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

    would have had to be reported... On December 27, 2009, the second reactor of the nuclear power plant was temporarily shut down because of plant residues in the cooling circuit. The electricity company EDF said it was still unclear when the reactor would be restarted. The French nuclear regulator classified the incident at the plant as INES 1. The one was taken off the grid for maintenance work on December 26th...

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

    The Ministry of Health issued a red alert heat warning for several cities. In Greece, the ancient landmark Acropolis in Athens was closed again on Saturday... * France | EDF | Cattenom Problems again in Cattenom: Reactor taken offline again Cattenom / France - A problem with a turbine last Wednesday caused unit 4 of the...

  3. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    tempted to abbreviate it as “AfD”. But Merz's statement points to a deeper problem. And that is dangerous. Not just for the CDU, but also for democracy... * France | EDF EPR | Construction time | Penly Nuclear Power Plant EDF begins approval process for two new reactors in Penly EDF has announced that it has received the necessary approvals for the construction of two EPR2 reactors on...

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

    are usually combined with battery storage, this is the exception in large solar parks. The result is curtailments and negative market prices in phases of high production... * France | EDF | Corrosion and cracks Électricité de France Shaky nuclear course France's electricity company EDF is now completely in state hands again. However, this does not solve the problems. Nuclear power will...

  5. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    June 30, 1983 (INES ? Class?) Akw Embalse, ARG * We are looking for current information. If anyone can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de June 3rd Great Britain | China | EDF | Hinkley Point | Costs of British nuclear power This is where the tensions between China and the West manifest themselves in British nuclear energy The construction of Hinkley Point C, one of the largest...

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

    perhaps should not take place. In light of the consultation carried out by the Ministry of the Environment, Greenpeace is submitting a formal objection to the extension of the term. * France | EDF | Nationalization France completes the nationalization of the electricity company EDF The complete renationalization of the electricity company EDF is intended to ensure the desired expansion of nuclear power. What has...

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

    Oleksandra (40), a well-dressed woman in a hooded wool coat and Nike sneakers, came to one of the Kiev pawnshops to redeem her sewing machine... May 18 France | EDF and EPR | Flamanville | Hinkley Point Nuclear power: France is accelerating into a dead end Law passed to build new nuclear power plants more quickly: extremely expensive and risky. In Germany, electricity prices...

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

    and 300 m³ of primary coolant had leaked into the reactor building. The reactor block had only been in operation at a maximum of 50% power for six months before the incident. The operator EDF proposed classifying the event at level 1 on the INES scale, but the safety authorities chose level 2. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf Wikipedia...

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

    was taken over by the Japanese manufacturer Toshiba, but the business collapsed after the multiple reactor accident in Fukushima, Japan in 2011... April 13th France | cracks | EDF France's problem nuclear power fleet Cracks in the model nuclear country France generates two thirds of its electricity in nuclear power plants - when the reactors are not shut down due to corrosion or drought. The...

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

    has now finally confirmed to the media what was so obvious: The Kremlin group Rosatom has founded a joint venture in France with the French nuclear company Framatome - a subsidiary of the state-owned EdF - to produce "Russian" fuel elements in Lingen - what a deal ! Four months ago, Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Meyer (Greens) approved the Framatome application...

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

    [...] The Green energy politician Hans-Josef Fell criticizes the fact that the European nuclear industry is financing the Russian war and nuclear armament: The French nuclear company EDF alone paid at least 345 million euros to the Russian nuclear company Rosatom last year and thus the war in Ukraine and the upgrade of the Russian nuclear arsenal were significantly co-financed....

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

    in a French nuclear reactor is likely to trigger thorough inspections of other nuclear power plants. The French nuclear safety authority called on the power plant operator EDF to "identify possible further cases" and "adjust its control strategy". The supervisory authority had announced the evening before that EDF had discovered an unusually long and deep crack in a...

  13. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Fire broke out. What is known so far. On Friday evening, March 3rd, a fire broke out in reactor unit 1 of the Cattenom nuclear power plant. The operator, Électricité de France (EDF), announced this on its website. “The Cattenom power plant called the fire department at around 20 p.m. due to a fire that broke out on a fan in a room in the nuclear zone of the production block...

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

    Deep-sea mining lobby is abusing the energy transition to justify its plans that are harmful to the climate and the environment,” says Greenpeace marine expert Till Seidensticker... * France | Flamanville | EDF Future Nuclear Energy Policy Billionaire Nuclear Power Plant State-owned French electricity giant EDF writes a loss of 2022 billion euros for 18. Government remains committed to the use of nuclear power...

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

    Industry simply accepted it and thereby ignored a comprehensive debate on the safety issue. This practically eliminates the separation of funding and regulation... * France | EDF Nuclear Power | Losses are increasing France's ailing nuclear power plants Energy company EDF makes a loss of almost 18 billion euros The shutdown of numerous nuclear power plants in France has caused operator EDF...

  16. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    An employee came into contact with radioactive material during maintenance work in the third reactor block on Thursday. This was announced by the operator of the plant, the French energy company EDF. When the employee was examined for radiation as he left the nuclear zone, an external contamination was found on the worker's cheek, it is said... * Brazil |...

  17. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    sends. But what if German soldiers train Ukrainian soldiers on German weapons? This is exactly what the Leopard delivery decision will do... * Duration extension France | EDF | Electricity imports France is programming the worst case scenario The electricity giant EDF has maneuvered itself so deeply into the nuclear impasse that it is now considering extending the operating times of nuclear power plants to 80...

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

    continue for headlines. Now there is a suspicion that there may have been sloppiness in the production of spare parts that are to be used for this. [...] The French energy company EDF has commissioned a factory in Podenzano, Italy, to produce replacement parts for pipes damaged by corrosion. During an inspection by the French nuclear agency ASN in...

  19. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    According to a spokeswoman for the Ende Gelände initiative, there are now more than 1.000 demonstrators on site. The Aachen police even assumed there were 1.500 people on Sunday afternoon... * France | EDF | EPR Flamanville | Cracks France lacks energy For decades, Paris relied primarily on electricity from nuclear power. Now, of all times, dozens of reactors are out of operation - and in the coming...

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

    and RWE create facts on site. And in doing so, we not only put the safety of the activists at risk, but also reduce our climate goals to absurdity, as they criticize... * Blackout | EDF | France | UK Blackout dangers rise in France and UK EDF shuts down nuclear reactors in France to save fuel, threatens UK over taxation...

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