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

    Will be transported to Ahaus in 2024. The necessary approval is expected shortly. The relocation of the 152 Castor barrels with highly radioactive fuel balls from the shut down Jülich experimental reactor to Ahaus is the option that can be implemented most quickly, said a spokesman for the nuclear waste disposal company (JEN). This is also confirmed by three...

  2. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    begins, must simply be against war and armament... * May 12, 1988 (INES first 1 then 2...) Civaux nuclear power plant, FRA The Civaux-1 pressurized water reactor was shut down for five days when a pipe broke during start-up attempts A 25 cm diameter main heat removal system ruptured and a large leak (30.000 liters per hour) occurred in the primary cooling circuit. The reactor core must...

  3. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    at 50,5 percent and is expected to be massively expanded in the next few years. However, due to the increasing proportion of renewable electricity, wind turbines in particular often have to be switched off. The electricity generated often cannot be consumed at the same time or transported quickly enough via the grid. In 2020 there were around six billion kilowatt hours...

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

    conditions. Even shortly after the last German nuclear power plants (nuclear power plants) were shut down, some politicians would like to see them continue to operate. Allegedly, certain parts of two nuclear power plants that were shut down at the end of 2021 were flushed with acid so violently that it was impossible to restart them, according to an online article. This is “under green responsibility” and “without approval”...

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

    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 hasn't delivered a kilowatt hour...

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

    from the Anti-Nuclear Committee. This water shortage made it clear last summer that the French nuclear power plants could not be sufficiently cooled due to a lack of water in the rivers and had to be shut down... *** March 29th Czech Republic | Dukovany | Temelin | Westinghouse | Framatome US company Westinghouse will supply nuclear fuel for the Czech nuclear power plant in Dukovany from 2024...

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

    In 1984, Browns Ferry-2 was shut down for six years (cost: $129 million) due to safety violations, operating errors and design problems. The three reactors were shut down for a long time starting in 1985, but were brought back online in 1991 (Reactor 2), 1995 (Reactor 3) and 2007 (Reactor 1). In June 2011, it was reported in the US media that 48 of 65 nuclear power plant sites...

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

    All over Germany, on this 12th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, people will take to the streets against nuclear power - so that the last three nuclear power plants in Germany can finally be shut down, as the Bundestag decided in 2011 as a consequence of Fukushima. In the last two weeks alone, the number of registered campaigns has almost doubled... *...

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

    Wind energy... * Disposal | EnBW | Philippsburg Disposal question in court Dispute over waste disposal - dismantling of the Philippsburg nuclear power plant is stalled. Where should the construction waste from the shut down nuclear power plant in Philippsburg (Karlsruhe district) go? The disposal dispute is before the administrative court in Mannheim. There are initial delays in dismantling. In the middle of the...

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

    According to the Federal Government in 1994, due to the accidents, "a large part of the plant and the reactor building was contaminated." The reactor was shut down forever on the day of the big accident in 1977... - - Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Bohunice *** February 21 India | heat wave | El Niño India experiences heatwave as early as February India experiences...

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

    Power outages increase in frequency and length. The South African electricity company Eskom is no longer able to maintain electricity supply. The electricity is switched off for up to 10 hours a day. Eskom is 21 billion euros in debt. The main reason for this is that the electricity company has relied on large central power plants for decades. Especially on the abundant in South Africa...

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

    not designed for that at all. There are currently 237 containers with highly radioactive waste in the interim storage facilities in Lower Saxony. Half of them are located on the premises of the closed Unterweser and Grohnde nuclear power plants and the still running nuclear power plant in Lingen. The other hundred-plus nuclear waste containers are in the central interim storage facility in Gorleben. These interim storage...

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

    Facts. In Belgium, the controversial Tihange 2 nuclear reactor will finally be shut down on Tuesday. According to Engie, the process begins at 18.30:2012 p.m. and the reactor should be switched off shortly before midnight. Why the kiln was so controversial: It all starts in 2. At that time it became known that there were hairline cracks in the two Belgian nuclear reactors, Tihange 3 in Huy and Doel XNUMX near Antwerp...

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

    Islamabad. There was a power outage in large parts of Pakistan on Monday morning. The trigger was apparently a failed government energy saving measure: the electricity was switched off during the night. At daybreak, the engineers were unable to restart the system, the authorities said. Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir told Pakistani media...

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

    Electricité de France (EdF) restarted one of four units in the Cattenom nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant). But another reactor of the plant on the border with Saarland is now to remain switched off longer than originally planned. That raises concerns that the problems with the facility are greater than they are publicly acknowledged... * United States | Plutonium December 21, 1972 (INES...

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

    move... * Biblis | Building rubble Fear and "bad mood" Neighboring district does not want the nuclear power plant rubble from Biblis In Büttelborn there is a heated debate about the disposal of waste from the closed plant. It's about 3200 tons of rubble from the dismantling of the former nuclear power plant. Biblis/Büttelborn. Building rubble from Biblis: At first there is a hail of cancellations from landfills nationwide, no one wants the easy...

  17. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    In a few years it will be the country with the oldest nuclear power plants in the world. In the energy crisis, the government wants to bring old reactors back online. They were shut down after the Fukushima disaster. Chants disrupt the Sunday calm in the center of Osaka, Japan's second largest city. Around 1000 demonstrators surround the headquarters of the regional energy supplier KEPCO, a...

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

    to produce. Leading Free Democrats have already signaled that this is not enough for them. They are demanding that the reactors be operated for even longer, and in some cases they are even calling for the reactivation of systems that have already been shut down or the construction of new nuclear power plants. However, it won't come to that. In the foreseeable future, electricity will no longer be produced from nuclear power plants in the Federal Republic. To...

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

    Leningrad, USSR Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Leningrad In 1975 there was a partial destruction of the reactor core in Unit 1 of the Leningrad NPP. The reactor was shut down. The next day, the core was cleaned by pumping an emergency reserve of nitrogen through it and blowing it down the exhaust stack. Approximately 1,5 megacuries (55 PBq) were...

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

    Reactors were put into emergency mode after disruptions to the country's energy system. Several units of the southern Ukraine nuclear power plant have also been shut down due to the power outage. The reason for this is the Russian air strikes on large parts of Ukraine. Everything is fine with the power plant, says a spokesman for Energoatom. Electricity is not generated. In addition, the...

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