1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    Brokdorf eingelagert werden. Einen entsprechenden Antrag der Bundesgesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung (BGZ) hat das Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung (BaSE) genehmigt. Die Castoren werden vermutlich in 2025 mit einem bewaffneten Spezialschiff über die Nordsee und die Elbe transportiert und vermutlich über den Hafen von Brunsbüttel per LKW nach Brokdorf angeliefert. Die dafür...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    When debts, interest and fees are paid, 650 of Amazon's 361 million will go into Talen Energy's coffers - a profit margin of 55 percent... * Fuel elements | Intermediate storage | Castoren court: Green light for Gundremmingen nuclear waste interim storage facility Would the nuclear waste storage facility in Gundremmingen withstand a targeted terrorist attack or plane crash? About this question...

  3. Newsletter

    The tone between North Rhine-Westphalia's Green Vice Prime Minister Mona Neubaur and environmental organizations becomes frosty over highly radioactive Castor transports. In a few months, the first castors with radioactive nuclear waste are to be moved from the former Jülich nuclear research center to the Ahaus interim storage facility. Now representatives from Neubaur's state economics ministry,...

  4. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    should be driven - for example through the Düsseldorf airport tunnel or over the dilapidated 'Berlin Bridge' of the A59 in the middle of my hometown of Duisburg. Any damage to the castors could lead to the release of radioactivity. Matthias Eickhoff: Furthermore, the nuclear waste in the Ahaus interim storage facility is not a bit safer than in Jülich. You have to explain that. Eickhoff: The interim storage facility...

  5. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Jülich THTR nuclear waste soon on the streets? The small THTR experimental reactor in Jülich was decommissioned in 1988. Since then, the 300.000 radioactive fuel balls have been stored there in 152 castors. Now they are to be taken via the motorway to the interim storage facility in Ahaus, 170 kilometers away, where the nuclear waste from Hamm is already stored. A second test drive without radioactive cargo took place on...

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

    Newsletter XLVII 2023 November 19th to 25th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  7. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    Inventory comparable to what was released in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. It is unclear what radioactivity, neutron radiation and waste heat have done inside the castors over the years; so far none of the loaded containers have been opened again... November 16th AfD | Party conference | Monitor | Freedom of the press Interim injunction AfD must ARD magazine “Monitor”...

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

    “It is adequately secured against terrorist attacks and plane crashes, so it only has an operating license until 2034,” says Felix Ruwe from the citizens’ initiative No Nuclear Waste in Ahaus. Castors are only designed for 40 years. Ruwe criticizes that the Castor containers are also only designed for a period of 40 years. In view of the completely unresolved final storage issue, nuclear waste must...

  9. 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

    There the motorway slip road from the Ahaus/Legden exit on the A31 reaches the city. We call for participation in order to advance the resistance against the absurd transfer of nuclear waste from the 152 castors with 300 highly radioactive fuel elements. There is also something new in this matter: in 000, the NRW state government ordered the evacuation of the current Castor camp in Jülich -...

  10. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    with empty Castor containers from Jülich to Ahaus. The initiatives point out that the former operators of the AVR reactor were “responsible until final storage” for the approximately 300.000 fuel balls in the 152 Jülich castors. The statement states, among other things: “Since the fuel balls have to be conditioned and repackaged before final storage,...

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

    most efficient, they say. You already pay an annual rent of one million euros in Ahaus and have made all the preparations for transport. The radioactive balls are packed in 152 castors and special trucks were made. From Jülich’s perspective, it can get started. This option is also preferred by the federal government because of the costs... * Israel | war crimes | Criminal Court New...

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

    will be at the end as long as 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...

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

    create! We are calling for the following dates and activities: October 01st: Forest walk "Sterki remains" in Oberhausen - against the expansion of the A3 - this is exactly the route over which the 152 Castoren should travel from Jülich to Ahaus. We stand in solidarity with the forest protectors and look forward to joint activities. https://esreich-ob.de/waldspaziergang-sterkibleibt-so-1-10-1200/...

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

    sealed. However, this does not mean that the problems are gone. The question still remains unsolved: what to do with the radioactive waste packed in special containers for highly radioactive materials, so-called castors. Since there is no final storage facility in sight, the spent fuel remains in interim storage facilities for decades. Responsible for operations and safety is...

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

    Friends, we are once again calling for the rally in Ahaus this Sunday, August 20th, at 14 p.m., at the “Mahner” in the pedestrian zone. The aim is to prevent the 152 Westcastors with 300 highly radioactive fuel elements from being transported from Jülich to Ahaus. Across North Rhine-Westphalia and the Ruhr area - always on the motorways - that would be total madness and would not...

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

    further - with the BI protest rally "No nuclear waste in Ahaus" in front of the warning in the pedestrian zone. The aim is to prevent the concrete preparations that are now underway for the transport of the 152 West Castors from Jülich to Ahaus and then the Castors from Garching/Munich to Ahaus. The BI also invites you to a planning meeting at 20 p.m. on the 12th immediately before the rally...

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

    In 1989 it was shut down due to a stuck control rod; 11 days later its final closure was announced... June 12th Gorleben BGZ scraps transport containers for Castors Disposal of Castor transport containers: Scrapped like an old bicycle The operator of the Gorleben interim storage facility has old Castor hoods scrapped. Opponents of nuclear power warn of...

  18. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    But once you understand how wrong it is to work with these substances, then in my opinion there is no justifiable alternative. * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Castoren Nuclear waste: No security, only calculation models Germany does not yet have a final storage facility for the remains of 60 years of nuclear power use. Latest idea: recycling old fuel rods as raw material for new reactors. About the gaps...

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

    will remain nuclear companies even after the Emsland and Isar II nuclear power plants are shut down. 3. Nuclear waste of various categories is piling up in Lingen, Gronau and Ahaus. There are castors with highly radioactive nuclear waste in Lingen and Ahaus. Further Castor transports have been announced for Ahaus, including from Jülich and Munich-Garching. Thousands of tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride are stored in Gronau as...

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

    Newsletter L 2022 December 15th to 19th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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