1. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    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...

  2. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    de Kernkraftwerk Forsmark Am 25. Juli 2006 wurde der Reaktor Forsmark-1 nach einem Kurzschluss in der Umspannstation, über die das AKW seinen Strom ans allgemeine Netz abführt, von der Stromversorgung automatisch getrennt. Dies führte zu einem Lastabwurf des Generators und die im Reaktor produzierte Wärme konnte nicht mehr in elektrische Leistung umgesetzt werden. Der Reaktor wurde über eine...

  3. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    Wikipedia Forsmark nuclear power plant On July 25, 2006, the Forsmark-1 reactor was automatically disconnected from the power supply after a short circuit in the substation through which the nuclear power plant supplies its electricity to the general grid. This led to load shedding of the generator and the heat produced in the reactor could no longer be converted into electrical power. The reactor was...

  4. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    191 megawatts (MW), but 155 bids with a volume of 342 MW were submitted. Of these, the BNetzA was able to accept 79 bids with a volume of 193 MW... * Renewables | Power supply | Battery storage Future electricity system Sun in the basement A more decentralized power supply with storage makes up to 30 percent more renewable energy possible in the network....

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

    Photovoltaic systems in the Gobi and other desert regions are an important measure to implement a green and low-carbon energy transition and to build a new energy system... * Power supply | Disinformation | Bild-Zeitung No, Germany doesn't need nuclear power from France - Bild is lying again The fact that the tabloid magazine Bild has a very tense relationship with the truth...

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

    asked to fix this issue, the TMI incident could have been avoided. The direct impact of a tornado in 1998 resulted in the complete failure of the external power supply, destroying the alarm, communication and emergency systems. There was a threat of a nuclear meltdown... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Atom power plantsPlag Davis-Besse_(USA) 8...

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

    which is scheduled to start at the end of this year and will be able to detect and measure methane emissions and leaks worldwide with unprecedented precision from spring 2024... * Nuclear phase-out | Electricity price | Power supply One month of nuclear phase-out: Electricity even became cheaper One month after the shutdown of the last three nuclear power plants in Germany, there are hardly any visible effects on the power supply....

  8. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    Despite the fact that Putin turned off our gas (no, we didn't sanction it) and in April we completed the nuclear phase-out planned by the Union and FDP, a secure power supply in Germany. In some cases, the blackout scaremongering is more reminiscent of the screaming warnings about alleged “vaccine deaths”... * France | EDF Framatome | Force de frappe nuclear power in...

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

    How serious they were about their newfound love for nuclear power, the AfD politicians poured fuel into the national political fire in the nuclear debate. April 24 Renewables | Wind energy | Power supply Wind energy in the North Sea is expected to boom Wind energy from the North Sea is expected to make a significant contribution to Europe's electricity supply in the future. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and representatives of other...

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

    be switched off. While some parties want to keep a back door open for nuclear reactors, the federal government remains inconsistent when it comes to the nuclear industry. The reactors were not necessary for electricity supply in Germany anyway. The dangerous extension of the running time via a stretch operation, which was also advocated by the Greens in the traffic light coalition, served primarily as...

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

    small chemical mediator molecules – can pick up electrons from the photosystems at a much earlier point in time than previously thought... * Ukraine | Security | Zaporizhia | IAEA power supply only via one line “Precarious situation”: IAEA raises alarm about safety at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant... The situation at Europe's largest nuclear power plant is precarious, warns the International...

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

    I Daiichi, JPN Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_der_Katastrophe_in_Japan_von_2011 - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Fukushima_Daiichi Due to the damage to the power supply and cooling system caused by the great Tōhoku earthquake on September 11th. March 2011 and the subsequent tsunami, as well as due to missing cables for mobile power generators,...

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

    and fires and nuclear meltdowns occurred. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf - Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_der_Katastrophe_in_Japan_von_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 occurred in...

  14. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    To increase pressure against longer nuclear power plant lifetimes. Nuclear power in Germany must finally come to an end by April 15th at the latest! The winter has clearly shown that the three nuclear power plants are not needed for our electricity supply even in times of crisis... * Resistance | Blackout | Fear campaign nuclear phase-out, blackout & perfect fear campaigns “If the Wyhl nuclear power plant is not built,...

  15. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    PV parking lots generate around 9 to 11 gigawatts of power, about the same as ten nuclear power plants - and at a fraction of the price. So has France found a magic bullet for power supply? At first glance, there is a lot to be said for parking spaces as PV locations: they are plentiful, easily accessible, and no additional areas need to be sealed... * February 16, 2011...

  16. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    However, the engineers were not able to restart the system, as the authorities announced. Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir told Pakistani media that work was underway to restore power across the country, including the capital Islamabad. He assured that this would be achieved within the following twelve hours. The outage caused panic in some places...

  17. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    in Berlin more on natural gas and hydrogen. But the plan has its pitfalls. Will Germany get through the energy crisis without nuclear power – this question is once again being debated. The power supply in the Federal Republic is secure, even if the last nuclear reactors go offline, the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWK) assured the German Press Agency (dpa) on Wednesday....

  18. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    yesterday they were conducting a signal test for the backup diesel generator when they discovered a leak in the cooling system. Technicians manually stopped the test, which caused the country's power supply to temporarily decrease... * Grafenrheinfeld | Nuclear waste Nuclear waste, no thanks!: United protest against planned transports to Grafenrheinfeld The power plant operator Preussen Elektra...

  19. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    it triggered a short circuit on the primary side of the block transformer of block 1. The resulting arc caused a cable fire to break out. The fire in the main cable duct destroyed the power supply and control lines of 5 main coolant pumps (6 are in operation for one block). A core meltdown could have threatened because reactor 1 could no longer be cooled properly. The fire...

  20. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    Information from EDF; nervous government in Paris is putting pressure on. There are also fears of power outages in the winter in Great Britain, as France has moved from being an exporter of electricity to an importer. The electricity situation in France is definitely not good. Using the example of the Cattenom nuclear power plant, we have just highlighted the "rise and decline of nuclear energy", as...

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