1. Newsletter XXV 2022 - June 18-25 - News+ Assange case: "Black day for freedom of the press"

    He doesn't want wind turbines and he can't do nuclear power plants, but he can press conference! And he does everything else casually: For nuclear energy to continue to operate smoothly, the fuel elements would have had to be ordered by December 2021 at the latest, which is why this unnecessary debate about the duration of mid-2022 is about 12 - 18 months too late, if it were ever to be successful at all. ..

  2. Newsletter XXIV 2022 - June 10th to 17th - News+ Majority for nuclear weapons? – Now the peace movement speaks

    * June 14, 1985 - (INES - Class!) - Constituyentes, Buenos Aires, ARG Excessive local power in the reactor core led to the failure of 46 fuel rods, radioactive material from these fuel elements was released into the reactor cooling system. Nuclear Power Accidents - Spiegel 17/1987 "A cold shiver runs down my spine" SPIEGEL report on hidden nuclear power plant accidents all over the world...

  3. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    Waste is also more radioactive. The currently booming SMR construction could further exacerbate the problem of radioactive disposal. ** June 06th Ukraine | Westinghouse | Fuel element cooperation with US company: Ukraine relies on nuclear power In order to ensure security of supply, Kiev wants to expand the use of nuclear energy. But that's not the only reason. * more open...

  4. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    in northwestern France, 25 km west of the city of Cherbourg. According to the owner AREVA (Orano since 2018), it is the leading industrial plant for the reprocessing of used fuel elements in the world... Construction of La Hague began in 1961 after the French Atomic Commission (CEA) decided to operate a reprocessing plant called UP2 ...

  5. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    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. The reactor was still operated with excessive...

  6. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    Uranium mining marks the beginning of the uranium industry. Fuel elements for nuclear power plants are created via several processing stages (processing into yellowcake, then chemical conversion to uranium hexafluoride and uranium enrichment)...

  7. Newsletter XV 2022 - April 08th to 14th - News+ Russian gas and the German energy transition: perspective yellow vests

    and Westinghouse supply fuel to Temelín Westinghouse (USA) and Framatome (France) have received a long-term contract from the Czech energy supplier ČEZ to supply fuel for the Temelín nuclear power plant. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) IMHO Since being rescued from bankruptcy in 2018, Westinghouse has had one customer after another...

  8. Newsletter XIV 2022 - April 01st to 07th - News+ Media: The truth and all the other victims

    from a “fat exclamation mark” * Nuclear transport | Garching | Ahaus Greens against nuclear transport from Garching to Ahaus The Greens in the Bavarian state parliament reject the transport of spent fuel from the FRM II research reactor in Garching to the North Rhine-Westphalian interim storage facility in Ahaus. "So it makes absolutely no sense to undertake expensive and highly dangerous transport across the...

  9. Newsletter XII 2022 - March 19th to 25th - News+ Collateral damage to the climate?

    for the EEG 2023. Why does the expansion of renewable energies have to be limited at all - especially in such ideal locations as on industrial roofs? * Duration | Neckarwestheim | Fuel elements | Putin | Nuclear lobby Discussion about possible extension of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant: The uranium also comes from Putin Is Germany about to phase out the nuclear power plant for the second time? The relevant...

  10. Newsletter XI 2022 - March 12th to 18th - News+ Poisoned Bravery

    Newsletter and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way... Excerpt...

  11. Newsletter VIII 2022 - February 20-27 - News+ America's disastrous 60-year war

    Renewable energies Baden-Württemberg shows that the output per installed wind turbine has doubled within ten years. Municipalities benefit from higher revenues. * Fuel element factory in Lingen Fuel element factory in Lingen: Rosatom withdraws application for participation TVEL, a subsidiary of the Russian group Rosatom, actually wanted to partner with the French operator...

