1. Newsletter III 2022 - January 15th to 21st - News+ Advancing the energy transition: The mills of the plain

    especially the French state-owned company EDF. He can renovate his finances and reactors - and build new power plants. * Wind power | Distance requirements from radio systems Wind energy industry complains about "blockades" The expansion of wind energy could be much further if outdated distance rules from aviation security and military facilities no longer apply, the industry complains. Also...

  2. Newsletter LVIII - December 20th to 26.12.2021th, 20 - News+ December XNUMXth - Blackout-proof with green electricity: Is Germany armed against dark doldrums?

    You can find the whole hair-raising story on our website: www.sofa-ms.de 6. Uranium transport protests with consequences The Steinfurt district court has scheduled a trial for May 2022 in connection with the blockade of a uranium suit near Gronau in autumn 2017 - more information on this in the new year. At the same time, the Federal Police sent out hearing forms to several opponents of nuclear power in order to collect around 30 euros...

  3. Newsletter XIX - April 25th to 27.04.2021th, 25 - News+ April XNUMXth - MiK prepares for important battles to come

    Food had to be destroyed and farmers could not graze their animals. For BI Environmental Protection, Werner Jäger-Kersting emphasized the numerous actions, large-scale demonstrations and blockades that we carried out between 1986 and 1989 in order to finally shut down this failed reactor. Many of the participants from back then were back on the pitch after 35 years...

  4. Newsletter XVIII - April 20th to 24.04.2021th, 20 - News+ April XNUMXth - Expert predicts further nuclear catastrophe like in Fukushima

    transported out as dust, which led to increased radiation exposure in the area. In the following years there were many mass demonstrations, acts of civil disobedience and blockades at the THTR, which, together with further incidents, commissioning problems and enormous cost increases, led to its closure in 1989. The THTR as an important component of Generation IV reactors will...

  5. THTR Circular No. 152, December 2019

    announced that there had been abseiling operations on the railway line and that the nuclear waste train had been stopped. The diverse media response, the surprisingly high number of participants and the eight-hour blockade of the train are a great success and encourage us to stay active in the future! The train itself is on the road for a total of three weeks. On November 21, 11, the taz reported and brought...

  6. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2019

    ... * November 21, 2019 - Nuclear waste - US lawmakers plan to reform waste management Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * November 18, 2019 - Nuclear waste to Russia - Blockade behind rock'n'pop * Vigil against the transport of nuclear waste through Hamm! Monday, November 18th, from 13.30:XNUMX p.m. Willy-Brandt-Platz in front of Hamm main station. On Monday there will be a transport of nuclear waste...

  7. THTR Circular No. 150 June 2018

    environmental policy debate culture. I'd rather have our Laurenz back! In the meantime, the AfD is feeling headwinds from opponents of lignite: “Ende Gelände is taking part in the blockades of the alliance “Stop the hate, stop the AfD” on Sunday, May 27th in Berlin. The climate justice activists are taking the protest from the coal mines to the streets of Berlin and...

  8. THTR Newsletter No. 149 December 2017

    While the closure of the THTR was unfortunately only the concern of less than half a dozen activists, demonstrations with many thousands of people and countless actions and blockades took place in Ahaus, which attracted a lot of attention nationwide. To celebrate the day, I have published my book article “Castor transports from Hamm to Ahaus. Two citizens' initiatives defend themselves against nuclear power...

  9. Nov 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws in the nuclear lobby

    In Chernobyl in 1986, the accident at the THTR became known and significantly increased radioactive levels were measured in Hamm, many rallies and blockades by citizens and farmers with tractors took place in front of the THTR in the three following years. A number of new initiatives emerged in Hamm and the surrounding area. Farmers and consumers But the main bearers of resistance were the “farmers and...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013

    They carried out a chain hunger strike in the fishing town of Idinthakarai, repeatedly supplemented by indefinite hunger strikes and other non-violent measures in the Gandhian tradition. By blocking roads, they brought construction to a halt in the fall of 2011. This was ended in March 2012 by a huge police presence. Idinthakarai, the center of the resistance movement with more than 10.000...

  11. THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011

    of the nuclear community -- "The most beautiful of machines", the THTR! -- These devoted hymns of praise for a failed breakdown reactor seem unreal and embarrassing to those who experienced the accidents and the many blockades and demonstrations in the 80s at the THTR in Hamm. However, as an esoteric stab-in-the-back legend, it does not appear in any obscure right-wing...

  12. THTR Newsletter No. 129 December 09

    In 1986, the major accident in the THTR alarmed people in the region, the Westphalian-obstinate "farmers and consumers against nuclear power" insisted on their right to resist blockades and occupations in a non-violent way, as they themselves wanted - and had success with it after three years. For some others in the anti-nuclear movement, our "citizen-oriented"...

  13. THTR Circular No. 122 August 2008

    receive. Due to the climate change caused by this, Lake Lippe will soon have a new chance: it will then be called the North Sea! September 20, 2008, 12 p.m.: European Uranium Action Day. Blockade with “Die In” on the German-Dutch border near Gronau. This is intended to address the uranium enrichment plants in Gronau and Almelo, as well as cross-border uranium transport....

  14. The history of the citizens' initiative in Hamm and its posters

    people for the first time information about the different forms of civil disobedience. This provided important impetus for thought, which would only later bear fruit, for example through non-violent blockade actions and creative occupation actions. * Poster for the Easter walk in Uentrop 1977 Since the VEW did not give us the opportunity to present...

  15. Entangled in the network of European uranium transports

    Perl decided on May 14, 2007 to set up a bilateral [external] observation network in order to initiate vigils and blockades along the entire route - similar to the Castor transports. In areas that are structurally weak in terms of movement policy (Rhineland-Palatinate, Bremen, etc.) we are still looking for people who are familiar with nuclear transport and who keep their eyes open. The single ones...

  16. THTR Circular No. 83 July 03

    and France stop the transport several times. Already on Tuesday evening, demonstrators brought the train coming from Stade to a stop shortly in front of the Maschen marshalling yard. Castor opponents managed another short-term blockade of the North German partial transport at night near Münster using a false light signal. According to BGS information, the train had to stop for 25 minutes. Four supposedly...

  17. THTR Circular No. 96 January 05

    An extraordinary Sunday walk took place to make it as difficult as possible for the red-green state and federal government with their nuclear plans. If the Castors do roll, sit-ins are planned in Dresden and Ahaus. Decentralized actions should take place at as many places as possible along the transport routes. When the castors arrive in Ahaus, the interim storage facility is...

  18. THTR Circular No. 97 February 05

    Accident in our reactor with subsequent release of radioactivity. This was followed by hair-raising attempts at a cover-up by the operators and then by the angry uprising of the people: blockade of the main access gates to the reactor site with tractors and trailers, strategic withdrawal after two days in the face of the superior force of the police, large rally in front of the main gate, another blockade...

  19. THTR Circular No. 100 July 05

    Federal Minister Wolfgang Clement and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. Ostendorff was active in the resistance against the THTR for years and, together with other farmers, had carried out several tractor blockades in front of the gates of the THTR in 1986 when the accident in the reactor became known. In addition to the specific questions about the foreign trade permit for Uhde, he wrote to “dear Joschka”: “You have...

Results 21 - 39 from 39