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

    Basically, it isn't any anymore, because the meaning of these terms is lost; they are then just synonyms for asshole, idiot or wanker. And there will no longer be any difference between people who call on Israel for a ceasefire and those who target synagogues - if everyone is anti-Semitic, you cover up those who really have anti-Semitic plans. Hitler would be proud of...

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

    his counterpart Carola Voß in Ahaus. The city of Ahaus has even filed a lawsuit with the country's Higher Administrative Court to prevent the storage of Jülich's nuclear waste... * Russia | Arms trade | assault rifles | Ammunition German weapons for Russia Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, over 7.000 civilian firearms from Western manufacturers and almost eight...

  3. 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

    to Russia violates EU rules. Business is being done with Rosatom - the Russian state-owned company is actively involved in the war against Ukraine and is working on the development of weapons that also threaten Europe. This violates EU regulations, according to environmentalists. The fuel element factory in Lingen, which belongs to the French Framatome group, is planning to export...

  4. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    of the atomic bomb is falling Russia's withdrawal from the nuclear test ban treaty should be a warning signal. In the past, the threat of Armageddon was taken more seriously. Rightly so. A guest post. The weakening of the nuclear weapons treaties, particularly in the context of the war in Ukraine, highlights a worrying trend not seen in generations: Washington and Moscow are just one...

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

    Nuclear age: From disarmament to the search for a final storage facility With the reunification of Germany, a turning point seems possible. Will the need for nuclear weapons collapse with the bipolar world order? IMHO In all three parts of the series the military benefits of nuclear power are discussed, but they don't really get to the point. It's about money and power. It's about a number of...

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

    Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain 1957 Windscale was commissioned in the 1940s. The site was initially responsible for the inspection and packaging of small arms ammunition and later, aided by its isolated location, for plutonium production for the British nuclear weapons program... On October 7, 1957, Pile 1 was heated for the ninth time, and initially...

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

    and energy security goals."... Translation with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) IMHO "The tail wags the dog" - 20 nuclear states and the concentrated power of the weapons and nuclear industry set the tone and want it "Blissing" the rest of the world with nuclear power. Nothing new, the usual suspects have been trying to do that since the 1950s. But now...

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

    Separate processes (PUREX) from each other. Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... September 21st Armaments industry | Cartel | Fine weapons manufacturer from Nuremberg EU fines Diehl because of hand grenade cartel For years, the defense companies Diehl and RUAG have divided the European market for hand grenades between themselves. Based on these...

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

    plenty of money. The costs of the BGZ last year amounted to 271 million euros... * August 29, 1949 (1st atomic bomb test of the USSR) Semipalatinsk, KAZ Wikipedia List of nuclear weapons tests The Soviet Union conducted its first atomic bomb test ("RDS-1") August 29, 1949 at the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site (now Kazakhstan). Between 1949 and 1990, the Soviet Union...

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

    and initiated criminal proceedings... * August 21, 1945 (INES 4) Atomic bomb research in Los Alamos, USA Wikipedia Harry_Daghlian Harry K. Daghlian Jr. was working on the Omega site of the atomic weapons factory in Los Alamos and generated a supercritical mass when he accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide block onto a plutonium core (Demon Core). Even though he pushed the piece away, he received...

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

    explained in detail that they have to change their language because people get scared when they hear atom... or nuclear... because they then involuntarily think of nuclear weapons and atomic bombs. Today, August 15, 2023, I find the above article in WNN, which wonderfully illustrates the perfect implementation of this strategy. There will be a location for 4 to 6 new small modular...

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

    with. These regions of Germany were particularly affected by radioactive fallout from the reactor accident in 1986. A small proportion of the radiation can be traced back to the above-ground nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s... * Climate catastrophe | Glaciers are melting in Peru | RWE Group Corporations in court Floods, heavy rain and record heat. Who should be responsible for the damage...

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

    After Atomic Minister Neubaur (Greens), MP Wüst has now also written about this. Neubaur is also building walls in Ahaus, but of course had time yesterday to be there for Rheinmetall at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new weapons factory... Nuclear-free climate greetings SOFA Münster www.sofa-ms.de * France's colonial past and Orano's uranium mines In Niger it's also about uranium and Exploitation Niger is the...

  14. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    critical arrangement with heavy water natural ururanium at zero power. The RA reactor, described by Vinca officials as "essentially a plutonium production reactor", was fundamental to Tito's weapons research. In the early 1960s, as the nuclear research program gained momentum, Tito reportedly scaled back the weapons aspect of the program. In the year...

  15. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Atomindustrieanlage der Sowjetunion. Zwischen 1945 und 1948 wurden an diesem Standort zwischen Jekaterinburg und Tscheljabinsk fünf Atomreaktoren gebaut, um Plutonium für das sowjetische Atomwaffenprogramm herzustellen. Die Anlage wurde kontinuierlich erweitert, bis 1987 die Produktion gestoppt und der Betrieb schrittweise eingestellt wurde. Von 1949 bis 1956 wurden insgesamt 100 PetaBecquerel...

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

    1985 (Terror) Rainbow Warrior I, Auckland, FRA July 14, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 16, 1979 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,9) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 16, 1945 (1st nuclear weapon test ) Trinity, NM, USA July 17, 1984 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,8) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 22, 2007 (INES ? Class?) Unterweser nuclear power plant, DEU July 23, 2008 (INES 0 Class?) Nuclear factory Tricastin, FRA 24....

  17. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    1985 (Terror) Rainbow Warrior I, Auckland, FRA July 14, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 16, 1979 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,9) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 16, 1945 (1st nuclear weapon test ) Trinity, NM, USA July 17, 1984 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,8) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 22, 2007 (INES ? Class?) Unterweser nuclear power plant, DEU July 23, 2008 (INES 0 Class?) Nuclear factory Tricastin, FRA 24....

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

    1985 (Terror) Rainbow Warrior I, Auckland, FRA July 14, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 16, 1979 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,9) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 16, 1945 (1st nuclear weapon test ) Trinity, NM, USA July 17, 1984 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,8) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR July 22, 2007 (INES ? Class?) Unterweser nuclear power plant, DEU July 23, 2008 (INES 0 Class?) Nuclear factory Tricastin, FRA 24....

  19. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    who campaign for an end to the war. This can be a pacifist in Ukraine as well as employees from Belarus, Italy and Greece who blocked arms transport in their countries last year. That would be constructive journalism in the best sense of the word. One would have hoped that a trade union journalism day would have focused on such critical approaches...

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

    NATO expansion opened new markets. The Eastern European and Baltic countries that joined NATO had to upgrade their armed forces and replace their Soviet-era stocks with Western weapons, ammunition, machinery, hardware and software compatible with NATO's armies. Entire armies, naval forces and air forces had to be reorganized. The...

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