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

    The average CO2 concentration in the earth's atmosphere measured by the Mauna Loa measuring station rose from originally around 280 ppm before the start of industrialization to now over 410 ppm. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the temperature increase compared to 1850-1900 was around 2010 °C by the 1,1s. 2023 was the hottest year on record; the temperatures were...

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

    and local overheating occurred. The pressure pipe and surrounding technological channels were damaged. Heavy water entered the gas cooling circuit. Due to the rapid rise in temperature, the coating of the fuel rods in the active zone was damaged. Due to the elimination of this barrier, the primary area was contaminated and subsequently...

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

    Bpb - Federal Agency for Civic Education Climate Policy By signing the "Paris Agreement", 195 countries committed themselves to curbing climate change and, if possible, limiting the global temperature increase to 1,5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial age. In order to achieve its specifications now and other ambitious goals in the future,...

  4. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    Climate change impacts: floods, droughts, heat waves, tropical storms, wildfires and rising sea levels. It is based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) medium scenario for temperature increase by the year 2100. Among other things, it is assumed that the average temperature will rise by 2,7 degrees Celsius... * Great Britain | EDF | Torness Nuclear Power Plant Failure Torness In...

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

    Age "Antarctica is crying out for action": UN boss Guterres called for decisive action before the world climate summit. Without a change of course, there is a risk of a devastating rise in temperatures. UN Secretary General António Guterres called on the international community to take decisive action against climate change three days before the start of the World Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai. The...

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

    The most important data was available to SPIEGEL in advance. [...] One thing is clear: If corporations put their plans into action, it will be impossible to achieve global climate goals such as limiting the average temperature rise to 1,5 degrees. "In order to comply with the 1,5 degree limit, a rapid, controlled decline in oil and gas production is essential," said Bartsch. »Instead, the...

  7. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    and local overheating occurred. The pressure pipe and surrounding technological channels were damaged. Heavy water entered the gas cooling circuit. Due to the rapid rise in temperature, the coating of the fuel rods in the active zone was damaged. Due to the elimination of this barrier, the primary area was contaminated and subsequently...

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

    (INES ? Class?) Akw Surry, VA, USA * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de July 22 Greenland | sea ​​level | Temperature rise Very bad news: Study shows how high the sea could rise Northwest Greenland was ice-free 400.000 years ago. It was as warm then as it is today. What's shocking is what...

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

    – and pays the suppliers the difference to the market price. There were fears from the outset that companies would take advantage of this and charge prices above market... * Methane | Temperature rise | Global warming Special satellite for methane is intended to detect leaks and large sources. Environmental organization is building satellite "MethaneSAT" to measure methane, which can detect even the smallest leaks. The...

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

    but also regions in southern and western Germany. “We have a rainfall deficit of one year. So it would have to rain for a year.”... * Climate policy | Minister of Transport | Temperature rise Analysis of transport climate policy Transport Minister is heading towards a three-degree world Would all other sectors and all states follow Transport Minister Wissing's climate policy as an example...

  11. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    News+ ** Eternity Poison | Radioactivity | Uranium | Kini Jödler | WiP poisons for eternity - uranium and its radioactive relatives The idea that we humans could counter the global temperature rise with super-hot nuclear furnaces (nuclear power plants) seems just as implausible to me as the idea that breeder reactors produce their own fuel; Perpetuum mobile would be possible...

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

    New IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there is no more time to waste in tackling the climate crisis. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: “The rise in temperatures over the last half century is the highest in 2000 years. The concentration of carbon dioxide is higher than it has been for at least two million years. The climate time bomb is ticking.” On...

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

    globally operating corporations that present themselves as climate-friendly. The result: The declared goals do not match what would be necessary... * Antarctica | Temperature increase Record low for sea ice in Antarctica Southern Ocean is more ice-free than ever since satellite measurements began Historical low: The long-stable sea ice around Antarctica has...

  14. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    those within a mile (around 1,6 kilometers) of the scene of the accident are once again urged to leave their homes. One of the tank cars of the derailed train was in danger of exploding after an extreme rise in temperature, it was said. This could cause splinters to fly up to a mile. There is also a high probability that toxic gases could be released... * Earthquakes...

  15. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    could. Global warming should be limited to "well below two degrees" compared to pre-industrial levels, it says. And efforts should be made to ensure that the temperature increase does not exceed 1,5 degrees. A study published at the beginning of the week now shows that these climate thresholds could be exceeded in just a few years. Noah Diffenbaugh from...

  16. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    as well as a sink for greenhouse gases. Climate change is exacerbating the existing pressures on land systems through permafrost degradation, desertification and land degradation as a result of rising temperatures, but also through the effects of extreme events. Land degradation itself is also becoming a driver of climate change, for example because drained peatlands release significant amounts of greenhouse gases...

  17. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    as well as a sink for greenhouse gases. Climate change is exacerbating the existing pressures on land systems through permafrost degradation, desertification and land degradation as a result of rising temperatures, but also through the effects of extreme events. Land degradation itself is also becoming a driver of climate change, for example because drained peatlands release significant amounts of greenhouse gases...

  18. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    on earth. NASA discovers numerous super-emitters According to the current state of science, the methane that we emit into the atmosphere is responsible for around 30 percent of the man-made temperature increase on our planet. In addition to the enormous mass of smaller sources, researchers have now been able to identify more than 50 super emitters. They sometimes come in the form of...

  19. THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017

    and an increase in the neutron flux in the core with the risk of hydrogen bubbles forming. (...) Fluctuation is a euphemistic (euphemistic, HB) term for temperature increases; Increased neutron flux indicates increased reactivity. In view of this 'very special situation', the nuclear regulator agreed to switch the ventilation system back on, even...

  20. 1986 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of safety at HTR

    The most frequently mentioned alleged advantages of the HTR are presented and commented on below: Characteristic: Low ratio of power density to heat capacity, ie slower temperature rise in the reactor (compared to the light water reactor or breeder) in the event of a cooling failure. Comment: This is not correct, but it only comes into play in event sequences with certain cooling failures...

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