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

    Scapegoating is a core element of right-wing radicals' victories. And a lightning rod for frustration works particularly well... June 25th Netherlands | Natural gas production | Earthquake decision by the Netherlands Largest European gas field will be shut down due to earthquake The largest natural gas field in Europe will soon be completely closed because production has already stopped for thousands...

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

    MW • Type: 2 x BWR-6 • Manufacturer: General Electric • Construction started: November 19, 1975/15. March 1976 • Commissioning: February 1, 1981/26. March 1982 • Shutdown: December 28, 2021/15. March 2023... Earthquake risk and incidents In a magnitude 7,6 earthquake on September 21, 1999, several reactors in Chinshan and Kousheng were automatically shut down. According to a page of the "Austrian...

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

    of the Atomic Research Center that had broken out across Russia due to extreme drought (see also forest and peat fires in Russia 2010). June 16 France | Earthquake | La Rochelle Epicenter near La Rochelle Earthquake shakes western France An earthquake shook parts of France on Friday evening. The epicenter was near the town of La...

  4. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    (France) The Center de Cadarache is located on the so-called Durance fault, a geological fault zone where strong to devastating earthquakes have repeatedly occurred every 100 years, most recently in 1913. Most of the systems in Cadarache are therefore run by French seismologists considered a radiation risk for the region... * June 10, 1977 (INES Class.?) Nuclear...

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

    Because of the obvious crime of honor, this statement by the Berlin judiciary itself would have to be subjected to criminal scrutiny... * Japan | madness | Running time unlimited Despite the risk of earthquakes, Japan extends the running time of nuclear reactors In order to reduce dependence on oil and gas and achieve climate protection goals, nuclear power plants in Japan will be able to operate for an unlimited time in the future...

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

    "Fainting, heat cramps and heat strokes and even heat-related death," writes the Federal Environment Agency. In fact, heat waves usually claim significantly more lives than floods, storms or earthquakes. Between 2018 and 2020, more than 19.000 people died in Germany as a result of heat, such as one Evaluation by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German Weather Service and the...

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

    - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Fukushima_Daiichi Due to the damage to the power supply and cooling system caused by the Great Tōhoku earthquake of March 11, 2011 and the subsequent tsunami, as well as the lack of cables for mobile power generators In the Fukushima-Daiichi NPP (Fukushima I), three out of six reactor blocks overheated...

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

    CO2 pressed... * Fukushima | Nuclear lobby | Compensation 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – what have we learned from it? 12 years ago, on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear disaster began with the Tohoku earthquake. In four of the six reactor blocks there were extremely serious accidents, some with core meltdowns and a massive leak of radioactivity. It was one...

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

    “We assume that we can generate between 30.000 and 50.000 euros in trade tax from the solar park that has now been created,” said Bajorat... * Turkey | Akkuyu | Safety Construction Regulations Earthquake in Turkey: Debate about nuclear power plant construction reignited Russia is building a nuclear power plant in Turkey, the first in this country. It arises, of all places, near the earth fault that caused the recent...

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

    We are researching how different types of rock contribute to this and how we can give nature a tailwind to make this very slow process happen a little faster... * Earthquakes | Türkiye | Syria IPPNW calls for a stop to the Turkish bombings and the lifting of sanctions Turkey bombs northern Syria in the earthquake zone The medical peace organization IPPNW calls for...

  11. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    | Ancient reactor | Mihama court rejects shutdown Ancient Japanese reactor is allowed to remain online Residents complained against the operation of reactor three at the Mihama nuclear power plant: It would not be able to withstand an earthquake. A court now sees things differently - the nuclear power plant could remain online for decades. Japan is sticking to its ancient reactor, opponents of nuclear power have lost in court...

  12. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    The reactor was originally scheduled to be completed and connected to the grid in 2017. However, the date was delayed mainly due to a safety inspection of the site after a severe earthquake in Gyeongju... *** December 13th Plutonium | Weapons Energy Nuclear Research | Nobel Prize 82 years ago today The discovery of element 94 “Application” is a research funding buzzword. After...

  13. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    of the world. [...] Risk and incidents According to an article in "theguardian" from April 2011, the active unit Kanupp-1 is considered highly unsafe due to its old age, its heavily stressed structure and the risk of earthquakes and tsunamis on the Arabian Sea. In the event of an accident, the city of Karachi, which has a population of 15 million, would be contaminated. An incident in January 1985 casts a bad light on the...

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

    selected from the three remaining locations, as announced by the National Cooperative for the Storage of Radioactive Waste (Nagra). Nagra wants to explain this in more detail on Monday... * Earthquake | Sierentz Upper Rhine Trench between Mulhouse and Basel 4,7 magnitude earthquake shakes southern Baden - epicenter in Alsace The earth shook twice on Saturday in southern Alsace. The...

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

    carried out the 6th nuclear weapons test. The hypocenter was located in the Kilchu region in the northeast of the country, where the Punggye-ri nuclear weapons test site is located. The following earthquake was reported to have a magnitude of 6,3 on the Richter scale. - - Scinexx North Korea: Nuclear test caused test facility to collapse Radar data reveals consequences and strength of the last nuclear weapons test...

  16. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    large underground salt dome Taaken/Scheeßel/Ostervesede. Local environmentalists fear the salt dome could be on the short list, even though there is evidence of earthquakes in the region due to natural gas production. That's why activists from Taaken co-founded the citizens' initiative "No final repository in the Rotenburg district". And that's why Taaken was the one on Thursday this week...

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

    Kuosheng... Kuosheng-1 had an operating license until the end of 2021, but was prematurely shut down forever in early July 2021 because the fuel storage pool was full. Danger of earthquakes and incidents The Kuosheng nuclear power plant is only a few kilometers away from a tectonic break and is therefore at high risk of earthquakes. A magnitude 7,6 earthquake on September 21, 1999...

  18. INES! What's happening?

    its most serious flaw is that it confuses size and intensity. I propose a new quantitative nuclear accident magnitude scale (NAMS). It uses the earthquake magnitude approach to calculate the incident magnitude M = log(20R), where R = off-site atmospheric release of radioactivity, normalized to iodine-131 equivalents...

  19. Newsletter XXII 2022 - May 27th to 31st - News+ The nuclear lobby is stepping on the gas again

    The US military announced that it plans to send various nuclear propulsion systems and power plants into orbit around our planet by 2027 at the latest. *Japan | Fukushima | Earthquake | Safety Earthquake safety no longer exists Reactor No. 1 of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima will not survive another earthquake According to experts, the reactor No. 1 of the nuclear power plant...

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

    Nuclear power plants are driving up electricity prices. In France, a good half of the 56 reactors are shut down, probably for a long time. This provides an additional boost to electricity prices, including in Austria * Earthquake | Slovenia | VVER | Krsko Nuclear Power Plant Krško: Ball now in the hands of the federal government Independent earthquake risk assessment called for by GLOBAL 2000 petition and expert opinion from the Federal Environment Agency * Europe...

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