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

    be informed. It is not clear from the Ministry of the Environment's statement why the area was only closed a year after the elevated values ​​were discovered... * France | Drought | Groundwater | Forest fires A little water for tomatoes, a little for nuclear power France is in a state of climatic emergency and is fighting over water: the groundwater is drying up, the protests...

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

    Olkiluoto 3 in Finland and Flamanville 3 in France. The Finnish reactor produced some electricity this spring after 17 years of construction and was then shut down again due to damage to the feedwater pumps. Even after 16 years, the French one has still not delivered a kilowatt hour... * Switch off again before we continue: 9 a.m. to 15 p.m. at the Brandenburg Gate in...

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

    can, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de *** April 8th Atmosphere | Weather extremes | Precipitation Pineapple Express causes storms Atmospheric rivers on the move as gigantic masses of water Rivers like to meander through landscapes, but there are also rivers far above us that transport gigantic masses of water. They bring soaking wet air over the seas...

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

    end and explore possibilities for peace. "Only then can the path to a common security order in Europe be paved," write the initiators... no longer use the groundwater...

  5. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    in Jülich – according to the latest findings. But the tractors for the Castor low loaders have long been ordered. They are supposed to transport the Jülich atomic balls away. * Greenwashing in Europe | Hydrogen and e-fuels from nuclear power Controversial deal: Nuclear power saves combustion engines Germany and France agree on EU sanction for their...

  6. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Brock. “The figures from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) confirm this,” Now the environmental protection association is preparing a climate lawsuit against the federal government... *** March 17th PFAS | Drinking water | Chemical Park Gendorf Chemicals in water and soil PFAS: odorless, tasteless, carcinogenic? In the industry, PFAS substances are considered a miracle cure. But the chemicals have a downside...

  7. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    New solar parks are being built in the desert at a record pace and are constantly undercutting each other in terms of electricity prices. This could lure energy-rich industries away from Europe. For e-fuels and green hydrogen, however, it is good news. Economy from above is a cooperation with LiveEO. The first large solar power plants are currently being built in the world's great deserts, producing electricity for just...

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

    especially ecologically. The natural gas that arrives here is liquefied, which compresses its volume by a factor of 600. The terminal turns the gas back into gaseous form. The “Höegh Esperanza” uses seawater. It is sucked on board, along with many living creatures, from mussels to algae. So that they don't clog the ship's pipe system, they are killed with chlorine. Into the sea...

  9. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    (INES Klass.?!) Nuclear power plant Vermont Yankee, VT, USA Nuclear power plantsPlag Vermont Yankee (USA) https://atom power planteplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_(USA) In 2010 it turned out that radioactive water with tritium was leaching into the groundwater had exited. The operator incurred costs of $821 million. In addition, cesium-137 was detected on the site. As a result of the contamination...

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

    Research network World Weather Attribution, which was presented on Thursday. However, climate change has increased temperatures in the region, which has likely reduced water availability and worsened the effects of drought, concluded the group of 18 researchers, including scientists from Argentina, Colombia, France,. .

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

    The Earth pretty much knows how to cool itself. Since it existed, it has transported carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases from the atmosphere back into the ground or water. It does this, for example, through photosynthesis, in which CO2 is converted into biomass, which then lies underground at some point after the plants die. The other process is...

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

    was the talk. The Frankfurter Rundschau cheered loudest: »Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” was their headline about nuclear fusion. “He” is the element symbol for helium, the element created from hydrogen during nuclear fusion. The German Science Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) congratulated the LLNL effusively. It is astonishing how closely these eulogies resemble those...

  13. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    That too is highly questionable. So it's no wonder that the French nuclear friends' plan B is to simply keep extending the operating times of the old reactors.... * Australia | Hydrogen | Energy transition The transformation of the major climate sinner Australia Germany wants to transform the economy with green hydrogen. One of the most important producers is...

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

    several fuel elements overheated. Fuel element No. 59 heated up so much that it melted and ultimately caused the pressure pipe to burst. 1100 kg of heavy water, melted radioactive material and radioactive gases were thrown into the reactor cavern... - - Atom power plants Plag https://atom power plant plag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Lucens,_Schweiz_1969 The...

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

    fierce and militant nationalism that now dominates on both sides... *** January 13 Japan | Fukushima | IAEA | Release of tritium Atomic Energy Agency approves introduction Fukushima water allowed into the sea Twelve years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency has approved a plan to discharge more than a million tons of treated water into the sea...

  16. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    March and April 2022 record temperatures of up to 50 degrees in the shade: such temperatures are life-threatening. In the summer, the monsoon raged so badly in Pakistan that a quarter of the country was under water and 1.500 people lost their lives. In December, the temperature in Australia - i.e. in the summer there - fell by 24 degrees Celsius in less than 50 hours: something like this has only ever happened in...

  17. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    * Russia War | Ukraine Nuclear power plants taken off the grid Nuclear power plants taken off the grid As a result of the Russian air strikes, several nuclear power plants in Ukraine were taken off the grid. The water supply has failed in Kyiv. Several nuclear power plants taken off the grid The Rivne nuclear power plant in northwestern Ukraine was taken off the grid. This is announced by the state nuclear power plant operator Energoatom. The reactors are...

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

    adjust... * France | Cattenom | EDF Another incident at the Cattenom nuclear power plant During an inspection in a reactor block at the Cattenom nuclear power plant, it was discovered that there was too little water in the retention basin. In the event of an incident, this could have had serious consequences. Once again there was a serious breakdown at the Cattenom nuclear power plant. On Monday last week...

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

    and it is precisely because of these rule violations that they are attractive to so many voters. The same applies to Giorgia Meloni in Italy. And also for Benjamin Netanyahu... * Climate neutral | Hydrogen | Renewable | Namibia Green hydrogen is still a niche. Significantly more effort is needed to achieve a climate-neutral economy. Less than one percent of global...

  20. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    are only a fraction of what can be summarized under “critical infrastructure”. There are also power and gas lines, mobile phone systems and ports, hospitals and administrations, water pipes and sewage treatment plants. What becomes clear from this necessarily incomplete list: It is impossible to protect every piece of important and vulnerable infrastructure in such a way that...