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April 08-14
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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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14. April
wind | renewable | Energy transition
Investor wanted for rotor blade factory
Energy transition backwards
Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex is closing a plant in Rostock. It is the last rotor blade factory in Germany - even though the wind industry is on the verge of a new boom. Politics are now also concerned with what it means for the local energy transition if production is relocated overseas.
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US oil imports from Russia rose briefly but have been close to zero since April
A misleading Anti-Spiegel article about American oil imports from Russia is circulating on social media. Contrary to what has been suggested, the US is not increasing its imports from Russia permanently.
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France | EDF | reactor breakdown | Electricity price
Le Pen: "Don't pay for mistakes Germany made"
The opponent of Macron wants to get out of the European energy market. She doesn't like the German attitude towards the French nuclear industry at all
Ms. Le Pen overestimates German influence and hides French strength under a bushel. The French manage to dismantle the French nuclear industry without any German help. Better yet, EDF and the French nuclear power plants dismantle themselves ...
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Ukraine war and fertilizer shortage:
Bolsonaro's annihilation package
The Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to open the indigenous territories for mining under the pretext of the Ukraine war and because of an alleged lack of raw materials. This not only endangers these peoples, but also the Amazon rainforest ecosystem and climate protection.
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Energy transition instead of nuclear armament
Under the motto energy transition and peace instead of uranium enrichment and war, people across Germany meet for Easter marches. At the end of the year, the last three nuclear power plants in Germany will go offline. But nuclear power is not off the table.
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France | EDF | reactor breakdown | Electricity price
Nuclear power plant failures: France pays exorbitant electricity prices
Due to maintenance and defects, electricity prices in France have increased many times over. Experts warn: Nuclear power plants are a cost driver.
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13. April
Climate protection target mathematically achievable
Meeting all climate commitments could keep warming below two degrees
If all governments kept their promises on climate protection, the UN's two-degree target would be achievable. However, this is not yet recognizable.
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Framatome | Westinghouse | uranium
Framatome and Westinghouse supply fuel to Temelín
Westinghouse (USA) and Framatome (France) have received a long-term contract from the Czech energy supplier ČEZ for the delivery of fuel elements for the Temelín nuclear power plant.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Since bailing out of bankruptcy in 2018, Westinghouse has taken on customer after customer from Rosatom. I'm sure PutIn "The Most Terrible" is not very happy about that. It all seems to me as if I were watching the "lovely" little ones in the sandbox. The cowboys annoy the Indian Wladi wherever they can and the meanest and most ruthless bully will win...
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alternatives in the east
Putin wants to use more oil, gas and coal himself
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Neither German rearmament nor Putin
The peace movement announces Easter marches in around 120 cities. She calls for a ceasefire in Eastern Europe and an end to arms build-up
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Federal Network Agency: March tender for solar parks oversubscribed - lull in bioenergy
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"The consequences will be catastrophic"
Energy and climate newsreel: Harsh warnings, burnt-out foresters, racism at Tesla and Munich's bombs
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Microbe generates electricity from methane
Direct electron release could make biogas use more efficient
Living Electricity Producer: Researchers have discovered a microbe that can generate electricity from methane. The archaea found in lakes and ditches releases electrons during the biochemical conversion of methane to carbon dioxide, which can be discharged as electricity. In the first tests, the efficiency of this biochemical power generation was only 17 percent, but according to the team it could be increased. The "methane eater" microbe could thus open up new possibilities for generating electricity from biogas.
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12. April
A third of Germans believe they live in a sham democracy
Allensbach survey shows that many Germans are not only dissatisfied with democracy, they also call for a different political system. Left-wing politicians share the blame for Corona politics.
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Great Britain | Italy | Romania
Italy: Newcleo and Enea cooperate on Generation IV reactors
The UK-based start-up Newcleo and the Italian Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (Enea) signed a cooperation agreement in mid-March 2022 to develop a small, lead-cooled Schneller Rector. The aim of the agreement is to build the reactor outside of Italy ...
