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Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
Germans consume more than the city of Berlin. Tendency? Rising. The training of AI models in particular is just beginning. This puts a strain on the power supply. That's why Amazon is knocking on the door of a nuclear power plant. Data centers are hungry. On electricity. Because millions of searches on Google and countless routes on Google Maps have to be processed, videos streamed and transfers made every day...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
A new international membership organization - the Nuclear Energy Maritime Organization (NEMO) - was launched to bring together actors involved in all aspects of floating nuclear power and nuclear mobility. NEMO is based in London, Great Britain, and aims to offer its members a platform to network and have a functional connection...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
despite the shared leadership between the Ministry of Defense and the AEC. During the 1950s and 1960-61, numerous test facilities were funded and built to produce an airworthy nuclear power plant, including one at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Although the ARE successfully demonstrated the operation of an MSR concept, the program was abandoned by President Kennedy...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
Fuel elements melted and the radioactive contamination of the cooling gas increased massively. Fortunately, the emergency shutdown worked and the reactor was automatically deactivated... Wikipedia Nuclear Power Plant_Saint-Laurent#Intermediate_F%C3%A4lle,_partial_Nuclear Meltdowns On March 13, 1980, a fuel element melted in the other UNGG reactor A2. The damage led to contamination of the...
Incident initially classified as INES level 0, but Bulgarian security authorities eventually allowed the incident to be classified as INES level 2. (Costs ?) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant#Incidents On March 1, 2006, one of four main coolant pumps in unit 5 failed, which is why the output was reduced by 6% by retracting a group of 30 control rods...
announced. Global temperatures in January 2024 were higher than ever before this month since records began... * February 8, 2004 (INES 0) Biblis Nuclear Power Plant, DEU Wikipedia Nuclear Power Plant_Biblis During full-load operation, safety-relevant equipment was closed due to insecure coverage a weather-related short circuit outside the power plant, which...
reach temperatures and store thermal energy over a long period of time. The hot liquid is then used to produce steam, which is used to power a turbine that drives a generator, as in conventional coal, gas and nuclear power plants. The biggest advantage of Aksa Huidong New Energy Solar Park's hybrid approach is that it generates solar energy in the form of...
still has fuel rods surrounded by porous casings. Therefore, this water contains the entire range of radioactive isotopes that were created there during operation... Wikipedia Gundremmingen nuclear power plant... Initially it was said that the reactor would be able to go back into operation in a few weeks. After the incident, the operators expected that Unit A would be put back into operation quickly...
it continues. “The Founders of the Constitution did not intend such an outcome and would never have approved of it. * December 31, 1978 (INES 4) Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, USSR, Rus Wikipedia Beloyarsk nuclear power plant # Incidents Unit 2 On 30/31. In December 1978 the temperature in the area fell to −50 °C. On the following New Year's Eve, the low temperatures caused...
of the series of breakdowns in nuclear reactors Brokdorf was operated without functioning emergency generators, in Biblis specially developed protective circuits failed - the reactor is switched off... Wikipedia Biblis nuclear power plant When the reactor was started up, a valve that has to shut off a connecting line to the reactor circuit, which is under 150 times atmospheric pressure, got stuck, and remained open. Only after...
several 100 TBq of iodine 131 and even more cesium 133. The proportion of iodine 131 alone was 5500 curies; This corresponds to approximately 250 times the amount that, according to official information, was released into the surrounding area in the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg. The danger of iodine 131 for the thyroid was not yet recognized in the 1940s, iodine 131 could also...
The first of four reactors on the Mediterranean coast is scheduled to go into operation in 2024. What does the Turkish public say about this project? It has been 23 years since the attempt to build a nuclear power plant was announced by the former energy minister. The project has been delayed, but we are now in the final stages and the first reactor should be operational, as you said, in 2024...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
However, as electricity falls quickly, even SMRs no longer seem to be economical. Electricity generation from sun, water and wind is simply too cheap to invest in comparatively expensive nuclear power. Many supporters have therefore withdrawn from the project. The final blow came on Wednesday, when NuScale Energy's main partner, the Utah energy company...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
The EU's renewable energy directive was postponed after Paris raised a last-minute objection. Paris calls for further “guarantees” for low-carbon hydrogen from nuclear power. The Renewable Energy Directive (RED) was set to be formally adopted on Wednesday (May 17), following a vote by EU Member States and the European Parliament on March 30...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
proposed classifying the event at level 1 on the INES scale, but the safety authorities chose level 2. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Civaux Nuclear power accidents by country#France Nuclear power plantsPlag https://atomkrafteplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Civaux_(France) May 11th CDU CSU | Fearmongers | fossil heating |...
would like to change that, France is slowing down. Such trade restrictions would have a severe impact on an entire industry. [...] Yves Marignac is an expert in nuclear energy at the nuclear power-critical think tank négaWatt. He explains this information gap to ARD by saying that the nuclear industry refuses to release figures: There is a law of silence on the part of...
Reconstruction of our energy system, the expansion of renewable energies in order to really shape our energy system of the future."... * Energy transition | Lindner | Kini Jödler Lindner does not see a "realistic idea" in the nuclear power comeback. Criticism of the end came from his party for nuclear power. For the FDP leader, however, the end of nuclear power is now sealed. Markus sees it differently...
Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine
Mostly metallurgical processes use a lot of energy and/or leave behind harmful by-products... * Exit | Nuclear waste | Low radiation The nuclear waste will remain for decades. The Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant will go offline on April 15th. In total, the dismantling of the five reactors in the southwest will cost nine billion euros - almost as much as Stuttgart 21. Without any official...
Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS
the NDR MV podcast “Village City District - Pomerania”. There is not a meeting of the German environment ministers that goes by that does not involve safety-relevant situations in Belgian or French nuclear power plants... * Isar | TÜV | Safety check light projection on nuclear power plant: Greenpeace protests on Isar 2 Nuclear power should end on April 15th - that's what the federal government has...
Atucha I and other power plants were shut down, resulting in shortages across the country. * Bavaria | Gundremmingen Gundremmingen nuclear power plant will never go into operation again. The decommissioned nuclear power plants should be restarted, something that Bavarian politicians had recently called for because of the energy crisis. Now the head of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant makes it clear why that doesn't work at all....
