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

    Or parabens, which are preservatives in cosmetics and foods. Likewise, many pesticides used in agriculture contain hormone-like chemicals... * Renewables | Power supply 56 percent at the beginning of the year Renewables are producing more and more electricity in Germany Despite all the doomsday predictions of a renaissance in nuclear power, renewable energy is still...

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

    The construction of the nuclear power plant has put Poland in a quandary between US and French interests. The fundamental political decision to make nuclear energy a pillar of the national electricity supply dates back to Donald Tusk's first term as Prime Minister of Poland. In 100, 2009 percent owned by the Treasury, the “Polish Atomic Energy Company” was established as the project sponsor...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    ten year old child. Israeli Homeland Security has given the all-clear for the time being: Israeli residents no longer have to stay near shelters. * Renewable | Power supply | Nuclear debate A year without nuclear power: And Germany still exists The gloomy forecasts for Germany after the last nuclear power plants were switched off have not come true. The topic can...

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

    supply, have unlimited operating licenses. News+ Background knowledge Top of page Background knowledge The map of the nuclear world A decentralized, sustainable power supply with sun, wind, water and geothermal energy etc. can be achieved in just a few years... * The "Internal Search" Nuclear phase-out | Electricity generation | WNISR December 21, 2023 - Plan for new 1000 nuclear power plants by 2050?...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    120 megawatts (MW) and a capacity of 280 megawatt hours (MWh). According to Grimm, completion is planned for the second half of 2026. The new system is intended to increase the stability of the power supply. Substation and lines already in place The location is particularly suitable for battery storage, as the former nuclear power plant has a substation and corresponding...

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

    killed and several others injured. Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) March 13 Artificial intelligence and nuclear power Tractebel report on powering data centers with modern reactors The Belgian company Tractebel (part of the French energy group Engie) and its subsidiary RED have published a white paper on...

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

    Lingen: RWE and BP plan large-scale hydrogen production For the energy supplier RWE, Lingen in the Emsland is a power plant location with tradition and a hub for the German electricity supply. In addition to two nuclear power plants that have been shut down, Lingen is also home to the Emsland natural gas power plant complex. At this gas site for the medium and peak load range, RWE is already building...

  8. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    During a test in another nuclear power plant, diesel was found to be the cause of total failure. If the external power grid and the reserve grid failed (emergency power situation), the power supply to dissipate the decay heat in the reactor core would not have been secured at Tricastin 3/4; in the worst case, it could have led to a core meltdown in both blocks... Nuclear power plantsPlag Tricastin_(France). ..

  9. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    leak reported at Japan's Shika NPP following earthquake [...] The company said at a press conference that about 3.500 liters of oil leaked, knocking out part of the external power system. The total oil leak amounted to around 19.800 liters, of which around 100 liters came from a transformer in block 2... Translation with...

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

    were inundated by a tidal wave that was higher than calculated in the safety analyses. The existing flood protection systems proved to be unreliable. Fortunately, the power supply could be maintained using emergency diesel. Several safety devices and pumps failed after an emergency shutdown. The event only became public days later...

  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”

    the UK to reduce carbon emissions and increase its energy independence. The departure of an important investor is now disrupting all plans for a cheap electricity supply. Similar to France, Great Britain also continues to build modern nuclear power plants. The new facility is located in Somerset, close to the older Hinkley nuclear power stations...

  12. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    "Large parts of Northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden" were "radioactively contaminated." Due to an operating error, a cable network caught fire. All protective systems failed: the emergency power supply, the emergency cooling system and the display devices in the control room. 11 pumps stopped running, and only because of chance the twelfth pump to the power supply of the functional reactor 2...

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

    with a gross output of 1.720 MW unexpectedly went off the grid on Sunday, November 19.11.2023th, 19 at 10:XNUMX p.m. Coal and gas power plants had to step in and start up as backup power plants to secure Finland's electricity supply. According to previous investigations, the cause is an "incorrect temperature measurement in the generator's cooling system." After the repairs...

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

    There was an officially concealed incident (station blackout = total power failure) in which we were only just on the verge of a core meltdown. Due to a failure of the external power supply, the pumps that are used to cool the reactor were suddenly without power. Afterwards, the emergency power supply also failed and the operators had to...

  15. 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

    and use it profitably? In the USA, a research team has found a pioneering, highly efficient way to convert CO2 into fuel. The process could warm houses and contribute to electricity supply. [...] The process of carbon capture and conversion begins with capture based on an alkaline solution. It first fixes the carbon dioxide from...

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

    Newsletter XL 2023 October 1st to 7th *** 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 made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    cover more than half of electricity consumption. Wind and solar supplied five percent more electricity than in the previous year. Photovoltaic systems in particular are making an increasingly larger contribution to electricity supply. Renewable energies from wind and sun covered more than half of Germany's electricity consumption in the first three quarters of this year. Exactly it was around 52 percent - an increase of...

  18. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    guarantee. As a final reserve, an electricity-independent cooling system powered by the steam from the decay heat came into action in both reactor blocks until the power supply was restored after about an hour (source: SKI report IRS)... Nuclear power plantsPlag Doel (Belgium) 1981 October 1, 1981 ( INES 3 | NAMS 1,3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR Reprocessing of...

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

    "Large parts of Northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden" were "radioactively contaminated." Due to an operating error, a cable network caught fire. All protective systems failed: the emergency power supply, the emergency cooling system and the display devices in the control room. 11 pumps stopped running, and only because of chance the twelfth pump to the power supply of the functional reactor 2...

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

    and fires and nuclear meltdowns occurred. (Cost approximately US$260.000 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de Chronology_of_Disaster_in_Japan_of_2011 Due to the damage to the power supply and cooling system caused by the Great Tōhoku earthquake of March 11, 2011 and the subsequent tsunami, as well as due to missing cables for mobile power generators it came in...

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