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

    Rosatom „bereits heimlich Fakten schaffen“. Die Fabrik gehört dem Unternehmen Advanced Nuclear Fuels (ANF), einer Tochter des französischen Atomkonzerns Framatome. Es hat beim Land Niedersachsen die Erweiterung der Produktion beantragt und will künftig auch AKW russischer beziehungsweise sowjetischer Bauart beliefern. In der EU laufen 19 solcher Reaktoren vom Typ WWER. Bereits vor mehreren...

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

    führen Förderprogramme eher zum Ziel. Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium arbeite schon daran. Osgyan: "Daran sollte Bayern sich ein Beispiel nehmen." * Beteiligung | Strompreis | Windkraft Niedersachsen startet Windenergie-Ausbau: Ausgleichszahlungen für Anwohner Niedersachsen will mehr Windräder aufstellen. Um die Akzeptanz zu erhöhen, sollen die Betreiber Kommunen und Anwohner finanziell...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    not increased, but decreased. This is shown by an analysis published today. Almost a year ago, the last three nuclear power plants in Germany were shut down: Emsland (Lower Saxony), Neckarwestheim 2 (Baden-Württemberg) and Isar 2 (Bavaria). These recently supplied around six percent of the electricity consumed in Germany. The exit was hotly contested at the time and...

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

    Friesland soll am 11. Mai stattfinden, während die AfD eine Wahlkampfveranstaltung im Bürgerhaus ausrichtet. Der Bürgermeister von Schortens, Gerhard Böhling (parteilos), sagte dem NDR Niedersachsen, es handele sich bei dem Fest nicht um eine offizielle Gegenveranstaltung. Man werde gemeinsam mit den anderen Kommunen in Friesland und dem Landkreis bei Musik, Essen und Getränken für Vielfalt und...

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

    It is scheduled to go into operation in 2026. The city of Beverungen in the border triangle of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Lower Saxony and Hesse has awarded a plot of land for the 92 million euro pilot project “Würgassen Storage Park”, as Mayor Hubertus Grimm reported on Tuesday. The municipal energy service provider Westfalen Weser is planning the construction with an initial output of 120 megawatts (MW)...

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

    many city treasurers hope. Because 80 cities and districts own shares in the company - mostly for historical reasons. These are primarily municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate. And they are happy, because after the billion-dollar profit, RWE is increasing its dividend: the energy company is paying out 744 million euros as a profit share. For many urban...

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

    the French Framatome GmbH. Production is to be expanded through a corporate cooperation with the Russian state-owned company Rosatom. [...] Susanne Gerstner, Chairwoman of BUND Lower Saxony: “We welcome the fact that the authorities are taking the procedure very seriously. From our point of view, this can only end in rejection. The documents submitted by ANF have not even...

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

    with the Russian state-owned company Rosatom in the expansion of the fuel element factory in Lingen (Emsland district). They handed over the list with more than 10.000 signatures to Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Christian Meyer (Greens) in Hanover. The federal and state governments would have to stop the project, said Bettina Ackermann from the anti-nuclear organization "broadcast": "Until then the...

  9. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Bells... * Grandmas against the right for democracy and tolerance "Grandmas against the right": Significant growth also due to demos The initiative "Grandmas against the right" is recording significant popularity - also in Lower Saxony. Many new regional groups have been founded, particularly with the demos against right-wing extremism in recent weeks. The protests against the AfD and right-wing extremism continue. And...

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

    Newsletter VII 2024 February 11th to 17th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    to cover German needs. In such cases, the network can be temporarily stabilized with battery storage. One such facility is to be built in the former Brokdorf nuclear power plant, for example, and construction of such a facility will begin in Lower Saxony this year. This is a successful model in Australia. According to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, battery storage also had...

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

    Newsletter IV 2024 January 21nd to 27th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    ... January 17 Rosatom | Framatomes | Lingen fuel element factory Fuel element factory without Russians: Rosatom should not go to Lingen The Russian company wants to get involved in fuel rod production in Lower Saxony. Environmentalists are calling for the approval process to be aborted. BERLIN taz | The ongoing approval process for the expansion of the fuel element factory in Lingen, Lower Saxony, must...

  14. 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

    Protection is necessary. [...] The "flood dementia" that experts speak of ironically should be overcome. What this means is that shortly after events like those in the Ahr Valley or now in Lower Saxony, homeowners are very aware that they need to protect themselves better. But this insight is quickly forgotten when the topic disappears from the headlines...

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

    against the plans of Framatome and Rosatom, but in fact these dangerous nuclear plans are being actively pushed forward by the Green Environment Minister in Lower Saxony through the early presentation of the documents during the Christmas season." A demonstration in front of the Lingen fuel element factory has been announced for January 20th. * January 2, 1958 (INES 4) Mayak nuclear factory, USSR In an accident in...

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

    Newsletter LI 2023 December 17th to 23rd *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  17. 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”

    so that tribal areas from which they had already been expelled could no longer be regained... * New nuclear power plants | Nuclear waste | CDU re-entry into nuclear power: warning signs in Lower Saxony The CDU wants nuclear power back. What a return to work would mean ecologically and financially can be seen in Lower Saxony. The CDU wants to get back into nuclear power. In...

  18. 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

    No cases were reported in several countries, including Bavaria, Hamburg, Saarland and Saxony. The neighboring northern federal state of Schleswig-Holstein recorded three lawsuits, Lower Saxony two... * CO2 as a fuel Double blow against climate change: Carbon dioxide as an energy source How can carbon dioxide be captured from the atmosphere and used beneficially? In the USA a...

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

    Newsletter XLI 2023 October 8th to 14th... *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry . Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  20. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    had so far. Aiwanger would do himself and society a great favor if he took a break and asked Söder to be fired, said Heubner. The anti-Semitism commissioner for Lower Saxony, Gerhard Wegner, particularly misses Aiwanger's clear stance on what was, and no fussing around. “I fear that this opens a door to the reawakening of an underground anti-Semitic...

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