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”

    NM, USA December 31, 1978 (INES 4) Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, USSR, Rus * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de December 16th Agriculture | Subsidies | Farmers' Association The abolition of subsidies for fossil agricultural diesel is long overdue. Alternative fuels and drives have long been used in agriculture...

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

    by FDP, CDU and AfD Next dam breach in Thuringia The FDP wants to enforce an anti-wind power law with votes from AfD and CDU. Sharp criticism comes from the Thuringian Left – and from business. BERLIN taz | On Friday, the CDU and FDP could become repeat offenders in the Thuringian state parliament. Then parliament votes on a bill from the opposition - the FDP group in the state parliament...

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

    Oil consumers. And the gigantic empire of China, which releases almost a third of all greenhouse gases worldwide, wants to rely on climate-damaging coal for decades to come and not become climate-neutral until 2060 at the earliest... * Nuclear weapons | Deterrence | Nuclear Weapons Peace Movement: What if nuclear deterrence fails? As tensions grow, the West relies on deterrence. That is a...

  4. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Raw material consumption, as well as the consumption of goods and the fixation on car traffic will remain very high. Basically, according to this model, business should continue as before with more alternative energy used. Only the type of energy production would then be changed in this “imperial way of life”. With the hydrogen agreements underway with the countries in...

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

    can only be described as catastrophic. [...] The social democratic lawyer H. Heller was one of the first to coin the term authoritarian liberalism as early as 1934: "As soon as the economy is discussed, the authoritarian state completely renounces its authority, and its supposedly conservative spokesmen only know still the slogan: "Freedom of the economy from the state", that...

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

    becomes shallow and dull. Billionaires don't get rich by leaving forests and oceans untouched, consuming less, mining less, drilling less, using less energy. The economy does not thrive when the world lives in peace and nations work together in harmony. We exchange the real revolution for the feeling of being revolutionary If you have a...

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

    in the north of Rügen. An expensive mistake, predicts energy economist Claudia Kemfert from DIW. She accuses the politicians in ntv's "climate laboratory" of falling for the threats of the gas industry, as they did in the past: "The way back will be market-driven with 'stranded assets' and compensation payments that we have to make." ntv.de: Three LNG terminals are in operation, three more are...

  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

    November 1975 (INES 5) Sosnowy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 4th CO2 | Agriculture | Rock weathering arable land - Agriculture as a means to combat climate change Natural rock weathering removes CO₂ from the atmosphere. Crushed rock approximately...

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

    and are comparatively cheap to produce. Even though electricity production declined over the period of the experiment, it was proven that this type of electricity generation could be economically attractive... * Global warming | Glacier | Apocalypse Ice shelf melt inevitable: New York and Hamburg will sink into the sea Apocalypse The West Antarctic ice shelf will...

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

    The SPD, the Greens and the FDP quickly submitted an amendment with which a new regulation for dealing with regulated amounts of green electricity should be included in the planned amendment to the Energy Industry Act (EnWG). The aim of the regulation is to use auctions to incentivize the use of otherwise regulated green electricity generation. Switchable loads such as...

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

    October fuel element factory Lingen | Framatomes | Rosatom German cooperation with Rosatom: Radioactively contaminated The operator of the fuel element factory in Lingen cooperates with Russia's nuclear industry. They are also involved in bomb making and the war in Ukraine. MÖNCHENGLADBACH taz | Russia's nuclear industry is now also present in the production of fuel elements in Germany. This reports...

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

    Separate fuel elements from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... Youtube Uranium industry: Plants for processing uranium Reprocessing plants turn a few tons of nuclear waste into many tons of nuclear waste All uranium and plutonium factories produce radioactive nuclear waste:...

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

    at the time: Why in our untouched coastal landscape, in the middle of one of the most important bird migration areas in Europe? Resistance also came from local summer home owners and even farms... * Species extinction | El Niño | Amazon Amazon region: Over 100 dead river dolphins discovered Manaus (dpa) - Over 100 dead freshwater dolphins have been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon region...

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

    Course in migration policy. His appeal: “accept reality.” Many of the Greens in particular have difficulty with tightening migration laws. But Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck has now emphasized that his party is ready to find pragmatic solutions to reduce the influx at the EU's external borders. At a conference with mayors and...

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

    EU member states are considering extending approval and want to vote on it in the responsible Committee for Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) in mid-October. The German Ministry of Agriculture is critical of renewed approval and describes it as “not justified”. What is Glyphosate? Glyphosate was distributed by Monsanto from 1974. The US chemical company...

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

    delivered eight years ago now. What has happened since then? [...] The document has clear words. In order to achieve the climate goals, “a radical decarbonization of all economic sectors is required,” says the draft. [...] Enormous amounts of money continue to flow into climate-damaging businesses. Because as long as climate damage is not adequately priced in, it is worth...

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

    1999 (INES 4) Tōkaimura Nuclear Plant, JPN * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de September 2nd Climate protection | Agriculture | Solar expansion Solar package limits agriculture's contribution to climate protection Agriculture could contribute much more to climate protection than the federal government's solar package allows, says...

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

    could completely transform the Latin American state. Now the country needs a new business model. The referendum in Ecuador changes everything, even the newspaper landscape: “Sustainable agriculture in the Amazon region is part of the solution,” wrote Ecuador’s El Comercio a few days after the sensational Sí in the Yasuní referendum. Quite unusual for the otherwise conservative paper...

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

    If this continues, I'm in favor of it." She hopes that there will be "more decent people" who will leave the party. "Nobody needs to say afterwards: I didn't know anything about it."... * Water | Agriculture | Pesticide | Insect small water monitoring: Too many pesticides get into the water Small streams and ditches are not in good condition in Germany. Due to a lack of water protection...

  20. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    300 Problems Truth and Lies Communication Intention What to do? “In times of global fraud, telling the truth is considered a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell - ** Problems with the nuclear industry: 1. The life lie In 1943, construction of the nuclear complex began in the USA as part of the Manhattan Project Hanford Site. This is where the plutonium for the first nuclear weapons test 'Trinity' and...