Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 |
September 24 to 30
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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:
September 1, 1982 (INES 5) Chernobyl, USSR
September 3, 2017 (6. Atomic Bomb Test) Punggye-ri, PRK
September 5, 2008 (INES 1-3) Ascó, ESP
September 9, 2016 (5. Atomic Bomb Test) Punggye-ri, PRK
September 11, 1979 (INES 4 NAMS 3,4) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
September 11, 1957 (INES 5 NAMS 2,3) nuclear factory Rocky Flats, USA
September 13, 1987 (INES 5) Goiânia, BRA
September 18, 1980 (Rocket fuel explosion) Damascus, USA
September 22, 1980 (INES 3 NAMS 1,6) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
September 23, 1983 (INES 4) nuclear center Constituentes, ARG
September 24, 1977 (INES 3) Davis Besse, USA
September 26, 2013 (INES 2) Institute of Energy Caps, NLD
September 26, 1973 (INES 4 NAMS 2) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
September 29, 1957 (INES 6 NAMS 7,3) nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
September 30, 1999 (INES 4) nuclear factory Tokaimura, JPN
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30 September
Dear friends,
the nuclear and climate policy headlines roll over almost daily. France's nuclear industry is on its knees, Ukraine is being held hostage by Putin - but the federal government wants to keep two nuclear power plants in operation beyond the end of the year, regardless of all technical problems and a clear legal regulation. At the same time, in the last few weeks, together with our Dutch friends from the Laka, we have revealed that the Kremlin concern Rosatom is allowed to get back into the uranium business in the fuel element production of Framatome in Lingen. And where is the expansion of renewables? We haven't discovered it yet - instead dirty coal and fracked LPG plus unsafe nuclear power.
We say: not like that! And therefore call for the demo:
Nuclear Power: Out!
Uranium Factories: Close!
Energy transition: Now!
Saturday, October 01st in Lingen. Start is at 13 p.m. at the train station.
The demo call and all current demo information from the AgiEL alliance - opponents of nuclear power in Emsland:
https://atomstadt-lingen.de/2022/09/28/1-10-2022-demo-in-lingen/
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Solar industry | Globalisation | China
De-globalisation: How the signs point to a European solar industry
In our series on de-globalization, we examine German and European dependencies on raw materials and supply chains.
Believe it or not, four times as much solar power as today - that's what the federal government wants to achieve by 2030. But where are all the solar cells supposed to come from? Probably not from Germany. The local industry was once a world leader. At the beginning of the 2010s, the then black-yellow coalition starved them with extremely reduced feed-in tariffs. Today there are only a fifth as many jobs as in 2011. The market is now firmly in Chinese hands...
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Natural gas | flaring | Methane
Natural gas: Climate effect of flaring underestimated
Flaring releases five times more methane than industry estimates
Underestimated emissions: Only a few weeks ago, the increased flaring of natural gas in Russian plants made the headlines. Now a study reveals that this "flaring" widespread in the oil and gas industry is even more harmful to the climate than previously thought. Because such systems burn on average only 91 percent of the methane to carbon dioxide, some of these systems release the potent greenhouse gas even without combustion. In the USA alone, five times more methane is released from flaring than assumed, as the researchers report in Science ...
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September 30, 1999 (INES 4) Tokaimura Nuclear Factory, JPN
Workers at the Tokaimura uranium processing plant tried to save time and put too much uranium into a preparation tank (16,6 kg instead of 2,3 kg). Two people died and 1.200 were injured.
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AtomkraftwerkePlag
On September 30, 1999, the most serious nuclear accident in Japan to date occurred in the Tokaimura fuel element factory in Japan. Two workers, who had not been informed of the dangers of highly enriched uranium by the operator JCO, had filled a uranium solution with steel buckets and by hand in too large a quantity into a tank and used "spoon-like devices" for mixing. In order to save time during production, the operator changed a procedural regulation without the knowledge of the nuclear supervisory authority and the work steps were shortened ...
