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December 31, 2016 - E.On maintains lawsuit against fuel element tax

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Toshiba got rid of the purchase of an American nuclear company -
Japanese technology group examines capital increase

December 28, 2016 - Toshiba shares plummet

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Atomic Research at KIT Karlsruhe: Undetected Path to Uranium-233 Capable of Nuclear Weapons

December 21, 2016 - Thorium: half the truth is the biggest lie!

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Nuclear power is becoming more expensive for opponents of nuclear power!

December 18, 2016 - Higher Regional Court rejects appeal - Unusually high judgment for anti-nuclear chaining action

In the summer of 2012, a chaining action and a climbing action blocked the railway line between Münster (Westphalia) and the uranium enrichment plant in Gronau. The OLG Hamm has now confirmed the unusually high penalties of 90 and 110 daily rates of the Münster district court for the chaining action.

While the proceedings because of the climbing action were discontinued after a short time, the two people who were chained at the time were convicted of "disrupting public operations" before the Steinfurt district court and on appeal before the Münster district court. The appeal filed against the judgment in December 2015 has now been rejected by the Hamm Higher Regional Court. The decision of the regional court, according to which the two chained people were sentenced to 90 and 110 daily rates of 15 euros each, i.e. 1350 euros and 1650 euros, respectively, is now final.

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Energy tax no longer applies for nuclear power plant operators!

December 16, 2016 - Presents for nuclear power plant operators - no energy tax!

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Nuclear phase-out

December 12, 2016 - Why the Constitutional Court decision is just the beginning

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Legal dispute over nuclear phase-out

December 10, 2016 - Anti-nuclear organization accuses corporations of cheating

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Fear of nuclear accident

December 05th, 2016 - Aachen citizens set up their own radioactivity measuring network

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Uranium ammunition irradiates Syria

December 01, 2016 - Pentagon confirms use of uranium ammunition in Syria

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November 29, 2016 - Nuclear research with thorium, Danish government suddenly flirting with nuclear power

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Atomic lobby - Switzerland

November 25, 2016 - Eco-millions for nuclear PR agency before judge

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November 25, 2016 - Nuclear power: Ancient reactors are heated up

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November 21, 2016 - Robert Habeck wants to ban the "safe enclosure" of nuclear power plants

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On November 19, 2016, the BUND NRW and the Nature and Environmental Protection Academy NRW held the seminar “Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: the last straws of the atomic lobby”, which was well attended by 35 participants. In this context, Horst Blume gave a lecture on the resistance against the THTR in Germany and South Africa, which we document here:

November 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws of the nuclear lobby

Resistance to the THTR in Germany and South Africa

BI Hamm is now over 40 years old and its history is rich in experiences and events. So the question arose as to which experiences I emphasize today and which I neglect.

In my lecture I will emphasize some local peculiarities, but also show how we have worked on international issues, especially South Africa, over the past 15 years.

Construction of the THTR began in 1971 when many of the founding members were too young to care about the subject. It was not until 1975 that some of us listened up when we heard from the farmers who were resisting a planned nuclear power plant in Wyhl without violence. At that time I was a member of the DFG / VK and we dealt with the topic of nuclear weapons and organized ourselves in a separate working group to prepare the foundation of a citizens' initiative against nuclear power plants ...

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November 16, 2016 - Vietnam cancels construction plans

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November 12, 2016 - Japan makes India a nuclear country

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Premiere: 1st message from Vatican Radio

November 09, 2016 - Philippines: Bishop praises Duterte's nuclear ban

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Without a nuclear power plant, there would be no atomic bomb

November 06, 2016 - After Fukushima: Nuclear Policy in Japan

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Debate about exit and repository

November 04th, 2016 - Nuclear power: The EU is slowing down the end

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Exit, repository, Akw operator, who gets what and how much for Halloween

October 31, 2016 - Politicians lack courage

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Japan - Tepco bankruptcy

October 25, 2016 - Costs for Fukushima meltdown increase dramatically

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October 22, 2016 - Gundremmingen nuclear power plant is to be dismantled by 2040

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Joint statement in the context of the association hearing on the implementation of the recommendations of the "Commission to review the financing of the nuclear phase-out" (KFK)

October 20, 2016 - Joint statement by '.aussendung' and 'Umweltinstitut München ev' on the billion dollar deal

1. General remarks

The polluter pays principle is one of the three fundamental principles of environmental law in Germany and Europe. It states that the costs of preventing and eliminating environmental damage caused by economic activities are to be charged to the polluter. The aim of this principle is to prevent individual social actors from gaining economic advantages by passing the costs and risks arising from their activities on to society. The implementation of this principle is also intended to ensure that economic sectors whose economic costs exceed the economic benefits to be achieved cannot prevail over other solutions that are better from a societal perspective.

