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

    Whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever in the world, they all have the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... September 10th Chile | military coup | Kissinger 50 years of the coup in Chile: The other September 11th On September 11th, 1973, Chile's military overthrew the elected left-wing government....

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

    The phase-out of nuclear energy was sealed last year. However, this does not mean that the problems are over. The question still remains unsolved: what to do with the radioactive waste packed in special containers for highly radioactive materials, so-called castors. Since there is no final storage facility in sight, the spent fuel remains in the interim storage facilities for decades...

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

    "No nuclear waste in Ahaus" to take part in the protest rally this Sunday, August 20th, at 14 p.m. at the "Mahner" in the Ahaus pedestrian zone. In 2024, 300 highly radioactive fuel balls in 000 Castor containers are planned to be transported from the Jülich Research Center via the highways of North Rhine-Westphalia to the nuclear waste storage facility in Ahaus, writes Marita Boslar from the “Stop...

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

    17 years The location for the storage of low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste remains open. There is hardly any space in the Konrad shaft. GÖTTINGEN taz | The search for a final repository for the highly radioactive nuclear waste has been delayed for many years. The Federal Society for Final Storage (BG), which is responsible for this, recently announced that the site would not...

  5. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Water got outside the safety container. "There (...) the outside world was only protected from radiation by highly radioactive cooling water from reactor block A for 15 hours by a barrier, the so-called secondary barrier." The incident was not reported by the operator, but days later by the supervisory authority during an investigation into another fault at the nuclear power plant...

  6. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    In August 1945, 554 buildings were constructed at Hanford: - three reactors (100-B, 100-D, and 100-F) - three plutonium processing plants (200-T, 200-B, and 200-U) - 64 underground tanks for highly radioactive substances Waste - uranium enrichment plants - 621 km of road - 254 km of railway line - 4 electrical distribution stations - plus hundreds of kilometers of fences. For this purpose, 600.000 m³ of concrete and 40.000...

  7. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    ob in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura oder wo auch immer auf der Welt, haben alle das gleiche Problem: Mit jedem Bearbeitungsschritt entstehen mehr und mehr extrem giftige und hochradioaktive Abfälle... 1957 7. - 12. Oktober 1957 (INES 5 | NAMS 4,6) Atomfabrik Windscale/Sellafield, GBR Ein Feuer entzündete Plutonium und erzeugte eine sehr große Menge radioaktiven Staub (1786...

  8. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    ob in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura oder wo auch immer auf der Welt, haben alle das gleiche Problem: Mit jedem Bearbeitungsschritt entstehen mehr und mehr extrem giftige und hochradioaktive Abfälle... 11. Mai 1969 (INES 5 | NAMS 2,3) Atomfabrik Rocky Flats, USA Ein Plutoniumbrand brach in der Verarbeitungsabteilung von Gebäude 776 aus, setzte 10 TBq Radioaktivität frei und...

  9. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever in the world, they all have the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... March 28, 1979 (INES 5 | NAMS 7,9) Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, USA About 3,7 million TBq of radioactivity was released. Equipment failure and operating errors led to...

  10. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    ob in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura oder wo auch immer auf der Welt, haben alle das gleiche Problem: Mit jedem Bearbeitungsschritt entstehen mehr und mehr extrem giftige und hochradioaktive Abfälle... 18. Juni 1999 (INES 2) Akw Shika, JPN Eine Fehlfunktion der Steuerstäbe löste eine unkontrollierte Kernreaktion im Block 1 des Kernkraftwerks Shika aus. (Kosten ca. 39,6 Millionen...

  11. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    ob in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura oder wo auch immer auf der Welt, haben alle das gleiche Problem: Mit jedem Bearbeitungsschritt entstehen mehr und mehr extrem giftige und hochradioaktive Abfälle... Februar 2008 (INES Klass.?) Akw Paluel, FRA Wikipedia de Kernkraftwerk Paluel In einem der vier Blöcke wurden im Februar Fehldispositionen von Isolations-Armaturen vorgefunden,...

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

    The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management is now calling for a final repository to be decided on by 2046 at the latest. The search for a final repository for the highly radioactive nuclear waste generated in Germany has been difficult for years: progress has been slow. First, a location should be determined by 2031. But last November it became known that the...

  13. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    and unscientific ten years after the Bundestag passed the site selection law, opponents of nuclear power have sharply criticized the search for a final repository for the highly radioactive nuclear waste. The anti-nuclear organization explained that the search process does not meet the legal and self-imposed requirements. Of the...

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

    Whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever in the world, they all have the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... July 13th Fossil industry invests in offshore wind power Oil companies BP and Total Energies are pushing into the electricity business: auction of German offshore land brings in billions...

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

    Sample castors are being driven by truck from the Jülich Research Center via the highways across the Ruhr area to Ahaus, although there is still no permit for the transport of the 300 highly radioactive fuel element balls from Jülich to Ahaus. Officially, the North Rhine-Westphalia state government's announcement that it wants to prevent nuclear waste transports of this kind still applies - but de facto it is now possible...

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

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted FirstEnergy a license extension to operate Davis-Besse for 20 years beyond its planned 40-year lifespan. The volume of high-level radioactive waste in Davis-Besse will increase by approximately 30 tons per year. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS: Accidents and violations occurred in Davis-Besse even before it was put into operation. In 1972, a...

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

    However, the facility remains a danger, especially during the Ukraine war. The new shell is only made of sheet metal - it offers no protection against bullets. Everything could collapse and a highly radioactive dust cloud could contaminate the entire region... * Atmosphere | Man made | CO₂ emissions | Temperature rise Fingerprint techniques Human influence on temperature changes of the...

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

    Nuclear waste from the interim storage facility in Jülich will be transported to Ahaus from spring 2024. The necessary approval is expected shortly. A spokesman for the...

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

    Whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever in the world, they all have the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... May 10th Correctiv | Fact check | agitation | Heating law No, Germany is not the only country to ban fossil heating systems. A map gives the impression that only Germany...

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

    Whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever in the world, everyone has the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... April 18th Nuclear power | Disinformation | Electricity Maps No, we EXPORT electricity to France France imports much more electricity from Germany than the other way around -...

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