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There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world:
Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and sites
During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from one another in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be reused...
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29 September
Solar parking lot | Photovoltaics
The largest car park with a solar roof in Germany is being built near Leipzig
The first construction phase of a large-scale energy project was completed today in Rackwitz in the north of Leipzig. By 2023, a large solar-covered parking area for a car manufacturer is to be built there. The logistics company Mosolf will use the solar system in Rackwitz to generate electricity for around 5.000 households - above the roofs of the cars ...
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Gorleben | Interim storage | state collection point
4.800 barrels of nuclear waste for interim storage in Gorleben?
According to a report, the federal government and the state of Lower Saxony are examining the possibility of bringing around 4.800 nuclear waste barrels from the state collection point in Leese to Gorleben and storing them there.
This is reported by the Lower Saxony political magazine "Rundblick". The lease for the state collection point in Leese (Nienburg/Weser district) expires at the end of 2030. There, low-level and medium-level radioactive waste from research and medicine is stored. This nuclear waste is actually supposed to be taken to the Konrad repository near Salzgitter. However, the commissioning of the Konrad shaft, which has been postponed several times and is now planned for 2027, is still highly controversial. That is why the federal government had checked alternatives as a precaution, it is said. This includes the option of a possible interim storage in Gorleben ...
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France restricts fossil export guarantees
In order to meet its climate commitments, France is restricting export financing for fossil projects – putting pressure on Germany, the USA and Canada. All countries had committed themselves to this at the UN climate conference in Glasgow.
The French government has published a new directive restricting the financing of fossil projects by the French export credit agency BPIFrance, international climate protection organization Oil Change International reports. France is thus implementing its commitment to end international fossil export guarantees by the end of 2022; the state signed this at the UN climate conference in Glasgow last year together with 38 other countries and financial institutions.
The aim is to end almost all French government-backed financing for international fossil fuel projects, which were responsible for 2009 billion euros in public finances for oil and gas between 2019 and 9,3, the NGO explains. The French development agency Agence Française de Développement (AFD), which is also subject to the Glasgow commitment, had already decided in 2019 to almost completely exclude fossil fuels ...
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Global Witness | conservationist | Environmentalist | Indigenous people
Killed 200 environmentalists fighting for nature
According to the organization Global Witness, indigenous people and conservationists are repeatedly victims of violence. Most homicides remain unsolved.
According to the non-governmental organization Global Witness, 200 environmentalists were killed worldwide last year. The most dangerous country for conservationists was Mexico, followed by Colombia and Brazil, the group said Thursday at the presentation of its annual report. Activists in particular who oppose mining and energy projects, agriculture and deforestation live dangerously. Most of the killings are never solved, the organization reported.
"Around the world, indigenous peoples, environmental activists and conservationists are risking their lives in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss," said Global Witness spokeswoman Shruti Suresh. "They play a critical role as the first line of defense against ecological collapse, but are themselves under attack and subject to violence, criminalization, and harassment from repressive governments and corporations that prioritize profit over people and the environment." ...
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September 29, 1957 (INES 6 | NAMS 7,3) Mayak Nuclear Factory, USSR
There were about 1 million TBq released radioactivity.
At the Majak Scientific-Production Association spent fuel storage facility, heat exchangers in the nitrate storage tank failed, causing a severe chemical explosion.
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AtomkraftwerkePlag
In 1957, the first major accident occurred in the use of atomic energy, which is comparable in its dimensions to the catastrophes in Fukushima and Chernobyl, but only became known to the world public in 1989.
The Mayak nuclear complex, 15 kilometers east of the city of Kyshtym in Chelyabinsk Oblast on the eastern side of the southern Urals, was an important part of Stalin's 1945 plans to rapidly produce weapons-grade plutonium and close the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons deficit. In 1948 the first reactor was switched on, in 1949 the first atomic bomb was detonated and Stalin had caught up with the USA.
