1. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    business delegation that had ever visited Namibia. The Green politician signed the declaration of intent for the construction of “one of the world’s largest green hydrogen plants”. The location for this will be Lüderitz and the surrounding area. Habeck told the German-language Namibian "Allgemeine(n) Zeitung" (AZ): "The focus is that we - if desired - support Namibia, clean,...

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

    Gürbüz, the co-founder of the Turkish environmental protection organization Ekosfer, how the Turkish public perceives the entry into the nuclear age. Interview: Horst Hamm Mr. Gürbüz, the first of four reactors at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant site on the Turkish Mediterranean coast is scheduled to go into operation in 2024. What does the Turkish public say about this project? It's been 23 years since the...

  3. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    Applause if it is only directed against “illegal migrants”... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Castor He shines and shines and shines Where should the nuclear waste go? The search for the best possible location for an underground repository extends the dangerous interim storage process by decades. The search is for the “best possible” location, a place for the highly radioactive legacies of...

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

    Version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - plants and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then...

  5. 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

    we should contact Framatome GmbH. MSZ JSC is a manufacturer of fuel elements, including from re-enriched uranium from reprocessing. The BMUV has no information on the radiological conditions at the MSZ JSC site.” The delivery from the uranium factory in Lingen, which belongs to the French company Framatome, is to be delivered to the “MSZ” plant, which belongs to the Russian TVEL...

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

    the security systems were severely damaged. Vandellòs 1 was then permanently shut down. (Costs approximately US$931 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Vandellós (Spain) Two reactors originally supplied electricity at the site. Vandellós-1 was a 500 MW gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor (GCR), whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was completed on February 11, 1972 in...

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

    President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh signed. The pilot operation in 2021-2022 has already confirmed the economic, environmental and social feasibility of operating the Zuuvch-Ovoo site, said Orano. The project was developed by Badrakh Energy, the joint venture between Orano Mining and Mongolian state-owned company MonAtom. The Franco-Mongolian...

  8. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain 1957 Windscale was put into operation in the 1940s. The site was initially responsible for the inspection and packaging of small arms ammunition and later, aided by its isolated location, for plutonium production for the British...

  9. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    changed without the knowledge of the nuclear regulator and the work processes were shortened... There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities 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...

  10. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - plants and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then...

  11. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - plants and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then...

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

    At the end," BGZ spokeswoman Janine Tokarski looks ahead, "we expect around 1800 containers throughout Germany that are intended for final storage." The Federal Society for Final Storage (BGE) expects the determination of a final storage location by Janine Tokarski "in the 2040s at the earliest". Another 20 to 30 years are expected after that...

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

    Election campaigner Markus Söder (CSU) recently told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Different electricity price zones would be a big mistake. Anyone who talks about such zones is putting an ax on Germany as an industrial location and endangering southern Germany as the industrial heart of the republic.” Söder’s statement is grossly exaggerated. But what is actually true: If the German electricity wholesale trade were divided into two...

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

    Of course there are also interested groups from the surrounding area of ​​North Rhine-Westphalia! The agenda is still being determined - we would be very happy if Würgassen in particular were represented as a planned nuclear waste site on the eastern border of the country. Nuclear (waste) policy in North Rhine-Westphalia does not only take place in the Rhineland and Münsterland. Many thanks to the BI in Ahaus for the invitations! Nuclear-free...

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

    compared to conventional mortar - and at the same time be cheaper and more robust... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Schacht Konrad Plan for nuclear waste storage Delayed by another 17 years The location for the storage of low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste is still open. There is hardly any space in the Konrad shaft. GÖTTINGEN taz | The search for a final repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste...

  16. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    the security systems were severely damaged. Vandellòs 1 was then permanently shut down. (Costs approximately US$931 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Vandellós (Spain) Two reactors originally supplied electricity at the site. Vandellós-1 was a 500 MW gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor (GCR), whose construction began on June 21, 1968 and was completed on February 11, 1972 in...

  17. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Hintergrund Die Produktionsgenossenschaft Majak war die erste und, mit einem 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...

  18. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - plants and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then...

  19. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - plants and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then...

  20. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    was not secured, in the worst case it could have led to a core meltdown in both blocks... Nuclear power plantsPlag Tricastin_(France) Old reactors on the Rhône from 1980/81 The Tricastin site is always due to a long list of breakdowns and accidents, especially in 2008 hit the headlines again. The facility is located in the Drôme department in southern France...

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