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

    Türkiye | Rosatom | Akkuyu Turkey about to enter the nuclear age The first Turkish nuclear power plant is due to go online soon. We asked Özgür Gürbüz, 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, at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant site on the Turkish Mediterranean coast...

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

    be lower as a result. What use is a black zero in the federal budgets of the 2020s if series of extreme weather events hit the country and its people in the middle of the century? Reduce environmentally harmful subsidies The traffic light must use the fiasco with the climate and transformation fund, in which there is now a billion dollar hole, constructively - namely to redesign its...

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

    fossil fuels have gotten worse. [...] The eagerly watched court case is the culmination of almost ten years of effort. Lliuya, with the support of the environmental organization Germanwatch, filed his lawsuit in November 2015 with the Essen regional court, where RWE has its headquarters. The court initially dismissed the lawsuit, but in 2017 the farmer from Peru successfully...

  4. 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

    in Lingen | Rosatom | Framatome Anti-nuclear organizations protest: No uranium for Putin's Rosatom No enriched uranium is allowed to be delivered to Russia from Lingen, environmental NGOs complain. This violates EU rules. BERLIN taz | Four environmental organizations are protesting against the planned exports of enriched uranium from Lingen to Russia. The main criticism of Broadcast,...

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

    act and still maintain a positive self-image. Chosen ignorance thus offers an opportunity to evade moral demands. Whether it's the climate crisis, news of war or the environmentally harmful origins of our clothing: we don't always want to have all the information we could get. Because even if the additional knowledge could be helpful for us, it...

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

    LNG | Fracking | Methane US liquefied natural gas from fracking is much more harmful than coal LNG causes more greenhouse gases than all other fossil fuels, and it also causes massive damage to health and the environment. The ARD documentary “LNG at any price” dismantles the myth of the supposedly clean liquefied natural gas LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) from the USA. On a research trip through the production country...

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

    With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... October 6th Neckarwestheim | Radioactivity | Leak Ministry: No danger to people or the environment (standard report) Leak in the nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim: Radioactive liquid leaked The Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant is currently being dismantled. Now the Ministry of the Environment is reporting...

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

    ist er 20 Jahre alt und hat damit seine projektierte Lebensdauer erreicht. Geschenk an den Planeten Erde Angefangen hatte alles bereits 1998. Damals verkündete der dänische Energie- und Umweltminister Svend Auken pathetisch, dass das Königreich Dänemark riesige Windparks auf See errichten werde, als Geschenk an den Planeten. Nach ein paar kleineren Testfeldern wurde schließlich die Südküste der...

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

    and give up climate protection blockade The current practice of federal transport route planning is outdated and therefore not sustainable. In a brochure published today, the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) explains what mistakes are being made in the current plans to expand motorways and federal highways and shows how sustainable mobility could be achieved. A...

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

    * California sues oil companies for misleading Accusations of misleading California is suing the world's largest oil companies over climate change The US state of California is taking action against "the major polluters" ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhilips, Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute industry association. The statement of claim consists of 135 pages. The US state of California is suing...

  11. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Aronczyk. More than 100 influencers have worked with major oil companies since 2017, according to a count by the climate news site DeSmog. [...] “Fossil energy companies are the biggest polluters in the world, they are deeply loathed by young people,” says Duncan Meisel. “For anyone watching these videos, the unfollow button won’t be far away.” * United Kingdom |...

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

    Greenpeace is convinced that the federal government is standing in its own way in the fight against climate change. The biggest hurdle is the subsidies that Berlin pays for energy-intensive industries. The environmental organization Greenpeace is calling for billions in climate-damaging subsidies for German industry to be reduced. According to a study by...

  13. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    to power. They can lie so that the beams bend, they can act out their incompetence and corruption performatively, they can bend the law and show how little human life and the environment are worth to them. They no longer need the mask of bourgeois honest men and women. They are obviously elected, not despite who they are, they are elected because they...

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

    August 19th Ahaus | Jülich | Castor | Gronau rally against Castor transports The Münsterland action alliance against nuclear plants, the "Stop Westcastor" Jülich action alliance, the Gronau Environment Working Group, the SOFA (immediate nuclear phase-out) initiative in Münster and the AgiEL alliance (nuclear power opponents in Emsland) are calling together with the citizens' initiative " No nuclear waste in Ahaus" to participate...

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

    If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de August 12th Niger supplies uranium for France and keeps the nuclear waste Military coup in Niger: uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons? For years, France's nuclear power plants were powered by uranium from Niger. The environmental and health damage in the country is enormous. What follows from this politically? The...

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

    GmbH (EWN) in Greifswald/Lubmin. The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Environment Ministry announced on Friday in Schwerin that corrosion was found on three barrels for storing radioactive waste that were to be dried in a facility. The barrels were filled with wet mud. When the damaged area was examined, one of the barrels was found to have rusted through...

  17. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    had given. The story of this accident, which almost led to the closure of Biblis, as well as the cover-up by RWE and German politics, in which the then Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer was also involved, was examined in detail by "Spiegel" in 1988... Spiegel 11 December 1988 “We were incredibly lucky” For almost a year, the operators...

  18. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Reactor suffered a 30 percent core meltdown due to a blocked cooling channel. The majority of the fission products could be filtered off. However, most of the radioactive gases were released into the environment, resulting in one of the largest iodine-131 releases in nuclear history. The accident was kept secret for a long time... Accident in 1959...

  19. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    das britische Atomwaffenprogramm produziert wurde, dient der Standort heute als Wiederaufbereitungsanlage für Atommüll. Der Großbrand von 1957 sowie zahlreiche radioaktive Lecks kontaminierten die Umwelt und setzten die Bevölkerung erhöhten Strahlenwerten aus... Dieser Vorfall sowie mehrere andere Freisetzungen von Radioaktivität sind in Wikipedia de nicht mehr zu finden. Wikipedia de Sellafield...

  20. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    nötig ist... Die Nukleare Kette Three Mile Island, USA [...] Bis heute verhindert effektive Lobbyarbeit der Atomindustrie eine aussagekräftige wissenschaftliche Analyse der Folgen für Umwelt und Gesundheit. [...] Mehr als zwei Millionen Menschen lebten damals im Umkreis von 80 km. Am 28. März 1979 ereignete sich dort die bis dahin schwerste Katastrophe der zivilen Atomenergie. Eine Notklappe...