Newsletter XXXIV 2022 |
August 22th to 31th
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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:
August 1, 1983 (INES ? Class.?) Pickering, CAN
August 2, 1992 (INES ? Class.?) Pickering, CAN
August 4, 2005 (INES ? Class.?) Indian Point, USA
August 6, 1945 (1st atomic bomb dropped by the USA) Hiroshima, USA
August 9, 2009 (INES 1 Class.?) Gravelines, FRA
August 9, 2004 (INES 1 Class.?) Mihama, JPN
August 9, 1945 (2st atomic bomb dropped by the USA) Nagasaki, USA
August 10, 1985 (INES 5) Submarine K-431, USSR
August 12, 2001 (INES 2) Phillipsburg, DEU
August 12, 2000, Submarine K-141_Kursk, RUS
August 18, 2015 (INES 2) Blayais, FRA
August 19, 2008 (INES 1) Santa Maria de Garona, ESP
August 21, 2007 (INES 2) Beznau, CHE
August 21, 1945 (INES 4) atomic bomb research in Los Alamos, USA
August 25, 2008 (INES 3) IRE Fleurus, BEL
August 29, 1949 (1st USSR atomic bomb test) Semipalatinsk, KAZ
August 30, 2003, Submarine K-159, RUS
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31. August
France | nuclear power | Electricity price
Nuclear power plant operators under high pressure
France fears for its nuclear power
In the midst of the biggest energy crisis in Europe for decades, 30 percent of the nuclear power plants in France are failing: maintenance and repairs are putting operators under pressure. The price of electricity is exploding. Experts doubt the promised improvement for the winter.
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Greenhouse gas | Climate killer | Wind turbines
Greenhouse gas SF6 in wind turbines - what you need to know about it
Experts agree that a rapid energy transition cannot work without wind energy. But is wind energy really as climate-friendly as we thought – or does the greenhouse gas SF6 in the switchgear of the wind turbines nullify the positive properties?
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Energy security in Europe:
Baltic Sea countries start to increase offshore wind energy sevenfold by 2030
Germany and Denmark share both the costs and the electricity generated in a new wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The project is part of a massive expansion of European offshore wind energy.
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30. August
agrivoltaics | Farmer | Fruits
Power from the orchard: double harvest or failure?
It's an unconventional idea - and one that could backfire: a photovoltaic system over the orchard. After all, the trees and fruits underneath need a lot of light. The first interim balance is positive.
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Repeated problems during trial operation in Finnish nuclear power plant
Problems have again arisen with the new reactor unit 3, which is currently undergoing trial operation in the Finnish nuclear power plant Olkiluoto, which already has two reactor units. As the operating company TVO announced yesterday evening, the reactor had to be shut down again shortly after the restart of trial operation due to turbine damage...
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Renewable energy systems possible and affordable worldwide
Despite all skeptics: A global switch to a renewable energy system is feasible and would even have a price-dampening effect. This is the result of a study in which conditions and scenarios up to 145 were examined for 2050 countries.
A 62 percent supply of energy from wind, sun and water in combination with storage and flexible consumption is not a mirage, but feasible and affordable. An estimated $145 trillion would be needed to renew systems in the 99,7 countries that emit 11 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. But that would be offset by immediate savings of $XNUMX trillion a year ...
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How e-car drivers can collect 400 euros a year from the oil companies
Anyone who buys an electric car frees themselves from the clutches of the oil multinationals. And not only that: He can even cash in on Shell, Aral and Co., reports financial expert Matthias Urbach. He reveals how in his RND column “The Housekeeper”.
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August 30, 2003, Submarine K-159, RUS
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Wikipedia
Sinking of the submarine K-159
On August 28, 2003, towing of the submarine was scheduled to begin. There were ten sailors on board. On August 30, the boat suddenly became stern-heavy due to water seeping in through the rotted stuffing boxes. Later, the sea swept away one of the pontoons, which date back to World War II, and the boat sank a few hours later in the 238-meter-deep water. Seven of the crew went down with her, two more were recovered dead, and one sailor survived.
condemnation of the commander
In May 2004, Gennady Suchkov, then commander of the Northern Fleet, was sentenced by a military court to four years in prison with a two-year suspended sentence for involuntary manslaughter. Nevertheless, in April 2005 he was appointed adviser to Defense Minister Ivanov on naval issues.
salvage
In July 2007, the Russian Navy announced that it wanted to salvage the sunken boat. This has not happened so far (as of April 2021) - however, the Russian Navy had the area around the wreck examined for radioactive contamination in 2014. No increased radioactivity was detected, although still 800 kg nuclear fuel on board are located.