235 radioactive accidents with serious consequences for the environment occurred in Mayak ...
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There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world:
Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and sites
During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from one another in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be reused...
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28 September
Nuclear lobby | Dependence | nukem | Rosatom
Germany's nuclear ties with Russia
The German nuclear lobby is using the gas crisis to promote longer nuclear power plant lifetimes. Russia always earns money from deals in the European nuclear sector. Green Planet Energy demands disclosure of the dependencies - and their unbundling.
The largest German nuclear lobby association Kerntechnik Deutschland (KernD) calls for longer nuclear power plant runtimes and more nuclear power for Europe. Basically, this is nothing new. But during the gas crisis, the lobby group increasingly used the argument that nuclear power creates energy independence for Germany and frees Europe from Putin's clutches. This is factually incorrect, as Russia's state-owned energy company, Rosatom, is heavily intertwined with the nuclear power sector in Europe.
This also specifically applies to the German nuclear lobby: KernD's CEO is Thomas Seipolt, Managing Director of Nukem Technologies Engineering Services GmbH. Among other things, the company is involved in the dismantling of German nuclear power plants - and is a subsidiary of Rosatom. Green Planet Energy has analyzed the interdependencies and calls for a debate on the extent of the dependence of the nuclear industry and its German lobby on Russia ...
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Environmental associations | continued operation
Environmental groups criticize the continued operation of nuclear power plants
Nuclear power plants cause problems in France, which is why two German nuclear power plants will probably continue to produce electricity beyond New Year's Eve. Criticism comes from environmental groups.
The likely continued operation of two German nuclear power plants has met with criticism from environmentalists. "It is and will remain nonsense in terms of energy policy to undermine the statutory phase-out of nuclear power by December 31, 2022," said nuclear expert Heinz Smital from Greenpeace. "The lack of electricity in France due to the shutdown of numerous nuclear power plants shows how unreliable nuclear energy is. There is also the risk of catastrophic nuclear accidents." ...
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Nuclear phase-out | continued operation
Nuclear phase-out "probably" postponed for the time being
The operators of two nuclear power plants have reached an agreement with the federal government: continued operation is basically possible until mid-April. If the capacities are not called up, the federal government will reimburse the preparation costs.
According to Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens), the German nuclear power plants Isar II and Neckarwestheim II will "probably" remain on the grid in the first quarter of 2023. While environmental organizations are sharply criticizing this, the operators of both power plants, PreussenElektra GmbH and EnBW Kernkraft GmbH, announced details of an agreement with Habeck's department and the Federal Ministry for the Environment "about a possible temporary continued operation" on Tuesday...
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27 September
Nord Stream | Attack | leaks | gas pipeline
Leaks in Nord Stream Pipelines:
Several explosions indicate an attack – gas prices are rising
The federal government suspects targeted attacks on the Baltic Sea pipelines. The US secret service is said to have warned weeks ago. Seismologists report underwater explosions.
Several European countries believe that an attack is possible as the cause of the three leaks found in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Baltic Sea pipelines. It was still unclear on Tuesday afternoon what exactly caused the leaks. As the Handelsblatt learned from German security circles, there is a lot to be said for targeted sabotage...
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Stretch operation | Stress test
Habeck considers continued operation of the nuclear power plant more and more likely
The stress test does not bode well for the shutdown of the last German nuclear power plants. According to Federal Minister of Economics Habeck, two of the three remaining reactors could help bridge network bottlenecks.
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck assumes that the remaining two nuclear power plants could remain connected to the grid in so-called extended operation. "We are already in an area where the stress test says: It may be necessary to use nuclear power plants for network security," Habeck said in an interview for the climate conference of SPIEGEL and the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG). "We will continue to monitor this, but the situation in France is not developing well," the Green politician continued...
