed shortly thereafter by the decision to phase out in 2011, the most bitter defeat ...
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Wikipedia
information war
Information warfare, or information warfare for short, is a term for the targeted use and manipulation of controlled information in order to achieve advantages over competitors and opponents in business or politics. This also includes influencing the media with false information (fake news), partial information or propaganda with the aim of manipulating the media in one's own interest.
In the open media, information warfare is a form of cyberwar.
Algorithms (social bots) are used more and more often to falsify profiles on social networks, collect information or spread it in a targeted manner. Illiberal regimes, but also demagogues, need not silence dissenting opinions if they succeed in disturbing and confusing; thus a "censorship through noise" takes place...
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Disinformation
Disinformation is the targeted spreading of false information, the aim of which is to deceive society, individual groups or individuals in terms of political or economic interests. “Disinformation” rarely also refers to the misinformation itself (considered as an attempt to deceive) (e.g. “spreading harmful disinformation”). The information transmitted is not only untrue according to objective standards, but is deliberately put into the world by the author for the purpose of deception. The disinformation can be spread, for example, via mass media, which is also referred to as media manipulation. The disinformation is either outright lying or indirect through subtle suppression, omission or distraction from verified facts, or by implying false opinions.
Disinformation is used in a targeted manner in numerous areas of politics and business. Many secret services have their own departments for the falsification and dissemination of information. In the military field, disinformation is used to deceive the enemy, for example to lead him to make incorrect decisions through false information about one's own troop strengths or their spatial distribution. Consumers are influenced not to buy a competitor's product by the spread of rumors or publicly available false information...
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