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Evolutionary Power Reactor EPR

October 16, 2016 - Hinkley Point must be built - for military reasons

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Make the polluter pays principle mandatory for nuclear power operators through liability!

October 15, 2016 - nuclear stop: Petition for nuclear liability started today!

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Action alliance Münsterland against nuclear facilities
Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU)

October 13, 2016 - Anti-nuclear opponents disappointed by green election program:

- no concrete statements on the decommissioning of uranium enrichment Gronau
- no concrete statements on uranium waste storage in Gronau
- No concrete statements about the Ahaus nuclear waste interim storage facility
- No concrete statements about the stop of nuclear transport in NRW

The anti-nuclear power initiatives in the Münsterland as well as the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU) are disappointed with the draft of the election program of the NRW Greens. It is true that there is a general call for the withdrawal from uranium enrichment in Gronau, but there are no concrete statements as to how and when this should be achieved. Neither the unanimous closure decision of the state environment ministers from June nor the offer of talks by Federal Environment Minister Hendricks (SPD) in July is mentioned. A planned shutdown date is also missing and there is not a word in the draft of the election manifesto for the planned opening of the new uranium waste hall in Gronau in 2017 - a new large nuclear waste storage facility for North Rhine-Westphalia, the storage of which is not limited in time ...

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IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency:

October 11, 2016 - Cyber ​​attack disrupted operation of a nuclear power plant

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October 02, 2016 - The new dream of "nuclear energy rebirth

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Fukushima: security put on hold ...

September 29, 2016 - Court dismisses subsidy claim against Hinkley Point C NPP

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Dumped, sunk and initiated

September 21, 2016 - Nuclear waste off Europe's coasts

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EDF may build Hinkley Point nuclear power plant and invest 8 billion in China

September 15, 2016 - First new nuclear power plant in the EU approved since Fukushima

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Together with Russia

September 10, 2016 - Iran starts construction of two nuclear reactors in Bushehr

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North Korea's 5th nuclear test

September 09, 2016 - Another nuclear weapon test in North Korea

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September 08, 2016 - Another incident at the Temelin nuclear power plant

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08 September 2016 - Tihange nuclear power plant: Reactor off the grid again

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September 05th, 2016 - New study halfway through nuclear phase-out:

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September 01, 2016 - Nuclear Power in Europe: Crucial days

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Nothing to swear to the engineer, too expensive or even too monstrous ...

August 26, 2016 - Fast breeder reactor in Russia is now running at full power

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Nuclear power in Ukraine

August 23, 2016 - Uranium from the West

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August 11, 2016 - Dispute over nuclear power plants near the border

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August 06, 2016 - Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima

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July 30, 2016 - Radiant Ocean

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July 25, 2016 - ARD documentary debunks the myth of cheap nuclear power

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We pay it! "Long-term liability" for the dismantling of nuclear power plants

July 25, 2016 - loophole for nuclear companies closed

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July 20, 2016 - Nuclear power plant Fessenheim: nuclear supervisory authority shuts down the reactor

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July 14, 2016 - Nuclear waste repository in Bure is approaching

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Development of atomic energy worldwide

July 14, 2016 - "It's China and the rest of the world"

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July 08th, 2016 - False controls at the Phillipsburg nuclear power plant: The public prosecutor's office is now investigating

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July 06, 2016 - Nuclear power risk: when will the next nuclear power plant blow up?

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July 05, 2016 - BUND's dissenting opinion on the report of the repository search committee published

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July 03rd, 2016 - Significant slowdown in the expansion of renewable energies is imminent

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Principle of the public - or what?

June 30th, 2016 - Nuclear power plant Leibstadt does not have to publish exhaust air measurement data

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Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor ...

June 27, 2016 - An open secret decays in the desert

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Security and / or profitability? Both are illusions!

June 23, 2016 - Experts give a devastating verdict on the Fessenheim and Beznau nuclear power plants

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Subject: Sure, the customers pay for everything!

