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

    has been rejected by the Baden-Württemberg state government. The country is not planning to impose an obligation to install 620.000 heat pumps. The draft energy concept from the green-led environment ministry only contains target values, according to a spokesman. [...] The Bild newspaper, which first reported on the issue, was also told that there were definitely no plans in the country based on...

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

    Chemical industry, were destroyed? And where was their voice in the fateful decision to divide climate protection between three ministries, instead of – what would have been right – making and strengthening the Environment Ministry into the Sustainability Ministry, with veto rights in the cabinet against climate-damaging proposals and laws? In addition, in general and even among climate experts...

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

    Increased radioactivity: Area at the "Wismut-Teich" closed Due to increased radioactivity, an area on the site of the former Steinach opencast mine in the Sonneberg district is closed. According to the Ministry of the Environment, a bank area of ​​around 1.500 square meters on the Wismut pond is affected. It is no longer allowed to be entered. Measurements a year ago showed increased levels of gamma radiation and...

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

    toxic If you want to know how risky it is to produce fuel elements from uranium hexafluoride for use in nuclear power plants, you will first find terms such as criticality safety, accident prevention and contamination controls on the relevant website of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment under the heading "Safety and environmental protection" - and then you will inevitably think so at Chernobyl...

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

    | Rosatom | Framatome Dear friends, the signs have been clearly on the wall for a long time - but we had to keep pushing for months until the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment has finally confirmed to the media what was so obvious: the Kremlin group Rosatom is in France the French nuclear company Framatome - a subsidiary of the state-owned EdF -...

  6. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Russian and French companies have founded a joint venture for Eastern European nuclear power plants in the Lingen fuel element factory. A spokesman for the Environment Ministry in Hanover said this on Wednesday. As the nuclear licensing authority, the ministry must decide on an application as to whether fuel assemblies for Eastern European nuclear power plants will also be licensed in Lingen in the future...

  7. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    each found to have a diameter of approximately 1 to 2 millimeters. A third press drum had a wall-penetrating crack over a length of around 16 centimeters. The Ministry of the Environment announced this in a press release this morning. Radioactive waste is stored in press drums and then pressed... * Linke | Peace movement | Wagenknecht Black Paul...

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

    there is also only talk of compromises and negotiations... * Lingen fuel element factory | Framatomes | Expansion plans for the Lingen fuel element factory: Nuclear power plant opponents criticize expansion plans. According to regional anti-nuclear power groups, the Federal Environment Ministry wants to examine whether the fuel element factory at the nuclear power plant in Lingen (Emsland district) can be expanded. The opponents of nuclear power from...

  9. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    Framatomes. The fuel element factory, together with the Gronau uranium enrichment plant, must finally be shut down. This is a question of credibility, as the Federal Environment Ministry rightly says - but then does nothing... January 21.1.2023, XNUMX: Rally at the Lingen nuclear power plant Shut down nuclear power plants, end nuclear deals! More than ten years ago, the federal government came to the realization that...

  10. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    The adoption process was completed by the European Council on June 28, 2021. Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 came into force on July 29, 2021... Germany... On February 18, 2019, the Ministry of the Environment presented a draft bill for a Federal Climate Protection Act (KSG) - without the consent of the Federal Chancellery. Following the decisions of the Climate Cabinet, the draft law was passed on October 19, 2019...

  11. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    2. BMUV: Closure of Lingen and Gronau? And in the middle of these plans for Framatome's drastic eastern expansion, we received a letter from the Federal Environment Ministry saying that the BMUV now thinks that "nuclear fuel production" in Germany should actually be ended, "with a view to the credibility of Germany's nuclear phase-out". We can only agree with that, but then it has to...

  12. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    is massively delayed. That's worrying. The determination of a final storage location for highly radioactive waste will be delayed by at least 15 years. This was announced by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment. This also has an impact on the city of Neckarwestheim (Heilbronn district). There are 135 castors stored in the interim storage facility. They will therefore remain there for many decades... * Expansion...

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

    from St. Petersburg to Rotterdam (Netherlands). There is uranium on board that is to be brought to Lingen by truck, according to a spokesman... * Final storage facility | Nuclear waste highly radioactive | Ministry of the Environment Information from the Ministry of the Environment Search for a final storage facility for nuclear waste is taking longer than planned According to the law, a final storage facility for highly radioactive waste should actually be found by 2031....

  14. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    Some things are already known - we can now show a comprehensive picture of this Russian Gazprom lobby for the first time, which we will continually update... ** September 19th Isar | Valve leak Ministry of the Environment - New situation with nuclear reserve after Isar-2 leak The Federal Environment Ministry wants to review the plans for a nuclear power plant standby reserve after a report of damage to the Isar-2 reactor. "The...

  15. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    Talked about... * Lubmin interim storage facility | Nuclear waste barrels | Corrosion Rust holes discovered in barrels with nuclear waste In Lubmin, rust was found on barrels with radioactive waste. The Ministry of the Environment has already assessed the danger of the defects. The nuclear waste disposal plant (EWN) in Lubmin discovered corrosion damage to...

  16. Newsletter XXXIV 2022 - August 22nd to 31st - News+ Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of damage to pipes hidden

    There is always an acute risk that further cracks will develop and grow - to the point that the pipes can spontaneously burst or tear off. According to the broadcast, this was also confirmed by two experts commissioned by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment. Reactor safety experts warn that even a rupture of just one of the more than 16.000 thin-walled tubes can cause an accident...

  17. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    had not been sufficiently filled. It should be added that the operator did not report this 2001 incident to the supervisory authority. In November 2001, the Stuttgart Ministry of the Environment reported that contaminated water had escaped from Philippsburg I due to a defect in a factory drainage valve... * August 12, 2000, submarine K-141_Kursk, RUS Wikipedia...

  18. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    The two major cities at the time "served primarily the purpose of deterring the Soviet Union," the traditional Swiss newspaper Der Bund quoted him as saying... * TÜV Süd | Report Federal Environment Ministry sharply criticizes TÜV paper on nuclear power plants Berlin A report on the two Bavarian nuclear power plants has been heavily criticized. The paper does not meet the nuclear law requirements, so...

  19. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    given. During repairs to a fuel element, a fuel rod fell out of the gripping device in the water-filled storage pool and was deformed, as the Environment Ministry in Schleswig-Holstein, which is responsible for nuclear supervision, announced. Radiological measurements demonstrated the tightness and integrity of the shell. Nuclear fuel was not leaked, radioactive aerosols were...

  20. INES! What's happening?

    are located in the federal states, while the legislative competence in nuclear law rests with the federal government. The German nuclear regulatory authorities are usually assigned to the relevant environment ministry and supervise the safety of all relevant areas of the nuclear facilities in the respective federal state and approve all significant safety-related changes....

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