1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - News+ April 21st - Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    Organe, dann greifen die Menschen in die Auslagen. Aber wenn da eine Videokamera über der Auslage installiert ist, dann denkt man dreimal darüber nach, ob man zugreift."... * Ukraine | Brennelemente | Westinghouse | Energoatom | AKW Chmelnizki Mit Unterstützung von US-Firmen: Ukraine setzt auf neue AKWs Mehrere neue Reaktoren – die Ukraine baut ihre Atomwirtschaft aus. Unterstützung kommt von...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... Youtube Uranium Industry: Plants...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    declare bankruptcy years ago. When debts, interest and fees are paid, 650 of Amazon's 361 million will go into Talen Energy's coffers - a profit margin of 55 percent... * Fuel elements | Intermediate storage | Castoren Court: Green light for Gundremmingen nuclear waste interim storage facility Would the nuclear waste storage facility in Gundremmingen be subject to a targeted terrorist attack or plane crash...

  4. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Isotope U235. In natural uranium it only makes up 0,7 percent. To operate conventional nuclear power plants, three percent to five percent of the isotope in the fuel elements is required. This low enrichment (LEU: low enriched uranium) is achieved most effectively with gas centrifuges. Iran currently has 11.000 of these devices with different performance, which are distributed in three...

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    to become more independent from Russia. To reduce dependence on Russia, the French government is considering building a plant to re-enrich uranium from spent fuel. “This possibility is being seriously examined,” said the Industry and Energy Ministry in Paris. The French electricity company EDF confirmed that it is in talks with several partners...

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

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... March 18 Criteria for...

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

    saw that he would take his own life. Nobody can believe that."... * March 13, 1980 (INES 4) Saint-Laurent nuclear power plant, FRA A faulty cooling system melted fuel elements in the UNGG Saint Laurent A-2 reactor and forced a longer shutdown. (Costs approx. 26 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Saint-Laurent (France) 1980: Partial core meltdown in...

  8. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... March 4th Right-wing extremists | agitation | Intimidation Right of assembly right-wing extremists...

  9. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    enter the food chain and become carcinogenic... IMHO Is uranium ammunition not used in Ukraine, or is it simply not talked about anymore? March 1 Rosatom | Framatomes | Brennelementefabrik Lingen Brennelementefabrik: Signatures against Russian cooperation Critics submitted a collective objection on Friday against cooperation with the Russian...

  10. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    On February 22, 1977, the system was seriously damaged when it was refilled with fuel rods: During the accident, forgotten residues of the drying agent silica gel in the packaging caused blockages in a fuel element, so that the coolant could not flow through properly and local overheating occurred. The pressure pipe and surrounding technological channels were damaged. In...

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

    such as cyanide, arsenic and mercury. In 2002, a fire broke out at a depth of 535 meters and took days to extinguish. The facility has been closed since then... * Russia | Fuel element factory Lingen | Uranium imports of Europe's nuclear power plants are still customers Habeck wants to end Russian uranium imports Russia continues to supply Europe with both gas and uranium and fuel elements for...

  12. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    and 113 comparable nuclear factories can be found all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... Youtube...

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

    to increase. The European Union supports corresponding projects. One of these research projects is Win@sea, which is led by Aarhus University... * Rosatom | Framatomes | Fuel element factory Lingen | Safety risk Stop expansion of the fuel element factory in Lingen Anti-nuclear NGOs are calling for the approval process for the expansion of the fuel element factory to be stopped...

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

    25 percent less water can be used... * January 18, 2012 (INES 2) Cattenom nuclear power plant, FRA Wikipedia Cattenom Due to a missing component, the backflow in the cooling lines of the storage pool of the fuel elements of blocks 2 and 3 was not prevented. The storage pool could have become empty in an uncontrolled manner. Due to a malfunction, the cooling water feed line of the decay tank could...

  15. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    Waste Disposal Commission (ESK), the Federal Government's advisory body on nuclear waste, adopted "Guidelines for the dry interim storage of irradiated fuel elements and heat-generating radioactive waste in containers" at its 109th meeting as a recommendation. There is no mention of terror and war and the dangers associated with them. There is also a need for action because the Federal Republic...

  16. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... Youtube uranium industry:...

  17. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    (Russia) From 1964 to 1979, there was a series of events in which fuel ducts at Beloyarsk-1 were destroyed and workers were exposed to increased radiation. In 1977, 50% of the fuel in Beloyarsk-2 melted; the personnel were exposed to high levels of radioactivity. In a fire that broke out due to a falling cover plate on December 31, 1978, eight people suffered injuries...

  18. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.4.0367/full/ Übersetzung mit https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (kostenlose Version) 20. Dezember Brennelementefabrik Lingen | Framatome | Rosatom Russischer Konzern Rosatom soll in Lingener Atomfabrik einsteigen Im Januar startet die öffentliche Auslegung der Antragsunterlagen für die Erweiterung der Brennelementefabrik Lingen Nach der Abschaltung...

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

    There are comparable nuclear factories all over the world: Uranium enrichment and reprocessing - facilities and locations During reprocessing, the inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... December 7th Climate-damaging...

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

    but to limit 2 degrees compared to the pre-industrial level, the summit meeting should now take stock... * November 30, 1975 (INES 5) Sosnovy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR There was a loss of coolant in a fuel channel of Unit 1 led to the decomposition of a fuel element, resulting in a significant release of radiation that lasted for a month....