June 17, 2016 - Nuclear power in France: 28 million EDF customers have to pay back

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THTR Incident 1986 - The lies of the past poison the future

June 16, 2016 - THTR: Questions seem to remain unanswered

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Dependencies

June 16, 2016 - Nuclear power plant project cancelled: Bulgaria has to pay 550 million to Russia

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Nuclear power plant in Belgium

June 14, 2016 - 80 municipalities submit petition on Tihange

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June 07, 2016 - Bikini Atoll: Island remains contaminated and deserted

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News about the THTR incident - 30 years later

June 04th, 2016 - Nuclear power plant accident brought about as planned?

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Nuclear power in Africa

May 26, 2016 - Race of the nuclear power plant builders

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Nuclear power in South America - Russia wants to build nuclear power plants in Bolivia

May 26, 2016 - Nuclear power and the good life

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Nuclear power in Africa

May 24, 2016 - China plans to build nuclear power plants in Sudan

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Press release by the citizens' initiative for environmental protection in Hamm

Even after 30 years:
May 18, 2016 - News about the THTR incident

Thirty years after Chernobyl and the incident in the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) Hamm-Uentrop, which became known a few days later on May 4, 1986, a contribution on the Wikipedia discussion page on THTR confirms the worst fears of the opponents of nuclear power plants.

What happened?

Only now did we discover Dr. Hermann Schollmeyer from March 1, 2015. Schollmeyer was the specialist commissioning manager of BBC AG Mannheim, responsible for the shut-off rods produced by this company, as well as for the five steam turbines including the measurement and control technology for the THTR in Hamm.

In the THTR, on May 4, 1986, Kugelbruch once again blocked reactor operation. What happened next is described by Schollmeyer on Wikipedia in section 34, control rods / absorber rods:

"The superfluous blowing out of the broken ball, the filter was already ordered (!), Into the 'Tschernobil cloud' was a decision of the then main operator, Dr. Daoud, which he carried out against every warning and tried to conceal due to a lack of specialist knowledge. "...

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May 13, 2016 - An expensive nuclear deal

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May 11, 2016 - Deficiencies in Akw deliveries?

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Astronomers find the origin of a cosmic neutrino for the first time

April 29, 2016 - Mystery of cosmic "ghost particle" solved?

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Chernobyl, Fukushima and the aftermath

April 26, 2016 - Nuclear accidents cause mutations in animals

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April 26, 2016 - 30 years after Chernobyl and 5 years after Fukushima

Comment from Werner Neubauer

After Chernobyl one had the impression that something would actually change. Today, 30 years later, we know ...

Everything has changed!

The Soviet Union has said goodbye, not only from the financing of the Chernobyl follow-up costs, consequently completely and definitively. The Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian death zones around Chernobyl became a really cool biosphere reserve with totally happy wolves and reactor No. 4 has become a hip selfie background for completely painless disaster tourism ...

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Chernobyl - Ukraine - USSR

April 24, 2016 - Nothing was right

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April 24, 2016 - "I had never seen anything like it" entomologist on Chernobyl

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security checks fake parts - AKW-Biblis, AKW-Philippsburg, ...

April 18, 2016 - More fake security checks

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Interview with radiation protectionist Wolfram König about the simulated safety investigations in the Philippsburg nuclear power plant

April 14, 2016 - "The standards must not be dragged"

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Decrepit nuclear reactor

April 12, 2016 - Luxembourg offers France money to shut down nuclear power plant

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April 06, 2016 - EnBW's lawsuit over nuclear phase-out dismissed

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March 25, 2016 - Fear of their own employees in the nuclear power plant

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March 12, 2016 - The world is phasing out nuclear energy

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March 11, 2016 - Five years of Fukushima: It's far from over

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Hinkley Point C

March 07, 2016 - EDF Chief Financial Officer resigns over nuclear power plant dispute

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Euratom Treaty

March 04th, 2016 - An anachronism in energy policy?

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February 23, 2016 - Explosive repository

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February 10, 2016 - The EPRs are also being delayed in China

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Fear of disaster

January 28, 2016 - Aachen region sues against Belgian nuclear power plant

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Canada, Ontario, Lake Huron

January 26, 2016 - Dispute over planned nuclear waste repository

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PFOA, PFOS, PFAS

January 23, 2016 - The man who taught DuPont to fear

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January 22, 2016 - Workers at Spanish nuclear regulator call for 'safety culture' and 'transparency'

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January 15, 2016 - BBU: Plane crash on nuclear power plant Lingen 2 would have catastrophic consequences

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Kim Jong Un has staged North Korea's fourth nuclear weapons test

January 06, 2016 - North Korea's hydrogen bomb test would have a new dimension

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