Flashback: January 14, 2022
Newcleo and Enea cooperate on Generation IV reactors
The Italian Ansaldo Nucleare SPA and the Italian Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (Enea) have signed a contract to build a research reactor at the Romanian Institute for Nuclear Research in Pitești ...
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Since 1987, there are four Russian VVER V-213 reactors in Dukovany ...
Czechia | Westinghouse | EDF | South Korea
Westinghouse expands cooperation in Czech Republic
Westinghouse Electric Company has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with ten companies in the Czech Republic to collaborate on the potential construction of an AP1000 facility for the Dukovany Block 5 project, as well as other potential AP1000 projects in Central Europe.
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The West (Westinghouse, KHNP and EDF) kicks Rosatom out of business...
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Building permit for the Konrad shaft
game for time?
Lower Saxony's Ministry of the Environment has been examining for almost a year whether the building permit for the nuclear waste repository is still valid. Meanwhile, construction continues.
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Media | information war | phasing
"You have to look behind the surface of media coverage"
The Russian filmmaker and philosopher Andrei Nekrasow on the horror of the war in Ukraine and the background. He says: "In the Russia question there is a complete conformity".
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Brazil | Amazon | Environment
Federal Court of Justice in Brazil: Historic verdict for more forest and climate protection
Judge declares increase in deforestation unconstitutional. Government must plan to strengthen environmental authorities and protection of the Amazon
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Easter March | Gronau | Jülich
Good Friday: Easter marches start in Gronau and Jülich
"Energy transition and peace instead of uranium enrichment and war"
- Easter March Gronau:https://ostermarsch-gronau.de/
- Vigil Jülich:https://www.westcastor.org/2022/03/31/karfreitag15-april-mahnwache-in-juelich/
- Nationwide Easter marches:https://www.friedenskooperative.de
- Urenco report with background information: https://sofa-ms.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Urenco-Report-Maerz-2022-final.pdf
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11. April
Temperature and savings effects
Gas storage facilities in the EU are filling up again
The filling levels of the gas storage facilities in the EU countries are rising again after the winter. In addition to the rising temperatures, the savings made by consumers due to concerns about high additional charges should also help to reduce gas consumption.
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embarrassing, more embarrassing, Kini Jödler
Eon rules out extension of service life for nuclear power plant Isar 2
Extending the service life of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant is not an option for the operator Eon. The head of the energy company has rejected a request from the Bavarian state government. Nuclear power has no future in Germany.
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Japan | Power grid | renewable | Blackout
Japan's electricity suppliers stop feeding renewable energies into the power grid
Japan's electric utilities are trying to combat power outages. One electric utility, meanwhile, has activated "power control," a process that halts feed-in of renewable energy from households and small producers to avoid blackouts caused by a gap between supply and demand.
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The question is whether Japan's electricity providers are primarily trying to combat blackouts, or whether they are using the shaky power grids as an excuse to squeeze pesky competitors out of the market. I see this procedure as proof of the ongoing good cooperation between the state and the "nuclear village" companies. Although the state sets noble goals (doubling the number of renewables), it does not create the necessary legal framework to be able to achieve these goals (tariffs, grids, storage). If I understand the structures of the Japanese electricity market correctly, the nuclear power plants are at least partly owned by the electricity suppliers and they logically have no natural interest in helping their competitors get back on their feet...
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United States | China | Russia | uranium
Nuclear dependence on Russia
Energy security cannot be achieved with nuclear power
Nuclear energy is pushing green electricity out of the grid and delaying the change in the energy system. However, the fossil fuel crisis has pushed the nuclear debate into the background. Europe's nuclear dependence on Russia is clearly underestimated.
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April 11, 1968 - K-129, the diesel-powered Gulf-class submarine (The project 629) sank with 3 nuclear missiles on board approx. 2900 km northwest of Hawaii at about 5000 meters depth, 96 sailors died. Six years later it was adopted by the United States Navy Azorian project partially elevated, a true cold war spy thriller. Searching on Youtube K-129 resulted in the following hits, among others: Death in the Deep - Superpowers slugfest, more exciting than a clean shaken James Bond ...
