1. Newsletter XXV - June 01st to 07.06.2021th, 01 - News+ June XNUMXst - Trinational resolution against fuel elements: Joint venture in Lingen

    Why we should better import ammonia instead of hydrogen *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ June 01st, 2021 ** June 01st, 2021 - Trinational resolution against fuel elements: Joint venture in Lingen ippnw.de No to French-Russian nuclear cooperation in Germany - Urgent call from around 80 initiatives and associations Around 80 initiatives and associations from...

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

    Reactor came. During the extremely long construction phase and the commissioning attempts, problems and breakdowns repeatedly occurred. The accident in 1986 was due to radioactive spherical fuel elements becoming jammed in the reactor's pipe system. When an attempt was made to blow them free, they were destroyed and some of them were blown out as dust, which led to increased radiation exposure in the...

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

    which was launched last weekend. Ten years ago, the Bundestag also realized that storing the Castor containers with the spent fuel in the Gorleben salt dome would be irresponsible. A repository commission was then set up, it proposed a search process and the Bundestag then...

  4. Newsletter V - 27.01. - 01.02.2021/27/XNUMX - News+ January XNUMXth - Crediting in the EU budget: Fusion costs nice climate balance

    confirmed * Renewable energies January 28, 2021 - Foundation recommends two percent of the country's area for wind power * January 28, 2021 - Heat pump market in Germany grows by 40 percent * Fuel elements from Lingen to Doel January 27, 2021 - Outrage over further nuclear exports * January 27 2021 - Hinkley Point C delayed until at least 2026 Translate with https://www.deepL.com/translator...

  5. Newsletter III - January 15th to 21.01.2021st, 15 - News+ January XNUMXth - New money for new nuclear reactors

    of conspiracies * Greenwash - The nuclear lobby and the green revolution January 18, 2021 - Costain works with U-Battery on SMR design * January 16, 2021 - Possibly illegal fuel elements at the Leibstadt nuclear power plant * January 16, 2021 - Funding of the Atomic Heritage Foundation - Würgassen: BI poster campaign * Windy undertaking - Wylfa nuclear power plant is supposed to produce “green” hydrogen! 15. January...

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

    - French nuclear regulator criticizes earthquake safety at Cattenom nuclear power plant * January 08, 2021 - Energy supply - Is France threatened with a blackout? * January 08th, 2021 - BUND objection to the export of fuel elements for the Belgian Doel nuclear power plant *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ ** January 08th, 2021 - European Organization for Cooperation in Waste Disposal...

  7. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2021

    Who finally condemns NATO? ** Newsletter XXVI 2021 - June 08th to 13th News+ The last gasp ** Newsletter XXV 2021 - June 01st to 07th News+ Trinational resolution against fuel elements: Joint venture in Lingen *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Newsletter XXIV 2021 - May 27th to 31st News+ How Japan's nuclear lobby is relying on a new climate plan ** Newsletter XXIII...

  8. December 10.12.2020th, 12.12.2020 - Saturday, December 14th, XNUMX, XNUMX p.m. - vigil 'Am Seitenkanal' in the south of Lingen, in front of the fuel element factory

    *** Newspaper article 2020 Background knowledge Current+. *** December 10th, 2020 - Saturday, December 12th, 2020, 14 p.m. - Vigil 'Am Seitenkanal' in the south of Lingen, in front of the fuel element factory. The reason is an unfortunately negative decision by Hess. Administrative Court in Kassel in the matter of fuel element exports from Lingen for Doel 1 and 2. The VGH sees no suspensive effect for the action of a...

  9. April 06, 2020 - Nuclear waste rolls through NRW

    around Chernobyl: Forest fire as a possible disaster * April 06.04.2020th, 06.04.2020 - Protests against uranium transport: When masking is mandatory * April 06.04.2020th, 06.04.2020 - Nuclear waste: Braunschweig rejects interim storage * April XNUMXth, XNUMX - Fuel elements brought into the storage pool * April XNUMXth, XNUMX - Asse II: BUND lays Position paper on dealing with radioactive waste *** Top of page Background knowledge Aktuell+. *** Call for donations - The...

