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

    Die Nukleare Kette Tschernobyl, Ukraine Super-GAU in einem Atomkraftwerk Die Kernschmelze von Tschernobyl im April 1986 stellt den mit Abstand größten Unfall in der Geschichte der zivilen Atomwirtschaft dar. Ganze Landstriche wurden verseucht und für Generationen unbewohnbar gemacht. Der radioaktive Niederschlag führte zu Zehntausenden von Krebserkrankungen, Todesfällen, Fehlgeburten und...

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

    Premier Polens. Zu 100 Prozent im Besitz des Schatzamtes wurde 2009 als Projektträger die „Polnische Gesellschaft für Atomenergie“ (PEJ) gegründet. Doch die hochfliegenden Pläne einer eigenen Atomwirtschaft dümpelten in Folge der Finanzierungs-Unsicherheiten vor sich hin. Erst mit der Nullzins-Politik der westlichen Notenbanken erschien die Finanzierungsfrage lösbar und wurden ab ca. 2015 die...

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

    Application for the expansion of the fuel element factory in Lingen. Rosatom is involved. BERLIN taz | Although the last nuclear power plants in Germany were shut down in 2023, one sector of the nuclear industry is booming: the production of nuclear fuel elements. In Lingen, Lower Saxony, the fuel element factory run by Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH (ANF) wants to expand operations. ANF...

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

    Meredith, the first black student, at the University of Mississippi and had the right-wing extremist General Edwin Walker, who led the protests against it, imprisoned... * Nuclear industry | SMR | Cost explosion Future of nuclear energy: Why it doesn't work without subsidies Nuclear energy is still seen by some as a hope for a clean energy supply. But it turns out:...

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

    with political-economic, institutional and geopolitical factors. Above all, the close connection between military and commercial use of nuclear energy as well as the nuclear industry's interest in self-preservation played a role... * Brazil | Leukemia | Pesticide wave of lawsuits against the Bayer Group: cancer caused by pesticides? As soy production increases, more agrochemicals...

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

    contaminated The operator of the fuel element factory in Lingen cooperates with Russia's nuclear industry. They are also involved in bomb making and the war in Ukraine. MÖNCHENGLADBACH taz | Russia's nuclear industry is now also present in the production of fuel elements in Germany. This is reported by the Umweltfairaendern.de portal, citing the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment. This has...

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

    Reports and analyzes these days mostly consist of the fact that the uranium supply to French nuclear power plants is not at risk. This is a bold claim from the French nuclear industry, as around 25 percent of the uranium used in France's nuclear power plants comes from Niger. However, there is currently no information about the great environmental damage and the years of protests by the population...

  8. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    Reports and analyzes these days mostly consist of the fact that the uranium supply to French nuclear power plants is not at risk. This is a bold claim from the French nuclear industry, as around 25 percent of the uranium used in France's nuclear power plants comes from Niger. However, there is currently no information about the great environmental damage and the years of protests by the population...

  9. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    300 Problems Truth and Lies Communication Intention What to do? “In times of global fraud, telling the truth is considered a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell - ** Problems with the nuclear industry: 1. The life lie In 1943, construction of the nuclear complex began in the USA as part of the Manhattan Project Hanford Site. This is where the plutonium for the first nuclear weapons test 'Trinity' and...

  10. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Die Nukleare Kette Tschernobyl, Ukraine Super-GAU in einem Atomkraftwerk Die Kernschmelze von Tschernobyl im April 1986 stellt den mit Abstand größten Unfall in der Geschichte der zivilen Atomwirtschaft dar. Ganze Landstriche wurden verseucht und für Generationen unbewohnbar gemacht. Der radioaktive Niederschlag führte zu Zehntausenden von Krebserkrankungen, Todesfällen, Fehlgeburten und...

  11. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    was ice-free for years. At a time when global temperatures were about the same as today... * Does the father of the atomic bomb bear responsibility for the bomb and the problems with the nuclear economy? J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project Who was the "Father of the Atomic Bomb"? The American physicist Oppenheimer is the head of the Manhattan Project and inventor of the atomic bomb...

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

    NuScale tried to reassure in a statement that it was "mainly external influences" such as rising steel prices and key interest rates, not the project itself, because inflation is also an issue in the nuclear industry... * Glyphosate | Amphibians Malformations confirmed by glyphosate Herbicide causes developmental disorders in amphibians even in low concentrations Explosive timing: During...

  13. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    around 6.500 tons of heavy metal in vitrified radioactive waste packages from reprocessing as well as other radioactive waste from research reactors. For this legacy of the nuclear industry, an underground repository is being sought that will shield the dangerous waste from the environment for a million years. Whether we still know after 30.000 to 40.000 generations what is in the...

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

    received doses of up to 1 gray. On the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale (INES), the event was classified at level 4 (accident)... April 20th Nuclear lobby | Nuclear economy | Final storage The incorrigible The reactions of the nuclear lobby in view of the shutdown of the last German nuclear power plants range between anger and defiance. You understand the world...

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

    There is no longer any waste, especially from the fuel elements. It will then amount to around 27.000 cubic meters, which will be packed in around 1.900 containers made of special steel. For this legacy of the nuclear industry, an underground repository is being sought that will shield the dangerous waste from the environment for a million years. That's a period of 30.000 generations - that's as far as you can...

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

    This should be secured, according to the official justification with which Olaf Scholz pushed through the decision in the coalition in the autumn. [...] For several decades, the nuclear industry has not been able to offer any reactor lines that would really be able to compete. There are also hardly any takers for the mini power plants, despite the hype that has been created around them at times. The...

  17. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    of German nuclear power plants – and a subsidiary of Rosatom. Green Planet Energy has analyzed the connections and calls for a debate about the extent of the dependence of the nuclear industry and its German lobby on Russia... * Environmental associations | Continued operation Environmental associations criticize continued operation of nuclear power plants In France, nuclear power plants are causing problems, so...

  18. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    Information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de ** September 08th Reserve nuclear power plant Habeck's plan for reserve nuclear power plants: Technically very demanding The nuclear industry believes that restarting reactors within a week is hardly possible. In addition, there is a lack of experience for such a maneuver.... In the case of "sucked out" fuel elements, however, the cooling water for...

  19. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    as a hollow phrase. With these words in 1953, US President Eisenhower opened the door to the “peaceful use of atomic energy”. His concept was to help the world's states develop a civilian nuclear economy if, in return, they agreed to subject their military nuclear programs to UN control. Now civil nuclear power is also becoming a weapon in war....

  20. Newsletter XVIII 2022 - April 28th to May 04th - News+ wind vanes and pocket fillers in tireless use

    of the nuclear sector and reality, explains the editor of the "World Nuclear Industry Status Report" (WNISR) in ntv's "Climate Laboratory". The annual report on the state of the global nuclear industry clearly shows that there is no so-called "renaissance of nuclear power" anywhere. On the contrary: even - or especially - the nuclear nation France is suffering from an uncertain...

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