1. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    A, DEU Nuclear power plantsPlag Biblis (Hesse) An accident occurred in Biblis A on December 16, 1987, in which radioactive water escaped outside the containment due to the failure of valves and misconduct by the operating team. "There (...) for 15 hours the outside world was only protected from radiation by a barrier, the so-called secondary barrier...

  2. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    to be able to. It's not about the climate. The main thing is to save the Western nuclear industry... * December 8, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR A fire broke out in a silo for radioactive waste in building B247. (Cost approximately US$1300 million) Nuclear Power Accidents This incident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity, are listed in Wikipedia...

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

    But by now we've all heard something about it, or to put it another way, we've all heard something about it! Wikipedia Green Run The 'Green Run' experiment involved the release of a radioactive cloud from the Hanford Site military nuclear complex. Estimates are in the range of several 100 TBq of iodine 131 and even more cesium 133. The proportion of iodine 131 alone was 5500 curies; the...

  4. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    (2) https://www.reaktorpleite.de/nr-128-november-09.html Jülich THTR nuclear waste soon on the streets? The small THTR experimental reactor in Jülich was decommissioned in 1988. Since then, the 300.000 radioactive fuel balls have been stored there in 152 castors. Now they are to be taken via the motorway to the interim storage facility in Ahaus, 170 kilometers away, where the nuclear waste from Hamm is already stored....

  5. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    To bring calm to the debate... * Salzgitter | Konrad shaft | Nuclear waste storage Longer construction period Nuclear waste storage in Salzgitter will probably cost more Low and medium radioactive waste will soon be stored in the Konrad shaft. But after a delay in the schedule, the project becomes significantly more expensive. New calculations for the controversial nuclear waste repository in Salzgitter assume a significant...

  6. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    The search for the best possible location for an underground repository extends the dangerous interim storage process by decades. The search is for the “best possible” location, a place for the highly radioactive legacies of the atomic age. The search has been going on for five years, using a “science-based and transparent process” that the federal and state governments had agreed on. Until 2031...

  7. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    Limiting it to 1,5 degrees is there to protect these rights and must be respected... * November 11, 1983 (INES 3) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR Accidental transfer of 59 TBq of radioactivity with solvents and raw materials from building B205 into a sea tank in building B242. (Costs approx. 44 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Slowly but surely all relevant information about...

  8. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    Motorway slip road from the Ahaus/Legden exit on the A31 to the city. We call for participation in order to advance the resistance against the absurd transfer of nuclear waste from the 152 castors with 300 highly radioactive fuel elements. There is also something new in this matter: In 000, the NRW state government ordered the evacuation of the current Castor camp in Jülich - the main reason:...

  9. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Accused of violating official secrets - an absurd process, because the leaflet was not distributed secretly, but intentionally, in public... * Japan | Fukushima | Radioactivity Two Fukushima workers in hospital after coming into contact with radioactive liquid When a drain hose came loose, four workers at the damaged nuclear power plant were hit with radiant...

  10. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    does the same with its pesticides and the weapons industry with its weapons, first they are sold worldwide and then they are combated with the same means. The dangers of radioactivity, the increasing low-level radiation in all areas of the environment, which will continue to accumulate over the next few years until it is no longer low-level radiation, but highly dangerous...

  11. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) from the USA. On a research trip through the production country, author Michael Höft brings frightening facts to light: the extraction of liquid natural gas leads to radioactive waste, poisoned rivers and massive climate pollution. A special camera makes the enormous release of methane from the conveyor systems visible. Scientists protest:...

  12. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    as well as the planned Castor transports Jülich-Ahaus. * October 7, 1957 (INES 5 | NAMS 4,6) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR A fire ignited plutonium and produced a very large amount of radioactive dust (1786 TBq), which, among other things, forced surrounding dairy farms to give up. (Cost approximately US$89,9 million) Nuclear Power Accidents The full extent of the accident and the errors in organization...

  13. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    Period of 20 hours of gamma and neutron radiation... The number of people who received increased doses of radiation is given as 35 to 63. Three workers were exposed to particularly high levels of radioactivity of up to 17 sieverts. Around 300.000 residents were asked not to leave their homes. This accident is officially attributed to INES 4, some...

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

    fear. News+ background knowledge Top of page Background knowledge ** The map of the nuclear world History becomes "fake news" and the truth is replaced by entertaining stories: Radioactive tea tastes better! Everyone has fun and slaps their thighs with joy. The internal search for history | Stories | Democracy brought, among other things, the following results: 1....

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

    If these projectiles are used in the Ukraine war, the soil, water, agricultural crops and livestock of the contested area are likely to be contaminated with uranium and other radioactive materials contained in the armor-piercing ammunition. When DU penetrates the shell of a tank, it becomes an aerosol of dust or gaseous particles that...

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

    of 2,2 billion. Due to the high energy consumption, industrial sectors such as iron and steel, chemicals and paper would be particularly favored... * Cesium | Fallout | Atomic bomb test mystery of radioactive wild boars solved Why wild boars in Germany carry seemingly impossibly high amounts of cesium-137 Mysterious contamination: Many wild boars in Germany have unusually high...

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

    2008 Nach Abschluss eines Produktionsvorgangs wurden drei kleinere Sammeltanks in einen größeren Abwassertank umgefüllt. Dabei kam es zu einer unerwarteten chemischen Reaktion mit Entstehung von radioaktivem Jod-131. Dieses konnte aufgrund eines defekten Messcomputers während einiger Tage langsam und unbemerkt über einen Kamin in die Umgebung austreten. Als das Problem bemerkt wurde, wurde auf...

  18. 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...

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

    Zwischenlager im niedersächsischen Gorleben. Nach dem Willen des Landshuter Landrats Peter Dreier (Freie Wähler) soll es künftig in der Bundesrepublik nur noch ein einziges Zwischenlager für radioaktiven Atommüll geben. Dafür könnten die bisher insgesamt 16 über ganz Deutschland verteilten Zwischenlager aufgelöst werden. Das beträfe dann auch das Zwischenlager Bella bei den beiden abgeschalteten...

  20. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    the first nuclear weapons test 'Trinity' and for 'Fat Man', the Nagasaki atomic bomb was produced and it was here in December 1949 that the insane experiment 'Green Run' took place, in which huge amounts of radioactive gas were blown into the wind to measure where it would come down again. Residents of the irradiated area didn't feel the effects until years later, when cancer rates...