In December 2019, a rescue concept was presented. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development then signaled its willingness to contribute to the estimated cost of EUR 300 million.
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29. August
Fossil fuel subsidies almost doubled in 2021
The OECD and IEA criticize the lack of sustainability, the states would set the wrong incentives. Subsidies are likely to increase further this year.
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NRW | open space | Solar energy
Expansion of ground-mounted PV
NRW state government uses state opening clause for solar energy
The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia wants to accelerate the expansion of photovoltaics in the state and has issued a regulation based on the state opening clause in the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG).
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Solar | Drinking water | renewable
California: Solar panels cover canal to save water and generate energy
Canals covered with solar cells are said to generate energy and save water. California tests a research report in practice.
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Noam Chomsky | United States | China
Chomsky: US foreign policy driven by fears of China's rise
Noam Chomsky says: The US is trying to encircle China to secure its power in Eurasia. A dangerous project that could trigger an attack on Taiwan. How are Europe, Russia and India positioning themselves geopolitically?
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International Day Against Nuclear Tests
Nuclear weapons: the consequences for humans in the foreground!
On the occasion of today's International Day Against Nuclear Tests, the medical peace organization IPPNW criticizes the states party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. After four weeks of negotiations in New York, no consensus had been reached on future disarmament agreements. In the end, it was Russia that formally blocked the passage on the operation of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Before that, however, the nuclear-armed states and their allies had balked at other important agreements.
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The IPPNW puts the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons in the foreground and calls on the German government to take action on this issue. At the conference, 145 countries issued a declaration on the humanitarian and ecological consequences of nuclear weapons. They stressed the urgency of their abolition. Germany, on the other hand, did not take part, although Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock emphasized the importance of the topic in her speech at the beginning of the conference.
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is still in force after 25 years. The USA, China, North Korea, India, Israel, Pakistan, Iran and Egypt have still not joined...
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Kazakhstan | Nuclear test site | Health
August 29, 1949 (1st USSR atomic bomb test) Semipalatinsk, KAZ
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Atomwaffen A-Z
Nuclear Weapons Test Site, Kazakhstan
The history of the Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Semipalatinsk is a reminder of how supposed "national security interests" can be used to deliberately deceive the public and endanger the health of the people for many generations to come. This is exactly what happened in Semipalatinsk, where nuclear explosions knowingly exposed the local population to large amounts of radioactivity for several decades.
background objects
In 1949, the Soviet Union (USSR) conducted its first nuclear weapons test in Semipalatinsk, a 19.000 m test area in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Over a period of 40 years, the USSR detonated 467 nuclear bombs in Semipalatinsk, 120 above ground and 347 underground - always without regard to the health and safety of local people or the environment. In 1990, the International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) joined forces with Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov and his Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement to stage demonstrations to persuade President Gorbachev to impose a nuclear test moratorium. After the collapse of the USSR and Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, the Kazakh government closed the test site and scrapped the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world, which Kazakhstan had inherited from the USSR...
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28. August
water withdrawal | drought | Groundwater
Why is there no water? Farmers and BUND demand preservation of evidence
It is becoming increasingly clear how valuable water is. Conflicts arise in connection with production in the water works and the competing needs of agriculture. The topic will occupy the specialist committee of the district council at the beginning of September. Landvolk and BUND demand a preservation of evidence.
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Extension | Renewables | Repowering
Absurd gas surcharge, nonsensical tenders and free repowering
The solar boom is a long time coming - because of unsafe areas, bottlenecks, inflation, bureaucracy and more, complains Matthias Willenbacher, managing director of the sustainable investing platform Wiwin and member of the Klimareporter° editors' council. Against high electricity prices, he proposes that wind turbines and solar parks can be renewed without a permit.
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Arguments | Climate protection | Deniers
The arguments used by politics and industry to put the brakes on climate protection
Hardly anyone today dares to deny man-made climate change. Instead, some companies and politicians are trying to delay climate protection. Their arguments are mostly similar
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electricity market | Merit order | Renewables | Electricity price
Habeck wants to fundamentally reform the electricity market
Renewable energies produce significantly cheaper electricity than conventional energy sources. The Green Party leader plans to benefit more from this in the future.
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27. August
France | Russian uranium | Dependent
Macron puts simple French people in mood for renunciation
"No weakness and no willingness to compromise," the French president wants to show to Russia. Enriched Russian uranium continues to be imported - via an "energy sovereign" country in distress.
