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    eingerichteten Zwischenlagern. 15 dieser 16 Zwischenlager wurden für 40 Jahre lang genehmigt. Und dann? Ab ins Endlager. Daraus aber wird so bald nichts. Die zuständige Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung nennt als günstigstes Datum, bis der Standort eines Endlagers überhaupt erst feststeht, 2046. Realistischer: 2068. Die erste Genehmigung für ein Zwischenlager aber läuft 2034 ab. Das ist das...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Polens. Auch sei sie in der EU-Taxonomie zur Nachhaltigkeit als umwelt- und klimaschonend eingestuft worden. Wer wird sich da noch über einen möglichen Reaktorunfall oder Probleme mit der Endlagerung genutzter Brennelemente Gedanken machen wollen. Kritiker des Atomprogramms bemängeln in Internetforen so auch vor allem die kaum kalkulierbaren Kosten und den Umstand, dass „wieder Ausländer das...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Neue Studie: Atomreaktoren der vierten Generation erst in Jahrzehnten bereit Neue Atomreaktoren der vierten Generation bleiben fern. Studie sieht Einsatz erst in Jahrzehnten. Klimaziele und Endlagerung ungelöst. Eine aktuelle Studie stellt klar: Neue Kernreaktoren der vierten Generation werden in den nächsten Jahrzehnten nicht zum Einsatz kommen. "Alle Technologien brauchen noch mindestens zwei...

  4. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Information. If you can help, please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de February 17th France | landfill | Toxic waste Underground landfill on the border with Baden-Württemberg Final disposal of French toxic waste in Alsace is becoming more likely France's highest administrative court has overturned a court ruling that work on a landfill would have stopped...

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

    the project will become significantly more expensive on schedule. New calculations for the controversial nuclear waste repository in Salzgitter assume a significant increase in prices. The Federal Company for Final Storage (BGE) expects that an additional 2,64 billion euros will be needed until completion, as BGE confirmed to SPIEGEL. The German Press Agency had previously reported this, citing...

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

    the schedule is out of date. A final storage location could be decided on in 2046 at the earliest, and if things go badly, even as late as 2068. The Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE), which is responsible for the search, announced this a year ago. This means that safe final disposal will be postponed until well into the 22nd century. [...] 1900 Castor containers serve as the last barrier against violence or...

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

    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, there are further options for this process...

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

    JEN has been boycotted for 10 years. “This irresponsible behavior cannot be accepted by a scientific institution. The Jülich fuel elements must be properly declared and conditioned before later disposal. The procedure for this still needs to be developed and the FZJ is responsible for this. In Ahaus this can happen for technical and legal reasons...

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

    highly radioactive waste in a total of 17 interim storage facilities. "In the end," says BGZ spokeswoman Janine Tokarski, "we expect around 1800 containers throughout Germany that are intended for final storage." According to Janine Tokarski, the Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE) does not expect a final repository location to be determined "in the 2040s at the earliest"....

  10. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    five a week. The first test drive with empty containers has already taken place. The next one follows in October. The containers contain the reactor's fuel elements. Since they cannot be prepared for final storage in Ahaus, they would have to be transported to other locations before final storage. The Ahauser Council, the BI, the Jülich Alliance Stop Westcastor and the non-party there...

  11. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    There is hardly any space in the Konrad shaft. GÖTTINGEN taz | The search for a final repository for the highly radioactive nuclear waste has been delayed for many years. The Federal Society for Final Storage (BG), which is responsible for this, recently announced that the location will not be determined in 2031, as stipulated by law, but in 2046 at the earliest. Another scenario even sees a time corridor up to...

  12. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    Ahead. First, a location should be determined by 2031. But last November it became known that the target date could not be met. Instead, the Federal Society for Final Storage (BGE) expects the year 2046 in the best case scenario; another scenario even envisages a time corridor up to 2068. Now the President of the Federal Office for Nuclear Safety is calling for...

  13. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    and citizens should be involved effectively, said Helge Bauer from Ausspielt. However, the Federal Nuclear Waste Office BASE and the Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE), which was commissioned to find a location, have failed to meet these challenges to date... * Photovoltaics | Solar modules | Balcony Top 5: The best balcony power plants from €219 – specialist retailers are better than discounters...

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

    are calling for the project to be canceled: “Konrad is not feasible, not responsible and completely presumptuous in all senses of the word.” A few hours earlier, the Federal Society for Final Storage (BGE) had admitted in an online press conference that the construction of the storage facility was weak and medium radioactive waste can only be completed in 2029 instead of 2027 as last planned... * Fossil...

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

    Barrels with low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste. As long as there is no energy storage facility in Germany, they must be stored temporarily. The plans of the responsible Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE) to look for a location near the Asse are met with resistance. During Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke's visit to the site, several citizens' initiatives called for the...

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

    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 because...

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

    In addition, it is "absurd that the 'exit country Germany' contributes to nuclear power plants being able to be operated elsewhere." What remains is nuclear waste. The Federal Agency for Final Storage made headlines at the end of last year with its admission that a final storage location would not be determined in 2031, as planned, but only around 30 years later. “Until then,” so...

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

    will be built, when work will start on it and when it will be finished. A few years ago the search for a location started again. And recently the federally owned Society for Final Storage (BGE) announced that it may not be able to name a location until 2068. Then it may take 20 years until the warehouse is finished. If there were a few more delays, the year 2100 would be reached...

  19. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    the climate change. A discussion about nuclear energy or even nuclear fusion as a long-term solution is no longer necessary, as the expansion would take far too long, not to mention the high costs, lack of final storage and high safety risks... * FDP Fossil Capital | E-Fuels | Combustor Obscene partisanship for fossil capital The FDP is a marketing measure in the portfolio of powerful industrial associations...

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

    an interim storage facility will come. Where should that be and how long until the final storage facility? GÖTTINGEN taz | The number of participants - in person and online - was manageable when the Federal Society for Final Storage (BGE) provided information on Thursday evening under the unadorned title “Subject: Asse” about what they believe will have happened in 2022 around the nuclear waste storage facility in the Wolfenbüttel district . And what she...

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