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

    LKW von Jülich in das Zwischenlager nach Ahaus. Doch weitere Atomtransporte mit hochradioaktivem Atommüll stehen an: Insgesamt sieben Castor-Behälter mit verglasten Abfällen aus der britischen Plutoniumfabrik in Sellafield werden wohl 2025 im Zwischenlager Brokdorf eingelagert werden. Einen entsprechenden Antrag der Bundesgesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung (BGZ) hat das Bundesamt für die...

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

    Gelände von mehr als 200 km2, größte Atomindustrieanlage der Sowjetunion. Zwischen 1945 und 1948 wurden an diesem Standort zwischen Jekaterinburg und Tscheljabinsk fünf Atomreaktoren gebaut, um Plutonium für das sowjetische Atomwaffenprogramm herzustellen. Die Anlage wurde kontinuierlich erweitert, bis 1987 die Produktion gestoppt und der Betrieb schrittweise eingestellt wurde. Von 1949 bis 1956...

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

    (EGS) für die Durchführung der Razzia hatte stets für deutliche Kritik gesorgt... * 19. April 2005 (INES 3) Atomfabrik Windscale/Sellafield, GBR 20 Tonnen Uran und 160 Kilogramm Plutonium sind im Laufe eines Jahres aus einem geplatzten Rohr in der Wiederaufbereitungsanlage für thermische Oxide (Thorp) in Sellafield ausgetreten. (Kosten ca. 76 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Dieser...

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

    ca. 51 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents AtomkraftwerkePlag Sewersk, Tomsk-7, ehemalige Sowjetunion 1993 Am 6. April 1993 trat in einem Tank mit einer Lösung von 8.773 kg Uran und 310 g Plutonium ein Überdruck auf, der daraufhin explodierte. "In die Atmosphäre geschleuderte radioaktive Partikel kontaminierten ein Gebiet von über 120 Quadratkilometern. Zahlreiche Dörfer mussten evakuiert...

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    one at Level 5, five at Level 4, and fifteen at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https:// www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain...

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

    one at Level 5, five at Level 4, and fifteen at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https:// www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain...

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

    During the cleaning work it was noticed that several kilograms of melted material had settled in a caisson. It was flushed with water and the substances (including plutonium) ended up in the Loire. Later studies of the sediments of the river downstream of the power plant showed that the amount discharged into the river was about 0,3 g of pure plutonium...

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

    American nuclear company. Along with BWX Technologies, the company is the main supplier of nuclear fuel for the American Navy. The company is also involved in converting plutonium and uranium from nuclear weapons into fuel rods for nuclear power plants. The Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant is one of the main customers. In addition, we are working on the decontamination of old...

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

    The Chancellor, the Greens and the FDP, are also mostly in favor of it. However, a Bundestag resolution expressly calling for the delivery of Taurus failed last week... * Plutonium | Intermediate storage | Survey Survey on interim storage: Citizens support state responsibility What do people in the vicinity of the interim storage facilities for radioactive waste know and think about...

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

    | "De-Facto" Nuclear Weapon State North Korea signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1985 because US intelligence discovered a classified reactor capable of producing plutonium. The North Korean government refused to allow full control by the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until 1992. During the subsequent inspections, the...

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

    and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... Youtube Uranium industry: Plants for processing uranium Reprocessing plants turn a few tons of nuclear waste into many tons...

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

    of a nuclear weapons aircraft The crash of a US Air Force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons over Greenland contaminated large areas of land and the surrounding waters with radioactive plutonium. Residents and rescue and decontamination crews were exposed to high doses of radiation. Background On January 21, 1968, an American B-52 bomber took off from New York...

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

    and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... Youtube Uranium industry: Plants for processing uranium All uranium and plutonium factories produce radioactive nuclear waste:...

  14. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    and all other accidents at Los Alamos are dealt with in four sentences. Wikipedia Los Alamos National Laboratory A criticality accident occurred during extraction work with a solution containing plutonium at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. The operator died of acute radiation sickness. After this accident, critical mass work in the USA finally...

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

    Probably second nuclear reactor in operation Another reactor has probably been put into operation in the controversial Yongbyon nuclear complex in North Korea. Experts speculate that the plutonium obtained will be used to build new tactical nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna was very concerned. The escape of warm water from the light water reactor (LWR) in...

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

    one at Level 5, five at Level 4, and fifteen at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https:// www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain...

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

    Hanford (USA) The Hanford military complex is located on the Columbia River north of the city of Richland in the northwestern state of Washington and was used from 1943 to produce plutonium for military purposes... With Hanford, the USA has the worst contaminated nuclear facility in the Western world, which was decommissioned in 1988 and has been decontaminated since then... December 1st...

  18. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Oceans. The socio-economic and environmental costs will explode.” * November 20, 1959 (INES 4) Oak Ridge Nuclear Plant, Tennessee, USA A chemical explosion released 15 grams of plutonium-239. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! In the Wikipedia article "Oak...

  19. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    one at Level 5, five at Level 4, and fifteen at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https:// www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain...

  20. 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

    which is produced in enrichment plants from natural uranium (uranium-235 content approx. 0,72%). Mixed oxide fuel elements, which consist of reprocessed fuel – including plutonium – are not manufactured at ANF. Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH ANF produces fuel elements for pressurized water (PWR) and...

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