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Climate change | Heat | drought
"NRW is drying up": Environment Minister warns of the consequences of climate change
Climate change is also hitting NRW hard. Environment Minister Krischer speaks of a "climate crisis" - and warns of serious consequences.
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Scheuer demands the construction of three new nuclear power plants
In view of the fears that Germany could experience an energy shortage in winter, the CSU in particular is pushing for nuclear power to be continued. Ex-Transport Minister Scheuer is now even calling for the construction of three new nuclear power plants.
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Andreas Scheuer, the sticky Andi, could not be missing in the chorus of nuclear lobbyists.
If Andi Scheuer opens his mouth, a bad joke usually comes out that only he himself can laugh at.
The joke about his doctoral thesis, the jokes about funding measures for his own constituency, should be mentioned in this context the cell phone infrastructure company (MIG), called the Funklochamt by mockers, and the 5,5 million for the broadband expansion. The joke with the very expensive for the taxpayer Car toll will probably bring him to court after all, and also the praise from the king of all Bavarians Kini Jödler won't help him anymore:
You brought us a lot of money to Bavaria. And with everything that one or the other criticizes about Andi Scheuer: I know few ministers who bring as much money to Bavaria as Andi Scheuer. To be honest, you just have to say that to the outside world in the balance sheet.
His biggest coup, however, was that for all his scandals and missteps, he never had to resign as Minister of Transport. Rarely have you seen someone glued to their chair so tightly. A worthy successor to the old Kini...
At the end of the summer slump and the so-called term debate, only the voices of Ms. Merkel and ex-Minister of Economic Affairs Altmeier, whose policy of slowing down the expansion of renewable energies is largely responsible for the energy chaos of recent years, are missing.
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26. August
Hungary announces start of construction of Paks II nuclear power plant
The 12,5 billion euro project is largely financed by a loan from Russia.
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Climate change | Resource | Drinking water
Controversy over water - also in Germany
The blue planet is drying up. Water is our most important resource. But it's getting tighter - and the competition is getting tougher. Conflicts are piling up.
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Gundremmingen | Interim storage
End for the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant: What will become of the interim storage facility?
At the end of the year it was over: With Block C, the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant was finally taken off the grid. What do people and those responsible say about the interim storage facility, which will still exist for decades to come?
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arbitral tribunals | TTIP | CETA
Million fine for environmental protection
The revenge of the climate sinners is hot and expensive
Energy companies rely on legal thugs to protect their climate-damaging business. They take the money out of the taxpayers' pockets.
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gas surcharge | energy market | gas price
Because of "free riders"
Habeck announces review of the gas allocation
The energy company RWE has announced that it will not be reimbursed from the gas surcharge. According to Economics Minister Robert Habeck, there are talks with other companies about such a step. Now Habeck's ministry is to review the regulations for the levy again.
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25. August
Corrosion as a new problem
France has only 24 out of 56 reactors on the grid
France covers 70 percent of its energy needs with nuclear power. But not even half of the almost 60 reactors supply electricity. It is now certain that four reactors will not produce energy again until the end of this year at the earliest.
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Nuclear phase-out | Stress test | nuclear law
nuclear power? Not a day longer!
December 31, 2022 is the shutdown date for the last three German nuclear power plants. It must remain so in spite of all resistance
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Industrial gas consumption fell sharply in July
The Federal Network Agency considers a gas emergency in Germany to be avoidable. The reason for this is current figures from the industry. But it also applies to private households.
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Slovakia | approval | Mochovce
Controversial nuclear power plant
Slovak nuclear authority confirms operating license for Mochovce 3 nuclear power plant
The third reactor block of the power plant in western Slovakia is controversial because of structural defects
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Alps | Climate change | Shrinking glaciers
Swiss Alps: ice volume halved
Historical photogrammetry documents drastic ice loss since 1931
Alarming shrinkage: since 1931, the glaciers in the Swiss Alps have lost a good half of their ice volume and 35 percent of their area. This reveals a first comprehensive reconstruction of past glacier extent based on more than 21.000 historical photogrammetry images. The data also show that the loss of ice has again increased rapidly in recent years. From 2016 alone, glaciers have lost an additional twelve percent.
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From 1931 to 2016 we lost 50% of glaciers, and since 2016 another 12%. This means that we only have 38% of the fresh water stored in the glaciers. With a loss of 12% in 6 years, that's 2% per year, so according to Adam Riese the glaciers will be gone in 20 years (2042), not just in 2100.
