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

    could no longer stabilize its own needs. As a result of these events, the reactor was automatically shut down to avoid further safety risks and all four emergency diesel generators that were necessary to maintain reactor safety were started... Nuclear power plantsPlag Biblis_(Hesse)...As early as the 1960s, the mayor of Biblis, Joseph...

  2. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    de Doel Nuclear Power Plant On August 4, 1982, emergency power occurred in the two oldest Doel blocks following a failure of the 380 kV network and strong voltage fluctuations in the reserve network. Four diesel generators started, but due to errors they were unable to provide the supply necessary for cold start-up (see decay heat). As a final reserve, a power-independent,...

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

    Air strikes but also indirectly in the cold and dark winter of Ukraine, where electricity and heating often fail. The West is helping in the Ukrainian energy crisis, primarily with diesel generators to provide electricity to hospitals and other facilities. After all, this shows that a decentralized energy supply is much more crisis-proof than centralized large electricity and...

  4. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    all communication channels, as well as the water supply, and after a certain time also the food supply, the banks, the hospitals. And even an emergency power supply with diesel generators only delays failures for a few days. [...] Very few people in Ukraine who supply themselves with electricity from renewable energies have electricity. If there were...

  5. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    became. "Radon is, after smoking, one of the most common causes of lung cancer - from which you can protect yourself well," said BfS President Inge Paulini... * Zaporizhia | Emergency power | Diesel generators | Diesel for ten days Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant again without external power, emergency diesel is running Once again, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is no longer running on electricity from...

  6. THTR Circular No. 106 April 06

    Earthlife Africa said that the city of Cape Town, a city of millions, narrowly escaped a major nuclear accident. DPA reported on February 27, 2: "As a 'last line of defense', only the diesel generators (...) would have protected the reactor from overheating. 'If this last line of defense fails, a meltdown is indeed possible,' said Maya Aberman from the newspaper's environmental group Earthlife Africa...

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