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

    made. The radioactive fallout led to tens of thousands of cases of cancer, deaths, miscarriages and deformities - and not just in the former Soviet Union. Background The first nuclear reactor was built in Chernobyl between 1971 and 1977. By 1983, the plant had been expanded to include three more reactors. Almost all of the approximately 18.000 residents lived in the neighboring town of Pripyat...

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

    But then no one would be able to speak or write any more. News+ background knowledge Top of page Background knowledge The map of the nuclear world Poland would like to have its first 3 nuclear reactors built by Westinghouse... * The "Internal Search" Poland | Westinghouse | EDF | KHNP March 29, 2024 - Nuclear power: schedule for delayed start of operation of Flamanville 3 wobbles March 6, 2024 -...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Arrow) Submarine K-8 sank in the Bay of Biscay, USSR The Soviet nuclear submarine K-8 sank in the Bay of Biscay on the night of April 11th to 12th, 1970, 52 sailors died. Since then, 2 nuclear reactors and around 20 nuclear torpedoes have been lying at a depth of 4300 m... (Cost?) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de K-8 (submarine) The K-8 was a nuclear submarine of the Soviet Navy from that time of the Cold War. It...

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

    and 60 percent enrichment (HEU: highly enriched uranium). Iran is currently producing as much uranium with these higher levels of enrichment as it can, even though they are completely unnecessary for its commercial nuclear reactor in Bushehr. According to the International Panel on Fissile...

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    has lost importance with the triumph of the nuclear lobby June 24, 2023 - Who is fueling the war and profiting from it May 31, 2023 - Despite the risk of earthquakes, Japan extends the life of nuclear reactors February 24, 2023 - Toxic gases, forest fires, oil slicks * The search engine Ecosia is planting Trees! https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Financing the military-industrial complex * analysis and criticism...

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

    there is not enough fresh water. More and more droughts due to climate change are leading to water shortages in more and more regions... * Generation IV reactors | radioactive waste | Repository New study: Fourth generation nuclear reactors will not be ready for decades New fourth generation nuclear reactors will not be available. Study sees use only in decades. Climate goals and final disposal unresolved. One...

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

    Anniversary of the catastrophe: Multiple nuclear disaster in Fuskushima - nuclear energy out of control Today, March 11, 2024, marks the 13th anniversary of the multiple nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Three of the nuclear reactors exploded, releasing radioactive radiation over a wide area. Depending on the source, 150.000 to 200.000 people had to be evacuated from the region to avoid serious health problems...

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

    took part in a Franco-Czech energy forum in Prague on Tuesday (March 5). There he promoted the French state energy giant EDF's bid to build new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic plans to build four new nuclear reactors in addition to the six existing ones. The construction of the first of the four reactors still...

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

    feel responsible for preserving and defending liberal and constitutional democracy... * Czech Republic | EDF | Westinghouse | KHNP Czech Republic wants to build "up to four" new nuclear reactors The government is expanding its original plans. The existing plants in Dukovany in South Moravia and in Temelín in South Bohemia are affected. Prague - the Czech Republic has submitted its tender...

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

    should. This affected the performance of the system... Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Fessenheim (France) * December 27, 1999 (INES 2) Blayais Nuclear Power Plant, FRA A storm flooded the Blayais-2 nuclear reactor, forcing an emergency shutdown after injection pumps and containment safety systems failed due to water damage had failed. (Cost approximately US$63 million) Nuclear...

  11. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    instead recommended financial support for farmers in climate transformation... December 22, North Korea | IAEA | Yongbyon North Korea probably puts second nuclear reactor into operation Another reactor has probably been put into operation in the controversial Yongbyon nuclear complex in North Korea. Experts suspect that the plutonium obtained could be used to...

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

    hereby a small dossier with declassified records... November 30th Finland | Olkiluoto | EPR | Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant Units 1, 2 and 3 Second defect within a few days Finland: Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor shuts down again after breakdown The third reactor of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant has already experienced a number of malfunctions since it was commissioned in spring 2022. Now it's within...

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

    However, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (Uamps) have now announced that they will end the jointly planned “Carbon Free Power Project”. [...] There are currently 415 nuclear reactors in operation worldwide, but according to DIW it is expected that half of them will be shut down by 2030 for reasons of age. If you follow an increase in the rate of new nuclear power plants being built by 59 percent, as in...

  14. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    The nuclear industry - the French company Framatome in particular stands out here - which wants to keep Rosatom as a lucrative partner. There are also states like Hungary that want to build Russian nuclear reactors because they have received money from Moscow for them - in 2014 Hungary was granted a loan of ten billion euros. France and Hungary are working together to avoid any sanctions...

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

    October by signing a memorandum of understanding at the sixth forum of the “Russian Energy Week” in Moscow. The agreement with Burkina Faso includes the construction of a nuclear reactor there. On the same day, another memorandum was signed between Russia and Mali “on the civil use of nuclear energy,” which is vaguer in comparison. The government of Mali aims...

  16. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    before further possible dam breaches * May 28, 2023 - Do we still have enough time to save the earth? * May 17, 2022 - Drought and heat on five continents * August 3, 2018 - France shuts down nuclear reactors due to heat YouTube Extreme Weather https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Extreme Weather Der Spiegel - August 14, 2023 - 4 :36 Extreme heat and heavy rain: Was that still weather or is that...

  17. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    It makes it clear that radioactive substances stored in medical centers can pose similar risks to commercial and military nuclear reactors that are out of control. The starting point of the disaster was the ruins of the Instituto Goiâno de Radioterapia, a disused radiotherapy center that had not been demolished. The government had it...

  18. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    At 27, she is the youngest department head Sweden has ever had. Sweden's climate and environment minister is currently making a lot of headlines. “At least ten” new conventional nuclear reactors should be built in Sweden and put into operation between 2030 and 2040, she recently announced at a press conference. This would triple the country's nuclear power production and...

  19. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    On June 19, 2013, the Spanish Energy Minister confirmed that the reactor would officially be permanently decommissioned on July 6, 2013... August 18, Finland | Olkiluoto | Humidity Nuclear reactor in Finland taken offline due to increased humidity HELSINKI (dpa-AFX) - A Finnish nuclear reactor has been temporarily taken offline. As the operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said on...

  20. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    The first new US nuclear power plant in decades goes online. For some this is a pioneering breakthrough, for others it is a warning example: In the USA, the first newly built nuclear reactor in over 30 years is going online. The company carrying out the work perished as a result of the construction. The first completely redesigned nuclear power reactor in more than 30 years has been built in the US state of Georgia...

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