Glacier retreat means above all the loss of drinking water, we lose our water reserves or we have already used them up. This fresh water has long since flowed down the streams and rivers and will no longer be available to us in the future. Periods of drought and dried-up river courses will pose ever greater problems for us in the future.
It would be better for us to start building desalination plants on the North and Baltic Seas and laying water pipes to the south today.
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Belgium | Iodine | Measuring device
August 25, 2008 (INES 3) IRE Fleurus, BEL
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Wikipedia
Fleurus
Radiochemical industrial plant
Fleurus has made headlines in recent years for two serious accidents at the National Institute of RadioElements (IRE), a radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
2006
A hydraulic failure lifted a source of cobalt from a radiation-shielding pool of water even though no irradiation was taking place and the door to the room was open. Due to the triggered alarm, a technician entered the room. During his stay of only 20 seconds, he received a radiation dose of around 4,6 sieverts, which can be life-threatening in the medium term (INES 4).
2008
After completion of a production process, three smaller collection tanks were filled into a larger waste water tank. This led to an unexpected chemical reaction with the formation of radioactive iodine-131. Due to a defective measuring computer, this could escape slowly and unnoticed through a chimney into the environment for a few days. When the problem was noticed, production in the entire plant was stopped on the instructions of the Belgian supervisory authority and a district sector of 5 kilometers to the north-east was banned from the consumption of agricultural products for a few days (INES 3).
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24. August
France | price cap | Electricity price
How France is driving up the price of electricity in Germany
Because nuclear power plants fail, France buys massive amounts of electricity. In Germany, consumers feel the higher prices - but not in France.
Ironically, French consumers hardly feel the price explosion, but German consumers do. Because in the neighboring country, the government under President Emmanuel Macron has capped prices until at least the end of the year. As a result, French customers have no incentive to save electricity.
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Expensive and not environmentally friendly
Biogas instead of gas from Russia?
Germany is feverishly looking for alternatives to Russian natural gas. Producers of renewable biogas want to fill the gap. The federal government wants to lift its production cap. But biogas plants can hardly produce any more energy in the short term. And there is one more problem.
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Düsseldorf FDP for speed limit - for cyclists
The FDP in Christian Lindner's hometown of Düsseldorf is campaigning for a speed limit. But a word of power from the party leader, passionate Porsche driver and speed limit opponent Lindner will not be necessary: It should only apply to cyclists.
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Austria | Sustainable | Dangerous
Nuclear Energy - Sustainable Energy Source or Dangerous Environmental Risk?
Austria has always been considered a major opponent of this type of energy production. Is this opinion slowly changing in view of the current upheavals in the energy market, or does the local population continue to say "nuclear power, no thanks!" Celebration? The online market research institute Marketagent investigated this question in a recent study.
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Japan | Runtime | generation IV
Japan is reportedly considering building new nuclear power plants
The service life of existing power plants is also to be extended to over 60 years. It's a departure from Tokyo's previous line
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Russia | Ukraine | Zaporizhia
Russia and Ukraine again blame each other for nuclear shelling
Before the UN Security Council, Russia and Ukraine have once again blamed each other for the shelling of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which was occupied by the Russian army. At a Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebensia accused Ukraine of shelling the nuclear area "continued practically every day". That would harbor the "real risk of a radioactive accident with catastrophic consequences for the entire European continent".
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23. August
Environment | Peace | Climate & Environment
The split between the climate and peace movements must be overcome!
The environmental movement is also calling for a gas embargo against Russia. People are more merciful with US gas from fracking. That calls for a debate.
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DUH | Golden Vulture | environmental lie
"Golden Vulture" prize
DUH is looking for the "boldest environmental lie"
From the alleged reduction in waste to wasteful recycling - the German Environmental Aid (DUH) is again awarding the "Golden Vulture" abusive prize for the "boldest environmental lie" and has nominated six companies for it. In all cases, customers would be "motivated by the green promise to consume environmentally harmful products," explained DUH federal manager Barbara Metz on Tuesday. "In reality, none of the nominated products makes a positive contribution to climate and environmental protection, they only drive us deeper into the climate crisis."
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Electricity price | Merit order
Revolution on the electricity exchange: has the merit order principle become obsolete?
On August 22, 2022, the price of electricity broke a new record: On the Leipzig EEX exchange, the value of a megawatt hour was 700 euros in daily trading. A year earlier, the value was around 23 euros - an astronomical increase! The pricing mechanism, which is based on the merit order principle, has proven to be a particularly influential cause. According to this logic, the most expensive producer - currently the gas power plants - always defines the price for all other suppliers on the day-ahead market. However, the pricing model does not illuminate all relevant facets and also drives up energy costs for consumers. The question increasingly arises as to whether we should really stick to the merit order.
