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Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
[...] Eine neue Studie im Fachjournal "Nature Geoscience" sammelte nun Daten von mehr als 45.000 Gewässerproben, die in rund 270 Studien seit 2004 veröffentlicht wurden. Sie stammen aus Grundwasser und Oberflächengewässern. Der weitaus größte Teil der Proben wurde in Europa, Nordamerika und Ostasien gesammelt sowie in Australien, wo der Großteil des Autorinnen- und Autorenteams forscht. [...]...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
wie die normale Hintergrundstrahlung. "Außerdem wurden im Boden erhöhte Konzentrationen an Kobalt-58, Chrom-51, Zink-65 und "jede Menge Plutonium gefunden". Die Konzentration an Cäsium-137 im Grundwasser ist so hoch wie im verstrahlten Tschernobyl." Wie in Tschernobyl wurden die örtlichen Behörden und die Bevölkerung erst verspätet informiert. Es wurden keine Schutzmaßnahmen gegen die Strahlung...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
were still ongoing on site and the building was on fire, the numbers could still rise significantly. It is said that at least eight children are among the injured... * Drought | Groundwater | Lack of water The drought is over – but for how long? Meteorologists have declared the drought in Germany to be over. But they warn that the situation can change quickly. In southern Europe...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
or pans. But the PFAS chemicals have a major disadvantage: they can only be broken down by very few microbes and therefore end up in the environment and our food from products containing PFAS via groundwater. The half-life of PFAS in the human body is approximately four to nine years. That is why they are also called “forever chemicals”. Again and again...
Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Atom power plantsPlag Vermont_Yankee_(USA) In 2010 it turned out that radioactive water containing tritium had leaked into the groundwater. The operator incurred costs of $821 million. In addition, cesium-137 was detected on the site. As a result of the contamination of the soil, the state decided...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
“Hundreds of thousands of people have sought protection in the south of Gaza on Israeli instructions,” argued the Foreign Minister. "They can't just disappear into thin air."... * Climate Change | Groundwater | Drought Large-scale “Nature” study: Groundwater levels are falling worldwide Climate change is increasing the need for water to grow food. This is why the...
The glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet alone will cause the global oceans to rise by up to five meters when they have completely melted. Emden is one meter high... * Groundwater | evaporation | Seawater desalination Without groundwater recharge, the region will dry out. In the past 20 years, the groundwater level in Brandenburg has fallen significantly. Researchers...
Earth layers are pressed to banish it from the atmosphere. Opponents of the CCS projects, especially in Schleswig-Holstein, feared leaks, artificial earthquakes and risks to groundwater. [...] Until now, the technology has also been very controversial in politics. The Greens and the SPD in particular spoke out against it, but the Union and FDP also considered them...
to supply the world population. But it's too salty. According to a recent study by the United Nations University for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), tapping river and groundwater and collecting rainwater will no longer be able to meet global water needs. Desalination plants increasingly in demand Today, 22.000 desalination plants in around 170 countries already produce...
the US state of New York said that "alarmingly high" radiation levels had been detected at the nuclear power plant; Tritium-contaminated water apparently leaked from the power plant. Up to 296 Bq per liter were measured in the groundwater of neighboring towns; the limit value is 0,45 Bq. The nuclear power plant is only about 40 km away from New York... August 3rd Dear...
1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events
Water leakage accident in the Jülich experimental reactor, which was only assigned to the then lowest category C, led to high contamination of the cooling circuit and the soil and groundwater under the reactor with strontium-90 and tritium. Critics of the pebble bed reactor concept suspect that the classification of this event as...
2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events
To date, the Japanese government and the operator TEPCO do not have the situation under control. The destroyed reactors cannot be entered, and radioactive water contaminates groundwater and the Pacific Ocean. This must be kept in mind in order to be able to assess the degree of irresponsibility of the Japanese government in its decision to...
1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events
wie die normale Hintergrundstrahlung. "Außerdem wurden im Boden erhöhte Konzentrationen an Kobalt-58, Chrom-51, Zink-65 und "jede Menge Plutonium gefunden". Die Konzentration an Cäsium-137 im Grundwasser ist so hoch wie im verstrahlten Tschernobyl." Wie in Tschernobyl wurden die örtlichen Behörden und die Bevölkerung erst verspätet informiert. Es wurden keine Schutzmaßnahmen gegen die Strahlung...
2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events
de Eurodif#Störfall... Die radioaktive Lösung sickerte in den Erdboden und gelangte durch die Kanalisation in die kleineren Flüsse Gaffière und Lauzon, die Rhone, möglicherweise auch ins Grundwasser... Über die Menge der ausgetretenen Schadstoffe schwanken die Angaben zwischen 6,25 Kubikmeter Lösung mit etwa 75 Kilogramm nicht angereichertem Uran (Betreiberangabe) und 30 Kubikmeter Lösung mit...
Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed
had agreed to a total of 1,2 billion dollars, the consumer goods and medical technology manufacturer 3M also has to pay a large sum of up to 12,5 billion dollars... * Drought | Groundwater | Precipitation Hydrologist on climate change: How Germany is losing its groundwater How can we live well despite global warming? Hydrologist Borchardt pleads with Lanz for...
Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South
provides a financial injection of US$694 million. Incidents In 2006, Excelon was accused of discharging millions of gallons of tritum-contaminated wastewater into the groundwater from spring 1996 to March 2006, which the operator did not report until December 2005. For example, on June 16, 2005, tritium leaked from the nuclear power plant and contaminated the local water supply; the damage...
Limits of the planet's resilience are not exceeded. This concerns global warming, the condition and functionality of ecosystems, the availability of surface and groundwater, as well as the pollution of the air and the environment with pollutants, nitrogen and phosphorus. The study is based on scientific findings from recent years as well as...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
the RWTH in Aachen. “The negative pole, the anode, on the other hand, still looks almost the same as it did 30 years ago.” It is made of graphite, a special structure made of carbon... * Climate change | Groundwater | Lakes Water loss in lakes Researcher warns of extreme consequences for biodiversity Many lakes in Germany are also suffering from drought and climate change. A danger to the...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
There were still “197 destroyed or atomized fuel elements” that were then encased in concrete. During the incident, large amounts of strontium-90 and tritium are said to have escaped and entered the groundwater... May 12th Climate protection | Kini Jödler | Announcements E-fuels and nuclear fusion: Söder's fairy tale hour Creating climate neutrality through price doesn't work. Also nuclear fusion,...
For example, to ensure local load peaks and to feed in electricity during times when there is little wind. They are to be integrated into existing or yet to be built offshore wind farms... April 27th Groundwater | Drought despite rain | Water shortage “It should rain for a year” In March it rained more than it had in years - why is there still a threat of drought? 2022 was very sunny, hot and...
