1. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    - 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... - - Numerous incidents and...

  2. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    3.700 MW on the grid... * France | Flamanville | Costs increased Further delay in the commissioning of the EPR in Flamanville The loading of the EPR reactor Flamanville 3 in France with fuel elements has again been delayed by at least six months. The estimated cost at the time of completion will increase by a further €500 million ($530 million), EDF said. In a...

  3. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    Cecile Lecomte has repeatedly managed to draw public attention to the little-known business of the uranium enrichment company Urenco in Gronau. She also attracted a lot of attention in the fight against the further use of nuclear energy in Germany with her actions against the Lingen fuel element factory - also known as the “squirrel” due to her extraordinary climbing skills....

  4. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    Pawling, USA December 31, 1978 (INES 4) Beloyarsk, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de *** December 07th Brennelemente Lingen | Nuclear phase-out Production of fuel elements: Ministry for the closure of uranium factories Otherwise the nuclear phase-out would be implausible, writes the environmental department. But a quick closure is...

  5. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    From 1964 to 1979 there was a series of events in which fuel ducts at Beloyarsk-1 were destroyed and workers were exposed to increased radiation. In 1977, 50% of the fuel in Beloyarsk-2 melted; the personnel were exposed to high levels of radioactivity. In a fire that broke out due to a falling cover plate on December 31, 1978, eight people suffered increased injuries...

  6. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    ... - 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... * United States | Idaho | Nuclear research...

  7. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    A few days ago, nuclear power plant boss Kahlert was quoted as making an astonishing statement: Nuclear power has no future in Lingen! Very true - but then why not just shut down the nuclear power plant and the fuel element factory and be done with it! We want the nuclear-free future to start today! 2 B. Research by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung has shown that the fuel rods, which were...

  8. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    - 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... ** November 10th Fuel elements Lingen | Uranium...

  9. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    ESP October 30, 1961 (Tsar bomb AN602) Novaya Zemlya, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de ** October 27th Brennelementefabrik Lingen | Russian uranium Opponents of nuclear power demand an end to uranium imports from Russia Lingen (dpa) - In the midst of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, a...

  10. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    Emsland nuclear power plant should remain online: for a few kilowatt hours more How long the nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony can continue to operate hardly depends on the Chancellor's decision. The fuel elements are already losing power. A lot of excitement about a few kilowatt hours: the Chancellor's power word is hardly relevant for the electricity industry. There is now another reactor that will theoretically be operational by mid...

  11. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    Yugoslavia cooperated with Norway in the field of plutonium reprocessing, established a spent fuel reprocessing department in Vinca, signed a cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union in 1956 for the 6,5 MW research reactor RA (heavy water reactor with moderation and cooling) and built the RB, a critical arrangement with...

  12. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    Abu Dhabi needs its tankers, without which the war in Yemen could not continue... * October 01, 1981 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,3) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR Reprocessing of fuel elements that had only been cooled for 27 days , led to the release of 0,9 Tbq of radioactive iodine … Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf - Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale),...

  13. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    Keep it in operation until the end of the year. At the same time, in the last few weeks, together with our Dutch friends from Laka, we have revealed that the Kremlin group Rosatom is allowed to get back into the uranium business in a big way with Framatome's fuel element production in Lingen. And where is the expansion of renewables? We haven't discovered it yet - instead it's dirty coal and...

  14. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    A move away from the December 31st exit date, however carefully designed, would probably open the door to a comeback in nuclear policy. ** September 20th Isar | Neckarwestheim | Reserve nuclear power plant | Fuel elements Energy crisis: What makes the reserve operation of nuclear power plants complicated In an emergency, Isar-2 and Neckarwestheim II are supposed to supply electricity until spring. With the old fuel elements...

  15. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    * EnBW | Philippsburg | Castor breakdown when loading a Castor container at the Philippsburg nuclear power plant The nuclear power plant in Philippsburg has been offline since the end of 2019. According to SPIEGEL information, there was apparently a problem when loading old fuel elements on the way to the interim storage facility. Even if a nuclear power plant goes offline, its fuel elements continue to emit radiation - and...

  16. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    very demanding The nuclear industry believes it is hardly possible to restart reactors within a week. In addition, there is a lack of experience for such a maneuver.... With "sucked out" fuel elements, however, the cooling water for operation must be free of boron, and if necessary this takes a very long time... * Mikhail Dudin | Uranium Russia | Fuel element factory Lingen Transports to Lingen...

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

    Came relocated and its scrapping began. List of submarine accidents since 1945 Echo II class nuclear submarine. Steam explosion in one of the reactors during filling with new fuel elements in Pavlovsky Bay near Vladivostok... ** August 09th Japan | Emergency system | down Cause still unclear Emergency system at the Japanese Hamoaka nuclear power plant down According to the...

  18. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    - Wikipedia - English Indian Point Energy Center#Incidents In 2005, Entergy employees during excavation work discovered a small leak in a spent fuel pool. Water containing tritium and strontium-90 had leaked through a crack in the pool building and flowed into the nearby Hudson River. The workers managed to recover the spent fuel rods despite the...

  19. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    I know for sure that the Minister didn't call me... * United States | Uranium Processing July 24, 1964 (INES 4) UNC Charlestown, RI, USA At a nuclear fuel plant (Wood River Junction Chemical Process Plant) in Charlestown, a man died from a fatal dose of radiation when a liquid uranium solution he was handling became critical was... - This accident...

  20. Newsletter XXVII 2022 - July 02nd to 10th - News+ Global security is only possible together!

    blocks climate protection and leads us to catastrophe. Financial institutions are deceptive about the energy transition. Why the turnaround can only come from below. (Part 1 - 2) ** July 07th exit | Fuel elements Lingen | Uranium enrichment Gronau The phase-out is not yet complete Nuclear power opponents are celebrating the impending shutdown of the last nuclear power plants with two large bike tours "Towards the phase-out": Among...