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Mushroom season: Where and which mushrooms are still contaminated with radioactive cesium
Some wild mushrooms are still contaminated with cesium
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Bavaria | Nuclear waste | Vulkan
Repository for nuclear waste in Franconian Switzerland: That's why it's dangerous
A repository for nuclear waste has been on the agenda in Germany for a long time - and is up for debate in Franconian Switzerland.
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22. August
Switzerland | Italy | Climate change | Shrinking glaciers
Switzerland reports massive glacier shrinkage
Climate change is affecting many glaciers. New data from Switzerland paints a bleak picture. Glaciologists in Italy are also sounding the alarm.
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billion profits | gas surcharge
Billions in profits through gas surcharge
"This is scandalous"
Earn billions in profit and still take money from the gas surcharge? It works, even if consumer advocates castigate the gap and the behavior of some companies. THE has now published a list of all affected importers. But not only the probably biggest profiteer EnBW is on it, but also RWE. Why?
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"Nuclear power, no thank you!":
The staying power of nuclear resistance
Dung heaps, shack villages, electricity rebels and blocking sheep: the small and the big types of resistance to nuclear power in 50 years. a review
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Ukraine | Anxieties | Nuclear disaster
Waiting for a nuclear disaster in Ukraine?
Ukraine and Russia continue to accuse each other of shelling the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant; Fights also take place in the vicinity of the power plant, a power cut harbors the danger of a super meltdown.
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CO2 | photosynthesis | Fuel type
This artificial leaf absorbs CO2 from the environment and produces fuel
Cambridge University researchers have developed an artificial leaf that can produce fuels from CO2 and hydrogen. It could make a significant contribution in the fight against climate change.
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Neckarwestheim | Cracks | veiled
Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of pipe damage hidden
Reactor safety experts warn that a rupture in just one of the more than 16.000 thin-walled tubes could trigger an accident.
According to the broadcast in June 2, investigations at the Neckarwestheim-2022 nuclear power plant have revealed corrosion damage in the steam generators for the sixth time in a row. This means that cracks, some of which are deep and long, have now been detected in more than 350 pipes. The cause of the cracks has not been resolved to this day. There is therefore still an acute danger that further cracks will form and grow - to the point that the pipes can spontaneously burst or tear off. According to broadcast, this was also confirmed by two experts commissioned by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment. Reactor safety experts warn that even a rupture of just one of the more than 16.000 thin-walled tubes could trigger an accident that could even lead to core meltdown...
Report of the reactor safety expert Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Mayer, Ministerialrat aD
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Map of the nuclear world:
Irresponsible, dangerous and definitely not a game...
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The internal search:
brought the following results, among others:
July 15.07.2022, XNUMX - Belgium takes two nuclear reactors off the grid
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January 14.01.2022, XNUMX - Problems also in the French nuclear power plant Penly
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February 17, 2015 - Thousands of cracks in Belgian nuclear power plants
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Risk of nuclear power - Europe's breakdown reactor
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Tihange Nuclear Power Plant – When does it bang?
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German TV history - 01:06:28
Because we didn't know anything about it! This show is from 1958.
Atomic dust above us - dangers of radioactive radiation (documentation, 1958)
Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...
This playlist contains over 150 videos on the topic
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Wikipedia
loss of coolant
A fault that could impair residual heat removal and thus lead to a core meltdown is water loss due to water escaping from a leak, e.g. B. by rupture of a pipeline or bursting of the reactor pressure vessel. Such a leak must be controlled by sufficient water make-up. In the early days of nuclear energy use, it was assumed that the worst event to be considered for endangering residual heat removal was the double-ended rupture of the largest pipeline: By definition, such a design basis accident would therefore be an event that still should be mastered, without having a serious impact on the environment ...
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stress corrosion cracking
is the transcrystalline (through the structure grain) or intergranular (along the grain boundaries of the structure) cracking in materials under the simultaneous influence of a purely static tensile stress or with superimposed low-frequency tensile pulsating stress and a special corrosion medium. Tensile stresses in the form of residual stresses are also effective ...
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vibration cracking corrosion
is the formation of transcrystalline or intergranular cracks in materials due to mechanical vibrations. The occurrence of this corrosion depends on the stress and usually occurs above a specific limit value. In contrast to stress corrosion cracking, the load is cyclic or periodic. Vibration cracking corrosion occurs suddenly and is usually not visible from the outside...
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