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    bezeichnet. Dabei wird jedoch außer Acht gelassen, dass es hauptsächlich aus Methan besteht. Methan ist um ein Vielfaches klimaschädlicher als CO2. Bei der Aufbereitung von Flüssiggas oder bei Lecks an Pipelines entweicht Methan häufig in die Luft. 5. Mai Klimaschädliche | Subventionen | Diesel | CO2-Preis Studie zu klimaschädlichen Subventionen: Kohlendioxid-Ausstoß wird belohnt Laut einer...

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

    und -journalisten in Teilen Sachsens Angst hätten, über rechtsextreme und verschwörungsideologische Akteure zu berichten. Diese Angst „führt zu Selbstzensur und damit zu blinden Flecken in der Berichterstattung, die höchst problematisch sind“, schreiben die Autoren der Studie. 2. Mai Atommüll | Castor-Transporte | Brokdorf | Windscale/Sellafield, GBR Genehmigt: Hochradioaktiver Atommüll per...

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

    (free version) The Mayak/Kyshtym Nuclear Chain, Russia Nuclear Factory The Russian nuclear industrial plant in Mayak contaminated more than 15.000 km2 with highly radioactive waste products through a series of accidents and radioactive leaks. The Kyshtym accident contaminated a large area of ​​the eastern Ural region in 1957. Thousands of people had to be relocated. To this day, the...

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

    This incident is the only incident in Sellafield after Windscale 1957 that can still be found in Wikipedia de. Wikipedia de Sellafield# Incidents In April 2005, a leak was discovered in Sellafield through which around 83.000 liters of radioactive liquid, consisting of nitric acid, uranium and plutonium, escaped unnoticed for months. This is the most serious incident...

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

    Power Accidents Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Browns Ferry (USA) Major Fire 1975 A highly dangerous situation developed on March 22, 1975. A worker was looking for leaks with a candle (!) in order to seal them and in the process ignited polyurethane foam. The foam had already been recognized as dangerous and banned in 1963, which was ignored by the team....

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

    This is proven by a new study that has just been published in the journal Nature. When analyzing six production regions in the USA, it became clear that methane is usually released negligently through leaks in the plants. But also through so-called venting, in which natural gas is intentionally let out. The USA produces the most oil and natural gas in the world. 80 times more harmful than CO2...

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

    the inner lining of the lid remained. Experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory then calculated that, in the worst case scenario, it would have taken another five months for a large leak to form in the reactor lid... Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States Translated with https://www.DeepL.com /Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Davis-Besse (USA)#Corrosion...

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

    remarkable because only Westinghouse can boast the type of nuclear power plant originally required by the Czech government as a single plant with an output of up to 1.200 MW... * Leak | radioactive water | Fukushima Leak in processing plant Radioactive water leaked from Fukushima nuclear power plant Thousands of liters of radioactive water escaped from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant...

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

    at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Ifeu) in Heidelberg... * February 1, 2010 (INES Klass.?) Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, USA Tritium and cesium had leaked from the nuclear power plant; These leaks and the associated costs ultimately led to the plant being shut down. (Cost approx. 821 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Nuclear Power Plant_Vermont_Yankee In February 2010, traces of...

  10. 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”

    Lake Ontario. The operator and regulator described the risks as “negligible”. In January 2012, according to the Sierra Club, contaminated water leaked from the "broken" reactor 4... News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** Media | Propaganda | populism | WiP The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the...

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

    Salzgitter's mayor Frank Klingebiel (CDU) was to appear as a speaker. The critics then wanted to march with torches and lanterns to the Konradhaus in the Bleckenstedt district. AG calls for the revocation of the building permit The AG Schacht Konrad also calls on Environment Minister Christian Meyer to decide on the revocation of the building permit... * Henry...

  12. 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

    in Samara, 300 kilometers northeast, were closed. City businesses advised their employees to stay at home. The environmental organization Greenpeace in Russia feared a leak. The incident brought back memories of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986 in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). Ultimately, the incident at the power plant was...

  13. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    In an absurd case, a Jewish Israeli woman was arrested because she was holding a sign denouncing the war her country is waging... * Slovenia | Westinghouse | Krško nuclear power plant Leak in the primary circuit of the Krško nuclear power plant: fuel rods go into the decay tank In order to be able to repair the leak in the primary circuit of the Slovenian nuclear power plant, all fuel rods are removed from the...

  14. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    national harmony. In any case, the Gaza Strip will once again have to prepare for many victims and severe destruction. However, Hamas has priced them in... * Slovenia | Leak | Krško nuclear power plant Krško is temporarily shut down - leak in the primary system The operator of Slovenia's only nuclear power plant is looking for a leak. To do this, the nuclear power plant must be shut down...

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

    all over the world, everyone has the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... October 6th Neckarwestheim | Radioactivity | Leak Ministry: No danger to people and the environment (standard report) Leak in the nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim: Radioactive liquid leaked The Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant is currently...

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

    On the Titan II rocket in silo 374-7, a soldier dropped the nut of a wrench. This crashed into the silo and caused a leak in the fuel tank of the first rocket stage, which was filled with Aerozin-50. Subsequently, the silo and later the launch control center of the complex were evacuated. In the early hours of September 19, two two-man teams were to enter the complex and...

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

    Large-scale technology in which the greenhouse gas CO2 is pressed into deep layers of the earth in order to banish it from the atmosphere. Opponents of the CCS projects, especially in Schleswig-Holstein, feared leaks, artificial earthquakes and risks to groundwater. [...] Until now, the technology has also been very controversial in politics. The Greens and the SPD in particular spoke out against it, but also...

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

    because an increase in humidity was detected at the turbine system generator. The incident has no consequences for nuclear safety. (Standard message) TVO later explained that the cause was a leak in the cooling system of the water-cooled generator. According to current estimates, Olkiluoto 2's electricity production could increase once the...

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

    Ontario's Nuclear Generating Facilities - English - PDF file Page No. 8 - Safety Issues at the Pickering “A” Nuclear Station August 2, 1992 - The Pickering Reactor 1 experienced a severe water leak from a heat exchanger, causing 2300 trillion becquerels radioactive tritium leaked into Lake Ontario. This was the worst tritium leak in Canada and resulted in increased...

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

    SKI Report IRS) Nuclear power plantsPlag Krsko (Slovenia) 1988 June 18, 1988 (INES Klass.?) Tihange-1, BEL On June 18, 1988, during operation of the pressurized water reactor, a sudden leak occurred in a short, non-isolable section of the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) pipeline. The leak rate was on the order of 1.300 liters per hour. The cause of the leak was a...

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