1. Newsletter

    "Beryl") In Ekker, Algerien, FRA 2. Mai 1967 (INES 4) Akw Chapelcross, GBR 4. - 5. Mai 1986 (INES 0 Klass.?) Akw THTR 300, DEU 7. Mai 2007 (INES 1) Akw Philippsburg, DEU 7. Mai 1966 (INES 4) Forschungsinstitut RIAR, Melekess, UdSSR 11. bis 13. Mai 1998 (6 Atombombentests) Pokhran, IND 11. Mai 1969 (INES 5 | NAMS 2,3) Atomfabrik Rocky Flats, USA 12. Mai 1988 (INES 2) Akw Civaux, FRA 13. Mai 1978...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    oben. Erneuerbare Energien haben im ersten Quartal 2024 rund 56 Prozent des Stromverbrauchs in Deutschland gedeckt. Dies geht aus Hochrechnungen des Zentrums für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) und des Bundesverbands der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW) hervor. Insgesamt hätten Erneuerbare-Energien-Anlagen von Januar bis März rund 75,9 Milliarden...

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

    einer Berufskrankheit für das deutsche Sozialrecht abzuleiten. In Frankreich ist Parkinson ja schon seit 2012 als Berufskrankheit anerkannt. Auch Italien war schneller. Haben die mehr in Forschung investiert, oder warum ging das dort schneller? Kraus: Da sind Berufskrankheiten zum Teil anders definiert, und das geht dann einfacher. Wir haben in Deutschland hohe sozialrechtliche Hürden. Und im...

  4. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Krankheiten oder Schädlingsbefall betrifft, konnten die Forschenden jedoch noch keine Unterschiede erkennen. Um verlässlichere Informationen zu gewinnen, bedarf es noch ein paar Jahre mehr. Die Forschung läuft erst seit etwa einem Jahr. Win-Win: Energie durch Photovoltaik und steigender Obst-Ertrag Auch Hansjörg Vollmer kann schon Veränderungen beobachten - im Vergleich zur Referenzfläche ohne...

  5. Newsletter

    entwickelt. Darüber hinaus soll die Batterie auch nach 1.000 Ladezyklen keinen Verlust an Kapazität aufweisen. CATL, der weltweit führende Produzent von Batterien für E-Autos, hat seine Forschungen zur Langlebigkeit von Batterien zur Serienreife gebracht. Das Unternehmen hat eine Batterie für Elektrofahrzeuge vorgestellt, die 15 Jahre halten und auch nach 1.000 Ladezyklen keinen...

  6. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    Carolin Huhn from the University of Tübingen. She suspects that the glyphosate trail leads to our washing machines. More specifically: the detergent we use. The Tübingen scientist's research is still being examined, but doubts are already beginning to arise. [...] ingredients of detergents If you want to know whether your detergent contains phosphonates,...

  7. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Don't just let yourself be accused of not being able to speak. The question must also be asked whether it is actually for sale and whether its assessments are actually the result of objective research or rather controlled by corporate interests. And of all things when it comes to the energy question, which is the central question in the transformation - and Grimm's area of ​​expertise... * February 28, 1954 (6...

  8. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    with a capacity of 10 MW as well as a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer (PEM) from ITM Power test... * Convert CO2 into rock via mineralization by bacteria Research team discovers bacteria that quickly convert CO₂ into rock A research team finds bacteria, which convert CO₂ into rock. They could provide a solution to greenhouse gas storage underground...

  9. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    than expected - and could already be 1,7 degrees above pre-industrial levels. But the study is controversial. According to a research group, global average surface temperatures could already be 1,7 degrees Celsius above the temperature level before the industrial revolution: Australian and US scientists have concluded this from studying the...

  10. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    and landfill storage, the process is profitable from an iron oxide content of 35 percent in the bauxite sludge, as the team reports... * Nuclear lobby | Renewable | WNISR nuclear lobbyist elected to the board of the Renewable Energy Research Association Union and FDP, together with the right-wing radical AFD, are trying to give nuclear energy in Germany a future again. They justify this with currently...

  11. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    Scientists from the University of Chicago were founded and today there are ten Nobel Prize winners on its board, appointed every year... * Wind power | Offshore | Food Energy research with a difference: The first algae harvest will take place in the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Berlin in spring 2024 - parallel to the renewable energy expansion, considerations are being given to how the areas on which the...

  12. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. On June 22, 1982, more than 1.300 anti-nuclear weapons activists were arrested during a non-violent demonstration. More recently, there have been annual protests against nuclear weapons research in Lawrence Livermore. In August 2003, 1.000 people protested against "new generation nuclear warheads" at Livermore Labs. During the 2007 protests, 64 people...

  13. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    Are the super-rich coming under the radar of climate activists? Sighard Neckel: That depends on the available data. In the last decade, a special variant of inequality research has emerged, called climate inequality research. In detailed studies, it has shown how different the share of different income classes in climate damage...

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

    from Jülich in the Rhineland to Ahaus in Münsterland. Why? Kerstin Ciesla: Because the transports are dangerous. It's about highly radioactive nuclear waste from the reactor of the former Jülich Nuclear Research Center, which is to be driven almost every week for two years on more than 170 kilometers along highways through the most densely populated regions of North Rhine-Westphalia - for example...

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

    German climatologist Friederike Otto. New narratives will be needed in the future. The German physicist and climatologist Friederike Otto has been working on so-called attribution research for many years. The aim is to find out how much climate change is responsible for extreme weather events around the world. Otto received the German Environmental Prize this year for her research...

  16. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    The use of weed killers in experimental fields there declined rapidly after just a few years because plants that were unwanted in agriculture developed resistance to the agent. The authors from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign evaluated data from several field trials over the past 25 years in the United States and Canada. In...

  17. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on THTR and much more. THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' THTR circular No. 156, December 2023: *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 XNUMX Contents : “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! China: HTR future in the stars? South Africa – on the way to...

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

    Tennessee, USA November 22, 2002 (INES 2) Tihange nuclear power plant, BEL November 28, 2007 (INES 2) Ascó nuclear power plant, ESP November 29, 1970 (INES 3 | NAMS 2,5) Sellafield nuclear power plant, GBR November 29, 1955 (INES 4) Research reactor EBR-I, NTRS Idaho, USA November 30, 1975 (INES 5) Sosnowy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If anyone can help, please send a message to:...

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

    Tennessee, USA November 22, 2002 (INES 2) Tihange nuclear power plant, BEL November 28, 2007 (INES 2) Ascó nuclear power plant, ESP November 29, 1970 (INES 3 | NAMS 2,5) Sellafield nuclear power plant, GBR November 29, 1955 (INES 4) Research reactor EBR-I, NTRS Idaho, USA November 30, 1975 (INES 5) Sosnowy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If anyone can help, please send a message to:...

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

    for serious illnesses. Even when it comes to the consequences of our actions, ignorance can be the more pleasant choice... * Greenland | Climate change | Warming | Sea level research into tipping elements Greenland ice sheet more stable than expected Even later curbing global warming could prevent the Greenland ice sheet from tipping completely. However...