1. Newsletter

    Rocky Flats, USA May 12, 1988 (INES 2) Civaux nuclear power plant, FRA May 13, 1978 (INES ? Klass.?) AVR Jülich nuclear power plant, DEU May 18, 1974 (India's 1st atomic bomb test) Pokhran, IND May 21, 1946 ( INES 4) Fatal accident in Los Alamos, NM, USA May 22, 1968 (Broken Arrow) USS Scorpion sank south of the Azores, USA May 24, 1958 (INES ? Class?) NRU reactor Chalk River, CAN May 25 2009 (North Korea's 2nd atomic bomb test)...

  2. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    Rocky Flats, USA May 12, 1988 (INES 2) Civaux nuclear power plant, FRA May 13, 1978 (INES ? Klass.?) AVR Jülich nuclear power plant, DEU May 18, 1974 (India's 1st atomic bomb test) Pokhran, IND May 21, 1946 ( INES 4) Fatal accident in Los Alamos, NM, USA May 22, 1968 (Broken Arrow) USS Scorpion sank south of the Azores, USA May 24, 1958 (INES ? Class?) NRU reactor Chalk River, CAN May 25 2009 (North Korea's 2nd atomic bomb test)...

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

    Answer. A minute that changed everything: At exactly 1.23:26 a.m. on April 1986, 4, what was later described as the first catastrophic reactor accident occurred in reactor unit 50 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The reactor exploded after a failed experiment, at least XNUMX people died immediately after the disaster in the nuclear power plant, thousands fell ill...

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

    "Each one contains tens of times what was released in Chernobyl," says Kurt Schweizer, one of the plaintiffs who lives in neighboring Offingen. He fears that a serious accident could make entire districts uninhabitable for centuries. [...] Castor -Containers are the subject of international research The Society for Interim Storage conducts research with international...

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

    were killed, and we want to know why each one was killed.« * April 6, 1993 (INES 4 | NAMS 4,8) Tomsk 7 nuclear plant, RUS In 1993, a radioactive accident occurred in Seversk when a tank exploded and large amounts of radioactive particles (3500 Tbq) contaminated the environment. (Costs approximately US$51 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Seversk, Tomsk-7,...

  6. Newsletter

    There was enormous pressure, but for a few days large amounts of radioactive particles escaped into the atmosphere and contaminated the environment in the form of radioactive fallout... Wikipedia Reaktorunfall_im_Nuclear power plant_Three_Mile_Island Reactor accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant The reactor accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) in the USA on March 28, 1979...

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

    Newsletter 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...

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

    In March 2011, reactor unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded. Each of these three reactor explosions on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. March 14th Bundestag rejects delivery of Taurus cruise missiles CDU and CSU fail again with application for Taurus deliveries to Ukraine The Union wanted it in the dispute over...

  9. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    a serious level 3 incident that exemplifies the interaction of material weaknesses, poor safety culture and negligent controls. A serious nuclear accident only happened by chance... March 7th Israel | Gaza | Truce Scholz, Macron and Biden: Why their approval ratings are constantly falling Young people in particular don't think much of their...

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

    made. (Costs approx. 1965 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant On February 22, 1977, the plant was seriously damaged while being refilled with fuel rods: During the accident, forgotten remnants of the desiccant silica gel in the packaging led to blockages on a fuel element, so that the coolant could not flow through properly and it led to...

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

    Newsletter VII 2024 February 11th to 17th *** 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 released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  12. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    planned two additional blocks C and D and submitted permit applications for them in 1975. Years of discussions began about the safety of the plant, especially about the risks of a reactor accident with a core meltdown as a result of a plane crash. "Biblis is initially located in a low-altitude training zone and is often directly overflown by fighter jets." Biblis-C and -D were arrested because of the protests...

  13. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    disposed of or arranged for their disposal in locations that are not actually authorized to accept these materials. [...] According to initial findings, this was not a simple accident or a one-off event - that became clear because more than two dozen districts wanted to take action against the supposedly illegally disposed of dangerous waste. Experts emphasize...

  14. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    * January 21, 1969 (INES 5 | NAMS 1,6) VAKL Lucens, CHE About 2,1 TBq of radioactive radiation was released. (Costs approx. 26 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Reactor Lucens #The accident of January 21, 1969 On January 21, 1969, operations were resumed after an overhaul. During the increase in reactor power, several fuel elements overheated....

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

    a statement from the Mexican Foreign Ministry. * January 20, 1965 (INES 4 | NAMS 3,7) LLNL, Livermore, USA About 259 TBq were released from the chimney of the tritium plant in 1965. This accident was kept secret for years, during which time the population grew and built houses on contaminated soil. (Costs approximately US$6,1 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Watching out for the ecology...

  16. 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

    January 13, 1977 (INES? Class?) Akw Gundremmingen, DEU Due to the unclear situation, no INES level was assigned to this incident! 'Gar Nix' provides detailed information January 13, 1977 - In an accident, the entire reactor of the Gundremmingen A nuclear power plant is destroyed. The weather is damp and cold. Freezing rain and hoarfrost caused the insulators on two high-voltage lines to break. It comes to...

  17. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    Sequoyah to a vessel rupture that killed 26-year-old worker James Harrison and required 37 of the 42 workers on site to be hospitalized... Another accident involving the release of UF6 occurred in 1992. The plant shut down in 1993 production ceased and was taken out of operation. Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free...

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

    the nuclear industry removed from Wikipedia! This INES 4 incident and all other accidents at Los Alamos are covered in four sentences. Wikipedia Los Alamos National Laboratory A criticality accident occurred during extraction work with a solution containing plutonium at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. The operator died of acute radiation sickness. After this accident...

  19. 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 party came to the conclusion that Germany “cannot forego the nuclear power option at the moment”. The “total energy supply of tomorrow” also includes nuclear power plants. As a reminder: After the reactor accident in Fukushima in 2011, it was the Christian Democrats who heralded the end of nuclear energy under Chancellor Angela Merkel. The CDU remains to decide exactly how it wants to achieve re-entry...

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

    A United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk fighter jet crashed into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga. The plane, pilot and weapon were never recovered. The accident On December 5, 1965, 31 days after the Ticonderoga left the US naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, the fighter aircraft was reversed over the...

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