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

    the conservative-liberal Venstre party. Germany is lagging behind The coal-fired power plant in the port, which has previously provided district heating for Denmark's seventh largest city, will soon be shut down. District heating for the city is then primarily provided by the pump. The large heat pumps from the Augsburg company MAN are in demand all over the world, including New Zealand and the USA. But in Germany...

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

    Atomic Energy Agency IAEA. France is the leader with 56 reactors in operation, followed far behind by Spain with 7 reactors. Germany shut down the last reactor in April. According to the IAEA, Great Britain still has 11 nuclear power plants on the grid. With a total of around 110 reactors, a quarter of all the reactors in operation worldwide are in Europe. On or off? While countries...

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

    The first of three stages of decommissioning the power plant has been completed. The plant - a single 373 MWe boiling water reactor - was commissioned in 1972 and shut down on December 20, 2019. The dismantling began on January 6, 2020. However, it has only been considered finally out of operation since September 15, 2020, when the operating license was replaced by a closure order....

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

    * August 21, 2007 (INES 2) Beznau, CHE Wikipedia Beznau nuclear power plant On August 21, Unit 2 was in annual revision. The block-common reserve network feed was switched off for maintenance work. To compensate, the emergency diesel generator of Unit 1, which was running at full load, was switched on while idling. After the reserve network was reestablished, it was noticed that this diesel was...

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

    what happens to the excess energy. There are methods, including converting energy into heat. In reality, however, wind turbines or photovoltaic systems are usually switched off. Converting electricity into heat is one of many ways to use excess electricity that is currently being developed. So far, the following has mostly happened when the danger...

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

    Acceptance of foreign offers of assistance... August 11 Nuclear waste | Intermediate storage | Gorleben | Summer slump Landshut district administrator wants central nuclear waste storage facility The German nuclear power plants have been shut down. But what will happen to the nuclear waste produced is unclear. Landshut District Administrator Peter Dreier (FW) is now calling for a central interim storage facility in Gorleben, Lower Saxony. After...

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

    as well as in the Federal Ministry of Economics. Heise online did not want to comment directly on Sinn's criticism, but points out, among other things, an "overestimated influence" of the shut down German nuclear power plants on the price of electricity. Moritz Schularick,...

  8. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    | Previously 1989 October 19, 1989 (INES 3) Vandellòs, ESP The safety systems were severely damaged in a fire at the Vandellòs nuclear power plant. Vandellòs 1 was then permanently shut down. (Costs approximately US$931 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Vandellós (Spain) Two reactors originally supplied electricity at the site. Vandellós-1 was a gas-cooled,...

  9. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    October 17, 1969 (INES 4) Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant, FRA More than 50 kilograms of uranium fuel at the Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant began melting after the cooling systems failed. The system had to be shut down and repaired. Repairing the reactor took a year. (Cost approximately US$541,4 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Saint-Laurent (France) 1969: Partial...

  10. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Millstone-1. (Kosten ca. 17 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents AtomkraftwerkePlag Millstone... Am 10. Juni 1977 ereignete sich in Millstone-1 eine Wasserstoffexplosion; der Reaktor wurde abgeschaltet... Wikipedia de Der Wikipedia-Artikel enthält keinen Hinweis auf die Wasserstoff-Explosion vom 10. Juni 1977. Kernkraftwerk Millstone Wikipedia en List of nuclear power accidents by country...

  11. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    (kostenlose Version) 2013 26. September 2013 (INES 2) Forschungsreaktor Institut für Energie, Petten, NLD Drei von sechs Steuerstäben wiesen Mängel auf, der Forschungsreaktor musste 5 Monate abgeschaltet bleiben. (Kosten ?) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Institut für Energie Im Rahmen des EURATOM-Vertrages schlossen die Niederlande und die damalige EURATOM-Kommission 1961 den Vertrag zur...

  12. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    which resulted in a Category 2 accident on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES 2). At this time, the third reactor unit was shut down for routine maintenance. The storm initially caused disruptions in the 400 kV network, which led to an automatic shutdown of reactor units 2 and 4. The storm then caused the water...

  13. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    welche laut der deutschen Strahlenschutzverordnung meldepflichtig gewesen wären... Am 27. Dezember 2009 wurde der zweite Reaktor des Kernkraftwerks wegen Pflanzenresten im Kühlkreislauf vorerst abgeschaltet. Der Stromkonzern EDF teilte mit, es sei noch unklar, wann der Reaktor wieder hochgefahren werde. Die französische Atomaufsichtsbehörde stufte den Zwischenfall in der Anlage auf INES 1 ein....

  14. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    Inspections were taken offline. When core meltdowns occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power plant shortly afterwards in March as a result of an earthquake and massive tsunami, the reactor remained shut down afterwards. The operating company Kansai Electric Power (Kepco) started it again on Friday. The reactor is scheduled to generate electricity from next Wednesday before resuming full operation on August 28...

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

    Ukraine 2022 of the Russian armed forces, the nuclear power plant (Khmelnytskyi) lost its grid connection on November 15th due to damage to a high-voltage line. The blocks had to be shut down quickly and could only be supplied by emergency generators for nine hours. Another target of the Russian attacks was probably a switchgear not far from the border with Poland...

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

    Brunsbüttel, DEU Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Brunsbüttel_(Schleswig-Holstein) On June 28, 2007, the nuclear power plant was automatically shut down due to a power grid defect that caused a smoldering fire on the turbine. Because of this breakdown and faulty dowels and anchors, the reactor was temporarily shut down in the same month and finally shut down on August 6, 2011 because of the federal government's decision to phase out nuclear power...

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

    December 28, 2021/15. March 2023... Earthquake risk and incidents In a magnitude 7,6 earthquake on September 21, 1999, several reactors in Chinshan and Kousheng were automatically shut down. According to a website from the Austrian Ecology Institute, three workers were exposed to increased radiation in 1993 when fuel rods fell into the water. The event was classified as an INES level 3 incident...

  18. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    It operated at its capacity and was shut down from June 23, 1984 until April 11, 1986 after problems with control rods. On August 18, 1989, it was shut down due to a stuck control rod; 11 days later its final closure was announced... June 12th Gorleben BGZ scraps transport containers for Castors Disposal of Castor transport containers: Scrapped...

  19. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    Shutdown of the Millstone-1 reactor. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Millstone... On June 10, 1977, a hydrogen explosion occurred at Millstone-1; the reactor was shut down... What's wrong with Wikipedia? The Wikipedia article "Millstone Nuclear Power Plant" contains no reference to the hydrogen explosion on June 10, 1977. Wikipedia List of nuclear power...

  20. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    up to 50 kilometers above the earth's surface. The new method can analyze human influences on the climate five times more precisely... * Great Britain | Nuclear power plant world market | shut down Nuclear power plant world market without dynamics - Great Britain will shut down most of the world's nuclear power plants in 2022 Münster - The global market for nuclear power plants will remain at a low level in 2022...

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