  12. Newsletter VII 2022 - February 13th to 19th - News+ Repository Onkalo - These tunnels should solve the biggest nuclear power problem

    should. However, pressure has been growing for some time to keep two of the seven nuclear reactors online until 2025. This is also increasingly becoming a burden on the governing coalition. * Gronau | Fuel element factory Lingen Energy supply Nuclear deal in the shutdown year Greens wanted to close the gap in the nuclear power phase-out. Instead, with Habeck's approval, Russia could enter into business in this country...

  13. Newsletter V 2022 - February 01st to 07th - News+ Nuclear energy brings France a fiasco - and is still a religion

    Large companies are often misleading. According to a study, the climate protection promises of 25 of the largest companies worldwide cannot be taken at face value. * Lingen fuel element factory Russian-French nuclear alliance in Germany Russia wants to produce fuel elements in Lingen together with France. 126 organizations are calling for a trinational resolution...

  14. Newsletter IV 2022 - January 22 to 31 - News+ Four nuclear-armed states are ready for war - this treaty could stop them

    Fallout from the nuclear catastrophe only contains small boron residues, as measurements have shown for the first time. This knowledge is crucial if the reactor cores are to be disposed of. ** January 30th Lingen fuel element factory In the middle of the nuclear phase-out country French and Russian companies want to jointly produce fuel elements for nuclear power in Lower Saxony. The deal would allow Russia to...

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

    Olkiluoto 3 became "critical" for the first time - with a 12-year delay, numerous construction breakdowns and lawsuits between the manufacturers Areva and Siemens, quadrupled construction costs - and fuel elements from Lingen! What madness! However, things are not looking rosy for the nuclear lobby elsewhere: In France, several reactors had to be taken off the grid due to technical problems, and in Great Britain this year alone...

  16. Newsletter LVI - December 08th to 13.12.2021th, 08 - News+ December XNUMXth - The Greens must act now

    December 08th, 2021 - Agri-photovoltaic pilot project: farming under solar panels *** Top of page News+ background knowledge *** News+ December 08th, 2021 ** Gronau | Garching | Fuel element factory Lingen | Ecodefence opponents of nuclear power on the traffic light coalition: “The Greens must act now” The nuclear phase-out is not yet guaranteed, uranium enrichment in Germany can also be stopped,...

  17. Newsletter LV - 01/07.12.2021/01 to XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX - News+ December XNUMX - How many of our greenhouse gas emissions are we attributing to China?

    with an output of 211 MW. The unit is intended to be used as a demonstration reactor for larger commercial units... On March 16, 2013, construction began on a pilot fuel assembly plant at Baotou in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which will supply fuel for the HTR... Reached in late 2021 both reactors a self-sustaining chain reaction...

  18. Newsletter XLIX - October 27th to 31.10.2021st, 27 - News+ October XNUMXth - Garching reactor

    Newsletter XLIX 2021 October 27th to 31st, 2021 *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains an almost complete list of known accidents and releases en of radioactivity. As new information becomes available, this PDF file will be expanded and updated......

  19. Newsletter XXX - July 07th to 12.07.2021th, 07 - News+ July XNUMXth - Russian radiation ship scrapped - Chernobyl of the polar sea rehabilitated

    2021 July 07th to 12th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current News+ background knowledge *** July 12th, 2021 - Environmental risk of nuclear power plant: BUND sues against fuel element exports * 12 July 2021, 12 - Nuclear War : "Germany would be a strategic target" * July 2021, 11 - New cracks discovered in the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant * July 2021, 2020 - Japan's plutonium stockpile is XNUMX...

  20. Newsletter XXIX - 30.06. to 06.07.2021/30/XNUMX - News+ June XNUMX - Electrabel: nuclear phase-out can no longer be postponed

    announced. The 985 MWe boiling water reactor was scheduled to shut down at the end of December this year, but a lack of storage capacity for spent fuel has forced the state-owned company to take the unit offline early in preparation for a major overhaul of the plant... Translate with https://www.deepL.com/translator...