1. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    of the affected communities... * Nuclear phase-out | Nuclear waste | Intermediate storage | Asse-II No solution in the dispute over the Asse interim storage facility Where should thousands of barrels of nuclear waste go as long as there is no final storage facility? This question concerns the federal government and the residents of the Asse. The former mine is dilapidated and must be cleared. Environment Minister Lemke took a look on site. In the dispute over...

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

    Doses of up to 1 Gray. On the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale (INES), the event was classified at level 4 (accident)... April 20th Nuclear lobby | Nuclear economy | Final storage The incorrigible The reactions of the nuclear lobby in view of the shutdown of the last German nuclear power plants range between anger and defiance. You don't understand the world anymore...

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

    TV on Friday. Meanwhile, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) reiterated his demand to examine a return to the use of nuclear energy... April 14th Disposed of | Atoms for Peace | There is no alternative to the final storage of nuclear power plants - the future belongs to renewable energies. This Saturday the last reactors will finally be switched off. Nuclear power is too expensive and too risky. Berlin – “Dear...

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

    Stirring up images of the enemy". Sentences such as "Peace, heating, bread instead of weapons, war and death" and "NATO is the aggressor - peace with Russia" could be read on banners and posters... * Repository | Million Years | Atomic Priest Atomic Priest and quartz crystals How do you preserve information for more than 500 years? On April 15th, the last three nuclear power plants in Germany will go offline. But...

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

    can be fed in. And their finance minister and party leader Christian Lindner is accused of being more concerned about the well-being of the Porsche company than about climate protection... * Repository | highly radioactive nuclear waste | Eternity poison Nuclear waste for eternity - the search and construction of final repositories require historical periods of time. When people began to build nuclear power plants,...

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

    Smid from Greenpeace Germany warns against too much euphoria - the technology is too unsafe, he says. "It's this 'out of sight, out of mind' thing." We landfill the CO2 waste and use it to create final storage facilities that are supposed to be sealed for hundreds and thousands of years. In doing so, we are handing over eternal burdens to future generations without knowing whether it is really tight." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

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

    Also against all reason and against strong, decades-long and technically very well-founded resistance, a dilapidated and completely unsuitable "repository" for medium- and low-level radioactive nuclear waste is to be put into operation in Lower Saxony with the Konrad shaft. That would also lead to a new nuclear site - for thousands of years! This is just a small excerpt from the...

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

    depopulated, destroyed country. And many people across Europe are also afraid of the war expanding. They fear for their future and the future of their children... * Asse II nuclear waste storage facility | Final repository | Intermediate nuclear waste storage facility is flooding: Problems are piling up in the Asse The nuclear waste in the Asse needs to be removed. And then come to an interim storage facility. Where should that be and how long...

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

    In particular, the court was unable to prove the possession and/or transport of “explosives and illegal pyrotechnics”. Around six years after the start of these investigations against opponents of nuclear waste disposal, essentially nothing remains of the more than 20.000 pages of investigation files... * France | Climate protection | Investigations | Greenwashing France's justice system is investigating...

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

    Explosive charges in two of the bombs detonated and contaminated approximately 170 hectares of agricultural land with the radioactive components of the warheads... *** January 16 Finland | Nuclear waste repository “Wonderful pragmatism” Finland: World's first nuclear waste repository soon to be completed - commissioning possible in 2024 After around two decades of excavation work, the Onkalo final repository for nuclear waste is actually...

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

    Climate goals are unlikely to be achieved - so it is right to support them.” The reference to the rated performance was a central demand from your house to the federal government... * Nuclear waste | Castor | Grafenrheinfeld interim storage facility: Researchers are investigating what happens to nuclear waste in the containers in the long term. For many decades, castor containers are supposed to be protected from the radiation from nuclear fuel elements...

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

    against Ukraine, the federal government carelessly opened the door for further term extensions instead of decisively shutting down the high-risk technology... * Nuclear waste repository | Security | Intermediate storage facility security for a million years? More than 10 years ago, US President Barack Obama wanted to have a nuclear waste repository built in the Nevada desert. A US court ruled: The...

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

    (kWh) more than twice as much as before: around 55 cents will be due there in the future - an increase of almost 130 percent... ** November 24th Nuclear waste storage facility | Neckarwestheim Decades until the final nuclear waste storage facility: Neckarwestheim will probably last even longer. Neckarwestheim will probably remain an interim storage facility for radioactive waste for much longer than previously feared. The final repository search...

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

    Citizens of Weilheim, also in Upper Bavaria, buried the plans for a bypass road around their district town a few weeks ago can be interpreted as such a signal... * Nuclear waste repository | Site Selection Act | Retrieval of contaminated sites from nuclear energy Can a nuclear waste repository really defy the forces of nature? The search for a final repository for German nuclear waste is getting longer...

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

    Journalists (ICIJ) and the US research platform ProPublica. Almost 60 media outlets in 46 countries took part in the “Shadow Diplomats” project... * Nuclear waste | Repository Postponed nuclear repository decision: From one extreme to the other It is no surprise that the decision for a final repository location is being further delayed. The planned year 2031 was never...

  16. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    stores. All 2025 Castors from the power plant are to be brought there by 83. The federally owned interim storage facility has an operating license until 2047. A final storage facility could not go into operation until 2050 at the earliest... * Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution | NSU ZDF and “Ask the State” publish Hessian NSU files The ZDF and the online platform “Ask the State” have classified files on...

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

    in Leese (Nienburg/Weser district) expires at the end of 2030. Low- and medium-level radioactive waste from research and medicine is stored there. This nuclear waste is actually supposed to be taken to the Konrad shaft repository near Salzgitter. However, the commissioning of the Konrad shaft, which has already been postponed several times and is now planned for 2027, is still highly controversial. For this reason...

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

    Sea Energy Cooperation, NSEC) Expansion targets agreed for the North Sea region of 76 GW by 2030, 193 GW by 2040 and 260 GW by 2050... * Switzerland | Nuclear waste | Nördlich-Lägern Swiss nuclear waste repository on the German border The location with the “largest safety reserves”? The deep repository is to be built on the Upper Rhine directly on the border. For the surrounding area, the expansion of a...

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

    and further changes to the EEG, EnWG and other laws, an oversized bureaucracy has emerged that no one can fully oversee anymore... * Switzerland | Nuclear waste | Repository The only thing that is certain is the risk. Nagra is currently announcing where it would like to bury the radioactive waste. In the three possible regions in Aargau and the canton of Zurich there has been a...

  20. Newsletter XXXIV 2022 - August 22nd to 31st - News+ Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of damage to pipes hidden

    should. * Mushroom Report | Cesium mushroom season: Where and which mushrooms are still contaminated with radioactive cesium Wild mushrooms are still partially contaminated with cesium * Bavaria | Nuclear waste | Volcano repository for nuclear waste in Franconian Switzerland: That's why it's dangerous A final repository for nuclear waste has been on the agenda in Germany for a long time - and is up for debate in Franconian Switzerland. **...

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