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Lingen fuel assemblies | Uranium Russia | Bus Routes
Opponents of nuclear power: Russia wants to transport more uranium to Emsland
Environmentalists warn of new supplies of enriched uranium from Russia to the fuel element factory in Lingen, Emsland. Citizens' initiatives from several countries report that the Dutch nuclear supervisory authority ANVS has approved the transports.
Nuclear power opponents warn of new deliveries of enriched uranium from Russia to the fuel element factory in Lingen, Emsland. The Dutch nuclear supervisory authority ANVS has approved the transit of up to 30 transports by 2025, said citizens' initiatives from several countries on Tuesday. The enriched uranium is to be brought by ship from Russia to the Netherlands and loaded onto trucks there.
At the same time, the initiatives reaffirmed their demand for an immediate halt to uranium deals with Russia. "The Dutch government must immediately ban Russian nuclear ships from using the ports," said Dirk Bannink from the Lower Saxony organization Laka. "Uranium deals with Russia are active help for Putin's war chest." Laka had made public the Dutch uranium transit permits for Russian uranium ...
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100 firefighters on duty
Hours of smoldering fire on nuclear submarine in Toulon
A nuclear submarine in southern France burned for hours before a hundred firefighters managed to bring the smoldering fire under control. According to the Navy Prefecture, there should be no danger from radioactive radiation. It is not the first fire on a nuclear submarine in Toulon.
Hundreds of firefighters extinguished a smoldering fire on a nuclear submarine in the southern French port city of Toulon. As the naval prefecture announced, insulation material apparently caught fire in a food storage room in the bow of the submarine on Monday. The fire brigade brought the smoldering fire under control after several hours, there is no danger from radioactive radiation...
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Merzthutjanix | social tourism | Provocation
"Apologies in all forms"
Ukraine refugees as social tourists: CDU leader Merz rows back after heavy criticism
Friedrich Merz accused refugees from Ukraine of “social tourism”. What followed was outrage and criticism. The CDU leader is now speaking on Twitter and regrets his statements.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz has rowed back to Germany after his complaint about "social tourism" by Ukrainian refugees. “There has been a lot of criticism of what I said yesterday about the refugees from Ukraine. I regret the use of the word 'social tourism'," he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday...
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Reserve NPP | Safety | Cracks
Are Habeck's nuclear plans failing due to security issues?
Two of the three remaining nuclear power plants are to serve as a reserve for grid stability in winter. Nuclear opponents and operators doubt that this is easily possible. And there is also a local resident lawsuit.
Germany is heading for a difficult winter - at least as far as energy costs are concerned. This is one of the reasons why the discussion about the continued operation of the three German nuclear power plants is being conducted with verve. Should every possible kilowatt hour be generated and should all three reactors therefore continue to run for as long as possible? This is what industry, CDU leader Friedrich Merz and Finance Minister Christian Lindner are demanding. Do we need two of the three as reserve power plants to ensure grid stability in extreme situations, as Economics Minister Robert Habeck is planning? Or is the whole thing a mock discussion? Because technical concerns, safety problems and a lawsuit from residents could rule out any kind of continued operation...
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26 September
Nord Stream | gas pipeline | leak
Pressure drop in Nord Stream 2
According to the operator, there has been a pressure drop in the Nord Steam 2 natural gas pipeline. Cause is a hole. However, the problem cannot affect the natural gas supply.
According to the operator, there was a pressure drop in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline last night. A loss of pressure was found in tube A. The responsible naval authorities in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia were informed immediately, said the spokesman for the pipeline operator Nord Stream 2 AG, Ulrich Lissek, today. Normally there is a pressure of 105 bar. Now it is only seven bars on the German side.
According to the operators, gas is leaking south-east of the Danish island of Bornholm. In cooperation with authorities, Denmark's exclusive economic zone had been identified as the location of a possible exit, Nord Stream 2 AG announced in the afternoon. The responsible authorities then set up a safety zone as a precautionary measure. The investigations continued...
