1. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    they want to finance it together. Nuclear power advocates in the European Union (EU) have made a new push to secure European funding for the technology. Nuclear research should be paid for from the EU budget – “perhaps nuclear projects too,” said Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. "I think that's something that should be possible." Belgium...

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

    ... * Nuclear waste storage facility | Nuclear Research Center | New JRC building delayed by years Nuclear storage facility in Karlsruhe: Opponents speak of "worrying conditions" The planned new building for the EU nuclear research center at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has been delayed by several years. That's why the Karlsruhe Anti-Nuclear Initiative is concerned. Due to the delay in the new building for the...

  3. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    Hospitals etc. Other interested parties were also involved through the acquisition of so-called 'third-party funds'. Even back then, creativity knew no bounds and the financing of nuclear research became increasingly unclear. The nuclear industry has been 'too big to fail' since the middle of the 20th century. Every supposedly purely civilian nuclear research was and is from the beginning primarily...

  4. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    * Nuclear waste | Anti-nuclear movement | Exit Future of the anti-nuclear movement It's not over yet The anti-nuclear movement is still necessary after the reactors have been shut down: The waste problem remains, nuclear research and fuel rod production continue. It ended on April 15th. One minute before midnight, the Neckarwestheim II reactor, the last of what were once 36 nuclear power plants in Germany, was shut down...

  5. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    Nuclear power plants “Emsland”, “Isar-2” and “Neckarwestheim-2” will go offline on April 15th. In view of the energy and climate crisis, it is not only in Germany that voices are increasingly being raised to advance nuclear research. However, all of the new nuclear power projects currently being discussed are neither economically and technically sustainable nor sensible... * France | Offshore wind farm | floating...

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

    Go to the net. However, the date was delayed mainly due to a safety inspection of the site after a severe earthquake in Gyeongju... *** December 13th Plutonium | Weapons Energy Nuclear Research | Nobel Prize 82 years ago today The discovery of element 94 “Application” is a research funding buzzword. After the discovery of a chemical element, its possible application...

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

    banned from working. Is a revolution brewing here? The interview with Noam Chomsky is conducted by political scientist CJ Polychroniou... * United States | experiment | Atomic research December 02, 1949 (INES 4 | NAMS 3,8) Hanford nuclear factory, USA Those responsible intentionally released, among other things, 8.000 curies (289 Tbq) of iodine-131; This experiment was carried out much later than...

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

    Separate fuel elements from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again... * United States | Idaho | Atomic Research November 29, 1955 (INES 4) EBR-I research reactor, USA Partial core meltdown during a coolant flow test. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf - Nuclear Power PlantsPlag Idaho Falls, USA - 1955:...

  9. Newsletter XXIV 2022 - June 10th to 17th - News+ Majority for nuclear weapons? – Now the peace movement speaks

    Surprisingly reveals Russia's long-term plan For weeks in Russia, the war of aggression against Ukraine was only called a military operation. But now Vladimir Putin's rhetoric is changing. * Russia | Atomic research | Nuclear weapons June 17, 1997 - (INES - Class!) - Arzamas-16, Sarov, RUS A technician died in a criticality failure at the Arzamas-16 nuclear research center. Nuclear Power Accidents - Nuclear weapons...

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

    must not allow themselves to be put under pressure by the oil and car lobby: the combustion engine never turns green. * Release | Tritium June 08, 1970 - (INES 4 | NAMS 3,6) LLNL, California, USA Nuclear research and nuclear weapons development In 1965 and 1970, the Lawrenz Livermore Lab released approximately 650.000 Curies (23.700 TBq) of tritium from the chimneys of the tritium plant ( Building 331) in the...

  11. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    Resumption of uranium production in Kayelekera. The mine infrastructure was put into a maintenance program in 2014 but is in good condition, according to Lotus Resources. * Atomic research | Jülich | Whistleblower May 13, 1978 - (No correct INES class.) - AVR Jülich, DEU Nuclear power plantsPlaq Jülich (North Rhine-Westphalia) / Serious incident 1978 On May 13, 1978 there was a...

  12. Newsletter XIII 2022 - March 26-31 - News+ A month of war in Ukraine: developing a tragedy

    Question is raised, would certainly also be for Dr. Strangely very interesting. Should the impending climate catastrophe be exploited once again to justify even more and even more extensive nuclear research? It sounds like a single small atomic bomb wouldn't be so bad after all. This is 100% wrong and an incredibly dangerous debate, this "we can...

  13. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    but exposes the German population to the dangers of nuclear energy for another decade. The nuclear phase-out was not included in the Basic Law, the nuclear factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, and the Euratom Treaty has not been terminated to date. Framework conditions for the energy transition have hardly been set. Nevertheless...

  14. Newsletter III 2022 - January 15th to 21st - News+ Advancing the energy transition: The mills of the plain

    but exposes the German population to the dangers of nuclear energy for another decade. The nuclear phase-out was not included in the Basic Law, the nuclear factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, the Euratom Treaty has not been terminated to date... ** Wikipedia Energy transition in Germany The energy transition in...

  15. Newsletter XLIX - October 27th to 31.10.2021st, 27 - News+ October XNUMXth - Garching reactor

    Event by the Greens massive criticism of the TU Munich. *** Top of page Current news + background knowledge *** Background knowledge ** reaktorpleite.de Map of the nuclear world: TUM Garching - Is nuclear research allowed to do anything? In Kini Jödler's Bavaria already... The English version of this world map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD ** Search the reaktorpleite.de...

  16. Newsletter XXIII May 18th to 26.05.2021th, 18 - Current News+ May 2th - Prohibit COXNUMX emissions by law

    but exposes the German population to the dangers of nuclear energy for another decade. The nuclear phase-out was not included in the Basic Law, the nuclear factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, and the Euratom Treaty has not been terminated to date. Framework conditions for the energy transition have hardly been set. Nevertheless...

  17. Newsletter XXII - May 10th to 17.05.2021th, 10 - Current News+ May XNUMXth - Cameco increases uranium purchases to fulfill contracts

    but exposes the German population to the dangers of nuclear energy for another decade. The nuclear phase-out was not included in the Basic Law, the nuclear factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, and the Euratom Treaty has not been terminated to date. Framework conditions for the energy transition have hardly been set. Nevertheless...

  18. Newsletter XXI - May 04th to 09.05.2021th, 04 - Current News+ May XNUMXth - Hydrogen from your own garden

    but exposes the German population to the dangers of nuclear energy for another decade. The nuclear phase-out was not included in the Basic Law, the nuclear factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, and the Euratom Treaty has not been terminated to date. Framework conditions for the energy transition have hardly been set. Nevertheless...

  19. Newsletter XX - 28.04. to 03.05.2021/28/XNUMX - News+ April XNUMX - Solar power drives Germany

    can * Vienna University of Technology April 28, 2021 - New catalyst for lower CO2 emissions *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ ** Solar research instead of nuclear research April 28, 2021 - Solar power drives Germany The energy and climate newsreel: From storage, Electric bikes, steel made with hydrogen and an Arctic that is way too warm Wow. That used to be...

  20. Newsletter XIX - April 25th to 27.04.2021th, 25 - News+ April XNUMXth - MiK prepares for important battles to come

    claims the undeniable necessity of nuclear power plants to avert the climate crisis. There is also a lot of talk about medical progress and all the unforeseeable achievements that nuclear research will bring us in the future. All of these rather vague assumptions and announcements are presented as irrefutable facts. And again and again the subtle wink...

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