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    Flamanville 3 is shaking. Actually, the reactor in Flamanville, which has been delayed by twelve years, should now be loaded with fuel. This has now been delayed for weeks. The new EPR reactor at the Flamanville nuclear power plant on the French Channel coast will not be loaded with fuel as planned this month. The French nuclear regulator ASN issued another...

  2. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    If we want to stabilize at all, we have to achieve structural change. This is not a debate about renunciation, but a debate about structural change."... * Würgassen | Battery storage Former Würgassen nuclear power plant site will become battery storage One of the largest battery storage systems in Germany is to be built not far from the former Würgassen nuclear power plant. Its capacity will be 280 megawatt hours ...

  3. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    citing people in the know. EDF itself has not yet commented on this. [...] EDF plans to build new reactors of the new EPR series. One such project is currently being built at the Flamanville nuclear power plant for an estimated cost of 13 billion euros. This is expected to go into operation this year - with a delay of twelve years and almost 10 billion euros more expensive than...

  4. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    brought, but also 125 gigawatts of solar and wind. News+ background knowledge Top of page Background knowledge ** The map of the nuclear world Thanks to the existing infrastructure, old nuclear power plant sites can be used as electricity storage for renewable energies... The "internal search" with the search terms nuclear industry | Nuclear lobby brought the following results, among others: The THTR-300 reactor failure |...

  5. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Özgür Gürbüz, the co-founder of the Turkish environmental protection organization Ekosfer, how the Turkish public perceives the entry into the nuclear age. Interview: Horst Hamm Mr. Gürbüz, the first of four reactors at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant site on the Turkish Mediterranean coast is scheduled to go into operation in 2024. What does the Turkish public say about this project? It's been 23 years...

  6. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    the nuclear power plant and contaminated the local water supply; the damage cost $48 million. In June 2011, it was reported in the US media that tritium leaks had been discovered at 48 of 65 nuclear power plant sites in the US. According to a list from July 2014, Braidwood was also affected... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being...

  7. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    the nuclear power plant and contaminated the local water supply; the damage cost $48 million. In June 2011, it was reported in the US media that tritium leaks had been discovered at 48 of 65 nuclear power plant sites in the US. According to a list from July 2014, Braidwood was also affected... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry...

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

    says Wolfgang Ehmke, a nuclear opponent from the very beginning. The nuclear plants in Gronau and Lingen continue to operate despite the nuclear phase-out, and the highly radioactive nuclear waste in the halls at the nuclear power plant sites may have to stay there for 100 years. What do you think the nuclear power movement should do? I don't understand why the closure of Gronau and Lingen isn't...

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

    In the 1970s, they began their seemingly hopeless battle against the new form of energy that had been introduced the decade before. The focal points were Wyhl, the planned nuclear power plant site in Baden, and Gorleben in Lower Saxony, where a national “nuclear disposal center” including a final storage facility was to be built. Half a century later, Germany is finally phasing out nuclear power. The...

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

    were shut down, but were brought back online in 1991 (Reactor 2), 1995 (Reactor 3) and 2007 (Reactor 1). In June 2011, it was reported in the US media that tritium leaks had been discovered at 48 of 65 nuclear power plant sites in the US. According to a list from July 2014, Browns Ferry was also affected. The three reactors have operating licenses until 2033, 2034 and 2036...

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

    On April 15, 2023, the day on which the Federal Chancellor announced the end of all nuclear power plants, BUND and .ausradiot, with a broad circle of supporters, are also calling for actions at the Lingen, Neckarwestheim and Munich nuclear power plant sites to oppose further extensions of their operating times to demonstrate. The call for an “anti-nuclear spring” with vigils on March 11 and demonstrations on...

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

    under the leadership of Kim Jong Un. An internal report from the United Nations now shows how the venture is financed - namely through hacking and cyber attacks... * Battery | Nuclear power plant location | Electricity storage Creative "continued" use of nuclear power plants Bavarian SPD wants large electricity storage facilities at existing nuclear power plant locations The Bavarian SPD state chairman Florian von Brunn is calling for the construction of large...

  13. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    The BGZ has now presented its goals for the first time in Lower Franconia at an inter-municipal council meeting in Schwebheim (Schweinfurt district). The Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant site is also affected. The motivation is not just a desire for research, but also a practical one: the approval of the BZR interim storage facility in Grafenrheinfeld runs until 2046. Until then, there will be...

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

    be stored than was incurred during nuclear power plant operation. This additional radiation exposure is expected of the population and the affected workers. The nuclear waste is said to come from the Würgassen nuclear power plant site, which is currently being dismantled. What is irritating is that the Würgassen site has its own interim storage facility for low- and medium-level radioactive waste. Why is the...

  15. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    There are 30 more villages, but in 2015 the PGE (Polish Energy Group) joint stock company responded to the multi-million dollar funding offer. Since then, PGE has supported infrastructure measures in the locations earmarked for a nuclear power plant site... * Climate catastrophe | Climate conference | Natural gas must show decency in the climate catastrophe Fridays for Future co-founder Luisa...

  16. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    and to discredit the Russian leadership. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several Western governments have firmly rejected this accusation... ** October 24th Nuclear power plant sites | Leukemia | KiKK How dangerous is a nuclear power plant for health? The last three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany are also scheduled to be shut down at the end of April 2023. But the...

  17. Newsletter XXVII 2022 - July 02nd to 10th - News+ Global security is only possible together!

    as is well known, in Lingen in Lower Saxony are exempt from the phase-out and have unlimited operating licenses. And in the central interim storage facilities of Gorleben, Ahaus and Lubmin as well as at the nuclear power plant sites, the highly radioactive waste will have to be stored for decades until a final storage facility can be filled from 2080 at the earliest... * France | EDF | Greenwashing Greenwashing of nuclear power via...

  18. Newsletter XXIV 2022 - June 10th to 17th - News+ Majority for nuclear weapons? – Now the peace movement speaks

    the nuclear power plant and contaminated the local water supply; the damage cost $48 million. In June 2011, it was reported in the US media that tritium leaks had been discovered at 48 of 65 nuclear power plant sites in the US. According to a list from July 2014, Braidwood was also affected. In 2011 it was discovered that workers at the Braidwood and Byron nuclear power plants had been deliberately...

  19. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    from the EU climate change service Copernicus... * Great Britain | Climate change | Sea level Fukushima in Britain London wants to rely more on nuclear power. Study shows: Nuclear power plant sites threatened by sea level rise * Chernobyl | Russia | Ukraine | Münster April 25th, 18:30 p.m.: Chernobyl vigil on the Principal Market/Lambertikirche Dear friends from Münster and...

  20. Newsletter XI 2022 - March 12th to 18th - News+ Poisoned Bravery

    Risks Nuclear power plants are not only at risk from natural disasters or internal causes such as quality defects, power failures and human error. Military flight maneuvers and nuclear power plant sites located within flight paths of civilian airports also pose a risk, as the past has already shown. Due to the current threat situation, the risk of an attack...

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