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

    Newsletter XLVI 2023 November 12th to 18th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  2. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    imported by sea, as Table.Media reports. Nevertheless, the federal government is undeterred in pushing ahead with plans for a seventh floating terminal in Mukran in the north of Rügen. An expensive mistake, predicts energy economist Claudia Kemfert from DIW. She accuses politicians in ntv's "climate laboratory" of falling for the threats of the gas industry, as they did in the past: "The way back will...

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

    Writers, criticizes the literary world for its "silence that cannot be surpassed in terms of vehemence" and asks: Or is it not brusqueness at all, but rather concentrated silence so as not to make a mistake? Not to make yourself vulnerable? In any case, it cannot be a self-confident silence or one that in any way stands up to the rampant anti-Semitism. Open letter...

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

    Saint-Laurent (France) 1969: Partial meltdown in reactor A-1 The first accident in reactor A-1 on October 17, 1969 was caused by human error and a technical error. While loading four fuel chambers, the machine stopped several times, but the employee revoked the stops and continued loading. Due to overheating and an increase in radioactivity...

  5. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    large amount of radioactive dust (1786 TBq), which, among other things, forced surrounding dairy farms to give up. (Costs approximately US$89,9 million) Nuclear Power Accidents The full extent of the accident and the errors in organization and technology were kept secret for 30 years. This Windscale fire in October 1957, classified as a "major accident" (INES 5), is the only Sellafield incident from...

  6. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    Distribute transformation more fairly. The fact that Robert Habeck is now also putting on the brakes is fatal. The traffic light government is putting the promised climate money on hold - and that is a big mistake. Because it undermines trust that the restructuring of the country, which is necessary to achieve the climate goals, will be carried out in a socially just manner. This is how the traffic light mobilizes the defense against this necessary...

  7. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    first day of government... * September 23, 1983 (INES 4) Constituyentes Nuclear Center, ARG On September 23, 1983, a nuclear meltdown occurred at the Constituyentes Nuclear Center due to an operating error during the reconfiguration of the RA-2 research reactor, killing a total of 18 people were irradiated; One of the reactor technicians died two days later from injuries sustained...

  8. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    enormous sums of money in climate-damaging businesses. Because as long as climate damage is not adequately priced in, business in climate-damaging sectors is worthwhile. Tayler: "And as long as these errors in the market are not corrected by governments, emissions will continue to rise." Whether the global inventory actually represents a turning point will only be determined in December...

  9. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    some – rightly so? A cool fact check. Bavaria's Prime Minister and election campaigner Markus Söder (CSU) recently told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Different electricity price zones would be a big mistake. Anyone who talks about such zones is putting an ax on Germany as an industrial location and endangering southern Germany as the industrial heart of the republic.” Söder’s statement is grossly exaggerated. What...

  10. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    Nuclear plants in Europe are usually only insured up to a damage amount of 1 billion euros... (see next point). * 3. Malfunctions in the operation of the systems caused by operating errors Human error was, according to official explanations, the cause of the events in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, the accident on May 4th - 5th, 1986 at the THTR in Hamm-Uentrop and on many others...

  11. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    opted for level 2. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plants Plag Civaux (France) On May 12, 1998, a serious accident occurred in Civaux-1. Due to a fatal design flaw, a pipe broke under the influence of extreme temperature changes. The main cooling circuit lost 300 cubic meters of contaminated water, almost three quarters of a complete fill...

  12. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    US President Roosevelt signed a letter warning the president about a German atomic bomb. Einstein later described this letter and his signature underneath it as his “biggest mistake”. * 2019-2010 | 2009-2000 | 1999-1990 | 1989-1980 | 1979-1970 | 1969-1960 | 1959-1950 | 1949-1940 | Before For work on 'THTR Rundbrief', 'reaktorpleite.de' and 'Map of the...

  13. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    large amount of radioactive dust (1786 TBq), which, among other things, forced surrounding dairy farms to give up. (Costs approximately US$89,9 million) Nuclear Power Accidents The full extent of the accident and the errors in organization and technology were kept secret for 30 years. This Windscale fire in October 1957, classified as a "major accident" (INES 5), is the only Sellafield incident from...

  14. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Saint-Laurent (France) 1969: Partial meltdown in reactor A-1 The first accident in reactor A-1 on October 17, 1969 was caused by human error and a technical error. While loading four fuel chambers, the machine stopped several times, but the employee revoked the stops and continued loading. Due to overheating and an increase in radioactivity...

  15. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste... March 28, 1979 (INES 5 | NAMS 7,9) Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, USA About 3,7 million TBq of radioactivity was released. Equipment failure and operating errors led to a loss of coolant and a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant. (Cost approx. 1091 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag...

  16. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Betreiber bis 2007 verheimlichte, wurde schließlich als Störfall der INES-Stufe 2 klassifiziert. Der Reaktor war deshalb von März 2007 bis Mitte Mai 2009 abgeschaltet. Der Vorfall wurde auf einen Fehler in einem Handbuch zurückgeführt... Wikipedia de Kernkraftwerk Shika Am 18. Juni 1999 kam es zu einem Zwischenfall, bei dem drei Steuerstäbe aus dem Kern entfernt wurden, statt einen...

  17. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Reportable events Level I event at the Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant, reported on August 18, 2008, due to the detection of a capacity failure in the supply batteries of the main buses A and B... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator ( free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Santa_Maria_de_Garona_(Spain) In February 2012 a term extension of five...

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

    near the boiling water reactors caused the emergency shutdown of Unit 1 and led to a series of subsequent failures in the plant in a complex scenario. Due to a design error, the separation of the plant from the grid and the switch to domestic load operation - in which the power plant uses its own electricity to operate important auxiliary units - did not work as expected...

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

    The cooling system line was not set correctly. In the event of an accident, the line would not have been able to provide the required cooling performance. Wikipedia Nkw Unterweser... The cause was incorrect adjustment of the electronic position indicator on the valve during the inspection in 2006. This was not noticed until the inspection in 2007. July 21st Road construction | CO2 emissions...

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

    to scrape together the money in his household. He had previously announced that he would check whether claims for recourse against Scheuer were possible. So whether Scheuer himself has to pay for what Wissing calls a “serious mistake”. According to the ministry, this test is already underway... * Heat | Temperature Block out the heat The federal government is finally launching a heat protection plan. But also every...

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