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

    Nuclear power plants have been discussed. Therefore the accusation is not correct. You can read all of this in letters from the nuclear power plant operators to him and his ministry from March 2022... * EDF | Dismantling | Fessenheim Open dispute over scrap recycling in Fessenheim The Fessenheim nuclear power plant is to be dismantled. Now citizens were asked about it. A planned recycling plant for weakly radioactive...

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

    we need them. There are a total of ten state-owned companies that currently employ 4.800 people in the zone. With 2.500 employees, the company is the largest employer dedicated to the dismantling of the power plant - currently blocks 1 to 3. The second largest is a company that takes care of the interim storage of radioactive waste. Thirdly, there is Radon-Enterprice, a...

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

    – financed and built by the Russian state-owned company Rosatom. Great Britain also continues to rely on nuclear power. Currently, nine reactor blocks are still in operation and 36 are being dismantled. Two new EPR reactors are currently under construction (Hinkley Point C-1 and -2), and two more are planned for the Sizewell C site. Those who have planned to phase out nuclear energy – alongside Belgium –...

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    debates of the 1980s were rarely seen: climate change... * Stadtwerke | Supply contracts | Gas network German gas supply: municipal utilities under pressure, gas networks have to be dismantled. Dismantling of the gas networks is necessary, costs are rising for consumers. Transformation requires adaptations and investments in sustainable energy sources. After the end of the...

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

    destroyed, and more than 146.000 people had to be evacuated due to the releases. 13 years later, thousands of skilled workers are still working on the plant site every month to prepare for the dismantling of the reactors. Last year, the main focus of the...

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

    Birgit Pommer swastikas lubricated... * Brokdorf nuclear power plant | Power storage | Monument Initiative would like to use the Brokdorf nuclear power plant as a museum. The nuclear power plant in Brokdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, is waiting to be dismantled. But couldn't it also be preserved - as a monument to the atomic age and a place for social movements? [...] The Brokdorf nuclear power plant is to be dismantled, perhaps there will be a...

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

    Boiling water reactor • Output: 1.402 MW • Type: BWR-69 • Manufacturer: KWU • Construction began on April 5, 1974 • Commissioning: September 14, 1983 • Shutdown: August 6, 2011 • Start and end of dismantling: open Der Spiegel The series of breakdowns of the nuclear power plant Operator Vattenfall Trouble at the nuclear power plant operator Vattenfall: New details of the incidents in Brunsbüttel and Krümmel as well as new...

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

    as a result, a tsunami and a nuclear catastrophe that will last for many years. “With consequences that are likely to be lasting. Just like the further costs for decontamination, dismantling and incalculable environmental damage,” states Manfred Doppler from the Anti Nuclear Committee and he adds; “Fukushima didn’t happen, it’s still happening!”...January 3 Israel...

  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

    This is due to the increasing need for financing for adaptation due to the warmer climate as well as the slowing inflow of funds from industrialized countries... November 2nd Gundremmingen | Intermediate storage | Dismantling RWE is allowed to build a new building for waste at the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant. A new interim storage facility is to be built at the old Gundremmingen nuclear power plant in which...

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

    One thing is certain: the system can no longer be started up. Guido Knott, managing director of the operator PreussenElektra, said this on Wednesday evening in Essenbach. "The preparations for the dismantling are in full swing and the colleagues we need to operate are simply no longer available to us. The topic of recommissioning is definitely off the table for us," says...

  11. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    caused by climate change and human activities, the WMO summarizes the problem... * Was Westinghouse excluded from the tendering process for the dismantling of the SM-1A in Alaska due to suspected corruption? Contract to decommission a historic US reactor re-awarded Aptim -Amentum Alaska Decommissioning (A3D) has received a...

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

    three stages of decommissioning the power plant have been completed. The plant - a single 373 MWe boiling water reactor - was commissioned in 1972 and shut down on December 20, 2019. The dismantling began on January 6, 2020. However, it has only been considered finally out of operation since September 15, 2020, when the operating license was replaced by a closure order. Mühleberg is...

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

    Have we completely lost the ability to assess cause and effect? I can't help but feel that our democracy is currently being canceled... * Disposal | Dismantling | Unterweser Dismantling of the Unterweser nuclear power plant: Is material disappearing unchecked? In an open letter, an anti-nuclear group points out allegations in the handling of radioactive residues....

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

    CO2 emission certificates? You don't hear anything about this from the FDP, which says it is always committed to reducing state subsidies... * Lubmin | Nuclear waste barrels | Corrosion Rust discovered on barrels with radioactive waste during dismantling in Lubmin. Defective waste barrels have emerged at the former nuclear power plant in Lubmin, which is being dismantled. There was rust on them...

  15. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    as a result... Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Gravelines_(France) June 10, 2009 (INES 2) Cadarache nuclear plant, FRA Dismantling of the production plant for MOX fuel elements In the French At the Cadarache nuclear facility, 39 kilograms of plutonium were discovered during dismantling work in June. The nuclear safety authority ASN stopped the...

  16. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    The average values ​​are therefore likely to break the 2 degree limit permanently in the next decade without rapid global CO1,5 reduction... * June 10, 2009 (INES 2?) Cadarache nuclear factory, FRA Dismantling of the production plant for MOX fuel elements In the At the French nuclear facility Cadarache, 39 kilograms of plutonium were discovered during dismantling work in June. The Nuclear Safety Agency...

  17. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    a radioactive contamination of entire areas - right? Lingen has been a nuclear power location for a long time. Two nuclear power plants operated here. The older Lingen nuclear power plant is already being dismantled, the younger Emsland nuclear power plant will now be shut down and then also dismantled. In a factory right next door, fuel elements have been manufactured since 1979 and continue to be...

  18. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Technology (KIT) near Eggenstein (Karlsruhe district), two new interim storage facilities for low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste will be put into operation this year. The waste comes from the dismantling of the nuclear facilities on the North Campus. A new logistics and storage facility for low-level radioactive waste went into operation just a few weeks ago. The new interim storage facility for...

  19. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    for new green electricity systems. This is also urgently needed, especially with wind energy... * Disposal | EnBW | Philippsburg Disposal question in court Dispute over waste disposal - dismantling of the Philippsburg nuclear power plant is stalled. Where should the construction waste from the shut down nuclear power plant in Philippsburg (Karlsruhe district) go? The disposal dispute is before the Administrative Court in...

  20. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    of our energy system and all economic sectors to zero while at the same time stopping the destruction of forests and other ecosystems. Forest protection is not an alternative to the conversion and dismantling of climate-damaging industries, but must happen independently. This requires new agreements at the international level and a farewell to demonstrably harmful systems and...

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