April 11, 1970 - K-8, the November-class nuclear submarine (The project 627 Variant A) sank with 20 nuclear torpedoes on board Bay of Biscay at about 4500 meters depth, 52 sailors died ...
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10. April
Pointless, expensive, time-consuming
Grotesque debate about lifetime extensions for nuclear power plants in Germany
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France | EDF | reactor breakdown | Electricity price
France threatens "catastrophe" in the power supply
The country has just scraped past an emergency and experts consider the EDF's forecasts for nuclear power production to be completely overestimated
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Weltspiegel - Sunday, April 10th at 18.30 p.m. on the first program (ARD)
"Our own people killed us"
The United States conducted nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950s and 1960s. The radiation spread widely across the country. Many of those who fell ill with cancer are still fighting for compensation to this day.
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"The Germans were never predominantly pacifist"
Can you deliver weapons to Ukraine? Are 100 billion for the Bundeswehr right? No, says the former EKD Council Chair Margot Kässmann. Yes, says the military historian Sönke Neitzel. The NZZ asked the pacifist and the supporter of a well-fortified army for a debate.
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April 10, 1963 - SSN-593, USS Thresher - sank about 350 kilometers off Cape Cod on the east coast of the United States at about 2500 meters depth, 129 sailors died ...
10 April 2003 - (INES 3 - NAMS 3,9 - 360 TBq) - Paks NPP, HUN - When cleaning the fuel rods in Unit 2 of the Paks nuclear power plant, their casing was damaged and radioactive gas escaped. Nobody was injured in this accident. However, the measuring probes in the area registered inert gas levels well above the limit values ...
April 10th to May 15st, 1967 - (No INES classification) - Nuclear factory Mayak - Strong winds transported radioactive sediment dust from the dry shores over an area of 1.800 to 5.000 km². Their total activity is estimated at 22 TBq to 220 TBq...
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09. April
Scientists call for concrete action to limit growth
The study "Limits to Growth" 50 years ago showed the impending collapse. At a panel discussion at the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute, scientists have now discussed what has happened since - with sobering results.
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Experts warn of gas embargo against Russia
Energy experts have warned of serious economic consequences if Russian gas supplies are cut off in response to the war in Ukraine.
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NATO intensifies war course against Russia
With a series of coordinated measures, the US, NATO and the European Union massively expanded their involvement in the war between Ukraine and Russia on Thursday. This could lead to the escalation of the conflict into a new world war.
08. April
Media | Atomic power, fracking & co:
Söder's change of course when it comes to energy
After Fukushima, Markus Söder pushed for the nuclear phase-out, today he wants a nuclear power extension because of the Russian war. The CSU politician is quicker than others when it comes to his energy policy tirade – he doesn't even rule out fracking.
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Kini Jödler
He is in the press every day and only a few still believe in coincidence. However, there are even said to be people who actually believe he is being quoted because he said something important. This is of course not the case, his court clerks text and print everything, no matter what he says. Today he's dying to get out, and tomorrow he's just as committed to talking to get back in. Yesterday still a would-be chancellor candidate - today no longer. And so he is always at least twice in the newspapers for every topic, once for and once against.
I've had enough, from now on it's just called here Kini Jödler, the yodeling king of Bavaria, blessed with press echoes.
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You write about Habeck and the NSU and insult journalists
Thousands of changes were made to Wikipedia via the networks of German authorities. The authors remain anonymous. Some edits are weird. And 19 computer addresses stand out.
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France | Nuclear waste | Bure
Controversy over planned nuclear waste storage facility:
Who guarantees security?
France relies on nuclear power. But how and where the nuclear waste can be disposed of remains unclear. The repository in Bure is controversial.
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Secret operation of the USA
Global strike against Putin's computer viruses
The US removed Cyclops Blink malware from thousands of devices around the world before Moscow could activate it. Microsoft had previously prevented a digital attack specifically aimed at Ukraine. Is the West now slowing down the Russian cyber war predicted by many experts?