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Nationalisation | utility companies
Bas is in favor of nationalizing the supply of water, electricity and gas
Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) would support keeping the gas importer Uniper permanently in state hands. She also advocates nationalizing the supply of water, electricity and gas.
Berlin. Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) advocates putting the basic energy supply in the hands of the state. “When it comes to water, electricity or gas, you have to ask yourself whether the supply should be in the hands of the state. I'm for it," said Bas of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (Monday). When asked whether the gas importer Uniper should remain in state hands even after the current energy crisis, she replied: "Why shouldn't the state make a profit for a change? Debts are nationalized, profits are privatized. That's wrong."
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Bas said she has called for this before for the healthcare sector. There, too, “it cannot be that the services that bring profits are made by the private sector and the state has to take care of the rest,” said Bas.
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Many new jobs for renewable energies worldwide
Renewable energies are a job engine. 700.000 new jobs were added last year. Around the world, 12,7 million people are currently working on the research, planning, installation and operation of renewable energy systems.
Despite Corona and the energy crisis, the job engine of renewable energies is running. In 2021, 700.000 new jobs were created, for a total of 12,7 million. Most employees can be found in the photovoltaic industry – 4,3 million. This sector is growing the fastest and provides more than a third of jobs. 2,4 million people each work for hydropower and biofuels. 1,3 million people are employed in the field of wind energy.
The regional distribution shows clear hotspots. Almost two-thirds of jobs are in Asia. China alone accounts for 42 percent, followed by the EU and Brazil with 10 percent each and the USA and India with 7 percent each...
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Fear of a reactor accident grows
The Russian attack on Ukraine has reignited old fears of a nuclear catastrophe in Germany.
63 percent of Germans are "very worried" about the risk of possible radioactive contamination from an accident in a nuclear power plant. But only 20 percent know what to do in the event of a nuclear accident. These are the central results of a study by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS).
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If necessary, the authorities would distribute the protective pills and provide information on how to take them correctly. According to the Federal Office, 190 million iodine tablets are available for this purpose. In addition, the following applies: "If a radioactive cloud really occurs, people should definitely stay in their homes and keep windows and doors closed."
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September 26, 2013 (INES 2) Caps Institute of Energy, NLD
Three out of six control rods showed defects, the research reactor had to be shut down for 5 months.
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Wikipedia
As part of the EURATOM treaty, the Netherlands and the then EURATOM Commission signed the treaty establishing the European research center in 1961, which was opened in Petten in 1962. It took over the high-flux reactor for materials research that had gone into operation the previous year and is now used primarily for the production of medical isotopes...
The fuel elements have since been removed. The High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten remains operational and is scheduled to be replaced in 2024 by a new multi-purpose Pallas-type HFR.
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September 26, 1973 (INES 4 | NAMS 2) Sellafield Nuclear factory, GBR
The processing of fuel elements stored too short caused a high iodine content and settled 2,2 tbq radioactivity free.
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This accident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity originating from Sellafield, are no longer in the German Wikipedia a DAK Bungalow.
The one classified as "serious accident" INES 5 Windscale fire of 1957 is the only pre-2005 Sellafield incident that hasn't disappeared from Wikipedia...
Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield
The complex was made famous by a catastrophic fire in 1957 and by frequent nuclear incidents, which is one of the reasons why it was renamed Sellafield. Up until the mid-1980s, large quantities of the nuclear waste generated in day-to-day operations were discharged in liquid form via a pipeline into the Irish Sea.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents
Radiological releases
Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 serious off-site incidents or accidents involving radiological releases that warranted classification on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at Level 5, five at Level 4 and fifteen at Level 3. In addition, there were in intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere known for extended periods in the 1950s and 1960s...
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25 September
France | Energy transition | renewable
Faster energy transition in France:
Macron wants to catch up
France's first offshore plant is connected to the grid. A law is intended to accelerate the expansion of renewable energies. What will become of nuclear power?
