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Matteo Salvini wants to change that – and is calling for a new referendum. He already has a location in mind. There are efforts in Italy's right-wing government to return to nuclear energy. Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini named 2032 as the deadline to put a new nuclear power plant into operation for the first time. The leader of the smaller government party Lega also suggested...
could be. (INES Level 6) Nuclear power accidents by country#Russia Nuclear power plantsPlag The Majak plutonium factory The first major accident in the use of nuclear energy occurred in 1957, which was comparable in magnitude to the catastrophes of Fukushima and Chernobyl, but only became known to the world in 1989 got known. The Mayak nuclear complex, 15 kilometers east of...
– around half – do not currently operate their own nuclear power plants. This emerges from data from the Austrian Ministry of the Environment, which refers, among other things, to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA. France is the leader with 56 reactors in operation, followed far behind by Spain with 7 reactors. Germany shut down the last reactor in April...
Pripyat: Iodine, krypton, xenon, tellurium and cesium. While clearing up the damage, workers were exposed to increased radiation and several died... August 31, Sweden | New nuclear power plant Sweden wants to expand nuclear energy: Nuclear power plant chaos in Sweden The Environment Minister has proudly announced “at least” ten new nuclear power plants. However, the governing coalition knew nothing about it. STOCKHOLM taz | Romina...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
Result, but also a lower level of support for climate protection... August 22nd Fukushima | Tritium | radioactive water After the meltdown in Fukushima: Japan discharges radioactive wastewater into the sea. Nuclear energy Japan wants to discharge 30 liters of radioactive water into the sea every day for 40 to 500.000 years. The International Nuclear Regulatory Agency has approved the release plans. For Greenpeace this is...
of the population in Niger. The French nuclear companies and their owner, the French government, probably want to continue to give the impression that nuclear energy is not only clean, but also a reliable and safe source of energy. But the military coup suddenly showed that France and the EU as a whole are very dependent on uranium supplies...
August France | Orange | Uranium deposits Niger coup: According to the nuclear power company, uranium deliveries are not at risk France's supply of uranium, an important raw material for the production of nuclear energy, is not at risk, said the Orano nuclear power company after the Nigerien authorities announced that they would freeze exports to France. With the coup that has been going on for a week...
1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events
and the supervisory authorities kept the worst incident in the history of German nuclear technology secret. The course of this accident refutes the safety philosophy of nuclear energy production at its weakest point: the incorrect actions of humans in relation to a highly complex machine system are not predictable. December 25, 1988 Big sloppiness New highlight of the...
1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events
mehr als 0,5 MBq/m2 Strahlenbelastung zur permanenten Sperrzone erklärt... AtomkraftwerkePlag Die Plutoniumfabrik Majak 1957 ereignete sich bereits ein erster großer Unfall bei der Nutzung der Atomenergie, der in seinen Ausmaßen mit den Katastrophen von Fukushima und Tschernobyl vergleichbar ist, aber erst 1989 in der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt wurde. Der Atomkomplex Majak, 15 Kilometer östlich...
1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events
Zudem kam es in Majak bis 1968 zu mindestens acht kritischen Unfällen... AtomkraftwerkePlag Die Plutoniumfabrik Majak 1957 ereignete sich bereits ein erster großer Unfall bei der Nutzung der Atomenergie, der in seinen Ausmaßen mit den Katastrophen von Fukushima und Tschernobyl vergleichbar ist, aber erst 1989 in der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt wurde. Der Atomkomplex Majak, 15 Kilometer östlich...
1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events
Folgen für Umwelt und Gesundheit. [...] Mehr als zwei Millionen Menschen lebten damals im Umkreis von 80 km. Am 28. März 1979 ereignete sich dort die bis dahin schwerste Katastrophe der zivilen Atomenergie. Eine Notklappe öffnete sich zur Druckentlastung, wodurch versehentlich große Mengen Kühlflüssigkeit freigesetzt wurden. Dies führte zu einer kritischen Überhitzung des Reaktorkerns und der...
2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events
had discovered a secret reactor capable of producing plutonium. The North Korean government refused to allow full control by the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until 1992. During subsequent inspections, the IAEA found that there was a discrepancy between North Korea's reported amount of reprocessed plutonium and its own measurements...
and real participation on an equal level. * Renaissance | SMR | Resistance The hype about a nuclear “renaissance” The eternal dangers of small modular reactors (SMR). The new push for nuclear energy comes not only from the nuclear industry or billionaires like Bill Gates, but also from parts of the environmental movement. [...] We are standing in the deco lobby of the historic Kiggins Theater in...
Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson
on his head and a chunky pipe in his mouth. In 1963, at the request of President John F. Kennedy, Oppenheimer received the Enrico Fermi Prize, the Atomic Energy Agency's highest honor. But who was the man who went down in history as the “father of the atomic bomb”? Did he ever regret his invention?... * Chomsky | Climate crisis | Cooperation with China Noam Chomsky on...
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
Negotiations with the French nuclear company EDF. The government coalition that has been in power since June finally came up with the idea of selling the reactors to Ukraine, which is relying heavily on nuclear energy. The price is a question of negotiations, but what must be paid in any case is what the reactors have cost Bulgaria so far, namely 1,2 billion leva (around 600 million...
Heisenberg belonged. They strictly rejected the development of a German nuclear weapon and advocated exclusively civilian use of nuclear power. Warnings about the dangers and consequences of nuclear energy, which came from Professor Karl Bechert, who sat for the SPD in the German Bundestag, were completely incomprehensible at the time. The turning point in the assessment was the dispute over...
Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda
The affected writers wear themselves out typing counter-statements and are thus distracted from their actual work. Inefficient, extremely expensive and dangerous nuclear energy is presented as an important contribution to environmental and climate protection. The economic and medical benefits of the nuclear industry are emphasized and greatly exaggerated. The dangers...
already last year a capacity of over 28 gigawatts, and the trend is rising rapidly. [...] One reason why Great Britain still relies on nuclear energy, which is expensive and difficult to finance, is probably military. The country relies on a civilian nuclear energy sector in order to maintain its manageable nuclear arsenal with some degree of independence. Critic...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
after there were further protests... May 16th Pro-Atom | Alliance du nucleaire | Nuclear states Energy in Europe: Pro-nuclear countries join forces An alliance of European states wants to focus more on nuclear energy. At a meeting in Paris they coordinated their position. PARIS taz | Representatives of 16 nuclear-friendly European countries met in Paris on Tuesday to...
Germany would like to change that, France is slowing down. Such trade restrictions would have a severe impact on an entire industry. [...] Yves Marignac is an expert in nuclear energy at the nuclear power-critical think tank négaWatt. He explains this information gap to ARD by saying that the nuclear industry refuses to release figures: There is a law of silence...
