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    sagen Expertinnen und Experten – aber forschen intensiv, ob sie damit wirklich richtig liegen. Nicht, dass was übersehen wird. Es ist eine Krux, wie Florence-Nathalie Sentuc weiß, Leiterin Stilllegung und Zwischenlagerung bei der Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit: „Die Zwischenlagerung hat keine andere Chance, sie muss eben so lange erfolgen, bis das Endlager da ist.“ * Vereinigte...

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

    freizublasen hatten zur Folge, dass sämtliche verklemmten Kugeln zerbrachen und Teile der Anlage verbogen wurden. Der Reaktor wurde vorübergehend abgeschaltet. Am 1. September 1989 wurde die Stilllegung des THTR-300 aufgrund von Unstimmigkeiten über die weitere Finanzierung beschlossen. Wikipedia en Nuclear power accidents by country#Germany Übersetzung mit https://www.DeepL.com/Translator...

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

    The pipe had been leaking since August 2004, but this was only discovered on April 19, 2005. For the incident, the British nuclear company BNG (British Nuclear Group), which is responsible for decommissioning the Sellafield reactors, was ordered to pay 16 pounds (around 2006 euros) for negligence on October 500.000, 750.000. The cost of this event is estimated at 76...

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

    stillgelegtes Atomkraftwerk wieder ans Netz gehen würde. [...] Das im Jahr 2022 stillgelegte Atomkraftwerk befindet sich direkt am Lake Michigan. Das 800-Megawatt-Kraftwerk sollte nach seiner Stilllegung vor ein paar Jahren zurückgebaut und demontiert werden. Doch nun die Kehrtwende. Der Versuch, das Kraftwerk wieder in Betrieb zu nehmen, ist Teil der Klimapolitik von US-Präsident Joe Biden....

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    weiterlaufen, um den Verbrauch von Erdgas zu senken. Für sieben Blöcke ist nun Schluss. Ende März werden in Deutschland sieben weitere Braunkohle-Kraftwerksblöcke endgültig stillgelegt. Die Stilllegung war bei allen Blöcken schon früher geplant gewesen. Um während der Energiepreiskrise Gas zu sparen, hatte die Bundesregierung aber fünf Blöcke aus der sogenannten Versorgungsreserve geholt. Zwei...

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

    Sierra Club Canada protested against the life extension in 2013 and called for an immediate shutdown of the nuclear power plant due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing releases of tritium. In June 2010, unexpected beta-gamma radiation from reactors 5 to 8 was released into water. On March 14, 2011, 73.000 liters of water flowed, lightly laced with tritium...

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

    Bohunice, SVK A mechanical failure in the fuel loading of the KS 150 reactor caused severe corrosion and released radioactivity in the plant area, requiring a complete shutdown. (Costs approx. 1965 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant On February 22, 1977, the plant was severely damaged while being refilled with fuel rods...

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

    Solar power systems with a nominal output of more than 14.000 megawatts are expected to be newly installed. This alone can produce around half of the electricity that was lost due to the closure of the last three nuclear power plants. If the photovoltaic expansion continues like this, we will probably completely use these three nuclear power plants in the fall of 2025 in terms of the amount of energy generated...

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

    and, according to the daily El Pais, begins with the closure of unit 1 of the Almaraz nuclear power plant (1.049 MW gross output) in November 2027, with unit 2 to follow in October 2028. The further closures affect the two nuclear power plants at the Asco site in eastern Spain, each with a gross output of just over 1.000 MW. This is followed by the Cofrentes nuclear power plants (1.100 MW), block 2 of the nuclear power plant...

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

    French nuclear power plant type EPR. In addition to Hinkley Point, a second project, Sizewell C, is also planned. Without the new nuclear power plants, Great Britain's nuclear power capacity will decline sharply over the next ten years due to the impending decommissioning of old reactors... * State power | Right-wing extremists in the security authorities Assessment of the Hannibal network Waiting for “Day X” The right-wing extremist group...

  11. 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”

    It is now a decision. BRUSSELS dpa | Germany is allowed to pay the energy company RWE 2,6 billion euros in state aid for the coal phase-out. “The aid will compensate RWE for the early closure of its lignite-fired power plants in the Rhenish region,” the EU Commission announced in Brussels on Monday. According to the German coal phase-out law, electricity will no longer be produced from 2038...

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

    has been initiated, which aims to decontaminate Sellafield, reduce the risk situation and reduce costs. According to an October 2018 report, the decommissioning of Sellafield is scheduled to be completed in 2120. The cost is estimated at £121 billion... Similar nuclear factories exist all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and...

  13. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Journey into the very beginnings of the resistance against the THTR, which initially had a difficult time in the very conservative Hamm, but then gained noticeable momentum and led to its closure after 14 years. Important foundations for this success were laid down in the very first years by focusing on understandable communication with the population and comprehensible, carefully...

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

    Equilibrium", 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? Aptim-Amentum Alaska Decommissioning (A3D) has re-awarded the contract to decommission a historic US reactor received a six-year, $95,5 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for decommissioning and...

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

    Newsletter XLI 2023 October 8th to 14th... *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry . Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 September 17th to 23rd *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military Nuclear industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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

    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,...

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

    not be ruled out. (INES level 5)... August 9th Ahaus | Jülich | Gronau | Garching Dear people, on Sunday around 40 people called for nuclear disarmament and the decommissioning of the UAA in front of the UAA Gronau on Hiroshima Day. Unfortunately, exactly the opposite is happening in Gronau at the moment: Urenco wants to present the plans for new buildings and more to the Gronau building committee tomorrow, Thursday, August 10.8th, at 18 p.m....

  19. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    All of this: Our best tool is attention - keep an eye on your fingers! The described effects of these quasi-mafia-like structures were observed not only in the planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of nuclear power plants, but also in other work on nuclear industry facilities - worldwide - and so we in Germany are definitely not at the end of our work yet. ..

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

    Sierra Club Canada protested against the life extension in 2013 and called for an immediate shutdown of the nuclear power plant due to aging, increasing radiation and increasing releases of tritium. In June 2010, unexpected beta-gamma radiation from reactors 5 to 8 was released into water. On March 17, 2011, 73.000 liters of water flowed, lightly laced with tritium...

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