1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    wie Gummigeschossen oder Blendgranaten habe „weltweit zu Tausenden Verletzungen, dauerhaften Behinderungen und zu zahlreichen Todesfällen geführt“, so Duchrow... 23. April Großbritannien | Atommüll | Endlager Drigg südlich von Sellafield Britisches Atommülllager soll gegen Umweltauflagen verstoßen haben Die britische Umweltbehörde (EA) hat sich schriftlich an das Endlager für schwachaktive...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    wurden etwa 20 mehr oder weniger schwere Zwischenfälle gemeldet, bei denen Radioaktivität freigesetzt wurde. Bis Mitte der 1980er Jahre wurde der im täglichen Betrieb anfallende Atommüll in großen Mengen in flüssiger Form über eine Pipeline in die Irische See abgeleitet. Wikipedia en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield Nuclear power accidents by country#United_Kingdom Übersetzung mit...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Today the people in the region are suffering from the consequences. Many show the same symptoms as the victims of Chernobyl and Mayak: cancer, blood diseases, damage to the genetic material." "Disposal" of nuclear waste and the investigation reports 33 million cubic meters of liquid radioactive waste were simply pressed into the ground - in water-bearing layers. Near the River Tom is the...

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    The tone between North Rhine-Westphalia's Green Vice Prime Minister Mona Neubaur and environmental organizations becomes frosty. In a few months, the first castors with radioactive nuclear waste are to be moved from the former Jülich nuclear research center to the Ahaus interim storage facility. Now representatives from Neubaur's state economics ministry, which is also responsible for nuclear supervision...

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

    if possible, continue to complain. At the same time, the transparency project demands that the traffic light coalition introduce the promised transparency law and thus allow pseudonymous inquiries. * Nuclear waste | Nuclear lobby | SMR mini nuclear power plants criticized as “fantasies” by the nuclear lobby The EU Commission sees nuclear power as the form of energy of the future. A new study commissioned by the federal government...

  6. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    known for its catastrophic fire in 1957 and frequent nuclear accidents, which is why it was renamed Sellafield. Until the mid-1980s, large quantities of nuclear waste generated during daily operations were discharged into the Irish Sea in liquid form via a pipeline. Sellafield#Incidents Radiological Releases Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 serious...

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

    EPR in Olkiluoto, Finland, cost 10 billion euros and the two EPR that EDF is building in Hinkley Point, UK, are expected to be significantly more expensive than planned. * Emsland nuclear power plant | Nuclear waste interim storage facility | BGZ nuclear waste interim storage facility in Lingen: Endless duration? The interim storage facility in Lingen is approved until 2042. But then there won't be a final repository for the highly radioactive nuclear waste...

  8. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    FORUM Together against the interim storage facility and for a responsible energy policy on wishy-washy answers. Other questions would be appropriate: How many kilograms of plutonium do you estimate are stored in the nuclear waste depot in your neighborhood? Do you think that this camp is safe from terrorist attacks even in times of war? How many years do you estimate it will take for this...

  9. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    for the chemical industry and its eternal toxins PFAS, glyphosate, phthalates (plasticizers), etc. as well as for the nuclear industry and its ever-growing mountains of radiant, toxic nuclear waste. If we fail, we will leave future generations nothing but untold suffering, and our descendants will have no opportunity to reject this legacy. It's high time...

  10. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    were three to twelve times higher than would be expected from the impact of nuclear weapons tests and the Chernobyl disaster. The operator Entergy then announced that it wanted to remove the soil and dispose of it as nuclear waste. On August 27, 2013, despite the extended license, the owner Entergy announced that the nuclear power plant would be shut down in 2014 because continued operation would be economically...

  11. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    grew more strongly than ever before, by 13,1 GW to 80,7 GW, as the figures from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems show... January 14th Castor transports from Jülich to the Ahaus interim nuclear waste storage facility are not welcome Demo against nuclear waste transport in Ahaus It is a foretaste of the protests that took place at the “Go!” for the planned Castor transports from Jülich to...

  12. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    Certification companies and other beneficiaries. Large European corporations and German companies that believe their products are climate neutral are also entangled... * Nuclear waste | Intermediate storage | war | Terror Long-term above-ground storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste - Waste disposal commission recommends guidelines What happens next with the long-term above-ground storage of...

  13. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... Youtube Uranium economy: Plants for processing uranium All uranium and plutonium factories produce radioactive nuclear waste: uranium processing, enrichment and reprocessing plants, whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever Everywhere in the world, everyone has the same problem: With...

  14. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    was inhabited by indigenous peoples. Critics complain that this would no longer allow indigenous people to get back tribal areas from which they had already been expelled... * New nuclear power plants | Nuclear waste | CDU re-entry into nuclear power: warning signs in Lower Saxony The CDU wants nuclear power back. What a re-entry would mean ecologically and financially can be seen in Lower Saxony...

  15. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    known for its catastrophic fire in 1957 and frequent nuclear accidents, which is why it was renamed Sellafield. Until the mid-1980s, large quantities of nuclear waste generated during daily operations were discharged into the Irish Sea in liquid form via a pipeline. Sellafield#Incidents Radiological Releases Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 serious...

  16. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    and fig leaf of the nuclear industry is financed by over 170 member states with billions, while opponents of nuclear power rely on donations from the population. * Würgassen | Nuclear waste | Transports Because of criticism: Probably a new transport study for the planned nuclear waste storage facility in Beverungen-Würgassen The BI Atomfreis-3-Ländeeck reports that a new feasibility study with a focus on logistics...

  17. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 Content: “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! China: HTR future in the stars? South Africa – on the way to the next bankruptcy Jülich THTR nuclear waste soon on the streets? Interest in mini nuclear power plants is only mini! Climate lawsuit against RWE in Hamm! Car madness in Hamm History: “Non-violent against the nuclear power plant in Hamm-Uentrop!” Article: “EU and...

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

    polarizing, aggressive disinformation campaigns, we need scientific facts and clear information to bring calm back into the debate... * Salzgitter | Konrad shaft | Nuclear waste storage Longer construction period Nuclear waste storage in Salzgitter will probably cost more Low and medium radioactive waste will soon be stored in the Konrad shaft. But after a delay in the schedule...

  19. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    And the calculation works: now even the most absurd and human rights-violating proposal gets applause if it is only directed against “illegal migrants”... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Castor He shines and shines and shines Where should the nuclear waste go? The search for the best possible location for an underground repository extends the dangerous interim storage...

  20. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    known for its catastrophic fire in 1957 and frequent nuclear accidents, which is why it was renamed Sellafield. Until the mid-1980s, large quantities of nuclear waste generated during daily operations were discharged into the Irish Sea in liquid form via a pipeline. Sellafield#Incidents Radiological Releases Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 serious...