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

    grün geführten Umweltministerium gegeben, zeterten Unions-Politiker. Sie drohten sogar mit einem Untersuchungsausschuss. Haben „Strippenzieher der Grünen 2022 die Entscheidung über eine Laufzeitverlängerung deutscher Kernkraftwerke manipuliert“? Haben Habeck und Parteikollegin Steffi Lemke beim grünen Kernthema Atomausstieg getrickst, um der Parteibasis einen Erfolg vorzulegen – drei...

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

    Accident. * March 14, 2011 (INES ? Class?) Nuclear power plant Pickering, ON, CAN Nuclear power plantsPlag Pickering_(Canada) The grassroot organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the extension in 2013 and called for one due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing release of tritium immediate shutdown of the nuclear power plant. In June 2010, unexpected beta-gamma radiation...

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

    The first unit in Kursk was shut down in December 2021. The service life of the power plant's four RBMK-1000 reactors was originally designed for 30 years, but was extended by 15 years as part of a service life extension. [...] All four units in Kursk are scheduled to be shut down by 2031. They will be replaced by new reactors at the Kursk II site, which is next to...

  4. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    to discriminate than to be dominated by neo-Nazis? Or do they assume that they themselves would be among the last to be deported?... * United States pays $1,1 billion to extend Diabolo Canyon term US government approves federal funding for Diablo Canyon The US government is in charge of the loan - and payment agreement signed, with which the loan payments are made in...

  5. 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

    could now last over 100 years. Environmental associations are calling for the extended interim storage to be critically examined and not only to examine the risks of an “above-ground life extension” but also to include terrorism and war risks in security considerations. At the same time, they call for expanded citizen participation. The responsible authorities...

  6. 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”

    - PDF file translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Pickering_(Canada) The grassroots organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the extension in 2013, citing aging, increasing radiation and increasing releases of tritium an immediate shutdown of the nuclear power plant. So in June 2010 there was an unexpected...

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

    didn't exist and there will be even less in the future. The fairy-tale telling saddled the nuclear company with enormous debts and it had to be nationalized. Now nuclear power prices are to be increased by 67 percent for new buildings and service life extensions. But despite all the failures like the EPR in Flamanville, France and other countries want to increase nuclear power output by 2050...

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

    Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (Russia) In 1975, the core of the reactor was partially destroyed, as a result of which 1,5 million curies of radioactive substances were released into the environment... November 29th Belgium | Term extension | Tihange | Doel Nuclear power in Tihange and Doel: Belgium's government does not rule out extension for nuclear reactors The closure of the Belgian nuclear power plants in Tihange and Doel has already been announced several times...

  9. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    are in use. Even before the severe storms on Thursday night, the electricity supplier had relocated materials and personnel to the affected regions... November 1st Japan | Term extension | Nuclear supervision | Sendai Sendai units in operation for another 20 years The Japanese Atomic Energy Regulatory Agency (NRA) has suspended the operation of units 1 and 2 of Kyushu Electric's Sendai nuclear power plant...

  10. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was founded. This came to the conclusion that nuclear power represents a cost-effective energy source for the goal of CO2 reduction and recommended extending the life of the existing nuclear power plant and building new ones. Three to ten new power plants were under discussion... * September 26, 1973 (INES 4 | NAMS 2) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR 5,4 TBq...

  11. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Obstruction of anti-corruption investigations in the country. Ironically, Curruchiche is the head of the special prosecutor's office against impunity and is considered just as corrupt... * France | Term extension | Tricastin Litschauer/Greens on nuclear power plant lifetime extension: France is acting irresponsibly Greens: EU Commission must ensure cross-border EIA Vienna (OTS) - “For me...

  12. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    the main buses A and B... Translate with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Santa_Maria_de_Garona_(Spain) In February 2012, a five-year extension until 2018 was decided. However, on December 16, 2012, nuclenor took the nuclear power plant off the grid prematurely due to lack of profitability. An upgrade would have cost 120 million euros, and for 2013...

  13. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Pickering_(Canada) The grassroots organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the extension in 2013, calling for an immediate one due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing release of tritium Decommissioning of the nuclear power plant. So in June 2010 there was an unexpected...

  14. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    from... Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Surry_(USA) On November 6, 2015, Dominium applied to the NRC for an 1-year term extension to 2 for Surry-80 and -2052 and 2053. Terms of 80 years are currently being discussed controversially in the USA; Various nuclear experts doubt whether safe operation is possible with such durations...

  15. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was founded. This came to the conclusion that nuclear power represents a cost-effective energy source for the goal of CO2 reduction and recommended extending the life of the existing nuclear power plant and building new ones. Three to ten new power plants were under discussion... February 12, 2013 (North Korea's 3rd nuclear weapons test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia North Korean...

  16. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    - PDF file translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Pickering_(Canada) The grassroots organization Sierra Club Canada protested against the extension in 2013, citing aging, increasing radiation and increasing releases of tritium an immediate shutdown of the nuclear power plant. So in June 2010 there was an unexpected...

  17. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    the main buses A and B... Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Santa_Maria_de_Garona_(Spain) In February 2012, a five-year extension until 2018 was decided. However, on December 16, 2012, nuclenor took the nuclear power plant off the grid prematurely due to lack of profitability. An upgrade would have cost 120 million euros, and for 2013...

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

    had... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Surry_(USA) On November 6, 2015, Dominium applied to the NRC for an 1-year life extension to 2 for Surry-80 and -2052 and 2053. Terms of 80 years are currently being discussed controversially in the USA; Various nuclear experts doubt whether safe operation is possible with such durations...

  19. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    spread east. After three years it could reach the west coast of the USA - possibly even in higher concentrations than on the coasts of Japan and China. * Belgium | Term extension | Netherlands Objection from environmentalists against nuclear power plant life extension in Belgium The Federal Association of Citizens' Environmental Protection Initiatives (BBU) informed on Wednesday about its objection...

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

    Hildegard Müller at the head of the energy industry lobby association. There she created the campaign “Energy is not black and white” to create a social climate to extend the life of nuclear power plants. In 2016, Müller moved to RWE, and since 2020 she has been the top car lobbyist - President of the “Association of the Automotive Industry”. In return she receives an annual salary of 1 million...

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