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

    signed a contract with the German arms manufacturer Comlog for up to 1.000 Patriot air defense missiles. The company in Schrobenhausen, Upper Bavaria, is expected to supply, among other things, rockets, spare parts and test systems. NATO's joint procurement agency announced this on Wednesday... * Türkiye | Warships | Mine clearance Blockade of deminers Erdogan prevents passage...

  2. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    Repairs, repairs, modernizations and other problems are so demanding on the workforce in France that welders had to be flown in from the USA and Canada and spare parts manufactured in Italy. Or take Sweden: The Swedish government has passed a law allowing nuclear power plants to be built again. In the public perception it becomes...

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

    in Cattenom are producing electricity again - while in one block potentially cracked pipes continue to be replaced or repaired. The French nuclear regulator recently discovered deficiencies in quality management in the production of spare parts. Production block one of the Cattenom nuclear power plant is producing electricity again. This emerges from a press release from the operator EDF,...

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

    requested for corrosion. According to an inspection by the French nuclear safety agency ASN, forwarded by the Luxembourg NGO, the Italian-made spare parts intended to combat this wear and tear were not properly checked. Greenpeace therefore fears “the risk of non-compliant parts”... * Pakistan | Power grid | Blackout...

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

    was newly installed in Finland last year, and at the end of 2022 the total output reached 5.677 MW (2021: 3.257 MW). That's an increase of 74,3 percent... * France | Cattenom | Spare parts Cracks in the Cattenom nuclear power plant: Were inferior spare parts installed? Cattenom/Luxembourg The cracks in pipes at the Cattenom nuclear power plant continue to make headlines. Now the...

  6. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    37,4 million euros from the Federal Republic of Germany. Riyadh is buying 36,1 million pieces of equipment and armament for the Eurofighter and Tornado fighter jets. The Emirates will receive 1,3 million spare parts from the German manufacturer Kappa Opto Electronics, which also supplies Saudi Arabia. Abu Dhabi needs this for its tankers, without which the war in Yemen could not continue... * 01....

  7. Newsletter V 2022 - February 01st to 07th - News+ Nuclear energy brings France a fiasco - and is still a religion

    billion euros should increase. Around two thirds of this can be attributed to interest payments during the construction period, plus expenses for preparing for commissioning such as the procurement of spare parts and nuclear fuel. This report from the French Court of Auditors on the EPR estimates the production costs for electrical energy in Unit 3 of the Flamanville NPP at 11 ct/kWh (110 €/MWh) to 12...

  8. Newsletter XXIX - 30.06. to 06.07.2021/30/XNUMX - News+ June XNUMX - Electrabel: nuclear phase-out can no longer be postponed

    The eighth reactor with 1.400 MW was scrapped in 1989. Seven reactors are currently being operated... ** GLOBAL 2000 Increasing danger from old nuclear power plants Outdated, brittle, without spare parts: The combination of technical aging and obsolescence makes old reactors increasingly susceptible to failure - this makes the often planned extension of the service life of old nuclear power plants highly risky ...

  9. Newsletter XXVIII - June 22 to 29.06.2021, 22 - News+ June XNUMX - Nuclear power: The older, the more rusty

    ignored, the expert no longer received an order from the state, and the nuclear power plant was built anyway... ** GLOBAL 2000 Increasing danger from old nuclear power plants Outdated, brittle, without spare parts: The combination of technical aging and obsolescence makes old reactors increasingly susceptible to failure - This makes the often planned life extension of old nuclear power plants a...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013

    Almost nobody believes it. Serious problems still exist, even if the state operating company pulls out all the stops. Many components of the second reactor were used as spare parts for the first unit. These now have to be produced and delivered again. Therefore, it could take years, not months, until the second reactor can supply electricity for the first time -...

  11. THTR Circular No. 106 April 06

    It was clear that an eight centimeter long bolt had somehow gotten into the interior of the generator and caused significant damage. A feverish search began for used reactor spare parts, as a new one would have taken about a year. So after block one threatened to be out of service for a long time, new trouble loomed. Block two should actually be on schedule for...

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