PARIS taz | France has an unfortunate lag in solar and wind energy: this is not a new statement, but it is now officially coming from President Emmanuel Macron. And he wants to change that. Today, Monday, he will present his draft law on energy policy for the coming decades to the Council of Ministers for discussion. In the next two months, she will then deal with Parliament.
Only 8 percent of electricity consumption in France comes from wind power, all renewable sources together do not even come to 25 percent. The country thus lags far behind its European neighbors, but also behind its climate policy targets. Everything has gone too slowly so far, regrets the head of state, who doesn't want to take any responsibility for it himself. With his template, he now looks particularly far into the future.
According to him, the planning, approval and construction of solar and wind power plants in France takes twice as long as in neighboring countries. His envious gaze is aimed at Great Britain and Germany. "Our neighbors were much faster," said Macron. The local opponents of wind power or solar systems are said to be to blame. With their "resistance out of personal interest" they would only delay the approvals unnecessarily from the point of view of the authorities.
This is exactly what the new law aims to change. Above all, it would drastically reduce the deadlines for appeals against local energy projects. In future, each court instance will have to decide within 10 months in disputes. That would reduce the whole process to a maximum of 30 months...
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Politics | Communication | lie
Political trend perpetual lie
World wide ripoff
People like Donald Trump establish constant lying as a basic tool of their politics. The narratives of these enemies of democracy are similar around the world. Nevertheless, real politics remains possible.
It's a cynical cliché that constant lies are part and parcel of politics. In fact, there is an anti-democratic impulse in it: they all lie anyway, so it doesn't matter who you vote for.
That is – fortunately – a lie: Even in politics in 2022, there will still be a lot of people who are oriented towards the cause itself. You strive for truthfulness and try to the best of your knowledge and belief to solve or at least mitigate our enormous problems.
The idea that in politics everyone lies all the time anyway is reminiscent of a Soviet-era propaganda strategy: make people doubt everything. Let the situation appear so confusing that the audience gets the feeling that "it can no longer believe anything anyway".
Flood the zone with shit
Trump's former communications strategist Steve Bannon recently reinterpreted this strategy: Flood the zone with shit. Just spouting so much nonsense, so many competing narratives, lies, conflicting claims that at some point the truth itself just seems like one of many versions of reality...
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Dear friends,
On Friday evening the crack reactor Doel 3 near Antwerp finally went offline, Tihange 2 is to follow in January. So Belgium is slowly starting to phase out nuclear energy. Of course that is too slow, but every reactor less is good news - there is no renaissance of nuclear energy, only a very long farewell!
So that we can finally show a clear edge here in Germany and finally expand the turbocharged renewables instead of nuclear, coal and gas, we are calling again for the anti-nuclear and energy transition demonstration now
Saturday, October 1, at 13 p.m. from Lingen/Emsland train station.
You can sign the demo call as a group until Wednesday:
https://atomstadt-lingen.de/2022/09/17/1-10-2022-demo-in-lingen/
The Fridays demos the day before yesterday showed how important the climate protest is right now: 280 people nationwide, but e.g. T. blatant comments, as if our general livelihoods are not that important right now. There has been a lot of negative shifts in the last few months. On the other hand, we say thank you to the Fridays - two activists will also speak on Saturday in Lingen!
More news:
1. Nuclear waste logistics center Würgassen on the brink?
Surprising news from the Federal Ministry for the Environment: The necessity of the nuclear waste logistics center in Würgassen should be checked again - a first partial success of the persistent protests in the region!
2. No Castor Jülich-Ahaus?
In Ahaus, the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Economics recently announced that they really didn't want any nuclear waste transports from Jülich to Ahaus, but were looking for a building site in Jülich itself to store the 152 Westcastors. Exports to the USA are also off the table.
If so, that too would be a great achievement for the anti-nuclear resistance. But what about the highly radioactive and highly enriched nuclear waste from Munich-Garching? There was no reliable information on this.
