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

    Newsletter XLVII 2023 November 19th to 25th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    – and at the same time be cheaper and more robust... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Schacht Konrad Plan for nuclear waste storage Delayed by another 17 years The location for the storage of low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste is still 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. This one...

  3. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    as an interim nuclear waste storage facility, the fronts remain hardened. The former salt dome is dilapidated and will be cleared in about ten years. Around 126.000 barrels of low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste are currently stored there. As long as there is no energy storage facility in Germany, they must be stored temporarily. The plans of the responsible Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE) to create a location for this...

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

    million euros) was spent to influence legislators. “We have now proven that we are stronger than the oil lobby,” said Newson... *** March 30, interim storage facility | nuclear waste | low and medium radioactive | KIT Campus North Two interim storage facilities will go into operation in 2023 New storage hall for nuclear waste on the KIT Campus North Two new interim storage facilities for low- and medium-level radioactive waste...

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

    Tons of CO2 annually... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Konrad Shaft Konrad Shaft: Alliance calls for end to repository construction Konrad Shaft in Salzgitter has long been approved as a final repository for low- and medium-level radioactive waste - and is currently under construction. The resistance to this is great. A broad alliance is calling for a halt to construction. District administrators, mayors and mayors from the Salzgitter area...

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

    Waste could also impact the schedule for clearing the Asse nuclear waste site. There are growing fears in the Asse region that the retrieval of the nuclear waste barrels containing low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste from the dilapidated mine near Wolfenbüttel will also be postponed - and that the interim storage facility to be built for the Asse waste will thus become a permanent storage facility. The...

  7. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    she: Where should the radioactive waste go? The answer was always postponed. There is now an approved final repository for low- and medium-level radioactive waste in the form of the Konrad mine in Lower Saxony. However, a suitable location for highly radioactive waste has not yet been found. The Federal Agency for the Search for Final Repositories (BGE) has been responsible for this since 2016. She has...

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

    Action alliance against nuclear power is concerned The Schweinfurt Action Alliance against Nuclear Power (SWAB) reacts with concern to the announcement of the planned storage of external low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste in the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear waste storage facility BeHa. According to the approval, 20 percent of the approved inventory may consist of third-party waste, which means 20 percent more of this...

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

    This is what the Lower Saxony political magazine “Rundblick” reports. The rental agreement for the state collection point in Leese (Nienburg/Weser district) expires at the end of 2030. Low- and medium-level radioactive waste from research and medicine is stored there. This nuclear waste is actually supposed to be taken to the Konrad shaft repository near Salzgitter. However, the...

  10. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    to the detriment of the climate! * Würgassen 700 people demonstrate against nuclear waste storage An estimated 700 people demonstrated on Saturday in Beverungen against the planned logistics center for low- and medium-level radioactive waste in Würgassen. They made their displeasure known with banners, ratchets and whistles * Attention | antisocial | Media Majority of social media platforms fail...

  11. Newsletter VII 2022 - February 13th to 19th - News+ Repository Onkalo - These tunnels should solve the biggest nuclear power problem

    https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Atommüll+Finnland ** AtomkraftwerkePlag - Rechercheplattform zur Atomenergie Finnland Finnland betreibt zwei unterirdische Endlager für die Entsorgung schwach- und mittelradioaktiver Abfälle bei den Atomkraftwerken Loviisa (seit 1997) und Olkiluoto (seit 1992). Finnlands geplantes Endlager für hochradioaktive Abfälle soll in Onkalo auf der Halbinsel Olkiluoto am...

  12. Newsletter II 2022 - January 07th to 14th - News+ Draft EU taxonomy: chance of nuclear power surviving?

    France and Germany were. You speak out clearly against nuclear power. * Nuclear waste | Asse II Asse: Planning for the retrieval of nuclear waste can begin. From 2033, the low- and medium-level radioactive waste is to be recovered from the dilapidated Asse II mine near Wolfenbüttel. The Federal Agency for Final Storage has now awarded the plans for this. ** January 10th Climate change damage caused by...

  13. Newsletter LIV - November 26th to 30.11.2021th, 26 - News+ November 30th - Solar world record: HZB tandem cell achieves almost XNUMX percent efficiency

    * November 29, 2021 - South Australian site to host national nuclear waste facility Napandee near Kimba in South Australia has been officially selected as the site for a national low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste facility. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Spain | Uranium mining | Salamanca November 29, 2021 - Spanish uranium project is not approved...

  14. Newsletter XLIII - September 20th to 23.09.2021rd, 20 - News+ September XNUMXth - climate strike / uranium waste export Russia / Gorleben / shaft Konrad

    when his suitability went through a nuclear law procedure, which was confirmed by the Federal Constitutional Court. The shaft was tested for its suitability as a final repository for low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste from 1975 to 1982, including by the Research Center for Health and Environment (GSF). After suitability was confirmed, an application to initiate a...

  15. Newsletter II - January 08th to 14.01.2021th, 08 - News+ January XNUMXth - European Organization for Cooperation in Waste Management established

    is looking for an international solution for the storage of the fuel elements of its DR-1 research reactor. If this fails, the fuel elements should be disposed of in the LILW final storage facility in Risø for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. The spent fuel elements for DR-2 and -3 were transferred to the USA... ** Wikipedia search for a final repository in Germany The search for a final repository is intended to...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016

    “Expert” cheerfully continues: “Versemann puts the costs of dismantling the Hammer nuclear power plant at around 400 million euros. 6 cubic meters are to be disposed of - in a final storage facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. According to Versemann, the Konrad final repository should be available around 000.” – These are again very strange speculations that he is putting out into the world. Maybe not quite...

  17. From uranium mining and processing, to nuclear research, the construction and operation of nuclear plants including nuclear power plant accidents, to dealing with nuclear waste and nuclear weapons! - Worldwide, almost, everything at a glance with Google Maps

    an experimental final repository and the retrieval plan The nuclear waste in the Asse II mine was supposed to be safe for thousands of years. But the reality is different: Since the last barrel of low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste was dumped, more and more water has penetrated into the salt dome. Now the radiant waste must be recovered, otherwise there is a risk of contamination. From 1967 to 1978 there are good...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 129 December 09

    The reactor failure - THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on the THTR and much more. The THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The THTR newsletters from 2009 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 129 *** THTR Newsletter No. 2009, Dec. XNUMX Content: On the death of Theo Hengesbach Duisburg, Mühlheim, Essen -...

  19. THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08

    for AVR disposal. However, the temporary closure of the Asse and the reorientation of the JUPITER project required a revision of the disposal concept” (2). Although only low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste is allowed to be stored in Asse, something different happened: From 1967 to 1982, only 93% enriched uranium-235 was used at the THTR Jülich: “In the AVR,...

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