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

    mehr als ein Viertel des Strombedarfs in Deutschland gedeckt... * Strahlung | Sperrzone | Akw Tschernobyl Sperrzonen-Chef über Tschernobyl: „Russen haben die Zone vermint“ 38 Jahre nach dem GAU ist die Gegend um Tschernobyl immer noch verstrahlt. Durch den Angriffskrieg drohen neue Gefahren, warnt Sperrzonen-Chef Andrij Tymtschuk. taz: Am 26. April 1986 explodierte Reaktor 4 des nach Lenin...

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

    grow to finally honor the commitments made in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty... * Fukushima | Zaporizhia | Temelin | Shika nuclear power plant: Fukushima Daiichi 13 years after the catastrophe 13 years ago, a tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The occasion sparked protests against nuclear power. On March 11, 2011, 13 years ago today, after a seaquake and the resulting...

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

    Degrees Celsius were measured, as the Swedish meteorological institute SMHI announced. In some places, such as Umeå, it was colder than it had been in twelve years... * Uranium mining | Bismuth | Gauern Mining Redevelopment Wismut-Halde: Decades-long dispute over the consequences of uranium mining continues. A carp once brought the village of Gauern into the headlines. Externally the fish looked splendid...

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

    In 1978 the temperature in the area fell to −50 °C. On the following New Year's Eve, the low temperatures caused a serious incident that almost turned into a catastrophe. The roof of the turbine hall collapsed due to material fatigue. Parts fell on the generator and a short circuit occurred, which caused a fire in the turbine hall...

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

    500 MW graphite-moderated reactor (GCR), whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was put into operation on February 11, 1972. In 1990 it was shut down after a turbine fire that almost led to a catastrophe... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia Vandellòs nuclear power plant On October 19, 1989...

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

    Found largely intact about 100 m from the silo. Silo 374-7 was completely destroyed, but the launch control center remained completely intact. The documentary Damascus, USA. The GAU (English: Command and Control, German premiere on arte on July 21, 2020) is about these events. SAC decided not to restore the silo because of the high costs. The...

  7. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    500 MW graphite-moderated reactor (GCR), whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was put into operation on February 11, 1972. In 1990 it was shut down after a turbine fire that almost led to a catastrophe... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia de Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant On October 19, 1989...

  8. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    In 1978 the temperature in the area fell to −50 °C. On the following New Year's Eve, the low temperatures caused a serious incident that almost turned into a catastrophe. The roof of the turbine hall collapsed due to material fatigue. Parts fell on the generator and a short circuit occurred, which caused a fire in the turbine hall...

  9. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag The Fukushima disaster End of the myth of safe nuclear power The Fukushima disaster in March 2011 was the third disaster that occurred after Mayak and Chernobyl. Entire areas of Japan were radioactively contaminated. To date, the Japanese government and the operator TEPCO do not have the situation under control. The destroyed...

  10. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    could. "For example, the water level in the reactor fell significantly due to the rapid shutdown, but the exact level remained unclear due to the power outage." According to the former chief designer of the nuclear power plant, Höglund, we were only 20 minutes away from a catastrophe caused by a core meltdown... The accident was classified as an INES level 2 accident. March 11, 2006 (INES 4) IRE Fleurus, BEL...

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

    could. "For example, the water level in the reactor fell significantly due to the rapid shutdown, but the exact level remained unclear due to the power outage." According to the former chief designer of the nuclear power plant, Höglund, we were only 20 minutes away from a catastrophe caused by a core meltdown... The accident was classified as an INES level 2 accident. * July 25, 1979 (INES? Class?) EL-3,...

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

    turned to the taz shortly afterwards, the classification of the investigative authorities changed... * June 30, 1983 (INES Klass.?) Embalse, ARG Atom power plants, Plag Embalse (Argentina) Prevented GAU 1983 and other accidents On June 30, 1983, a Incident that those responsible kept secret from the public: According to "Spiegel", after a failure of several pumps and...

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

    was released. In addition, a fire broke out in reactor block 15 on March 4th... - Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan - - Atom power plantsPlag https://atompowerplanteplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Der_GAU_von_Fukushima_und_die_Folgen#Kernmelten_und_Explosionen After the Fukushima disaster in the Although the INES rating scale was initially classified as level 5, on April 12, 2011 it was...

  14. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    | Flamanville | Hinkley Point | EDF debts France's bankrupt nuclear company is deep in the red. The taxpayer should be liable for the debt while the wait for the next disaster begins. News about cheap nuclear power, which even local liberals, right-wingers and right-wing radicals can't get enough of: The French nuclear company EDF, which is majority state-owned...

  15. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    to get to the coal that is under the place. The fact that this happens with Green participation could, like the extension of the life of the nuclear power plants, become a disaster for the party. Because the coal under the village is just as little used as the electricity from the so-called stretch operation. The Greens have obviously become a fall-over party...

  16. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    In 1978 the temperature in the area fell to −50 °C. On the following New Year's Eve, the low temperatures caused a serious incident that almost turned into a catastrophe. The roof of the turbine hall collapsed due to material fatigue. Parts fell on the generator and a short circuit occurred, which caused a fire in the turbine hall...

  17. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    Border removed. The Greens had already had a report drawn up by environmental and nuclear experts last year. The experts come to the conclusion that in the event of a reactor meltdown, in 75 percent of possible weather conditions, neighboring countries would be more affected by radioactive radiation than Poland itself. Across Europe, depending on the weather conditions, it is estimated that 4,5...

  18. 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

    500 MW graphite-moderated reactor (GCR), whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was put into operation on February 11, 1972. In 1990 it was shut down after a turbine fire that almost led to a catastrophe... Near-meltdown in Vandellós-1 On October 19, 1989, after a turbine in the non-nuclear part of the nuclear power plant was shut down, hydrogen ignited, causing a...

  19. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    but still with us – in the form of a radioactive cloud? So doesn't it stop at the German border, as German politicians promised us when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused a disaster in 1986? Every few days we are informed that the dramatic situation around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is even more dramatic. The drama has little potential for improvement... * Taxonomy |...

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

    Agency (IAEA) under the leadership of Director General Rafael Grossi arrived on site. [...] Nikolai Steinberg, a nuclear engineer from Kiev who led decontamination work in Chernobyl after the 1986 disaster and wrote a widely acclaimed book about it, gave an interview to the international technical association IEEE in which he described the ongoing operation of the ZNPP as a “crime”. . The...

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