1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    hat ein Untersuchungsbericht einer Kommission unter Leitung der ehemaligen französischen Aussenministerin Catherine Colonna die UNRWA nach der Auffassung zahlreicher Regierungen (darunter Kanada, Schweden, Australien, Deutschland) von der angeblichen Zusammenarbeit mit der Terror-Organisation Hamas entlastet... * Stromnetz | Bundesnetzagentur Netzagentur erwartet schnelleren Stromnetzausbau Bonn...

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

    PFOA – from several thousand individual substances. But they continue to appear in the environment because the products treated with them continue to be used and the particles continue to accumulate. In Canada, the rules are particularly strict compared to other countries. While the EU recommends total PFAS levels below 500 nanograms per liter for drinking water, in Canada this limit is 30 ng/l....

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    the newspaper. The total value of the freight is around 40 million euros. The affected ship is listed in the fleet of a shipping company that operates branches and offices in Canada, the USA, Russia (St. Petersburg) and Ukraine (Odessa), among others. In response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU imposed massive sanctions against Russia for uranium...

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

    on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. * March 14, 2011 (INES ? Class?) Nuclear power plant Pickering, ON, CAN Nuclear power plantsPlag Pickering_(Canada) The grassroot organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the extension in 2013 and called for one due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing release of tritium ...

  5. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Zone". More than half of the enclave's population is now staying there. Empty warnings from Germany While Israel increased air strikes and artillery shelling, Australia, Canada and New Zealand called for an "immediate" humanitarian ceasefire in a joint statement. They warn of the "devastating" impact of the operation. Spain and Ireland call for...

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

    Plastic agreements currently at the United Nations level. [...] However, it will still take some time until a UN agreement is reached. The next round of negotiations will take place in April in Canada, and a final round is planned in South Korea at the end of 2024. * Electromobility | Battery | E‑Fuels UBA study on car drives No E-Tiger in the tank Cars and trucks with battery drives are damaging the...

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

    At the World Climate Conference, 22 countries declared that they wanted to triple their nuclear capacities by 2050. These include many friendly and experienced nuclear power nations: the USA, France, Finland, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, South Korea and Ukraine. But Mycle Schneider shakes his head. "It doesn't work," says the editor of...

  8. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    “Operation Prosperity Guardian” announced in the Red Sea. The US-led coalition already includes Bahrain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and the Seychelles. Greece and Australia also want to join the alliance. According to its own statements, Spain only wants to...

  9. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    (Cost approximately US$53 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia The first serious reactor accident occurred in the so-called NRX reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories near Ottawa, Canada. During a test of the research reactor, incorrect operation, misunderstandings between operators and operating personnel, incorrect status displays in the control room, misjudgments by the...

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

    come too late and are too expensive. Nuclear power should help save the climate. This was announced by a new alliance of 22 countries at the UN climate summit in Dubai, including the USA, Canada, Great Britain and France. The current development of this energy source is in stark contrast: in mid-2023, 407 reactors were online worldwide, four fewer than a year earlier and...

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

    In addition to an ecological crisis, there is also a social crisis. Because rising temperatures mean more violence, scientists say. Heat waves in the world's oceans, melting ice in the Arctic, forest fires in Canada - according to an analysis by the European Earth observation program Copernicus, 2023 will be the warmest year in 125.000 years. That a Medicane raged in the Mediterranean and thousands in the desert of Libya...

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

    anchored in a lagoon, near Trimouille Island. The plutonium used for the implosion bomb similar to the “Fat Man” bomb was produced at Windscale (later Sellafield) and supplied from Canada. The explosion was ignited below deck and therefore 2,7 meters underwater. It created a crater on the sea floor that was 6 meters deep and more than 300 meters wide... 2...

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

    as Mali or Burkina Faso. This is also due to its mining resources. According to World Nuclear Association data, Niger was the world's sixth largest uranium producer in 2022, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, Australia and Russia. Its uranium reserves, estimated at 311.000 tonnes, represent 5 percent of the world's reserves, on par with South Africa and only exceeded by Australia, Kazakhstan,...

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

    “I therefore call on the EU Commission to take action and ensure a cross-border EIA for these old reactors in which everyone can participate.”... * Fires in Canada, Tenerife and Hawaii Forest fires: Fire of one New dimensions: Severe fires on Tenerife, Canada and Hawaii. Mass evacuations and thousands missing. Hawaiians fear loss of...

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

    other regions of the world through uranium mining... Read more News+ Background knowledge Top of page Background knowledge ** The map of the nuclear world Uranium is mined in Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Namibia, Niger, Russia, Uzbekistan, PR China USA and many other countries... The internal search for uranium from Niger | France | Uranium mining produced the following results, among others: 3....

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

    1, there was a serious water leak from a heat exchanger that released 2300 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium into Lake Ontario. This was the worst tritium leak in Canada and resulted in elevated tritium concentrations in drinking water in Toronto and along the Lake Ontario shoreline from Whitby to Burlington... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free...

  17. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Chalk River Laboratories The first serious reactor accident occurred in the so-called NRX reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories near Ottawa, Canada. During a test of the research reactor, incorrect operation, misunderstandings between operators and operating personnel, incorrect status displays in the control room, misjudgments by the...

  18. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. March 14, 2011 (INES ? Class?) Akw Pickering, On, CAN Nuclear power plantsPlag Pickering_(Canada) The grassroot organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the extension in 2013 and called for one due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing release of tritium. ..

  19. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    In 1994, an accident occurred with a loss of coolant. The Senate Standing Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources called it the worst accident in Canadian history (June 2001). The emergency core cooling system was deployed to prevent a core meltdown... Nuclear power accidents by country#Canada Page No. 8 - Safety Issues at the Pickering “A” Nuclear...

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

    Disadvantages of deep-sea mining and the question of whether the raw materials are really needed... * Anthropocene | Plutonium | Crawford Lake The golden nail in Crawford Lake A rather inconspicuous lake in Canada is to become the "Golden Nail" and thus mark a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, the age of man. This is what an international research group suggests...

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