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

    This Monday marks the 13th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. On this occasion, nuclear opponents have warned against underestimating the risks of nuclear technology, which would result from the continued operation of the aging nuclear power plant fleet and plans to build new reactors in Europe. The anti-nuclear organization Radiated warned: "Anyone who continues to rely on nuclear power will provoke the next...

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

    to be removed and disposed of as nuclear waste. On August 27, 2013, despite the extended license, the owner Entergy announced that the nuclear power plant would be shut down in 2014 because continued operation was no longer economically viable. The reason for the Senate decision was a tritium leak into the underground of the plant... Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States Translation with...

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

    by 40%, NHK reported, citing power plant operator Kansai Electric Power Company. [...] Kansai Electric applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) in November 2023 to continue operating the 826 MWe pressurized water reactor after it reaches its 2024th operational anniversary in November 50. Kansai Electric has submitted changes to the safety regulations for the plant,...

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

    US installed energy capacity (1,2 TW). Solar energy exceeded this threshold in 2022. [...] The construction and operation of wind-solar-battery parks is cheaper than the continued operation of economically depreciated coal-fired power plants, namely around 90 percent of the coal-fired power plants worldwide. A decisive advantage: The operating costs for renewable energies are...

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

    In 2001, tests were carried out to determine whether the containment would withstand a plane crash or attack. The results showed that there are scenarios in which this is not the case and the safe continued operation of the nuclear power plant would therefore be at risk. The future of the power plant is also controversial due to repeated operational accidents. On February 6, 2016, the governor of the US state...

  6. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    were concreted in. During the incident, large amounts of strontium-90 and tritium are said to have escaped and entered the groundwater. The reactor continued to operate at an excessive temperature anyway... 1977 September 24, 1977 (INES 3) Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant, USA A pressure relief valve opened in the primary circuit and steam flowed out. (Costs approximately US$26,8 million) Nuclear Power...

  7. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    to be removed and disposed of as nuclear waste. On August 27, 2013, despite the extended license, the owner Entergy announced that the nuclear power plant would be shut down in 2014 because continued operation was no longer economically viable. The reason for the Senate decision was a tritium leak into the underground of the plant... Wikipedia en Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States Translation with...

  8. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Heating law Longer nuclear power plant operating times instead of heating law: Researchers contradict Jens Spahn Instead of the planned heating law, up to 20 million tons of CO2 could be saved annually by continuing to operate nuclear power plants. This is what former Health Minister Jens Spahn argued in a talk show on Bavarian Radio. Research coordinator Felix Matthes finds Spahns...

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

    dispute over Russian uranium No more gas, oil or coal can be imported from Russia. Uranium, however, does. Without Russian uranium, many nuclear power plants in the EU could not continue to operate. The list of sanctions against Russia is long, ranging from coal and oil to caviar. The EU has taken a total of 1242 individual punitive measures since the start of the war until the beginning of April...

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

    The last nuclear power plants will go offline on April 15th. Shortly before the final phase-out of nuclear power in Germany, the FDP spoke out in favor of continuing to operate nuclear power plants, contrary to the plans of the SPD and the Greens. The shutdown of the nuclear power plant was "a strategic mistake in a still tense energy policy situation," said FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai on Monday...

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

    expires. Reactor unit 2 of the Kori nuclear power plant in Busan went online on April 9, 1983. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Wednesday that continued operation after the expiry of the operating license would require procedures such as safety testing and system improvements, which would take three to four years... * Combustion engines | E-Fuels...

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

    a generator that ran on hydrogen from the depths... * Nuclear phase-out | Energy transition BEE analysis: Nuclear power plants are irrelevant for security of supply and counterproductive for the energy transition. Continued operation of nuclear power plants would have no significant impact on improving security of supply in the winter of 2023/24 in Germany, but would hinder the accelerated expansion of renewable energies....

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

    to be removed and disposed of as nuclear waste. On August 27, 2013, despite the extended license, the owner Entergy announced that the nuclear power plant would be shut down in 2014 because continued operation was no longer economically viable. The reason for the Senate decision was a tritium leak into the underground of the plant... *** February 24 WNISR | Security nuclear power war | Ukraine Nuclear Power | IAEA...

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

    Destruction would result in grave silence if the calculation no longer works... * Emsland nuclear power plant | activists | Security activists block access to the Emsland nuclear power plant In protest against continued operation, around 30 climate activists blocked the access to the Emsland nuclear power plant with a “non-violent sit-in” on Sunday. Police described the action as...

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

    Emsland demonstrates. On the same day, the nuclear power plant was shut down as planned - but only temporarily. Fuel elements in the reactor should be reconfigured by the beginning of February. In order to ensure the continued operation of the nuclear power plant until mid-April, existing fuel elements should be moved within the core. This means the fuel can be used optimally, it said. New...

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

    the crack indications are waived on an extension of the term. The final shutdown of the Doel 1 and 2 and Tihange 1 reactors is scheduled for 2025. Extensive tests and corresponding official decisions are now required for the planned continued operation of Doel 4 and Tihange 3. The Belgian supervisory and licensing authority FANK has...

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

    A vigil took place in front of the fuel element factory in Lingen because the Russian nuclear ship Mikhail Dudin is once again heading to Rotterdam. And on the same day, the Mannheim VGH negotiates the continued operation of the crack reactor Neckarwestheim 2: https://www.ausgestrahlt.de/presse/uebersicht/mi-1412-vgh-mannheim-verhandelt-klage-auf-widerruf/ 1. Eastern expansion of Framatome Lingen This week presented...

  18. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    postponed until Easter,” says BI spokesman Wolfgang Ehmke. The BI assumes that things will be turbulent again in 2023: "The CDU and AfD do not miss any opportunity to advocate for the continued operation of nuclear power plants, and we read from the FDP that their Transport Minister Volker Wissing wants to boost electromobility with nuclear power , and its chairman, Finance Minister Christian...

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

    apparently taking a break. In any case, the group “Last Generation” has announced that it will not hold any more protests until the end of next week... * Stress test | Duration | Continued operation Extension of the operating life of the nuclear power plant Union demands third stress test from the federal government The temporary continued operation of three German nuclear power plants until next spring does not satisfy the CDU....

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

    radiant waste for Morsleben The delayed nuclear phase-out also extends the use of the final storage facility in Saxony-Anhalt With the votes of the traffic light coalition, on November 11th the Bundestag allowed the Neckarwestheim-2, Emsland and Isar-2 nuclear power plants to continue operating until mid-April. The nuclear phase-out is therefore in serious danger. The FDP, CDU/CSU and AfD have already stated that their goal...

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