1. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Three days after the serious nuclear accident, then President Boris Yeltsin ordered a safety inspection of the plant, which did not take place until October 1993 and the results of which were also 'disposed of'. "On November 1st, the deputy head of nuclear supervision, Yuri Zubkov, signed the report, of which there are only five copies. They disappeared into the drawers of the state nuclear mafia...

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    For years, abundantly used radioactive material has been brought from Europe to Russia to be enriched there again - and, according to critics, to be disposed of in Siberia. France is now considering building a special facility to become more independent from Russia. To reduce dependence on Russia, the French government is considering building a facility...

  3. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    Generate electricity. This can save 507.000 tonnes of standard coal per year, which would normally produce around 1,47 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions. * Hazardous waste illegally disposed of Tesla is said to have illegally disposed of hazardous waste "intentionally and negligently" Tesla has averted lawsuits from 25 counties in the US state of California by paying $1,5 million....

  4. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    and recycling: From January 1, 2024, a deposit of 25 cents will be charged on milk drinks in disposable plastic bottles. Beverage cartons are not affected - with fatal consequences: 34 percent are disposed of incorrectly or end up in the environment. DUH is calling on Environment Minister Lemke to also dispose of beverage cartons Include a deposit requirement and promote reusables through an additional single-use tax From January 1st...

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

    Hanford Site The US pays over $200.000 billion a year to private corporations for the required decontamination of the site; In addition, around 2014 cubic meters of radioactive waste must be disposed of. At the beginning of XNUMX, for the third time, a decontamination project manager was fired after he or she raised concerns about the safety of the measures and...

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

    Aiwanger and the consequences: A future that I dread. Historical revisionism has the country firmly in its grip. From Aiwanger and Söder to the AfD, the Nazi past is dismissed as not being that bad. Autumn is slowly coming, at least in Bavaria, where I was last week. There were gray skies and gray faces on posters for the state elections at the beginning of October. In front of the hotel,...

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

    simply reflects customer wishes - and that in Berlin's Winsviertel, where 40 percent of people voted for Alliance Green. Unfortunately, it is a myth that single-use plastic is disposed of properly or even recycled. Greenpeace showed in a study that German plastic waste ends up in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, for example. And this plastic doesn't stay on the...

  8. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Hanford Site The US pays over $200.000 billion a year to private corporations for the required decontamination of the site; In addition, around 2014 cubic meters of radioactive waste must be disposed of. At the beginning of XNUMX, for the third time, a decontamination project manager was fired after he or she raised concerns about the safety of the measures and...

  9. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Three days after the serious nuclear accident, then President Boris Yeltsin ordered a safety inspection of the plant, which did not take place until October 1993 and the results of which were also 'disposed of'. "On November 1st, the deputy head of nuclear supervision, Yuri Zubkov, signed the report, of which there are only five copies. They disappeared into the drawers of the state nuclear mafia...

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

    Like other countries, old ammunition is being delivered whose expiry date is approaching. Denkov also says quite bluntly that this saves millions because the ammunition does not have to be disposed of in Bulgaria and the freed-up warehouses can be filled with newly manufactured products. But another agreement beyond the intensification of arms aid is also interesting...

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

    in Wendland are very irritated. It was with “great concern” that we learned from the local press that transport casings from Castor containers were being disposed of in a normal scrapyard without having been cleared beforehand, says Wolfgang Ehmke, spokesman for the Citizens' Initiative (BI) for Environmental Protection Lüchow-Dannenberg. The federally owned company for interim storage (BGZ),...

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

    Lindner told Welt TV on Friday. Meanwhile, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) reiterated his demand to examine a return to the use of nuclear energy... April 14th Disposed of | Atoms for Peace | There is no alternative to the final storage of nuclear power plants - the future belongs to renewable energies. This Saturday the last reactors will finally be switched off. Nuclear power is too expensive and...

  13. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    the locations where we know that there will be problems with thawing." But first we need a better overview of where, how much and what has been disposed of in recent years. * Photovoltaics | Wind energy | Anti-nuclear power Nuclear power movement? No thanks! Germany is finally shutting down the last nuclear power plants. A huge success for the movement, but it continues...

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

    off to Ukraine, that's good, that's right, even heavier weapons are needed, maybe, why not: fighter jets. Rockets. Submarines. Warships. All the lessons from World War II – ruthlessly discarded. The suffering and horror – forgotten. Emigrate? Where? It's (almost) only war propaganda that comes to me from the radio and the print media, a staccato of orders around the clock,...

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

    nobody wants the slightly contaminated cargo. Now the authorities want to take action and determine where 3200 tons of rubble from the dismantling of the former nuclear power plant in the Bergstrasse district should be disposed of. A landfill is planned in Büttelborn in the neighboring district of Groß-Gerau. But there and also in the district parliament there is strong resistance. An argument from the state, responsible...

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

    Hanford Site The US pays over $200.000 billion a year to private corporations for the required decontamination of the site; In addition, around 2014 cubic meters of radioactive waste must be disposed of. At the beginning of XNUMX, for the third time, a decontamination project manager was fired after he or she raised concerns about the safety of the measures and...

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

    in the first years of the US occupation of Iraq. I urge you all to watch this video called “Collateral Murder”... * Fessenheim | dumped Fessenheim nuclear power plant continues to dispose of tons of boric acid The Alsatian Fessenheim nuclear power plant continues to dump tons of boric acid into the Rhine side canal every year even after it has been decommissioned. "In the coming years we will...

  18. Newsletter XVI 2022 - April 15-21 - News+ Ukraine: When consumers want to avoid war

    above it is from * Japan | The amount of nuclear waste continues to grow. Several tons of nuclear waste are waiting to be disposed of in Japan. Japan's nuclear power plants store more than 57.000 tons of nuclear waste that need to be disposed of. The magnitude of this amount underscores the Japanese government's plan to change a law banning the export of radioactive waste. The data on the power plant...

  19. Newsletter XV 2022 - April 08th to 14th - News+ Russian gas and the German energy transition: perspective yellow vests

    19 computer addresses are particularly noticeable. * France | Nuclear waste | Bure dispute over planned nuclear waste storage facility: Who guarantees safety? France relies on nuclear power. But how and where the nuclear waste can be disposed of remains unclear. The final storage facility in Bure is controversial. * Cyber ​​secret action by the USA Worldwide strike against Putin's computer viruses The USA has...

  20. Newsletter IV 2022 - January 22 to 31 - News+ Four nuclear-armed states are ready for war - this treaty could stop them

    To prevent chain reaction. Because there are only small boron residues in the fallout from the nuclear disaster, as measurements have shown for the first time. This knowledge is crucial if the reactor cores are to be disposed of. ** January 30th Lingen fuel element factory In the middle of the nuclear phase-out country French and Russian companies want to jointly produce fuel elements for nuclear power in Lower Saxony. With...

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