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spread. People became ill with cancer and chronic diseases. [...] However, it makes no difference to human health whether the increased radioactivity comes from the Chernobyl reactor disaster or from the nuclear weapons tests in the 1960s and 1970s, said the scientist from the German Steel Protection Office mentioned above. Nevertheless, it raises a new...
accidents by country#Russia Nuclear power plantsPlag The Majak plutonium factory The first major accident in the use of nuclear energy occurred in 1957, which was comparable in size to the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters, but only became known to the world in 1989. The Mayak nuclear complex, 15 kilometers east of the city of Kyshtym in Chelyabinsk Oblast...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
attacks seemed almost unimaginable - just like attacks on unique works of art. On Friday the group announced: “Yes, we are interrupting the Berlin Marathon. We can't run away from the climate catastrophe.” In fact, this Sunday's marathon is ideal when it comes to attracting attention. [...] So what?, one could reply. What...
Goiania, Brazil 1987 Scrap metal scrapyard in Goiânia, BRA In the fall of 1987, just one year after Chernobyl, a nuclear disaster occurred in the central Brazilian city of Goiânia. It shows that radioactive substances stored in medical centers can pose similar risks to out-of-control commercial and military...
It is about nuclear technology that meets high safety and sustainability criteria, according to a statement from the Italian government. In 1987, the year after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Italy decided in a referendum to phase out nuclear power. The last Italian nuclear power plant was shut down that year... * Weather extremes | Mediterranean | Heavy rain now...
August 10 Mushrooms | Radioactive Wild mushrooms from southern Germany still contaminated with radioactivity even 37 years after Chernobyl Wild edible mushrooms in southern Germany may still be contaminated with radioactive cesium even 37 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) announced that increased values were measured primarily in southern Bavaria and the Bavarian Forest....
Reactor failure THTR - problems
In construction in 1988 it was, among other things, the bolts at the THTR - a good 20 years later the dowels in Brunsbüttel and 25 years later the tsunami protection wall in Fukushima was missing a few meters 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...
Politician is clearly one of the repulsive examples in a dark precursor chapter of the CDU party history... News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** EU Commission | Disaster prevention | Forest fires Brussels buys more firefighting aircraft to fight forest fires The EU Commission has announced the purchase of twelve new aircraft to increase the capacity of its fleet for...
1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events
three quarters of a complete filling. It was only after 10 hours that a raiding party wearing protective suits that penetrated the containment interior was able to bring the reactor back under control and prevent a catastrophe. Fortunately, the reactor was still in test operation at the time of the accident and the fuel elements generated little heat. After the accident, the entire series...
1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events
Tschernobyl und Fukushima gilt dieser Unfall als drittschwerstes Atomunglück der Geschichte (Stufe 6 auf der Internationalen Bewertungsskala für nukleare Ereignisse INES). Bleibende Folge der Katastrophe ist die mehr als 300 km lange und 30–50 km breite radioaktiv verseuchte „Osturalspur“, in der allein der Leukämie verursachende Stoff Strontium-90 Konzentrationen von bis zu 7,4 MBq/m2 (Mega =...
1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events
Alarm triggered, emergency shutdown activated. Some fuel elements that had just been loaded melted. Since the cooling system was still functioning at a quarter of normal levels, there was no major catastrophe. Only small amounts of radioactivity escaped from the building. Cleaning the building took a year, after which the reactor was put back into operation. The event was deemed an accident...
1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events
geschah, ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie leicht sich Atomunfälle durch ein Zusammenspiel kleiner technischer Defekte und menschlichen Versagens ereignen können, ohne dass dazu eine Naturkatastrophe nötig ist... Die Nukleare Kette Three Mile Island, USA [...] Bis heute verhindert effektive Lobbyarbeit der Atomindustrie eine aussagekräftige wissenschaftliche Analyse der Folgen für Umwelt und...
2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events
on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. March 12, 2011 (INES 3) Fukushima II Daini Nuclear Power Plant, JPN Wikipedia de Chronology_of_catastrophe_in_Japan_of_2011 Due to the great Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 and the subsequent tsunami, there was a disaster in all four reactor blocks at the Fukushima-Daini NPP (Fukushima 2). automatic...
2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events
However, Schleswig-Holstein described this as misleading and disinformation. The incident, which initially looked like a harmless industrial accident, increasingly gave the impression of a "near catastrophe" that concerned the public for weeks... MSGF - Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Family, Youth and Senior Citizens of the State of Schleswig- Holstein interim report on the events...
A study now published in the journal Nature Communications now gives cause for concern. Exactly this drop in temperature could occur later this century... * EU Commission | Disaster prevention | Forest fires Brussels buys more firefighting aircraft to fight forest fires The EU Commission has announced the purchase of twelve new aircraft to increase the capacity of its fleet for...
Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson
If important steps are taken over the next few decades, the world will likely reach a point of no return and decline will lead to unspeakable catastrophe. Nothing is certain, but this assessment seems all too plausible. The weapon systems are becoming more and more dangerous and threatening. Since the bombing of Hiroshima...
Even then, solar energy will account for half of the world's electricity needs by 2040. By 2050, all global electricity production would be climate neutral... * Mexico | Climate crisis catastrophe | Heat Almost 50 degrees Celsius in Mexico Due to extreme heat, at least 100 people have died in Mexico in the past two weeks. Due to the rainy season, temperatures are now falling. In the...
Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed
Bullets for Kiev British MP confirms delivery of armor-piercing uranium ammunition to Ukraine Depleted uranium (DU) is the substance that has caused an ecological disaster in parts of Serbia. DU bullets or penetrators (armor-piercing arrow-piercing bullets) consist primarily of depleted uranium, a radioactive and chemically poisonous...
Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South
delete more [...] The main cause of the dramatic forest fires is the heating of the earth's atmosphere and thus in particular the burning of crude oil, natural gas and coal. This puts the disaster country Canada itself in focus as the culprit. Not only because Canada is one of the heaviest emitters in the world with around 15 tons of annual per capita CO2 emissions, but also...
To achieve this, nuclear power plants in Japan will be able to run indefinitely in the future. Parliament passed a corresponding law into force - despite the risk of earthquakes. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the government in Japan shut down the country's nuclear reactors. Now they should go back online and their service life should be extended. Parliament has passed a law that...