  10. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2020

    Official matter * December 12, 2020 - Nuclear weapons and US presidents: Absolutely uncontrolled * December 10, 2020 - Saturday, December 12.12th. 14 p.m. - Vigil 'Am Seitenkanal' in the south of Lingen, in front of the fuel element factory. The reason is an unfortunately negative decision by Hess. Administrative Court in Kassel in the matter of fuel element exports from Lingen for Doel 1 and 2. The VGH sees no suspensive effect...

  11. Newspaper clippings (2019)

    von Kernkraftwerken begründen. Aber die Anlage war störanfällig und produzierte kaum Strom. Vor 22 Jahren ging sie vom Netz. Mitte der 1990er Jahre wurden mehr als eine halbe Million Brennelemente in ein Zwischenlager in Ahaus transportiert, der THTR versiegelt. Es wurde ruhig um den Reaktor - dabei lagern in ihm noch immer 295 Tonnen radioaktiven Mülls. Wie kann das sein? Das WA hat sich ins...

  12. December 08th, 2019 - Tomorrow, December 09.12.2019th, XNUMX is the day of action against uranium waste exports

    two activists took place. Both are accused of “resistance”. It's about a symbolic action on the town hall canopy at an anti-nuclear demonstration in January after a fire in the nuclear part of the fuel element factory. After property damage was ruled out as a charge, the two were accused of “resistance”. The two activists are happy about solidarity support....

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

    Nuclear waste repository is a big question mark * The new uranium atlas is here! September 11, 2019 - Over 70 percent of Germans demand: Nuclear phase-out should finally include uranium enrichment and fuel element production * Putin's policies against the environment and the population will not work in the long term! September 06, 2019 - Nuclear energy in Russia: Radiant election campaign in Moscow * 03...

  14. THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018

    Kirchner explained the development steps towards HTR in his very knowledgeable and detailed book “The High Temperature Reactor” (1991): “The possibility of using spheres as fuel elements was already brought into play by Leo Szilard in Great Britain at the end of the XNUMXs. Ten years later, Stefan Bauer (Harwall) considered how to achieve high temperatures and...

  15. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018

    Forum (GIF) Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Japan outsources the risks of reprocessing to France... November 16, 2018 - Orano prepares Mox fuel elements from the Fugen nuclear power plant for reprocessing. Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Dummy with radiation protection vest, ready for flight into space. November 16, 2018 - German...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 149 December 2017

    HTR experiments in the Netherlands The Energy research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), which has been researching the HTR line for decades, is located in the seaside resort of Petten. The fuel elements for the Chinese THTR were tested here. But that's not all that's happening at the moment: “Researchers from the NRG (Nuclear Research and Advisory Group) in the Netherlands have been working on...

  17. THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017

    and readers! Where should the radiant waste from the THTR Hamm and Jülich and the burn-up measurement reactor (AMR) Hamm go? I documented the discussion about the future whereabouts of the approximately 300.000 radioactive fuel balls from the small THTR in Jülich in detail in the last issues of the newsletter (1). The question at issue is whether to temporarily stay in the safest possible...

  18. Oct. 20, 2016 - Joint statement on the billion deal

    in Article 4, paragraph 3e for the area of ​​nuclear power. This stipulates that national policies must be based on the principle that the costs of managing spent fuel and radioactive waste are borne by those who produced that material. The German Atomic Energy Act (AtG) also expressly states in Section 2d Paragraph 1 Number 5 that “the...

  19. THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016

    had. Some old posters and leaflets could be admired here and there was information about the current situation and HTR technology worldwide. The greeting from the partner BI in Ahaus, where the THTR fuel elements are stored, was read out and Udo Buchholz from the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) emphasized in his speech that the Hammer BI is one of the oldest still active member groups of the...

  20. The current THTR newsletter No. 146 - December 2015

    is it [called. Even if this deadline were actually met, it would take an impressive eight years of construction! – In any case, there is no evidence of rapid construction progress here. What remains is the fuel element factory for the planned HTR in Baotou in Inner Mongolia (5). In THTR newsletter No. 144 we reported, with reference to a Chinese source, that after construction began in February 2013...