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

    as well as in the Cerrado, which is characterized by wet savannas. Soy cultivation is becoming more and more widespread in these regions. In the period from 2008 to 2019, 123 children died here from acute lymphoblastic leukemia - the most common blood-based cancer in children. Many more children developed cancer. [...] health experts from all over the world have long been warning about the catastrophic...

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

    Above all, the close connection between military and commercial use of nuclear energy as well as the nuclear industry's interest in self-preservation played a role... * Brazil | Leukemia | Pesticide wave of lawsuits against the Bayer Group: cancer caused by pesticides? As soybean production increases, more agrochemicals are sprayed. A study suggests that this is why more children are getting cancer...

  3. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Bewertungsskala für nukleare Ereignisse INES). Bleibende Folge der Katastrophe ist die mehr als 300 km lange und 30–50 km breite radioaktiv verseuchte „Osturalspur“, in der allein der Leukämie verursachende Stoff Strontium-90 Konzentrationen von bis zu 7,4 MBq/m2 (Mega = Million) erreicht. Zum Vergleich: Nach Tschernobyl wurden Gebiete mit mehr als 0,5 MBq/m2 Strahlenbelastung zur permanenten...

  4. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    it is likely that the release could have been one or two orders of magnitude higher than this weight of Pu. Furthermore, the incidence of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in Pawling appears to be 3 in a town of 5000 people, while the expected rate is 1-2 per 100 people. The CML Wikipedia website states: "The only good...

  5. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    to discredit leadership. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several Western governments have firmly rejected this accusation... ** October 24th Nuclear power plant sites | Leukemia | KiKK How dangerous is a nuclear power plant for health? The last three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany are also scheduled to be shut down at the end of April 2023. But the discussion about...

  6. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    "Safety aspects are completely ignored in the debate about extensions of service life: As a study by the federal government showed in 2007, the risk of developing leukemia and cancer is significantly increased for children who live near nuclear power plants. The risk of incidents also increases significantly over time. The three nuclear power plants still running are...

  7. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    on behalf of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection: The risk of cancer in children under 5 years of age is significantly increased within a five-kilometer radius of nuclear power plants. The incidence rate for leukemia, for example, was approximately twice as high in the study period from 1980 to 2003 as would have been statistically expected. To explain: Radioactive radiation can stop cell division in the body...

  8. Newsletter XXVII - June 14th to 21.06.2021st, 14 - News+ June XNUMXth - The unpunished chemical war against Serbia: Who finally condemns NATO?

    spread and endanger people. If these dusts and particles are inhaled or ingested with food, this leads to radiation exposure, which can result in cancer, leukemia or genetic damage. Since uranium is a heavy metal, liver and kidney damage can also occur. To date there is no convention that would ban these weapons...

  9. 17.03.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - Deadly dust - use of uranium ammunition and the consequences

    the atomic and hydrogen bombs. The horrific certainty of mutual destruction became a vague guarantee of non-use of these deadly weapons. At the same time, however, leukemia rates among young children rose alarmingly worldwide. And it only fell back to more normal levels when the major powers agreed to limit the above-ground nuclear and...

  10. Studies on the THTR from 1986 to 2015

    The concept of the high-temperature, pebble bed reactor existed from the beginning. However, not all studies made it to the public, others were discredited... 2015 - INWORKS study - Leukemia even with the slightest radiation Study on workers in nuclear power plants proves carcinogenic effects of low doses of radiation. There is no harmless dose: even the slightest exposure...

  11. 2007 - The KiKK Study - Childhood Cancer Study

    which could possibly act as confounders, and were asked about their residential history. For this purpose, cases diagnosed between 1993 and 2003, aged under 5 years, who had leukemia, lymphoma or a CNS tumor (CNS: central nervous system) and who lived in the study region at the time of diagnosis were selected. As controls in Part 2, these cases were...

  12. What is low level radioactive radiation? INWORKS study

    Lancet Hematology" (7.). The INWORKS study is based on measurement data from 300.000 workers in nuclear power plants; this data goes back up to 60 years. The following article from scinexx: Leukemia even at the lowest level of radiation Study on workers in nuclear power plants proves carcinogenic Effects of low doses of radiation There is no such thing as a harmless dose: even the slightest exposure...

  13. March 26, 2014 - THTR research in North Rhine-Westphalia continues!

    But the dream shattered after numerous safety deficiencies and incidents. In 1978, significant amounts of strontium 90 and tritium leaked from the reactor into soil and groundwater. Both can cause leukemia, and strontium 90 can also cause bone cancer. Nevertheless, the reactor continued to operate at a temperature that was far too high. The final closure took place 26 years ago. After that, Jülich was a long time...

  14. Nov. 28, 2013 - Ministry of the Environment presents a report on the possible connection between cancer and the former THTR Hamm reactor

    not yet. The most important results of the analysis: - For cancer of the esophagus, intestines, lungs and bronchi, breast, ovary as well as myeloid and acute lymphoblastic leukemias, the Hamm study region and the surrounding communities of Ahlen, Beckum, Lippetal and Welver show no noticeable clusters compared to the reference region in the Recklinghausen district. - The...

  15. THTR Circular No. 143 June 14

    not yet. The most important results of the analysis: - For cancer of the esophagus, intestines, lungs and bronchi, breast, ovary as well as myeloid and acute lymphoblastic leukemias, the Hamm study region and the surrounding communities of Ahlen, Beckum, Lippetal and Welver show no noticeable clusters compared to the reference region in the Recklinghausen district. - The...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012

    who himself had worked on the THTR safety report decades ago, had already analyzed the beads found near the THTR twice. In connection with the numerous cases of leukemia near nuclear facilities in Geesthacht, he found beads similar to those at the THTR a few years ago. Gabriel complains that the LANUV publication contains exactly those measurement ranges...

  17. Jun. 04, 2012 - Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up!

    The AVR didn't work and all the tritium was released into the environment unfiltered. In view of the fact that the cases of childhood leukemia that occurred frequently in the Jülich area (1980 - 90) can be easily linked to the AVR water intrusion accident, at least temporally, we believe that a thorough examination of these questions is absolutely necessary....

  18. THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012

    The AVR didn't work and all the tritium was released into the environment unfiltered. In view of the fact that the cases of childhood leukemia that occurred frequently in the Jülich area (1980 - 90) can be easily linked to the AVR water intrusion accident, at least in terms of time, we believe that a thorough examination of these questions is absolutely necessary... .

  19. Important books on atomic research, THTR etc.

    and are accumulated in the human organism. This “lower” radiation exposure is responsible for the increase in stillbirths, child birth defects, and deaths from leukemia and cancer. Nevertheless, there are currently 14 nuclear power plants in operation in Germany - there will be over 50 one day, 40 of which are in the Federal Republic alone. Ernest J. Sternglass, Professor of Radiation Science...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08

    "The closer a child lives to a nuclear power plant, the greater the risk of the child developing cancer or leukemia - and that within 25 meters. " Professor Eberhard Greiser, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research at the University of Bremen, said in Berlin that the number of additional...

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