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

    Technologies only in the next “five to six decades”. No solution for climate goals and final storage problem The study, carried out on behalf of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE), comes to the conclusion that alternative reactor concepts are not available in time to achieve the Paris climate goals. BASE President Christian Kühn emphasizes...

  2. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    California, a plane accident. A United States Air Force B-52F-70-BW Stratofortress bomber, AF Serial No. 57-0166, c/n 464155, took off from Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento with two nuclear weapons on board. According to the Air Force's official report, the aircraft suffered an uncontrolled decompression that required a descent to 10.000 feet (3.000 m) to...

  3. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    CAN Wikipedia Crash of a B-36 in British Columbia 1950 On February 13, 1950, the US Air Force's Convair B-36 long-range bomber took off for a training flight from Eielson Air Force Base. The destination was the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Wort. Three of the six engines caught fire. The crew released the onboard non-nuclear nuclear bomb...

  4. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    1961 Yuba City B-52 crash 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash 1964 Bunker Hill AFB runway accident 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident 1966 Palomares B-52 crash[6] 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, Arkansas Unofficially, the Defense Atomic Support Agency (now known as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)) has discovered hundreds of "Broken...

  5. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    in Gaza Yahya Sinwar. "Now Netanyahu calls him a Nazi, but back then he released him and helped make him the leader of Hamas," Olmert told the magazine... * Baseball bat attack Five men arrested after baseball bat attack Five men aged between 18 and 29 are said to have attacked a 19-year-old with a baseball bat in Remptendorf at the weekend...

  6. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    On the Spanish Mediterranean coast, a B-28G bomber from the 52th Bomb Wing carrying B68RI hydrogen bombs, which came from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina in the USA as part of Operation Chrome Dome, collided with a KC-135 tanker aircraft from the 9000th Bomb Wing US Air Force at 150.000 meters altitude. An explosion occurred, destroying the XNUMX liters of fuel on board the...

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

    Newsletter XLVIII 2023 November 26th to December 2nd *** 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, leaving this information to the public...

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

    proposed to circumvent financing problems that affect conventional nuclear reactors with greater power (e.g. EPR, VVER) and investment costs that are many times higher... BASE/Öko-Institut (2021) The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) presented a comprehensive report on March 10, 2021, which includes 136 different historical and current...

  9. 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

    The current Castor camp in Jülich is to be evacuated - the main reason: earthquake safety is not guaranteed. But now the turning point: Both NRW Economics Minister Neubaur and the responsible federal office BASE surprisingly announced that earthquake safety was no longer at risk. If that is the case, then the main reason for the ordered eviction and thus the...

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

    The anti-nuclear organization “broadcast” and the “nuclear opponents in Emsland” alliance announced on Wednesday. The transports were approved by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (Base) with the approval of the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA). The base provides information on the Internet about transport permits issued for nuclear material... *...

  11. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Arrow) Mars Bluff, South Carolina, USA Wikipedia en 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident On March 11, 1958, a US Air Force Boeing B-47E-LM Stratojet took off from Hunter Air Force Base, operated by the 375th Bombardment Squadron of the 308th Bombardment Wing operating near Savannah, Georgia, departed at approximately 16:34 p.m. and was scheduled to return to...

  12. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    of about 7,68 km² of the surrounding area with about ten terabecquerels of radioactive plutonium (tera = trillion) as well as uranium, americium and tritium... Wikipedia Crash of a B-52 near Thule Air Base 1968 The crash of a B-52 near the Thule Air Base happened on January 21, 1968... Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base) History In 1951, the United States Army Corps of...

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

    Belonging to the middle, but fueling the polarizing debate and even letting the corresponding parties in the USA teach them the "Trump style"... * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Intermediate storage facility BASE President König calls for the search for a final storage facility to be completed by 2046. After the German nuclear reactors have been switched off, the problems of nuclear energy are far from over. The President of the Federal Office for...

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

    The focus should be on ensuring transparency about the selection steps right from the start and involving citizens effectively, said Helge Bauer from Ausspielt. However, the Federal Nuclear Waste Office BASE and the Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE), which was commissioned to find a location, have failed to meet these challenges to date... * Photovoltaics | Solar modules | Balcony Top 5: The...

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

    Please contact the BI in Ahaus directly. The two-day protest action by the Alliance AgiEL - opponents of nuclear power in Emsland began today on the market square in Lingen on the occasion of the visit of the BASE information mobile. The BASE wants to talk about final storage options, the AgiEL shows where more and more nuclear waste is still being produced in Germany today, namely in Lingen and Gronau....

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

    The nuclear energy chapter is far from over; the nuclear waste still needs to be stored safely for a long period of time. The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) is tasked with storing information about German nuclear waste for at least 500 years, and preferably for a much longer period. The task is demanding: the language is...

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

    to stop the killing and explore possibilities for peace. "Only then can the path to a common security order in Europe be paved," write the initiators... the groundwater no longer...

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

    injured by the explosion of the bomb's conventional explosive... Description of the incident On March 11, 1958, a US Air Force Boeing B-47E-LM Stratojet took off from Hunter Air Force Base, operated by the 375th Bombardment Squadron of the 308th Bombardment Wing operated near Savannah, Georgia, at approximately 16:34 p.m. and was scheduled to travel to...

  19. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    around. An atomic bomb was also lost. On February 13, 1950, the US Air Force's Convair B-36 long-range bomber took off from Eielson Air Force Base for a training flight. The destination was the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Wort. Three of the six engines caught fire. The crew released the Mark 4 non-core nuclear bomb on board; she...

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

    But since it won't be finished until around four decades later, it will also have consequences for the interim storage facilities, says Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) to NDR... * Media | Climate issues | Television Broadcasting time for the climate: Television sets climate issues According to a study by the University of Hamburg, the climate on public television...

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