1. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    the construction of two to four nuclear reactors. West African online media are currently talking about “55 megawatt reactors,” which would mean small units... * Nuclear phase-out | Isar 2 | PreussenElektra operator announces final closure of the plant A good six months after the Isar 2 nuclear power plant near Landshut was shut down, one thing is clear: the plant can no longer...

  2. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    To achieve this, the 16 interim storage facilities currently spread across Germany could be closed. This would also affect the Bella interim storage facility at the two decommissioned Isar 1 and 2 nuclear power plants near Landshut.... August 10th Pilze | Radioactive wild mushrooms from southern Germany still contaminated with radioactivity even 37 years after Chernobyl Wild edible mushrooms in southern Germany can also...

  3. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    cover. Whether that is true and what has changed in the power supply since then. The historic step took place exactly 100 days ago on Monday: On April 15, the last three nuclear power plants Isar 2 (Bavaria), Neckarwestheim 2 (Baden-Württemberg) and Emsland (Lower Saxony) were finally taken off the grid. Since then, some people have liked to raise the specter that Germany could...

  4. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    After a few days, the black and yellow nuclear friends became a coalition of dropouts. The end of nuclear energy has been definitively established by law. On April 15, 2023, the last three nuclear power plants Emsland, Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 went offline. The short but expensive episode was over. But does it really end? There are forces that want to open a new chapter. In Germany it's not just...

  5. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    visible. Both in terms of price and security of supply. There is still a lot to be done. The power supply system in Germany coped well with the shutdown of the Isar 2 nuclear power plants near Landshut, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2. In the first month without German nuclear power, electricity on the stock exchange did not become more expensive, but even cheaper. The Vice President of...

  6. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    the decommissioning of nuclear power plants in other countries and against plans to build new nuclear power plants, for example in the Netherlands. “The decommissioning of the last three nuclear power plants, Lingen 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Isar 2, was long overdue. But as long as B. Uranium is being prepared for international nuclear power plants in Gronau and Lingen, the nuclear phase-out is not yet complete," criticizes...

  7. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    Data from the Federal Network Agency. The use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in Germany is history. On the evening of April 15, 2023, technicians disconnected the Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 nuclear power plants. After 63 years, the share of nuclear power in the German energy network fell to zero. The other energy sources - including coal, wind power, oil, natural gas, solar and biomass...

  8. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    To prevent radioactive waste from being dumped in ports, forests and mountains, some of the waste cannot be disposed of anywhere even 12 years after the disaster... * Anti-nuclear movement | Emsland | Isar | Neckarwestheim History of the anti-nuclear movement: nuclear power? Bye and no thanks! People have been protesting against nuclear power for 50 years. The last nuclear power plants will be shut down in mid-April. Has the...

  9. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    It's also fish-friendly. Hydropower only plays a minor role in Germany. Researchers are now looking for new ways to gently and reliably produce electricity from currents. A few new fish will be swimming in the Isar in a few weeks. Two meters thirty wide, three meters long, weighing almost 90 kilograms, anchored to the river bottom - and in the future under special observation. This...

  10. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    City district - Pomerania". There is not a meeting of the German environment ministers that goes by that does not involve safety-relevant situations in Belgian or French nuclear power plants... * Isar | TÜV | Safety inspection of light projection on nuclear power plants: Greenpeace protests at Isar 2 On April 15th The federal government has decided to put an end to nuclear power. That will also...

  11. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    is out of the question, even if the material does not emit radiation. The operator EnBW sees the Karlsruhe district as having an obligation to dispose of waste, but there is a legal dispute with the Enzkreis... * Isar | End of term | Access blocked Activists block access to the Isar 2 nuclear power plant On Saturday, around 50 demonstrators blocked access to the Isar 2 nuclear power plant near Landshut. The...

  12. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    an “anti-nuclear spring” 2023 Nuclear phase-out now! Actually, nuclear power in Germany should have been history on New Year's Eve. But instead of shutting down the last three nuclear power plants, Neckarwestheim 2, Emsland and Isar 2, as planned on December 31.12.2022, 15, they will be allowed to continue running in so-called extended operation until April 2023, XNUMX. Well-known politicians from the FDP, CDU and CSU are already calling for...

  13. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    | Fuel element factory Lingen | Uranium enrichment plant Gronau | Garching research reactor Dear friends, 61 days left until the Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II nuclear power plants are shut down - how many days until the Lingen fuel element factory, the Gronau uranium enrichment plant and the Munich-Garching research reactor are shut down? This list alone shows that...

  14. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    at old nuclear power plant sites - and accuses the state government of inaction in this area too. Because even if the Grafenrheinfeld (photo), Gundremmingen and Isar nuclear reactors near Landshut were shut down, the power lines leading to them would remain in place for the time being. Therefore, in the opinion of the Bavarian SPD leader Florian von Brunn, the power plant locations would...

  15. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    will be discussed. The Emsland nuclear power plant was actually supposed to be shut down at the turn of the year. However, due to the energy crisis, the federal government decided that the reactor - just like Isar 2 in Bavaria and Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg - should remain online until mid-April. Initiative: Nuclear power plants no longer meet safety standards All three nuclear power plants were built in the 80s...

  16. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    However, as is well known, the FDP and some industrial associations have agreed to the SPD and the Greens that the three remaining nuclear power plants will remain online: the Emsland, Neckarwesheim-2 and Isar-2 reactors should continue to produce electricity until mid-April. Leading Free Democrats have already signaled that this is not enough for them. They are demanding that the reactors be operated for longer...

  17. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    Heilbronn) to express this - with a protest action. The nationwide campaign "Run Down" criticizes the stretch operation of Neckarwestheim 2 as well as the Lingen nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony and Isar 2 in Bavaria until April 15th... ** November 25th Electricity price brake | Gas price | fossil energies “So that our country can get through the winter well” Traffic light decides to curb gas and electricity prices From high...

  18. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    Voting on the extension operation of the remaining three nuclear power plants fit the picture. Just at the start of carnival on November 11.11th. the Bundestag voted for temporary continued operation of the Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland reactors until April 15, 2023. While the fools of the republic celebrated the beginning of the fifth season, at 11.11:XNUMX a.m. the MPs - some even in...

  19. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    like a contagious disease. More and more of the 56 French nuclear power plants had to be checked, maintained and repaired. And all of this at the worst possible time... ** October 21st Risse | Isar | Neckarwestheim | Emsland Isar‑2 nuclear power plant: It's not just wobbly valves that need to be checked. Use the reactor standstill in Isar‑2 to check for cracks / Two out of three nuclear power plants of the same type already have cracks /...

  20. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    Nuclear power plants. The Greens insist on phasing out nuclear power. The traffic light is in a serious crisis. The traffic lights are heading towards a government crisis. The FDP and the Greens are arguing whether and how the three nuclear power plants Isar 2, Neckarwestheim II in the south and the nuclear power plant in Emsland should continue to operate. The Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck wants the two southern German nuclear power plants to be operational without new fuel rods by mid-2023...

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