And: The storage time of the nuclear waste in Ahaus should in principle be extended indefinitely. We have always feared such long-term storage, but were often dismissed as "panic mongers". But now it's official. No wonder: there is no safe disposal option for nuclear waste.
3. Lingen: New uranium deals Russia-Framatome
The Russian nuclear carrier "Mikhail Dudin" is currently approaching Dunkirk again. On board probably again enriched uranium for Lingen. From Berlin: Silence.
However, it has now become known via the BASE transport lists that three uranium trucks from France arrived in Lingen after the last uranium transport from Russia to Dunkirk. Unfortunately, our fears about this transit route seem to have been confirmed.
Therefore: Let's go to Lingen - against nuclear power plant lifetime extensions and fuel element deals and for the expansion of renewables!
Nuclear-free climate greetings
SOFA (Sofortiger Atomausstieg) Münster, action alliance Münsterland against nuclear facilities
www.sofa-ms.de, www.urantransport.de
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Electricity price | Wind power
Electricity prices: north-south German noise about wind power
The northern German states produce the majority of German wind power and want to achieve lower electricity costs for themselves. Bayern reacted indignantly.
While Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and brought home a liquid gas agreement in the energy crisis, there is trouble at home. The northern German non-city states are demanding a division of Germany into different electricity price zones at the expense of southern Germany. According to a report by "Welt am Sonntag", the northern German states want to push through cheaper electricity prices for their citizens and companies. Lower Saxony's Energy Minister Olaf Lies (SPD) told the newspaper: "If I live or produce where the energy is produced or landed, this energy must also be cheaper there." The north has been bearing the brunt of the energy transition for years.
Söder rejects North German advance
The Bavarian state government reacted indignantly and made an offsetting calculation with the state financial equalization system. Head of the State Chancellery Florian Herrmann (CSU) criticized the North German demands as "simply outrageous"...
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geothermal energy | energy | warmth
Geothermal energy could cover a quarter of Germany's heat requirements
Germany is looking for new sources of energy - the Ukraine war clearly shows the dependency on imports of fossil fuels. A promising alternative: geothermal energy. In order to use the potential in this country, research is currently being carried out with new high pressure.
There is great potential for the energy system slumbering deep beneath our feet: geothermal energy. With every kilometer underground, the average temperature rises by 30 degrees Celsius. "Since the formation of the earth, part of the heat has been generated continuously through the decay of natural radioactive isotopes. Today this is increasingly taking place in the earth's crust," says Eva Schill. She heads the Geoenergy cluster of the Institute for Nuclear Waste Management (INE) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The heat slowly but surely rises to the earth's surface, from there it goes into the atmosphere and then escapes into space. On the way out, just a tiny fraction of that could be enough to warm our homes and power our industries...
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24 September
Würgassen | Nuclear waste logistic center
Interim nuclear storage facility in Würgassen: does it really have to be?
The federal government's controversial project to set up a nuclear waste logistics center in Würgassen on the border with Lower Saxony is now to be reviewed by the federal waste disposal commission.
A spokesman for the Federal Environment Ministry said that the Disposal Commission would be asked to first evaluate the report presented by Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia in August. In this report, TÜV Nord came to the conclusion that such a nuclear waste logistics center is not absolutely necessary ...
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Belgium | Purpose | switched off
Nuclear reactor Doel 3: Belgium shuts down controversial reactor
Entry into exit: Belgium permanently shuts down controversial Doel 3 reactor German opponents of nuclear power and politicians had campaigned for the end for years.
Belgium has permanently shut down a controversial nuclear reactor near Antwerp. The Meiler Doel 3 has not been supplying electricity since Friday evening, said a spokeswoman for the operator Engie. Doel 3 was commissioned around 40 years ago. It is the first of the seven Belgian reactors to be shut down. In the coming hours and days, the temperature of the reactor will now be reduced.
