1. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    health burdens caused by heart disease, followed by strokes, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer and asthma... * Austria | Russia | Gas imports Where Russian gas is still in demand Russian gas imports in Austria are increasing in percentage terms. The semi-state energy company OMV is doing a bit of drilling itself. Is there now also a threat of fracking? The...

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

    are not and must not be massively overestimated, as often happens. There are a lot of details to consider, which is what makes it so complex... * Emirates | Climate conference | Oil company hosts the next climate conference United Arab Emirates apparently continue to flare gas routinely The flaring of gas in oil fields is very harmful to the climate - and should therefore be avoided....

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

    USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 11th Renewables | Electricity price | CO2 price Less dependent on gas Renewable energies should reduce electricity prices The expansion of renewable energy in Germany is not making as much progress as hoped. In doing so, he would ensure that the price of electricity generally falls...

  4. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    From all over the world, in an open letter to the president of this year's climate conference, Sultan Al-Jaber, are calling for a quick and fair exit from coal, oil and natural gas. Renewable energies should be expanded as quickly as possible. Three health organizations from Germany have also signed. The reason: Fossil energies pose a massive threat to...

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

    Deterrence: Inhibition about using the atomic bomb is decreasing. Russia's withdrawal from the nuclear test ban treaty should be a warning signal. In the past, the threat of Armageddon was taken more seriously. Rightly so. A guest post. The weakening of nuclear weapons treaties, particularly in the context of the war in Ukraine, highlights a worrying trend not seen in generations: Washington...

  6. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    AN602) Novaya Zemlya, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de October 14th LNG | Fracking | Methane US liquefied natural gas from fracking is much more harmful than coal LNG causes more greenhouse gases than all other fossil fuels, and it also causes massive damage to health and the environment. The ARD documentary “LNG at...

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

    can be. Supposedly prestigious large-scale projects, such as those implemented in this country with “Stuttgart 21” or the Berlin Central Station, are searched in vain in the Alpine republic. The number of passengers there has increased by a third since 2000 and is therefore – measured in relation to the population – more than twice as high as here. Currently over a million use...

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

    embodied by a man with an oil can on his head... * Denmark | Offshore | Energy generation from offshore wind farms: How Denmark became Germany's energy supplier After the end of cheap gas from Russia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is relying on energy generation at sea. The Baltic Sea is to become a gigantic wind power plant. Cheap electricity and later also hydrogen should...

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

    When she became party leader in 2015, she prescribed a new course for her party. Instead of welcoming immigrants and refugees, it relied on deterrence... * LNG terminal | Rügen Liquid natural gas from Rügen remains unnecessary Protests have been going on for days against the controversial LNG project on Rügen. Now a new DIW report shows that the planned floating terminals are not necessary to...

  10. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    worldwide. The German Bayer AG took over Monsanto in 2018 and has "a leading position" in the global rankings, Bayer spokesman Utz Klages tells DW... * Great Britain | Fossil lobby | Gas industry leak: Anti-heat pump campaign in UK financed by gas lobby The media culture war over the heating law and the heat transition continues, not only in Germany, but also in many...

  11. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    It's been a good ten years. At that time, protests in northern Germany led to a virtual ban by the black-yellow federal government on CCS technology - the large-scale technology in which the greenhouse gas CO2 is pressed into deep layers of the earth in order to banish it from the atmosphere. Opponents of the CCS projects, especially in Schleswig-Holstein, feared leaks, artificial earthquakes and risks for...

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

    1945 (1st atomic bomb dropped by the USA) Hiroshima, USA August 9, 2009 (INES 1st class?) Akw Gravelines, FRA 9th August 2004 (INES 1st class?) Akw Mihama, JPN 9th August 1945 (2nd atomic bombed by the USA) Nagasaki, USA August 10, 1985 (INES 5) Submarine K-31/K-431, USSR August 12, 2001 (INES 2) Phillipsburg nuclear power station, DEU August 12, 2000, Submarine K-141_Kursk, RUS August 18, 2015 (INES 2) Akw Blayais, FRA 19....

  13. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    In 1943, construction of the Hanford Site nuclear complex began in the USA as part of the Manhattan Project. This is where the plutonium for the first nuclear weapons test 'Trinity' and 'Fat Man', the Nagasaki atomic bomb, was produced and where the insane 'Green Run' experiment took place in December 1949, in which huge amounts of radioactive gas were blown into the wind, to measure where it is again...

  14. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    1945 (1st atomic bomb dropped by the USA) Hiroshima, USA August 9, 2009 (INES 1st class?) Akw Gravelines, FRA 9th August 2004 (INES 1st class?) Akw Mihama, JPN 9th August 1945 (2nd atomic bombed by the USA) Nagasaki, USA August 10, 1985 (INES 5) Submarine K-31/K-431, USSR August 12, 2001 (INES 2) Phillipsburg nuclear power station, DEU August 12, 2000, Submarine K-141_Kursk, RUS August 18, 2015 (INES 2) Akw Blayais, FRA 19....

  15. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    finally switched off. (Costs approximately US$931 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Vandellós (Spain) Two reactors originally supplied electricity at the site. Vandellós-1 was a 500 MW gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor (GCR) whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was commissioned on February 11, 1972. In 1990 it was destroyed after a turbine fire that almost...

  16. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    7,5 MWe, a 30 percent core meltdown occurred in this reactor due to a blocked cooling channel. The majority of the fission products could be filtered off. However, most of the radioactive gases were released into the environment, resulting in one of the largest iodine-131 releases in nuclear history. The accident was kept secret for a long time... Accident in the year...

  17. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    No. 59 heated up so much that it melted and ultimately caused the pressure pipe to burst. 1100 kg of heavy water, melted radioactive material and radioactive gases were thrown into the reactor cavern... Nuclear power plants Plag Lucens, Switzerland 1969 The reactor was called "Experimental Nuclear Power Plant Lucens (VAKL)" and the owner was the National Society for...

  18. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Drittel des Reaktorkerns fragmentiert wurde oder geschmolzen ist... Venting in die Umgebung... durch Ablassen in die Atmosphäre. Schätzungen zufolge entwich während des Zwischenfalls radioaktives Gas (in Form von Krypton-85; 10,75 Jahre Halbwertszeit) mit einer Aktivität von etwa 1,665 · 1015 Bq... 1978 31. Dezember 1978 (INES 4) Akw Belojarsk, UdSSR Wikipedia de Kernkraftwerk...

  19. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Nevertheless, the French supervisory authority ASN only classified the incident as INES 1. Reason: The redundancy reserves of the self-steam-driven auxiliary turbine (ready for immediate use) and the gas turbine (but their synchronization could take hours) were still available (sources: ASN, IRSN) Nuclear power accidents by country#France Translation with https://www .DeepL.com/Translator...

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

    Watt hours per liter of electrolyte. At the same time, however, this battery can also produce hydrogen. During discharging, electrolysis occurs in the aqueous electrolyte and hydrogen gas is produced. This is made possible by further development of already known batteries with zinc anodes. Such zinc batteries are significantly cheaper than conventional lithium-ion batteries and...

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