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Millions of people are starving in Africa
The Distant Victims of Russia's War
Locusts, drought, pandemic - and now the war in Ukraine is cutting off people from aid supplies. In East Africa, 20 million are at risk of starvation. A visit to a place that has nothing more to oppose to the world.
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This is part of the Easter package
The Easter package includes 600 pages of legal text and brings changes to several individual laws and ordinances. A long overdue turning point in Germany's energy policy - and yet wishes remain unfulfilled. An overview.
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LPG - Can LNG close the natural gas supply gap?
Germany is dependent on Russian natural gas – for now. In order to change that, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is now increasingly coming into focus. This gas is delivered by tankers rather than pipelines, so it can theoretically come from anywhere. But can LNG cover our gas needs? And how “dirty” is the liquefied gas?
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News+ April 08
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Putin | Natural gas | Nationalisation
Russian Gas and the German Energy Transition: A Yellow Vest Perspective
Import stop Many would now like to become independent of Vladimir Putin and Russian gas very quickly. But the reality is sobering. The economist Marcel Fratzscher warns
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Background knowledge
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reaktorpleite.de
Map of the nuclear world:
We need to get away from fossil fuels as soon as possible!
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The internal search:
brought the following results, among others:
March 31, 2022 - Futurist Jeremy Rifkin: "This will be the last fossil fuel war"
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February 23, 2022 - Why there is bad and good natural gas
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December 08, 2021 - "The Greens must act now"
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YouTube channel - Reaktorpleite
ZDF - Terra X Lesch & Co - March 10, 2022 - 17:38 p.m
No gas from Russia? This has to happen now!
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NDR - Panorama 3 - April 29, 2021 - 08:26
Climate neutral heating? Looking for alternatives to gas
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climate:neutral - March 02, 2022 - 11:24
War: Fatal for people and the climate!
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arte - November 20, 2011 - 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: fossil fuels
https://www.ecosia.org/search?tt=mzl2&q=fossile+energien
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AtomkraftwerkePlag -
Research platform on atomic energy
The energy transition
The realignment of energy policy and economy in Germany, with which for the first time a large industrial state is converting its fossil-nuclear energy generation to renewable, is being closely monitored internationally. As a "laboratory of the future" and an innovative pioneering achievement, it has also been compared with the US lunar mission.
The aim of the energy transition is a sustainable, decentralized energy supply, which is to be achieved with a combination of renewable energies, intelligent energy storage, energy saving and increased efficiency. The success of the German energy transition would prove that energy supply and prosperity are possible even without conventional energy sources.
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Wikipedia
Fossil energy
Fossil energy is obtained from fuels formed from the decomposition products of dead plants and animals in geological prehistory. These include lignite, hard coal, peat, natural gas and oil. These energy sources are called fossil energy carriers or fossil fuels. In contrast, biomass is obtained from wood and other modern organic waste and residues.
Fossil energy carriers are based on the carbon cycle and thus enable stored (solar) energy from the past to be used today. The technical development of fossil fuels, initially almost exclusively coal, has enabled continuous economic growth since the Industrial Revolution. In 2005, 81% of the world's energy needs came from fossil sources...
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Climatic effects and limits of use
The burning of fossil fuels is the main source of the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the earth's atmosphere and thus of man-made global warming. In order to avoid the serious consequences of global warming, the fossil energy reserves known today may only be partially used. If the two-degree target is to be reached with a probability of more than 50%, a maximum of between 2011 and 2050 gigatons (billion tons) of carbon dioxide may be released in the period from 870 to 1.240 based on data from the IPCC. Converted to reserves, this means that in the global context, about 30% of oil reserves, 50% of natural gas reserves and more than 80% of coal reserves cannot be burned. At current emissions levels, the remaining carbon budget would be exhausted in 20-30 years. From the beginning of industrialization until 2015, around 530 billion tons of carbon have already been released by fossil fuels, of which around half remained in the atmosphere and a good quarter each was absorbed by oceans and land ecosystems ...
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