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

    Death sentence for people and ecosystems." The USA has experienced an intense heat wave in recent weeks. In California, 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 Because of plans for nuclear power plant wastewater, China wants to import food from Japan...

  2. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    too dry. The subsoil has dried out and needs time and lots of water to recover. Chronic drought is an increasingly common problem worldwide... * Canada | climate-damaging policies | Forest fires The forest fires in Canada can no longer be extinguished this summer [...] The main cause of the dramatic nature of the forest fires is the heating...

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

    India, Laos and Thailand, with temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius. In some places, the “perceived temperature,” which takes humidity into account, was a life-threatening 54 degrees. Devastating forest fires have been raging in Canada since May after an extremely dry winter, and their smoke is now even fogging New York. And now worrying reports are also coming from China. 578 national...

  4. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    Spokesperson for the Union faction. Anyone who has heard Spahn speak on the subject of energy can only wish that he doesn't even become a gatekeeper in the Ministry of Economic Affairs... * Canada | Forest fires Province of Alberta Forest fires in Canada continue to spread Forest fires continue to spread in western Canada - despite several rain showers and falling temperatures. The...

  5. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    Fossil investments are damaging the climate and also violating Germany's international obligations. Part 2 of the LNG series. In the last ten years, it was primarily banks from Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, France and the USA itself that financed the construction of LNG export terminals in the USA. But now Germany is becoming an increasingly important player. Have so...

  6. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    the expansion of solar energy and wind energy on the high seas, shows the final document for the meeting of the environment and climate ministers. In addition to Japan and Germany, the G7 includes the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France and Italy. The most important points of the agreement: An additional around 2030 gigawatts of offshore wind power are planned by 150, which is mathematically equivalent to...

  7. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    which is intended to enable private companies to enter the uranium sector. South America's largest country could soon be exporting uranium - but it will be in competition with former heavyweight Canada, which is aiming for a comeback... * Fossile | excess profit | Renewable | Revenue capture taxes for fossils, revenue capture for renewables? The energy companies involved in financing the...

  8. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    Russian nuclear weapons production. 90.000 of Rosatom's 275.000 employees work in nuclear weapons production. Europe's dependence on Rosatom is immense. The two G7 countries Canada and the USA also depend on the Russian company. Rosatom thus generates enormous revenue for the Russian state. Nuclear power plant operators in the EU will have around 2021 million euros in 210...

  9. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    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 under water. It created a crater on the sea floor that was 6 meters deep and more than 300 meters wide...

  10. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    restricts fossil export guarantees In order to fulfill its climate obligations, France is restricting export financing of fossil projects - thereby putting pressure on Germany, the USA and Canada. All countries committed to this at the UN climate conference in Glasgow. The French government has published a new directive restricting the financing of fossil fuel projects...

  11. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    Important enzymes become dysfunctional or entire cell building blocks are destroyed. The genetic material can also be damaged - even "in utero", i.e. in fetuses within the uterus... * Canada | Pickering | release | Tritium August 02, 1992 (INES Class?) Pickering nuclear power plant, CAN Safety problems in the Pickering nuclear power plant "A" There was a serious water leak in Pickering reactor 1...

  12. INES! What's happening?

    According to the INES criteria, “very low release” of radioactivity into the environment is also to be assessed as INES category 3 “serious incident”. The situation is similar with an accident in Canada on March 17, 2011 at the Pickering/Ontario nuclear power plant. In this accident, 73.000 liters of water contaminated with tritium were discharged into Lake Ontario and there was no INES classification. Other...

  13. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    consists of 70 to 90% of a yellow powder, called “yellow cake”... ** Wikipedia Uranium mining Uranium mining is the extraction of uranium from uranium deposits. The largest uranium mining countries are Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Niger, Namibia, Uzbekistan and the USA. Around 70% of North America's known uranium reserves are found on indigenous lands. Uranium can also be obtained from the ashes of...

  14. Newsletter XVI 2022 - April 15-21 - News+ Ukraine: When consumers want to avoid war

    used. But public opinion is shaped by others, such as the FDP politician Alexander Lambsdorff, who describes the participants in the Easter marches as Putin's 5th column. * Natural gas | Canada energy supply: How liquefied natural gas from Canada should replace Russian supplies Investors want to build the most climate-friendly gas terminal in the world on the Atlantic coast. The authorities refused...

  15. Newsletter XXXII - 19-26.07.2021/19/XNUMX - News+ XNUMX July - Could China's molten-salt nuclear reactor be a clean, safe source of energy?

    radioaktive Abfälle und eine Erschwerung des Missbrauchs friedlicher Atomkraft für militärische Zwecke. Am GIF sind als Partner Argentinien, Brasilien, China, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Japan, Kanada, Russland, die Schweiz, Südafrika, Südkorea, die USA und die Europäische Atomgemeinschaft EURATOM beteiligt... ** YouTube-Kanal "Reaktorpleite" Bewegte Bilder zum Thema: Atomkraft ohne Risiko? Der...

  16. Newsletter XXII - May 10th to 17.05.2021th, 10 - Current News+ May XNUMXth - Cameco increases uranium purchases to fulfill contracts

    the green hydrogen May 10, 2021 - Coast or desert? *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ ** It's not the fall in uranium prices, Corona is to blame! That's why Cameco in Canada now has to buy uranium from Cameco in Kazakhstan... May 10, 2021 - Cameco increases uranium purchases to fulfill contracts Production at the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan,...

  17. Newsletter XVIII - April 20th to 24.04.2021th, 20 - News+ April XNUMXth - Expert predicts further nuclear catastrophe like in Fukushima

    April 2021 - Is radiation damage inherited? * April 23, 2021 - Camp Century - City under the Ice * April 23, 2021 - Groundwater: A fifth of the wells could dry up * April 23, 2021 - Canada presents mammoth program for climate protection * MiK is getting nervous and the pressure is increasing.. April 22, 2021 - Biden urged to preserve US nuclear fleet Translate with https://www.deepL.com/translator...

  18. Newsletter X - March 03rd to 09.03.2021th, 03 - News+ March XNUMXrd - Radioactivity nourishes deep biosphere

    Launched and distributed one kilogram of plutonium into the atmosphere. In 1978, the reactor core of the Soviet satellite "Kosmos 954" contaminated 124.000 square kilometers in Canada after a crash landing. In 1996, the Russian Mars-96 probe carrying 200 grams of plutonium crashed into the border area between Chile and Bolivia... ** Wikipedia Radioactivity in the environment Radioactivity occurs in our environment...

  19. Newsletter IX - 25.02. to 02.03.2021/25/XNUMX - News+ February XNUMX - On the Nanda Devi there are one and a half kilos of plutonium

    Launched and distributed one kilogram of plutonium into the atmosphere. In 1978, the reactor core of the Soviet satellite "Kosmos 954" contaminated 124.000 square kilometers in Canada after a crash landing. In 1996, the Russian Mars-96 probe carrying 200 grams of plutonium crashed into the border area between Chile and Bolivia... ** Wikipedia Radionuclide batteries for space travel A sufficiently large,...

  20. Newsletter VIII - February 16 to 24.02.2021, 16 - News+ February XNUMX - Nuclear power plants light GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy establishes Canadian SMR company

    a kind of nuclear power plant light, the nuclear industry is trying to revitalize the market for nuclear power plants. The term “small nuclear power plants” is also relative. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy wants to bring a "small" nuclear power plant with 300 MWe onto the market in Canada... *** Top of page Current News+ background knowledge *** Background knowledge ** reaktorpleite.de Map of the nuclear world: The...

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