1. 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 climax of the series of breakdowns in nuclear reactors Brokdorf was operated without functioning emergency generators, in Biblis specially developed protective circuits failed - the reactor is switched off... Wikipedia Biblis nuclear power plant When the reactor was started up, a valve got stuck that has to shut off a connecting line to the reactor circuit, which is under 150 times atmospheric pressure, and stayed open...

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

    A fire broke out in building B247. (Cost approximately US$1300 million) Nuclear Power Accidents This incident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity, can no longer be found on Wikipedia. Wikipedia Sellafield#Incidents Radiological releases Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 serious incidents or accidents involving radiological releases outside the...

  3. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    December 2, 2009 (INES 2) Cruas, FRA Vegetation blocked the inlet of the cooling system, the system had to be shut down and repaired. (Costs approx. 4 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia fr Centrale nucléaire de Cruas On December 2nd, in Unit 4 of the Cruas NPP, leaves and other fall debris collected in the river cooling water circuit and blocked it. The reactor was...

  4. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    with a length of 7,5 kilometers. The Nama chief was duped. Lüderitz repeated the same underhanded approach shortly afterwards with another purchase 20 miles inland. On Wikipedia you can read about this deceptive maneuver: "The questionable contractual basis for the acquisitions, commonly called 'Mile fraud', gave Lüderitz the nickname early on...

  5. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    In the Tihange nuclear power plant there is a pressure drop in the primary circuit and the cooling water evaporates. If the safety systems had not responded, a meltdown could have resulted. Wikipedia Tihange Nuclear Power Plant On November 22, 2002, an accident occurred in Unit 2 (INES 2). The reactor - at that time shut down and no longer critical - was still producing...

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

    Brasília as very dangerous. There is a risk of dehydration, headaches, nausea and circulatory problems... * November 16, 2001 (INES ? Klass.?) High Flux Reactor, Petten, NLD Wikipedia Institute for Energy As part of the EURATOM Treaty, the Netherlands and the then In 1961, the EURATOM Commission signed the contract establishing the European Research Center, which was...

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

    from building B205 into a sea tank in building B242. (Costs approx. 44 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia Sellafield The complex became known due to a catastrophic fire in 1957 and frequent nuclear accidents and was therefore renamed Sellafield. Until...

  8. 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

    closed their shops, iodine preparations to prevent health damage caused by radioactive radiation were out of stock in pharmacies." The reactor was started up again a few days later... Wikipedia Nuclear Power Plant_Balakowo On November 4, 2004, an accident occurred in the nuclear power plant, as a result of which There was great concern among the population[4] in the town and the surrounding area and...

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

    to inform about the status of the negotiations. Negotiations that were apparently carried out with strong consideration of the interests of affected companies and their associations... * Wikipedia Lobbying Lobbying, lobbying or lobbying is a term taken from English (lobbying) for the representation of interests in politics and society, in which interest groups... .

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

    became. In 1990 it was shut down after a turbine fire that almost led to a catastrophe... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant On October 19, 1989, a serious accident occurred there in which the unit was irreparably damaged. Repairing the system would be...

  11. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    GBR release from the chimney of building B204. (Cost approximately US$2500 million) Nuclear Power Accidents This incident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity, can no longer be found on Wikipedia. Wikipedia Sellafield The complex became known due to a catastrophic fire in 1957 and frequent nuclear accidents and was therefore renamed Sellafield....

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

    held. This Windscale fire in October 1957, classified as a "major accident" (INES 5), is the only Sellafield incident from before 2005 that has not yet disappeared from Wikipedia... Wikipedia Windscale/Sellafield Since In the late 1940s and the commissioning of Windscale/Sellafield, around 20 more or less serious incidents were reported...

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

    To save time, we filled too much uranium into a preparation tank (16,6 kg instead of 2,3 kg). Two people died and 1.200 were injured. (Costs approximately US$63 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Tokaimura nuclear accident 1999... To speed up the process and thus save money, that day the plant's workers filled the precipitation tank with 16,6 kg of uranium instead of the. ..

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

    in which a total of 18 people were irradiated; One of the reactor technicians died two days later from radiation damage. (Cost approximately US$76 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Accident nuclear del reactor RA-2 The RA-2 reactor nuclear accident that occurred on Friday, September 23, 1983 in Argentina was due to serious human error at the...

  15. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Strahlentherapie, das nicht abgerissen worden war. Die Regierung hatte es versäumt, radioaktive Stoffe vom Gelände zu entsorgen, und der ehemalige Betreiber hatte Geräte dort liegengelassen... Wikipedia Der Goiânia-Unfall ereignete sich ab dem 13. September 1987 in der brasilianischen Stadt Goiânia. Bei einem Einbruch in eine stillgelegte Klinik wurde ein medizinisches Gerät zur Strahlentherapie...

  16. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Emotions pour over", for Anne "a further step towards strengthening rebellious self-government in the countryside through small farming practice". * September 9, 2016 (5th atomic bomb test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia North Korean nuclear weapons program On September 09, 2016 at around 2:30 a.m. CET, earthquake monitors in South Korea, China, the USA and Europe registered a magnitude 5,3 earthquake in North Korea. Some...

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

    Partial core meltdown - fuel channels 62-44 were destroyed, irradiation of personnel involved in repairing the reactor. (Costs approximately US$ 1100 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant On September 1, 1982, a central fuel element was destroyed by overheating as a result of an operator error. Significant amounts of radioactivity were released, which...

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

    Arab Emirates, according to the informants... * August 25, 2008 (INES 3) IRE Fleurus, BEL http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/energiewende/atomkraft/belgien-strahlunfall-starker-als-gedacht Wikipedia Fleurus Radiochemical industrial plant - 2008 After completing a production process, three smaller collection tanks were transferred to a larger waste water tank. This resulted in a...

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

    and energy efficiency," says Mertes... * August 19, 2008 (INES 1) Santa Maria de Garoña, ESP Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia Santa_María_de_Garoña List of incidents On 15. The factory's two battery systems were tested on July and August 19, 2008. According to the authorities, their determined capacity...

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

    In November 2001, the Stuttgart Ministry of the Environment reported that contaminated water had escaped from Philippsburg I due to a defect in a plant drainage valve... Wikipedia Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant At the Philippsburg NPP, when starting up Unit 2, the operating crew overlooked the fact that the emergency cooling system did not meet the requirements of the... operating manual. The...