1. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    After-decay - in the so-called after-cooling operation, it must be further cooled so that it does not overheat and melt... Nuclear power plantsPlag Cruas_(France) August 9, 2009 (INES 1) Gravelines nuclear power plant, FRA The fuel system did not properly remove the spent fuel rods from the Gravelines nuclear power plant ejected, which led to jamming of the fuel rods and shutdown of the reactor. (Costs approx. 2...

  2. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    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... July 25th Climate protection | Heat pump | Springer | Heating law Energy researcher Quaschning: "With the...

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

    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:...

  4. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    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:...

  5. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    was classified as an INES level 3 incident. On May 15, 2001, the operator discovered that 54 of the 157 control rods in the Kuosheng-2 reactor, which control nuclear reactions and protect fuel elements from overheating, were cracked. The operator checked all control rods of the same type in the other nuclear power plants. In 2010, divers during a routine cleaning of the...

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

    Telepolis... * June 14, 1985 (INES Klass.?) Constituyentes, ARG An excessive local power peak in the reactor core led to the failure of 46 fuel rods, radioactive material from the fuel elements was released into the reactor cooling system. (Costs approximately US$11,2 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Argentina has five research reactors, the oldest of which...

  7. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    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... Numerous incidents and...

  8. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    Due to a leak in a heat exchanger, water leaked into the reactor. This had an impact on the demolition of the reactor, as it still contained "197 destroyed or atomized fuel elements" which were then encased in concrete. During the incident, large amounts of strontium-90 and tritium are said to have escaped and entered the groundwater... May 12th Climate protection | Kini Jödler |...

  9. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    The editor of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report, Mycle Schneider, points out that there are 19 Russian-designed reactors in the European Union that are operated with such fuel elements. In addition, there would theoretically be 15 reactors in Ukraine that are operated with such fuel elements. This is the result of a market analysis... * Fake News |...

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

    bring valuable foreign currency into the Kremlin's coffers. And that is up to the Europeans themselves. Several member states want to buy Russian uranium, Russian fuel elements and Russian nuclear power technology for their nuclear power plants even during the war... * Heat pump | Energy efficiency | Heat pump fact paper (pdf) New heat pumps at a glance – this is what you can think about, the heat pump...

  11. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    Not a kilowatt hour has been delivered yet... * Switch off again before we continue: 9 a.m. to 15 p.m. at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin 12 p.m. on the Odeonsplatz in Munich 13 p.m. in front of the fuel element factory in Lingen 13 p.m. in the parking lot in front of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant * Sanctions | Russia | Fuel elements uranium "An extremely sensitive area" Habeck for sanctions against Russia's...

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

    Set a record by winning over 300 court cases proving the link between the use of depleted uranium and a range of diseases... * Fuel | Sanctions | Russian uranium After visit to Kiev Habeck wants to sanction importers of Russian uranium The import of numerous Russian raw materials and products has already been sanctioned, uranium...

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

    The costs for nuclear power plants have not fallen as expected, as a study by the German Institute for Economic Research from March 2023 shows. Renewable energies are significantly cheaper... * Lingen fuel element factory | Rosatom | Framatome joint venture produces fuel assemblies There should not be a joint venture with a Russian company to produce fuel assemblies in...

  14. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    ... - 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... *** March 24th...

  15. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Publication of the report on the global arms trade in Stockholm with... * March 13, 1980 (INES 4) Saint-Laurent nuclear power plant, FRA A faulty cooling system melted fuel elements in the UNGG Saint Laurent A-2 reactor and forced a prolonged shutdown... Nuclear Power Accidents .pdf - Atom power plants Plag https://atom power plants plag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Saint-Laurent_(France) 1980:...

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

    - 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... *** March 9th Poland | Choczewo...

  17. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    twice brought the country to the brink of disaster. In the spring of 1976 (January 5, 1976 - No INES classification?!), three workers died after the cover of a fuel channel came loose and a fuel cassette shot out. A major accident was only avoided by temporarily sealing the open channel. Even more dangerous was a...

  18. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    with them binding CO2 to carbonates. These weathering products reach the sea via the rivers and are deposited as sediment on the seabed... *** February 13th Nuclear phase-out | Fuel element factory Lingen | Uranium enrichment plant Gronau | Garching research reactor Dear friends, 61 days until the Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II nuclear power plants are shut down -...

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

    Soviet reactor VVER-1000. Environmentalists not only criticize Siemens Energy's collaboration with Rosatom, but also that in Lingen, Lower Saxony. The fuel assembly factory located there belongs to the French company Framatome. And, according to the Russian environmentalist and winner of the alternative Nobel Prize, Vladimir Slivjak, this comes from uranium from Russia. Slivjak...

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

    Guarantee for a secure energy supply. Last year, half of the reactors temporarily failed and produced less electricity than in 30 years... * CO2 certificates | Fuel elements | Stretch operation Compensation projects The big scam with CO₂ certificates Many companies buy off their emissions with voluntary CO2 certificates. But a large part...