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

    Cesium was washed out by rain, bound in minerals and transported deep into the ground. As a result, today only traces of this radionuclide are absorbed by plants and animals... * Switzerland | decommissioning | Mühleberg Fuel unloading in Mühleberg completed All nuclear fuel from the decommissioned Mühleberg nuclear power plant has been transported to the Zwilag interim storage facility in Würenlingen...

  2. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Theoretically, HSK would have still had a cross-connection to the emergency diesel of the shut down unit 2, but this diesel was also under maintenance... Nuclear power plantsPlag Beznau (Switzerland) Greenpeace has published a fact sheet on Beznau with a list of incidents. Afterwards, for example, two workers died in 1992 while they were in a room with argon that had not been pumped out...

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

    in the Federal Republic of Germany is referred to as civil protection and, together with disaster control, is summarized under the umbrella term of civil protection; The language used is different in Austria and Switzerland... Technical relief organization Budget volume €734 million (as of 2022) The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) is the German civil and disaster protection organization...

  4. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    unterhalb des Grenzwertes führte. Angeblich haben weder Betreiber noch Aufsichtsbehörde HSK diese Freisetzung registriert. Die Werte sind noch heute etwas erhöht... AtomkraftwerkePlag Mühleberg_(Schweiz) 4. - 5. Mai 1986 (INES 0 Klass.?) Akw THTR 300, DEU Freisetzung von Radioaktivität in die Umwelt bedeutet, wenn denn die INES-Regeln gelten INES Kategorie 3. (Kosten ca. 308,2 Millionen US$)...

  5. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    caused the pressure pipe to burst. 1100 kg of heavy water, melted radioactive material and radioactive gases were thrown into the reactor cavern... Nuclear power plants Plag Lucens, Switzerland 1969 The reactor was called the "Experimental Nuclear Power Plant Lucens (VAKL)". The owner was the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Nuclear Technology and the operator was the Energy of the West...

  6. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    20% noticed that the quick shutdown would not work when requested. The reactor was slowly shut down using the control rod motors... Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Leibstadt (Switzerland) * 2019-2010 | 2009-2000 | 1999-1990 | 1989-1980 | 1979-1970 | 1969-1960 | 1959-1950 | 1949-1940 | Before For work on 'THTR Rundbrief', 'reaktorpleite.de' and 'Map of the Nuclear World'...

  7. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Theoretically, HSK would have still had a cross-connection to the emergency diesel of the shut down unit 2, but this diesel was also under maintenance... Nuclear power plantsPlag Beznau (Switzerland) Greenpeace has published a fact sheet on Beznau with a list of incidents. Afterwards, for example, two workers died in 1992 while they were in a room with argon that had not been pumped out...

  8. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Mining company The Metals Company (TMC) carried out tests with the deep-sea mining vessel “Hidden Gem”, which the International Seabed Authority ISA approved at short notice. The Swiss Allseas also took part. She owns several special ships. The companies TMC and Allseas would create unique, diverse ecosystems directly on the...

  9. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    however, little to him. Because 11 years later, as governor, he gets the anger of the people of Carinthia for the consequences of the FPK deal, which he desperately wanted to prevent... * Switzerland | Axpo | EDF Axpo and partners: Extend nuclear power purchase agreement with EDF The energy group Axpo has extended a purchase agreement with the French electricity company EDF. With this kind...

  10. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Separate fuel elements from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... June 18th Switzerland | Climate Protection Act | Fearmongers | Cost explosion One in three people wants to build new nuclear power plants Switzerland should become climate neutral by 2050, that's what the population wants. The electricity required for this...

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

    Five months into Lula's term in office, it has actually already fallen by a third. However, it has not been proven whether there is a direct connection to the government's actions... * Switzerland | CO2 emissions | CCS CCS in the cement industry Swiss carbon dioxide is shipped to Iceland It sounds like a megalomaniacal plan: Swiss scientists want to reduce CO2 emissions...

  12. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    weigh heavy. It's about bribery and corruption. There are serious accusations surrounding the purchase of the HS 30 infantry fighting vehicle from Hispano-Suiza. Ordering in Switzerland is already unusual. Ultimately, the large order of 16.800 tanks initially planned goes to a company that has not yet manufactured such vehicles. [...] Already on May 20, 1958, one year after the...

  13. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    Galapagos Galapagos deal with Credit Suisse Ecuador swaps debt for conservation The Galapagos Islands are one of the most valuable ecosystems in the world. To ensure their preservation, the Swiss Credit Suisse made an offer to the government of Ecuador last month. This accepts - and thus seals the world's largest exchange of debt for nature to date. The Swiss...

  14. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    The Anglo-Dutch company leaves behind one of the most polluted areas in the world in the Niger Delta and thousands of outstanding environmental lawsuits. The Niger Delta is about the size of Switzerland and consists largely of waterways, islands and mangrove forests. What could have been one of the largest ecological niches in the world has been turned into an environmental disaster by oil production...

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

    you set in motion, promote or provoke, takes place far away from your own borders, as the country is protected by two large oceans... News+ background knowledge *** News+ ** Switzerland | Traffic light climate | CO2 emissions | CO2 removal | CO2 price traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels As a large industrial country, Germany is unlikely to...

  16. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    increased rapidly. The destructive effect on the ozone layer is still small, but these CFCs heat up the climate: their greenhouse effect corresponds to that of Switzerland's total CO2 emissions. Since the Montreal Protocol of 1987, the production and release of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have been banned worldwide. Since 2010 this has also applied to...

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

    poorer households would benefit. Their CO2 emissions are usually low because they usually live in small apartments and don't drive a car or only drive a small one. [...] Similar to Switzerland, where a CO2008 tax has been levied on fossil fuels since 2 and two thirds of the income from private consumption is paid back as a per capita amount. This happens analogously...

  18. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    Deposit insurance FDIC guaranteed. But a discussion has broken out in Washington about how the cap could be raised... *** March 20 Taxpayers pay Swiss bank's losses and bonuses Profits privatized, losses transferred The Swiss supervisory authorities have long watched the Credit Suisse crash. Questions about responsibility for the disaster...

  19. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Ineichen-Fleisch was Director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in Guy Parmelin's Department of Economics, Education and Research for eleven years until July 2022. Previously, she was Swiss ambassador and delegate for trade agreements as well as Switzerland's chief negotiator at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for four years. [...] Ineichen-Fleisch should know what Nestlé is looking for...

  20. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    Billion USD estimated. The total annual costs for environmental screening, contamination monitoring, water treatment, soil remediation and health assessment in the EEA plus Switzerland amount to 821 million to 170 billion euros... ** Back to: Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26th to March 4th newspaper article 2023 For work on 'THTR Rundbrief', 'reaktorpleite.de' and 'MAP...

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