1. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    Longer term from Unit VI of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in northwestern Bulgaria, one of the country's two nuclear reactors, which was forced to shut down due to an accident in the cooling system on October 29th, and will not be put back into operation until November 7th. The new date for commissioning was set for November 7th at 22 p.m., nine days after the accident. Some...

  2. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    estimated at 29 billion euros. EDF operates a total of 56 nuclear reactors, many of which had defects discovered last year. Almost half of the reactors had to be shut down for maintenance, which further exacerbated Europe's energy crisis. The situation was made worse by weeks of strikes, which delayed repair work... * France | Whistleblower |...

  3. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    announced this agreement in statements to journalists upon his arrival at the European Council... * Isar | Maintenance work Isar 2 nuclear power plant is shut down for maintenance work The Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Essenbach near Landshut will be shut down for maintenance work on Friday morning and taken off the grid. Then a valve needs to be repaired. It is necessary,...

  4. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    only digitally – in Bonn. [...] The FDP demands that the nuclear reactors not only be allowed to run until spring as suggested by Habeck, but also until 2024 - and that reactors that have already been switched off should also be brought back online. All of this would require additional nuclear fuel. However, Habeck's ministry refuses to procure new fuel elements... * Nuclear phase-out | Continued operation |...

  5. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    As announced, a lawsuit has been filed against the EU Commission's taxonomy regulation," explained Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) in Vienna... a technical malfunction in the turbine area leads to an automatic...

  6. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    and keep windows and doors closed.” * September 26, 2013 (INES 2) Petten Institute for Energy, NLD Three out of six control rods had defects and the research reactor had to remain shut down for 5 months. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf - Wikipedia Institute for Energy As part of the EURATOM Treaty, the Netherlands and the then EURATOM Commission concluded the treaty in 1961 to establish...

  7. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    not this one. According to the NDR, around 3,1 billion kilowatt hours of energy are lost every year in Schleswig-Holstein alone. This is because the wind turbines are switched off on particularly stormy days... * Duration | Energy crisis | Dependence on continued operation of nuclear power plants: Union proposal would prolong energy crisis - Nothing learned from past mistakes Today from the CDU and...

  8. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    Enabling energy for more people around the world... * Belgium | cracks | Doel Belgian nuclear power plant: The first “crack reactor” goes offline The Belgian nuclear reactor Doel 3 will be shut down on September 23rd. NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer believes that this will make the country safer.... Tihange 2, which is only around 50 kilometers from the Aachen city limits as the crow flies, will...

  9. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    2 in Baden-Württemberg and Isar 2 in Bavaria form an “operational reserve until mid-April 2023”. The third remaining Emsland power plant should be completely shut down as planned on December 31st... * Energy transition | Merit Order | Electricity market is no longer up to date The design of the electricity market is neither in keeping with the energy transition nor with high gas prices. Electricity traders could have gray hair these days...

  10. Newsletter XXXIII 2022 - August 14th to 21st - News+ Brainwashed? – Strategic communication!

    “We have to talk,” is what parts of the Greens and the SPD now also believe. The FDP, CDU/CSU and of course the AfD are basically calling for longer running times, even for restarting nuclear power plants that have already been shut down... * Running time | Stress test | Security of supply Energy policy Habeck rules out longer nuclear power plant lifetimes to save gas The German federal government soon wants to...

  11. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    should be, there is always talk of stretch operation. What exactly does that mean? According to current law, the last three nuclear power plants in Germany must be shut down by December 31, 2022 at the latest. But in view of the gas shortage, political demands are increasing to keep the power plants running longer. In this context, the keyword “stretch operation” appears regularly...

  12. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    Exit from the nuclear phase-out The government wants two controversial reactors to remain online until 2035. However, two units of the same power plants are to be shut down for safety reasons. * Renewable | Peace Do renewable energies actually make the world more peaceful? Organizations like the UN and some politicians say renewable energy is the way forward...

  13. Newsletter XXVIII 2022 - July 11 - 16 - News+ What's next for the protest, Lina Schinköthe?

    are in Europe. * France | EDF | Energy crisis German solar systems depend on French nuclear power plants Corrosion damage to nuclear power plants and summer heat endanger France's electricity production / Shut down coal-fired power plant is being restarted. - IMHO keep calm! As is well known, state nuclear funding in France knows no limits. And as we know, French...

  14. Newsletter XXVI 2022 - June 26th to July 01st - News+ Study: Renewable energies more reliable than nuclear energy

    After more than three hours, all valves could be closed with improvised measures, a catastrophe was just avoided... ** June 29th United States | Palisades Nuclear Power Plant | switched off Aging nuclear power plants in the USA - Palisades nuclear power plant finally shut down In the USA, the gradual shutdown of old nuclear power plants will continue in 2022. Especially from...

  15. Newsletter XXV 2022 - June 18-25 - News+ Assange case: "Black day for freedom of the press"

    which went into operation from 1972 to 2010... Numerous leaks and IAEA inspection The Rajasthan-1 reactor in particular has a long series of breakdowns and should be shut down as quickly as possible. The "Spiegel" wrote in 1988: "The Rapp 1 nuclear power plant in the state of Rajasthan remained out of operation for repair work for three years; between 1973 and 1981 it had to be repaired more than 250 times...

  16. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    The last nuclear power plants in Germany are being shut down. * Dependent | Dismantling nuclear power: Know-how for plant dismantling sells dependencies: Without Russia, dismantling nuclear power plants that have been shut down will also be difficult * Biogas | Sustainable Industry calls for biogas funding The small way out Biowaste The biogas industry wants to use more biowaste to generate energy. This is sustainable, offers...

  17. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    Died in 15 days. Two other people with doses of 7 to 8 Sv survived. The Kurchatov Institute has 27 research reactors, seven of which are decommissioned and one is temporarily switched off. This means that 19 reactors are still in operation. (approx. 15 km northwest of Moscow city center) ** May 25 NATO | Tank | Ukraine Informal NATO agreement No battle tanks for Ukraine?...

  18. Newsletter XIX 2022 - May 05th to 12th - News+ The economic consequences of the Ukraine war

    more and more of a problem. How heavy should the weapons we supply be? * 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, during start-up tests, a pipe with a diameter of 25 cm in the main residual heat removal system ruptured and a large leak occurred (30.000 liters per hour) occurred in the primary cooling circuit. The...

  19. Newsletter XVIII 2022 - April 28th to May 04th - News+ wind vanes and pocket fillers in tireless use

    Hundreds of hectares of forest. * May 04, 1986 - (INES 0) Nuclear power plant THTR 300 The pebble bed reactor THTR-300 in Hamm-Uentrop, also known as the bankruptcy reactor, was shut down in 1989 after 12 years of construction and one year of operation. The accident, with which the operators of the THTR won the favor of the SPD ruling in North Rhine-Westphalia, happened on the night of May 4th to 5th, 1986... ** May 03rd Uranium | Gronau | Urenco...

  20. Newsletter XII 2022 - March 19th to 25th - News+ Collateral damage to the climate?

    * Great Britain | EDF Johnson wants to build six nuclear power plants Boris Johnson is pushing for a renaissance in nuclear energy - but first he has to find replacements for old nuclear reactors that have to be shut down. The expansion of renewable energies is also planned. * Natural gas What's with the liquid natural gas, Germany? Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, there have been repeated statements...

Results 61 - 80 from 129