1. 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

    3000 technicians are on duty. Even before the severe storms on Thursday night, the electricity supplier had relocated materials and personnel to the affected regions... November 1st Japan | Term extension | Nuclear supervision | Sendai Sendai units in operation for another 20 years The Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA) has suspended the operation of Units 1 and 2 of the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant...

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

    The whistleblower is accused of violating official secrets - an absurd process, because the leaflet was not distributed secretly, but intentionally, in public... * Japan | Fukushima | Radioactivity Two Fukushima workers in hospital after contact with radioactive liquid When a drain hose came loose, four workers at the damaged nuclear power plant were...

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

    Officially rated as INES 4, but some scientists rate it as INES level 5. Two workers died as a result of the increased radiation... Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan Nuclear power plantsPlag Tokaimura, Japan On September 30, 1999, the worst nuclear accident in Japan to date occurred at the Tokaimura fuel element factory in Japan. Two workers who...

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

    Also known as atomic radiation, the risk of cancer in the general population has so far been primarily determined by studies that used the survivors of the atomic bombings of Japan at the end of the Second World War as a database. These studies still serve as the basis for radiation protection regulations today, although employees in nuclear power plants, in healthcare and in other...

  5. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    The result is not only worse general climate education, but also lower support for climate protection... August 22nd Fukushima | Tritium | radioactive water After the meltdown in Fukushima: Japan discharges radioactive wastewater into the sea. Nuclear energy Japan wants to discharge 30 liters of radioactive water into the sea every day for 40 to 500.000 years. The International Nuclear Regulatory Agency has...

  6. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    The broken pipe killed five workers and injured six others. The accident, which was provisionally classified as INES level 0, was described as the worst (up to that time) accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant... Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan Translated from https://www.DeepL.com/ Translator (free version) Nuclear Power Plant_Mihama Nuclear Power PlantsPlag...

  7. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    in Brunsbüttel and 25 years later, the tsunami protection wall in Fukushima was a few meters short of height. Natural disasters, such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in Japan, cannot be precisely predicted. Just like big fires in Los Alamos/New Mexico, floods in Nebraska, or earthquakes in the eastern USA. But such natural events can occur and...

  8. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    He received a fatal dose of radiation during the incident and died on September 15, 1945.... List of accidents at nuclear facilities On August 6 and 9, 1945, the USA detonated atomic bombs over Japan. Wikipedia de Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The atomic bomb explosions killed a total of around 100.000 people immediately - almost exclusively civilians and from the Japanese...

  9. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Named 'Operation Castle'. As a result, 236 people on Rongelap Island suffered from high levels of radiation. 140 km from the explosion site, the 23 crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel 'Lucky Dragon V' were heavily irradiated. Nuclear weapons A - Z Nuclear weapon states There are nine nuclear weapon states but only five are “recognized”. The USA, Russia, China, France and...

  10. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    K-8 lies at a depth of around 4500 meters... List of submarine accidents since 1945 The list of submarine accidents since 1945 documents submarines that have been lost since the end of the Second World War (Japan's surrender on September 2, 1945). accidents or combat operations were lost or suffered serious damage. Of the lost ships, at least nine were nuclear powered, some with...

  11. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    | 1989-1980 | 1979-1970 | 1969-1960 | 1959-1950 | 1949-1940 | Previously 2017 September 3, 2017 (North Korea's 6th nuclear weapon test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia en North Korean nuclear weapons program Japan's Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno and South Korean media announced on September 3, 2017 that North Korea had probably carried out another nuclear weapon test. This is what the measurements from various...

  12. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Site rated INES 4, but rated INES level 5 by some scientists. Two workers died as a result of the increased radiation... Wikipedia en Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Tokaimura, Japan An accident occurred at the Tokaimura fuel assembly plant in Japan on September 30, 1999 of up to...

  13. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    The broken pipe killed five workers and injured six others. The accident, which was provisionally classified as INES level 0, was described as the worst (up to that time) accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant... Nuclear power accidents by country#Japan Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/ Translator (free version) Wikipedia de Nuclear power plant_Mihama accidents After...

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

    as if they had 1,7 planets at their disposal. The calculation is carried out every year by the Global Footprint Network (GFN). The German Earth Overload Day was already at the beginning of May... July 28th Japan wants to bring the oldest reactors in Takahama back online! After a break of over ten years, Japan is restarting its oldest nuclear reactor. He is 48 years old and was commissioned for inspection work in 2011...

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

    been. [...] As part of an evacuation operation due to a forest fire on the Canary Islands of La Palma, around 500 people had to leave their homes. [...] From Europe to America to Japan and China: Large parts of the world are suffering from an extreme heat wave. A whole series of high temperatures was expected this weekend. In Italy, the Ministry of Health issued...

  16. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    temperatures rose to up to 49 degrees. Likewise in Mexico, Canada and North Africa. Scientists blame climate change, but also El Niño... * China | Tritium | Japan wants to ban food imports from Japan because of plans for nuclear power plant wastewater. Japan is allowed to discharge radioactively contaminated cooling water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. Out of...

  17. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    again he speaks out against a “widespread” speed limit of 30. Nobody asked for that. The municipalities only want to be able to impose 30 km/h speed limits where they consider it necessary... * Japan | Tritium water | Pacific Fukushima: Cooling water discharge into the sea is imminent The first tests for the controversial release of the tritium-containing water have begun The time has come: In Fukushima...

  18. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    be practically ruled out... * China punishes food imports from contaminated areas | Tritium water from Fukushima Sale of food from radioactive regions in Japan is punished From the beginning of the year, food from 10 Japanese prefectures will no longer be allowed to be sold in China because the risk that it could be radioactive is too great....

  19. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    as much as Milli Vanilli of vocals. And basically, this statement by the Berlin judiciary would itself have to be subjected to criminal scrutiny because of the obvious crime of honor... * Japan | madness | Running time unlimited Despite the risk of earthquakes, Japan extends the running time of nuclear reactors In order to reduce dependence on oil and gas and achieve climate protection goals,...

  20. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    representative opinion survey conducted by the Munich Environmental Institute. Three quarters of those surveyed in May were certain that too much energy was still being wasted in Germany... * Japan | Lawsuit dismissed | Onagawa nuclear power plant restart in February 2024 Residents fail in court with lawsuit against the restart of the Onagawa nuclear power plant The district court in Sendai has accepted a lawsuit from...