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

    didn't want to be deceived a second time. Accordingly, April 15, 2023 was no reason to pause or to look back critically and self-critically on sixty years of commercial nuclear energy. What have we done, why did it happen like this? Why did it take so long for consequences to be drawn? What could have been done differently and better? If only a fraction of...

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

    On the other hand, rejection outweighs the rejection. The parties' supporters evaluate the step differently: While party supporters of the Greens (82 percent) and the SPD (56 percent) welcome the end to nuclear energy, supporters of the Union parties (83 percent) and AfD (81 percent) are almost unanimously opposed against it. The majority of FDP supporters (65 percent) also voted against an exit... *...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    | Atomic Priests Atomic Priests and Quartz Crystals How do you preserve information for more than 500 years? On April 15th, the last three nuclear power plants in Germany will go offline. But the nuclear energy chapter is far from over; the nuclear waste still needs to be stored safely for a long period of time. The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) has...

  4. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    But so far most of it only works on paper. According to the World Nuclear Industry Traffic Jam Report, there are currently 412 reactors operating worldwide and 57 plants being built. The share of nuclear energy in the world electricity mix is ​​9,8 percent and has been falling since the mid-90s. Nevertheless, many countries, especially China, India and France, rely on nuclear energy as the number one source of electricity generation with 69 percent...

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

    only via one line “Precarious situation”: IAEA raises alarm about safety at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant... The situation at Europe's largest nuclear power plant is precarious, warns the International Atomic Energy Agency. A joint commitment from Ukraine and Russia is needed for greater security. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continues to warn of a dangerous situation in the...

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

    decided unanimously... * New nuclear power plants | Power supply | Plutonium Nuclear waste New nuclear power projects technically risky and unprofitable DIW weekly report highlights prospects for nuclear energy in Germany and worldwide - Current and planned projects lack technical and economic foundations - Rethinking the modeling of the future energy mix - Renewable energies more...

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

    years still. [...] Have we learned from this catastrophe, asks the BUO. The European Commission and the European Parliament apparently do not. Otherwise they would not have classified nuclear energy as green energy in the taxonomy. Now the EU Commission also wants to present hydrogen produced using nuclear energy as green. This electricity is extremely expensive, without...

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

    at the high-temperature reactor, which was scheduled to go into operation in 2009. The message was always clear: the Germans under the red-green coalition were stupid; even the South Africans, unlike the Greens, had recognized the opportunities offered by modern nuclear energy. In 2009, Eskom and the South African government's nuclear plans failed miserably. But what remains is Eskom's billions in debt from the "nuclear adventure", which...

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

    The umbrella organization of critical shareholders and the Russian environmental NGO Ecodefense criticized the company because of its ongoing business relationships with the Russian state atomic energy company ROSATOM. These appear to have remained unaffected by Siemens Energy's exit from Russia, even though ROSATOM is directly involved in the war against Ukraine. Siemens Energy...

  10. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    Roman concrete) in order to make it usable for today's buildings... * EDF France | Life extension of nuclear power plant life to 80 years under discussion France's nuclear energy disaster is leading the energy supplier EDF and the government further into an energy impasse. Instead of making a decisive redirection now and increasing the expansion of renewable energies,...

  11. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    re-emerging as a great power is fueling a fierce and militant nationalism that now dominates on both sides... *** January 13 Japan | Fukushima | IAEA | Release of tritium Atomic Energy Agency approves Introduction Fukushima water is allowed into the sea Twelve years after the Fukushima reactor disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency has approved the plan to release more than...

  12. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2023

    Newspaper articles 2023 *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Newsletter LII 2023 24 - 31 to 2023 December News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails desolate industry ** Newsletter LI 17 - December 23th to 2023rd Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics ** Newsletter L 10 - December XNUMXth to...

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

    a spokesman told the taz... * Electricity generation | Bioenergy New performance record 2022 Electricity from bioenergy overtakes nuclear power in Germany The importance of nuclear energy in Germany will continue to decline in 2022, even the bioenergy plants now produce more base load electricity than the last three nuclear power plants. On December 17.12.022, XNUMX, the bioenergy plants in Germany...

  14. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    against the Lingen fuel element factory, she – also known as the “squirrel” due to her extraordinary climbing skills – attracted a lot of attention in the fight against the further use of nuclear energy in Germany. This also includes raising public awareness of the diverse international connections that arise from uranium enrichment in Gronau and the...

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

    Facilities, including the initially pacified major conflict over the storage of nuclear waste, would flare up again if they were to restart... * Lobby | Taxonomy | Greenwashing “Greenwashing” in the EU: Nuclear energy and gas receive the eco-label From January 1st, nuclear energy and gas in the EU are considered “sustainable” and will receive an “eco-label”. This new regulation continues to cause controversy. Brussels - beginning...

  16. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    Minister Lemke at least promised a statement - we are excited. At COP 27, the international nuclear industry was also on a massive advertising spree - cheered on by the IAEA, which continues to promote nuclear energy and repeatedly trivializes the extremely dangerous situation around Zaporizhzhia and does not want to hold Russia responsible. Overall, the results are very...

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

    via the temporarily closed district road 1625 through the vineyards up to the reactor blocks... * Poland | Westinghouse | Lubiatowo-Kopalino Energy transition in the neighboring country: Poland is moving into nuclear energy. The government is planning three nuclear power plants in order to be able to do without coal-fired power. The first reactor is scheduled to go online in 2033. [...] In the small village of Lubiatowo (Lübtow) in Western Pomerania,...

  18. 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

    nor about runtime data from the FDP, which suddenly appeals to common sense... * Scheer | Continued operation | Renewable energies SPD energy expert on continued operation of nuclear power plants: “Nuclear energy is displacing renewables” The Chancellor has ordered that three nuclear power plants should continue to operate until April. SPD energy expert Scheer had previously warned against this. This is slowing down the energy transition. taz: Ms. Scheer,...

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

    others suffered radiation poisoning... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) ** October 14 Duration | traffic light | Friends of MIK Dispute over life extension: Nuclear energy divides the coalition The FDP is calling for new fuel rods for the nuclear power plants that are still running. The Greens insist on phasing out nuclear power. The traffic light is in a serious crisis. The traffic light points to a...

  20. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    and gas included. Austria doesn't want to take part and is filing a lawsuit with the European Court of Justice. Austria is suing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg over the EU Commission's planned classification of nuclear energy as sustainable. "Nuclear power and gas are neither green nor sustainable. That's why, as announced, we have filed a lawsuit against the Taxonomy Regulation of...