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

    „Small Modular Reactors“ in der Ukraine. Ein Beispiel eines Mini-AKW ist das schwimmende Kernkraftwerk „Akademik Lomonossow“, das seit Mai 2020 die sibirische Hafenstadt Pewek sowie angrenzende Bergwerke mit Strom und Wärme versorgt. Des Weiteren haben Energoatom und Holtec in diesem Abkommen den Bau einer ukrainischen Produktionsstätte für Komponenten des Trockenlagers für abgebrannte...

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

    Israeli military... * Finland | Power storage | Underground One of Europe's deepest mines is being converted into a battery. A huge prototype of a gravity battery is to be built in a Finnish mine. The Pyhäsalmi mine in Finland is one of the deepest at 1.400 meters underground and was until recently one of the oldest operating underground mines in Europe. Known...

  3. 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

    As a replacement for the Bilibino nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov took over the electricity and heat supply to Pewek, a town of 2020 inhabitants in Siberia on the Chukchi Sea, as well as adjacent mines in 4.000. It has been built since 2007 in the St. Petersburg port on a 150 m long barge with two KLT-40C pressurized water reactors, each with an output of 35 MW. Carem-25 (power 27 MW) in...

  4. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    on the revival of the mines. Richard Williams examines an old mine shaft 50 meters underground. He wants to find out how much tin is in the rock. Tin was mined at the South Crofty mine in Cornwall for more than four hundred years. The mine was the heart of the local economy. But at the end of the 1990s it was over because production was no longer financially worthwhile...

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

    However, it is hardly reported in the media. * Uranium mining How is it done? Uranium is bound in rock. Natural uranium has a very low concentration in uranium ore. The Australian Olympic Dam mine mines ore with a concentration of only 0,05 percent uranium. Most deposits have a uranium content of 0,1 to 0,2 percent. One exception: In Saskatchewan, Canada...

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

    The environmental associations BUND and Nabu have applied for the building permit to be revoked. The criticism: Konrad does not correspond to the state of science and technology, it is an old mine, and there was no comparative selection process. In a study commissioned by Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, TÜV recently questioned whether an upstream...

  7. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    Asse-II No solution in the dispute over the Asse interim storage facility Where should thousands of barrels of nuclear waste go as long as there is no final storage facility? This question concerns the federal government and the residents of the Asse. The former mine is dilapidated and must be cleared. Environment Minister Lemke took a look on site. In the dispute over the Asse site in Lower Saxony as an interim nuclear waste storage facility, the fronts remain...

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

    to highly dangerous heavy metals and radioactive waste. Overall, there are a large number of decommissioned and active oil and gas production facilities and mines in the Arctic. According to the AWI experts, these include local landfills with toxic sludge, lakes full of dammed-up industrial wastewater or piles of rubble from mining operations. [...] clear away the rubbish again as...

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

    The same thing happens there with the economy. The remaining third will be used as start-up financing for energy and climate investments. * Battery technology | Save renewables | Mine Shaft Gravity Batteries Could Power the Entire Earth New research suggests reused underground mines could store enough energy...

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

    to prepare for the retrieval of radioactive waste stored deep below. [...] Last year, around 5.000 cubic meters of salt water flowed into the mine through cracks in the salt and underground rock. Most of it is captured before it comes into contact with the stored radioactive waste. After all, according to BGE, the amount of saline solution seeping into the aces...

  11. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    Duke. The target is Europe and Germany in particular, as the so-called “Qatargate” affair recently showed, she said at the presentation of the 2022 Corruption Perception Index... * Mine | Energy storage | Mines Shaft Old mines as energy storage Sand transport in mine shafts could help store excess electricity A new kind of pumped storage: Old...

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

    the BGE on Wednesday. The majority of the water that entered, around 4,4 million liters, was collected at a depth of 658 meters. It therefore had no contact with the radioactive waste stored in the mine. Machines pumped this amount to the surface after a release. Water that has penetrated deeper into the mine will be left there, they say...

  13. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    expropriated. The winners of these plans are once again the corporations and large financial investors who had already earned a fortune during the first boom... * Renewable energy | Mine shaft | Energy storage Turning abandoned mines into batteries Novel process transforms disused mines into long-term energy storage solutions, supporting sustainable...

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

    As a replacement for the Bilibino nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov took over the electricity and heat supply to Pewek, a town of 2020 inhabitants in Siberia on the Chukchi Sea, as well as adjacent mines in 4.000. It has been built since 2007 in the St. Petersburg port on a 150 m long barge with two KLT-40C pressurized water reactors, each with an output of 35 MW. In 2021, Hainan...

  15. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    Konrad shaft | Construction stop: 400 people protest against nuclear waste storage With protest trips to the Konrad shaft, 420 people demonstrated against the storage of nuclear waste in the former iron ore mine. The police announced this on Sunday - the organizers had previously spoken of over 500 demonstrators. The organizers also announced a symbolic surrounding of the...

  16. Newsletter II 2022 - January 07th to 14th - News+ Draft EU taxonomy: chance of nuclear power surviving?

    You speak out clearly against nuclear power. * Nuclear waste | Asse II Asse: Planning for the retrieval of nuclear waste can begin. From 2033, the low- and medium-level radioactive waste is to be recovered from the dilapidated Asse II mine near Wolfenbüttel. The Federal Agency for Final Storage has now awarded the plans for this. ** January 10th Climate change Damage from natural disasters increased sharply in 2021...

  17. Newsletter XXXVIII - 26/30.08.2021/26 to 4/XNUMX/XNUMX - News+ August XNUMX - Court declares the development plan of the Datteln XNUMX coal-fired power plant invalid

    used for heating, chemical industry, steel industry and other industries. The coal industry also includes the necessary infrastructure for extraction in opencast mining or mines and transport (e.g. coal ports, coal railways, conveyor belts, etc.). The coal phase-out not only means an end to coal-fired power generation, but also to a certain extent a relative “end” or...

  18. Newsletter VII - February 09th to 15.02.2021th, 09 - News+ February XNUMXth - Nuclear waste - repository wanted

    developed from 2014 to mid-2016. The process of final disposal is divided into the “stages” of final repository selection, construction of the final repository, storage of the radioactive waste and closure of the mine. The site selection should be divided into three phases: selection of the location region, surface and underground exploration. Simultaneously with the technical selection process, a...

  19. Newsletter II - January 08th to 14.01.2021th, 08 - News+ January XNUMXth - European Organization for Cooperation in Waste Management established

    After 50 years of repository policy in Germany, the following are sober: Two damaged salt domes, a third that has been hotly disputed for 40 years and is geologically unsuitable, and an old ore mine whose conversion into a nuclear waste storage facility is causing significant problems. Parliamentary investigative committees have already dealt with two locations, the Lower Saxony state parliament in 2009 -...

  20. From uranium mining and processing, to nuclear research, the construction and operation of nuclear plants including nuclear power plant accidents, to dealing with nuclear waste and nuclear weapons! - Worldwide, almost, everything at a glance with Google Maps

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioaktiver_Abfall Asse II: Verstrahltes Erbe Atommüll, ein Versuchsendlager und der Rückholplan Tausende Jahre lang sollte der atomare Abfall in Bergwerk Asse II sicher sein. Doch die Realität sieht anders aus: Seitdem das letzte Fass mit schwach- und mittelradioaktivem Atommüll abgekippt wurde, dringt immer mehr Wasser in den Salzstock ein. Jetzt muss der...

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