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

    ... * Konrad shaft Nuclear waste repository Konrad shaft: Government sticks to plans Despite strong resistance, the controversial Konrad nuclear waste repository in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, can continue to be built for the time being. Environment Minister Christian Meyer (Greens) announced this today. His ministry rejected the requests from environmental associations to withdraw, revoke and stop construction of the...

  2. 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”

    especially high. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has created a nationwide map of the spread of the radioactive gas radon. As the federal authority in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, announced, the overview shows the average radon concentration to which people are estimated to be exposed in their homes. According to new calculations by the BfS, the nationwide...

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

    Nuclear waste repository Schacht Konrad: Opponents demand decision Environment Minister Meyer (Greens) wants to decide by the end of December whether the building permit for the nuclear waste repository Schacht Konrad in Salzgitter will be revoked. Critics are calling for an early decision. They wanted to initiate a "countdown" with a rally in front of the Konrad shaft, which would from now on inform the minister every day about the outstanding...

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

    to act. Instead of polarizing, aggressive disinformation campaigns, we need scientific facts and clear information to bring calm back into the debate... * Salzgitter | Konrad shaft | Nuclear waste storage Longer construction period Nuclear waste storage in Salzgitter will probably cost more Low and medium radioactive waste will soon be stored in the Konrad shaft. But after a delay...

  5. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    be burdened. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) announced that increased values ​​were measured primarily in southern Bavaria and the Bavarian Forest. Read here which fungi are affected. Salzgitter, Berlin. Wild edible mushrooms in southern Germany may be contaminated with radioactive cesium even 37 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Increased values ​​would occur especially in southern Bavaria...

  6. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    ... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Konrad Shaft Further delays in the construction of the final storage facility: Konrad Shaft will not be completed The construction of the Konrad nuclear waste repository in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, is being delayed again. Opponents of nuclear power are calling for the project to be canceled. GÖTTINGEN taz | The completion and commissioning of the Konrad nuclear waste repository will be delayed by several years - again...

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

    final release. Release is expected this fall. The largest amounts of radioactive waste in Germany are currently stored on the KIT Campus North for the Konrad mine in Salzgitter... * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Lithium | Batteries Recycling KIT: Lithium recycling from batteries without a lot of chemicals and energy Recycling batteries has so far been a bit...

  8. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    of industrial emissions of currently around 180 million tons of CO2 annually... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Konrad Shaft Konrad Shaft: Alliance calls for end to repository construction Konrad Shaft in Salzgitter has long been approved as a final repository for low- and medium-level radioactive waste - and is currently under construction. The resistance to this is great. A broad alliance is calling for a halt to construction. District administrators,...

  9. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    expires at the end of 2030. Low- and medium-level radioactive waste from research and medicine is stored there. This nuclear waste is actually supposed to be taken to the Konrad shaft repository near Salzgitter. However, the commissioning of the Konrad shaft, which has already been postponed several times and is now planned for 2027, is still highly controversial. Therefore, as a precaution, the federal government should...

  10. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    the police announced on Sunday - the organizers had previously spoken of over 500 demonstrators. The organizers also announced a symbolic surrounding of the former mine in Salzgitter. “We have been fighting against the storage of nuclear waste in the Konrad shaft for 40 years,” said Ludwig Wasmus, chairman of the Konrad shaft working group, on Sunday. 20 years ago the...

  11. Newsletter XLIII - September 20th to 23.09.2021rd, 20 - News+ September XNUMXth - climate strike / uranium waste export Russia / Gorleben / shaft Konrad

    https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Atommüll ** AtomkraftwerkePlag Schacht Konrad Atomrechtliches Genehmigungsverfahren Der Schacht Konrad, ein ehemaliges Eisenerzbergwerk im niedersächsischen Salzgitter, ist von anderen potenziellen Endlagern insofern zu unterscheiden, als seine Eignung ein atomrechtliches Verfahren durchlief, welches vom Bundesverfassungsgericht bestätigt wurde. Der Schacht wurde...

  12. Newsletter VII - February 09th to 15.02.2021th, 09 - News+ February XNUMXth - Nuclear waste - repository wanted

    for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It began operations on September 1, 2014. Its temporary headquarters is Berlin. Further offices are in Salzgitter and Bonn. The head of the authority is Wolfram König... Tasks The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management is the central federal authority for approval, supervision and regulation in the...

  13. Central support group of the federal government

    Olaf Lindner), who is also stationed in Sankt Augustin. The various organizational parts of the ZUB are spread across six locations in Germany, including Berlin, Meckenheim, Wiesbaden, Salzgitter and Sankt Augustin. An extensive fleet of vehicles and equipment is available to equip the ZUB. These include six BfS measuring vehicles (VW T 4) with appropriate technical equipment:...

  14. Entangled in the network of European uranium transports

    You can obtain approval for transport in European traffic in accordance with international guidelines. This approval has been confirmed for Germany by the Federal Institute for Radiation Protection in Salzgitter. Their “Section SE 1.1 Transports” is e.g. Currently by Dr. Frank Nitsche directed. As the federal government itself had to admit on July 16, 2001, the transport containers were sufficient...

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