In 3, experts had already found thousands of hairline cracks in the reactor pressure vessels in unit Doel 2012 and in another reactor near Liège. Nevertheless, Belgium let the two reactors continue to run without consulting the neighboring countries and checking the environmental compatibility - illegally, as the European Court of Justice ruled, among others...
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September 24, 1977 (INES 3) Davis Besse NPP, OH, USA
September 24, 1977 - A pressure relief valve opened in the primary circuit and steam escaped.
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Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Davis_Besse#Störfälle
On September 24, 1977, a pressure relief valve in the primary circuit opened, causing steam to escape. The control room staff was unable to bring the situation under control for a long time. There was a risk that the core of the reactor could have been exposed and overheated due to the severe loss of coolant. Before this happened, the valve could be closed again. A few years later, the accident was assigned Category 3 on the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale...
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News+ September 24
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Fridays for Future | demonstrations worldwide
Fridays for Future demands: "100 billion euro special fund for climate protection!"
Global climate strike: actions in almost 600 cities on all continents. A turning point is being called for in Germany: "Now at the latest is the moment to become independent of fossil energies and expand renewables at an unprecedented pace."
Some may have hoped – others feared – that the school strikes and demonstrations for climate protection were over, that the youth movement had lost its breath. But that's not the case, as yesterday's Friday showed.
As announced, hundreds of thousands of people or even more took to the streets worldwide for climate protection and against the continued use of coal, oil and gas. In some countries, such as South Korea, there will be further rallies this Saturday. An incomplete list shows planned actions in almost 600 cities on all continents.
(There were also small rallies at Arctic and Antarctic research stations.)
The international school strike movement called Fridays for Future, for which it was the eleventh global day of action. The young people were supported by numerous environmental organizations, the Scientists for Future and, in some countries, by trade unions. There were actions in Bangladesh, in Austria, in India, in Italy (here an action on the Rialto Bridge in Venice), in El Salvador, in Japan, in Uganda, in Pakistan and of course in Sweden.
According to a press release by the German branch of the international network, 270 people took to the streets in over 280.000 locations between Aachen and Frankfurt/Oder, between Flensburg and Konstanz.
Above all, a 100 billion euro special fund for climate protection was demanded and that the rich industrialized nations pay for the damage caused to the poor countries. A demand similar to that made by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday...
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Fridays for Future
... Following the example set by the initiator Greta Thunberg, schoolchildren take to the streets and protest on Fridays during class time. The protest takes place worldwide and is organized by the pupils and students; for example, almost 15 million people are said to have taken part in the FFF demonstrations on March 2019, 1,8, the first climate strike organized worldwide.
In the meantime, numerous support organizations have formed regionally, nationally and worldwide, in particular the Scientists for Future.
Fridays for Future is organized in Germany as an unincorporated association and sees itself as a grassroots grassroots movement (October 2019) ...
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Climate change
Climate change, also climate change, climate change or climate change, is a worldwide change in the climate on earth or earth-like planets or moons that have an atmosphere. The cooling or warming associated with climate change can take place over different lengths of time. An important distinction is made between those weather patterns that take place within the framework of a climatic condition or a climatic zone, and climate change itself, which increases or decreases the probability of certain weather conditions occurring.
The current global warming, which is mainly caused by humans (anthropogenic) is an example of a very rapid but not yet completed climate change. The term climate change is often used as a synonym for this in the public discussion (but then as "climate change"). The ecological and social crisis caused or predicted by the current climate change is also referred to as "climate crisis" ...
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Climate catastrophe
Climate catastrophe is the term for climate change with worldwide catastrophic effects. This also includes uncontrolled global warming, for example as a greenhouse-earth scenario. In the mass media in particular, the term is often used as a framework for interpreting the feared consequences of man-made climate change. Sometimes, even in climate impact research, drastic consequences are referred to as climate catastrophes. Climate catastrophes serve as motifs in literature and film. If left unsolved, the current political, social and technological climate crisis would result in a climate catastrophe...
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