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

    Weltordnung auf die richtige Seite schlagen zu müssen. In letzter Instanz auch militärisch... * 2. Mai 1967 (INES 4) Akw Chapelcross, GBR Ein Brennstab fing Feuer und verursachte eine partielle Kernschmelze im Kernkraftwerk Chaplecross Magnox, Abschaltung und 2 Jahre Reparaturzeit. (Kosten ca. 89 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de Kernkraftwerk Chapelcross Im Mai 1967 kam es zu...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    260000 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de Chernobyl nuclear disaster A major meltdown (INES level 7) in Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine resulted in a core meltdown and, as a result, explosions. Large amounts of radioactivity were released through the exposure and fire of the reactor core, and the immediate surroundings were heavily contaminated; over and beyond...

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

    occurred on September 21, 1999 with a magnitude of 7,7 and resulted in 2.400 deaths and around 100.000 injuries. * April 3, 1960 (INES 4) Nuclear power plant WTR-2 reactor, Waltz Mill, USA Accident with core meltdown in the WTR-2 reactor on the site of Westinghouse's Waltz Mill plant. (Cost approximately US$38 million) Nuclear Power Accidents This incident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity...

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    (INES 5 | NAMS 7,9) Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, USA Approximately 3,7 million TBq of radioactivity was released. Equipment failure and operating errors led to a loss of coolant and a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant. (Costs approx. 1091 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Harrisburg/Three_Mile_Island_(USA) Nuclear meltdown in Three-Mile-Island-2 What happened...

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

    A-2 fuel assemblies fused together, forcing an extended shutdown. (Cost approximately US$26 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear Power Plants Plague Saint-Laurent (France) 1980: Partial meltdown in reactor A-2 The second accident in Saint-Laurent, described as the most serious in French history, occurred in the reactor A-2 on March 13, 1980. A metal plate had...

  6. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    and the resulting tsunami became the worst reactor disaster since Chernobyl: Units 1 to 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) were destroyed by explosions or core meltdowns, and more than 146.000 people had to be evacuated due to the releases. 13 years later, thousands of skilled workers are still working on the plant site every month to dismantle the...

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

    (Emergency power case) the power supply to dissipate the decay heat in the reactor core would not have been secured at Tricastin 3/4, in the worst case it could have led to a core meltdown in both blocks... Nuclear power plantsPlag Tricastin_(France) Old reactors on the Rhône from 1980/81 The The Tricastin site is critical due to a long list of breakdowns and incidents, particularly in the...

  8. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    Blocks C and D were planned and applications for approval were submitted in 1975. Years of discussions began about the safety of the plant, especially about the risks of a reactor accident with a core meltdown as a result of a plane crash. "Biblis is initially located in a low-altitude training zone and is often directly overflown by fighter jets." Biblis-C and -D were abandoned because of the protests... 7....

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

    that existed for more than five months. “During the said period,” writes the ASN authority, “this called into question the tightness of the containment if an accident had occurred.” A core meltdown could therefore have resulted in releases. Nuclear power accidents by country#France Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Paluel...

  10. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    A disposable deposit should also be introduced on beverage cartons, such as those from market leader Tetra Pak... * January 1, 1977 (INES 5) Beloyarsk, USSR A partial core meltdown occurred in Unit 2, repairs took more than a year... (Costs approx. 3500 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry...

  11. 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”

    Misunderstandings between the operator and operating personnel, incorrect status displays in the control room, operator misjudgments and hesitant action caused the reactor core to be destroyed in a partial core meltdown. An oxyhydrogen explosion in the reactor core threw the dome of a four-ton helium gas container 1,2 m high, causing it to get stuck in the structure. The explosion caused...

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

    were no longer running, and it was only because the twelfth pump happened to be connected to the power supply of the functional reactor 2 that there was enough cooling water available and a core meltdown could be avoided. This near-meltdown was consistently kept secret by the GDR leadership until the fall of the Wall. In “tagesschau.de” the date was December 7th, 1975 and damages amounted to 519 million...

  13. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    separate. Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... * November 29, 1955 (INES 4) Research Reactor EBR-I, NTRS Idaho, USA Partial core meltdown during a coolant flow test. (Costs approx. 1500 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Idaho Falls, USA - 1955: Partial core meltdown in EBR-1 The first accident occurred...

  14. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    When the valve was opened, there was a pressure drop in the primary circuit at the Tihange nuclear power plant and cooling water evaporated. If the safety systems had not responded, a meltdown could have resulted. Wikipedia Tihange Nuclear Power Plant On November 22, 2002, an accident occurred in Unit 2 (INES 2). The reactor - at this time shut down and no longer critical -...

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

    In November 2001, there was an officially concealed incident at the High Flux Reactor (Station Blackout = total power failure), in which there was only just a possibility of a core meltdown. Due to a failure of the external power supply, the pumps that are used to cool the reactor were suddenly without power. Afterwards the emergency power supply also failed and the...

  16. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    and be repaired. Repairing the reactor took a year. (Cost approximately US$541,4 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Saint-Laurent (France) 1969: Partial core meltdown in reactor A-1 The first accident in reactor A-1 on October 17, 1969 was due to human error and a technical one error caused. When loading four fuel chambers, the...

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

    of a fast breeder reactor, suffered a partial fuel meltdown. (Costs approximately US$23 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Enrico Fermi 1 On October 5, 1966, there was a meltdown in some parts of the reactor core. This accident was caused by a fragment that got into the cooling circuit. Two of the 105 fuel elements melted. The reactor was...

  18. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    4) Constituyentes Nuclear Center, ARG On September 23, 1983, a core meltdown occurred at the Constituyentes Nuclear Center due to an operating error during the reconfiguration of the RA-2 research reactor, in which a total of 18 people were irradiated; One of the reactor technicians died two days later from radiation damage. (Cost approximately US$76 million) Nuclear Power Accidents...

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

    Control zones, while in the third phase proof is provided that the facility no longer poses a radiological hazard... * September 1, 1982 (INES 5) Chernobyl, USSR Partial core meltdown - fuel channel 62-44 were destroyed, irradiation of the with the Personnel involved in repairing the reactor. (Costs approx. 1100 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Nuclear power plant...

  20. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    5,2 Millionen TBq an radioaktiver Strahlung freigesetzt. (Kosten ca. 260000 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Die Nukleare Kette Tschernobyl, Ukraine Super-GAU in einem Atomkraftwerk Die Kernschmelze von Tschernobyl im April 1986 stellt den mit Abstand größten Unfall in der Geschichte der zivilen Atomwirtschaft dar. Ganze Landstriche wurden verseucht und für Generationen unbewohnbar...

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