1. Newsletter XIII 2024 - News+ March 24th - Protest at the first nuclear summit in Brussels against the IAEA's “nuclear fantasies”.

    um hochradioaktive Castor-Transporte wird der Ton zwischen Nordrhein-Westfalens grüner Vize-Ministerpräsidentin Mona Neubaur und Umweltorganisationen frostig. In wenigen Monaten sollen die ersten Castoren mit radioaktivem Atommüll aus dem ehemaligen Kernforschungszentrum Jülich in das Zwischenlager Ahaus verlegt werden. Jetzt dürfen Ver­tre­te­r:in­nen von Neubaurs Landeswirtschaftsministerium,...

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

    should be driven - for example through the Düsseldorf airport tunnel or over the dilapidated 'Berlin Bridge' of the A59 in the middle of my hometown of Duisburg. Any damage to the castors could lead to the release of radioactivity. Matthias Eickhoff: Furthermore, the nuclear waste in the Ahaus interim storage facility is not a bit safer than in Jülich. You have to explain that. Eickhoff: The interim storage facility...

  3. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    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. A second test drive without radioactive cargo took place on...

  4. 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...

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

    Inventory comparable to what was released in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. It is unclear what radioactivity, neutron radiation and waste heat have done inside the castors over the years; so far none of the loaded containers have been opened again... November 16th AfD | Party conference | Monitor | Freedom of the press Interim injunction AfD must ARD magazine “Monitor”...

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

    “It is adequately secured against terrorist attacks and plane crashes, so it only has an operating license until 2034,” says Felix Ruwe from the citizens’ initiative No Nuclear Waste in Ahaus. Castors are only designed for 40 years. Ruwe criticizes that the Castor containers are also only designed for a period of 40 years. In view of the completely unresolved final storage issue, nuclear waste must...

  7. 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

    There the motorway slip road from the Ahaus/Legden exit on the A31 reaches 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 -...

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

    with empty Castor containers from Jülich to Ahaus. The initiatives point out that the former operators of the AVR reactor were “responsible until final storage” for the approximately 300.000 fuel balls in the 152 Jülich castors. The statement states, among other things: “Since the fuel balls have to be conditioned and repackaged before final storage,...

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

    most efficient, they say. You already pay an annual rent of one million euros in Ahaus and have made all the preparations for transport. The radioactive balls are packed in 152 castors and special trucks were made. From Jülich’s perspective, it can get started. This option is also preferred by the federal government because of the costs... * Israel | war crimes | Criminal Court New...

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

    will be at the end as long as the anti-nuclear movement can still mobilize masses after the official end of nuclear power. In the 1990s there was still a state of emergency around Ahaus when castors with fuel elements were brought there... October 13th Fuel element factory Lingen | Framatomes | Rosatom German cooperation with Rosatom: Radioactively contaminated The operator of the...

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

    create! We are calling for the following dates and activities: October 01st: Forest walk "Sterki remains" in Oberhausen - against the expansion of the A3 - this is exactly the route over which the 152 Castoren should travel from Jülich to Ahaus. We stand in solidarity with the forest protectors and look forward to joint activities. https://esreich-ob.de/waldspaziergang-sterkibleibt-so-1-10-1200/...

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

    sealed. However, this does not mean that the problems are gone. The question still remains unsolved: what to do with the radioactive waste packed in special containers for highly radioactive materials, so-called castors. Since there is no final storage facility in sight, the spent fuel remains in interim storage facilities for decades. Responsible for operations and safety is...

  13. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Friends, we are once again calling for the rally in Ahaus this Sunday, August 20th, at 14 p.m., at the “Mahner” in the pedestrian zone. The aim is to prevent the 152 Westcastors with 300 highly radioactive fuel elements from being transported from Jülich to Ahaus. Across North Rhine-Westphalia and the Ruhr area - always on the motorways - that would be total madness and would not...

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

    further - with the BI protest rally "No nuclear waste in Ahaus" in front of the warning in the pedestrian zone. The aim is to prevent the concrete preparations that are now underway for the transport of the 152 West Castors from Jülich to Ahaus and then the Castors from Garching/Munich to Ahaus. The BI also invites you to a planning meeting at 20 p.m. on the 12th immediately before the rally...

  15. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    In 1989 it was shut down due to a stuck control rod; 11 days later its final closure was announced... June 12th Gorleben BGZ scraps transport containers for Castors Disposal of Castor transport containers: Scrapped like an old bicycle The operator of the Gorleben interim storage facility has old Castor hoods scrapped. Opponents of nuclear power warn of...

  16. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    But once you understand how wrong it is to work with these substances, then in my opinion there is no justifiable alternative. * Nuclear waste | Final repository | Castoren Nuclear waste: No security, only calculation models Germany does not yet have a final storage facility for the remains of 60 years of nuclear power use. Latest idea: recycling old fuel rods as raw material for new reactors. About the gaps...

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

    will remain nuclear companies even after the Emsland and Isar II nuclear power plants are shut down. 3. Nuclear waste of various categories is piling up in Lingen, Gronau and Ahaus. There are castors with highly radioactive nuclear waste in Lingen and Ahaus. Further Castor transports have been announced for Ahaus, including from Jülich and Munich-Garching. Thousands of tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride are stored in Gronau as...

  18. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    Newsletter L 2022 December 15th to 19th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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

    is delayed by at least 15 years. This was announced by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment. This also has an impact on the city of Neckarwestheim (Heilbronn district). There are 135 castors stored in the interim storage facility. They will therefore remain there for many decades... * Expansion Renewable | Photovoltaics | Tenant electricity policy prepares relief for tenant electricity...

  20. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    highly radioactive waste is stored. It is questionable whether there will be a final storage facility for nuclear waste in Germany in 2050. The search is taking longer than planned. That's why 74 castors have to be stored longer in the Lubmin interim storage facility. The BUND in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is therefore calling for more security in the form of a so-called “hot cell”. This is a shielded room in which...

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