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

    ... There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... * November 29, 1955 (INES...

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

    was withdrawn... * Castor | Jülich | Ahaus Resistance to Castor transports to Ahaus is growing In Ahaus on Tuesday evening, around 100 people demonstrated against the second test transport of fuel elements from Jülich to the interim storage facility in Ahaus. An illuminated parade with 20 tractors drives through Ahaus. At the same time, around 150 opponents of nuclear power gathered on site. The demonstrators...

  3. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... November 10th LNG terminal |...

  4. 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

    In the next 75 years, up to 215 billion tons of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere when the fine dust is distributed across global agricultural fields... * Fuel element factory in Lingen | Rosatom | Framatome anti-nuclear organizations protest: No uranium for Putin's Rosatom No enriched uranium should be delivered to Russia from Lingen, complain...

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

    should move. The problem: The balls are not as harmless as tennis balls. It is highly radioactive waste from the research reactor in Jülich, which was shut down in 1988. There were repeated political disputes over the fuel balls. There is also disagreement on the question of what should happen to them now. The basics: The permit for the camp at the former...

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

    We are very sure that the anti-nuclear movement can still mobilize masses after the official end of nuclear power. In the 1990s there was still a state of emergency around Ahaus when castors with fuel elements were brought there... October 13th Fuel element factory Lingen | Framatomes | Rosatom German cooperation with Rosatom: Radioactively contaminated The operator of the fuel element factory in...

  7. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... Youtube Uranium Industry: Plants...

  8. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    but rated INES level 5. Two workers died as a result of the increased radiation... Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan Nuclear power plantsPlag Tokaimura, Japan On September 30, 1999, the worst nuclear accident in Japan to date occurred at the Tokaimura fuel element factory in Japan. Two workers who were not informed by the operator JCO about the dangers of highly enriched...

  9. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... September 21st...

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

    revealed: Six of the nine planetary boundaries have now been exceeded - climate, biosphere, deforestation, pollutants, nitrogen cycles and fresh water... September 13th Uranium transport | Fuel element factory Lingen | Rosatom uranium transports to Lingen approved: Russian uranium remains welcome According to opponents of nuclear power, 40 new uranium deliveries to the Lingen fuel element factory have been approved. She...

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

    is the first nuclear power plant in Switzerland to be decommissioned. The dismantling of Mühleberg will take place in three phases. The first phase lasts until all of the plant's fuel elements are removed. The second phase ends with the abolition or evacuation of the control zones, while in the third phase proof is provided that the facility no longer poses a radiological hazard...

  12. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    to be sent to Ahaus in 60 road transports, five per week. The first test drive with empty containers has already taken place. The next one follows in October. The containers contain the reactor's fuel elements. Since they cannot be prepared for final storage in Ahaus, they would have to be transported to other locations before final storage. The Ahauser Council, the BI, the Jülich...

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

    the belligerent Russia. There can therefore be no question of a permanently secure uranium supply - for geopolitical reasons alone. In this context, it is significant that the fuel for EU nuclear power still largely comes from Russia and thus generates high war revenues for Russia - despite all the West's boycott measures. Especially in the...

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

    Engineers (VDI) complain that green hydrogen or its derivatives are not available in sufficient quantities... * August 9, 2009 (INES 1 class?) Gravelines, FRA The fuel system did not properly eject the spent fuel rods from the Gravelines nuclear power plant , which led to jamming of the fuel rods and shutdown of the reactor. (Costs approx. 2 million...

  15. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    invaded, bring the reactor back under control and prevent a catastrophe. Fortunately, the reactor was still in test operation at the time of the accident and the fuel elements generated little heat. After the accident, the entire construction series was stopped: "The reactor core of Civaux-1 was unloaded, as were the cores of the two N1996 units that were started in 1997 and 4 at the site...

  16. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Sodium-cooled reactor with 7,5 to 20 MW power in the Californian Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Moorpark suffered a partial meltdown. Due to the high heat, 10 of 43 fuel elements were damaged and radioactive substances were released. The reactor was shut down in February 1964... 1958 December 30, 1958 (INES 4) Los Alamos, NM, USA Slowly but surely all relevant...

  17. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    however, revoked the stops and continued loading. Due to overheating and an increase in radioactivity, an alarm was triggered and the emergency shutdown was initiated. Some fuel elements that had just been loaded melted. Since the cooling system was still functioning at a quarter of normal levels, there was no major catastrophe. Only small amounts of radioactivity escaped from the building. The cleaning of the...

  18. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... July 16, 1979 (INES 3 NAMS 1,9)...

  19. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    To promote sharing Korea... 2012 January 18, 2012 (INES 2) Akw Cattenom, FRA Wikipedia de Cattenom A missing component did not prevent the backflow in the cooling lines of the storage pool of the fuel elements of blocks 2 and 3. The storage pool could have become empty in an uncontrolled manner. Due to a malfunction, the cooling water feed line of the decay tank could...

  20. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    increased radiation... Wikipedia en Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Tokaimura, Japan On September 30, 1999, the to At that time, the worst nuclear accident in Japan. Two workers who were not informed by the operator JCO about the dangers...