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

    and politically controversial topic,” the researchers state. Countries with rich oil or gas reserves will not voluntarily leave their resources unused. Therefore, objective criteria that specify priorities for the mining that is still permitted and the mining quantities are necessary, according to the team. This could then lead to an international system that regulates compensation... April 21st China...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    between exposure to pesticides at work and Parkinson's disease. But it was extremely difficult to evaluate and process the scientific literature from around the world and then derive criteria for an occupational disease for German social law. In France, Parkinson's has been recognized as an occupational disease since 2012. Italy was also faster. Do they have more in...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Separate fuel elements from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... March 18th Criteria for the production and import of green hydrogen from Africa Good wishes for green hydrogen The Climate Alliance and the Wuppertal Institute presented criteria for the import of green hydrogen...

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

    On March 14, 2011, reactor unit 3 exploded and on March 15, 2011, reactor unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded. Each of these three reactor explosions on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. March 14th Bundestag rejects delivery of Taurus cruise missiles CDU and CSU fail again with their application for Taurus deliveries to the...

  5. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    and creativity, imitate it as best as possible. The goal is for them to take on certain tasks automatically. The AI ​​is “fed” with all sorts of data. It analyzes these according to certain criteria and outputs them sorted. This can either happen according to very rigid specifications, such as “algorithms” or through complex processes such as “machine learning” and...

  6. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    “Heimat”, which withdraws party funding, shows what is necessary to ban a party. A report from the Institute for Human Rights already confirms that the AfD meets all of the criteria. But many are still skeptical - the AfD could fulfill all the criteria - especially the political significance that the NPD lacked - except for the "aggressive, combative (sic) attitude"....

  7. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    and created a common enemy image... * Ban | Anti-Semitism | Defensive democracy Party ban process: Can the AfD be banned? A cumbersome instrument with extremely strict criteria, but also a sharp sword for defending democracy: What speaks for and against initiating a ban against the AfD - also for current reasons. The year 2024...

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

    State of Doñana. “According to the assessment, the area does not currently meet the IUCN Green List standard,” says James Hardcastle from the organization. Doñana only meets 17 of the 50 criteria on the Green List. Doñana's exclusion from the list became apparent. The wetland has increasingly dried out in recent years. Firstly because of the decrease in rainfall, but...

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

    "Regulation," says Lambert Schneider from the Oeko-Institut in the "Climate Laboratory" as the biggest problem in an industry in which only voluntary standards apply. There are also a lack of objective and clear criteria as to what exactly a project has to achieve in order to receive CO₂ certificates. The results are climate protection projects in which balance sheet optimization is part of everyday life - and which have recently attracted the interest of...

  10. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    On March 14, 2011, reactor unit 3 exploded and on March 15, 2011, reactor unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded. Each of these three reactor explosions 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...

  11. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    it was only 34 percent. This was announced by the organization More in Common, which promotes social cohesion and commissioned the online survey from the opinion research institute Kantar Public among around 2.000 people aged 18 and over, selected according to socio-demographic criteria. 85 percent said they had no understanding of the road blockades...

  12. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    Against all reason, another nuclear plant, the so-called Würgassen nuclear waste logistics center, is to be put into operation in North Rhine-Westphalia, although the location was obviously only chosen based on political criteria (there was already a nuclear power plant there, so the area is "available"). There is therefore strong resistance locally. 5. Also against all reason and against strong, decades-long and...

  13. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    ... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Intermediate storage | Highly radioactive What a super final repository looks like The search for a location for the storage of highly radioactive waste is ongoing. Rock, depth, facility: What criteria does such a repository have to meet? It was there from the beginning, the big question. As early as 1957, when the first German nuclear power plant was put into operation, the question was: Where should the radioactive...

  14. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    The highly radioactive nuclear waste should be disposed of and the public should be involved in the process at an early stage - this is what the Site Selection Act of 2017 stipulates. At least some of these criteria have now been violated. Because the National Support Committee (NBG), which is supposed to mediate the process, only learned from the press that the search was...

  15. INES! What's happening?

    why the accident in the THTR 300 in Hamm/Uentrop was only classified as INES category 0, even though highly radioactive graphite dust was blown into the environment on May 4th and 5th, 1986. 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 incident in Canada on March 17th...

  16. Newsletter II 2022 - January 07th to 14th - News+ Draft EU taxonomy: chance of nuclear power surviving?

    loyal to climate protection The major investors who focus on sustainability will continue to exclude nuclear power and natural gas from their funds. The industry already has its own criteria for sustainable investments. * EU Taxonomy Scientists on “Green Label” for Nuclear Power: Biggest Greenwash of All Time German scientists who advised the EU Commission show...

  17. Newsletter I 2022 - January 01st to 06th - News+ EU considers nuclear power plants to be climate-friendly

    such as the German Atomic Forum or the Nuclear Technology Society and support them with contributions... ** Wikipedia Regulation (EU) 2020/852 Taxonomy Regulation The regulation contains the criteria for determining whether an economic activity can be classified as ecologically sustainable (taxonomy), in order to be able to determine the degree of ecological sustainability of an investment. She...

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

    April 25th to enable as many people as possible to take part. Organizer: Citizens' Initiative for Environmental Protection Hamm, Hamm against Nuclear in the Hamm Climate Alliance * EU taxonomy April 24, 2021 - Criteria for sustainable investments still inadequate * April 24, 2021 - The fast breeder and the history of resistance * April 23, 2021 - 35 years after Chernobyl: German environmental aid...

  19. Newsletter VII - February 09th to 15.02.2021th, 09 - News+ February XNUMXth - Nuclear waste - repository wanted

    for highly radioactive waste can be found. The search process for the Federal Republic of Germany is described in the Location Selection Act, which was amended in mid-2017. The essential criteria were previously developed by the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste from 2014 to mid-2016. The final disposal process is divided into the “stages” of final storage selection,...

  20. Newsletter II - January 08th to 14.01.2021th, 08 - News+ January XNUMXth - European Organization for Cooperation in Waste Management established

    for highly radioactive waste can be found. The search process for the Federal Republic of Germany is described in the Location Selection Act, which was amended in mid-2017. The essential criteria were previously developed by the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste from 2014 to mid-2016. The final disposal process is divided into the “stages” of final storage selection,...

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