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

    and energy projects. The background is the increasing geopolitical tensions with China and the war in Ukraine, which is restricting investments from Russia. *Taiwan | Earthquake Earthquake in Taiwan: Strongest earthquake in 25 years At least seven people were killed, houses were damaged and train traffic came to a standstill. The quake was felt as far as China...

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    from the Netherlands, later from Russia and Norway. Only Norway remained after gas from Russia was no longer wanted and the gas field in Groningen was closed due to earthquakes caused by production. Volatile elements in the gas supply A secure gas supply quickly became a collection of highly volatile elements. It starts with the weather and...

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

    almost trace the radicalization of the party... * March 12, 2011 (INES 3) Fukushima II Daini Nuclear Power Plant, JPN Wikipedia Chronology_of_the_catastrophe_in_Japan_of_2011 The great Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 and the subsequent tsunami occurred in the Fukushima-Daini nuclear power plant (Fukushima 2) led to an automatic shutdown in all 4 reactor blocks. On March 12, 2011 the temperature rose...

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

    Atomic bomb explosions from 82 to 99 percent. This is made possible thanks to improved mathematical-statistical analyzes that reveal in near real time whether a seismic event comes from an earthquake or an atomic bomb explosion. The nuclear weapons tests in North Korea would also have been detected immediately - this was not the case with the current system. The consequences of the atomic bomb tests...

  5. 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

    NPD failed miserably because the party was riddled with too many informants. A second application for a ban against the NPD was also rejected by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2017... * Japan | Earthquake | Shika Nuclear Power Plant After a strong earthquake in Japan: An echo of Fukushima Another earthquake and a tsunami hit a Japanese nuclear power plant hard. The events raise new security doubts...

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

    On January 6, 2016, the government of North Korea announced that a successful test of a hydrogen bomb had been carried out for the first time. Seismic signals indicating a nuclear weapon explosion have been measured by Chinese and US earthquake monitors near the Punggye Ri nuclear weapons test site. However, the expected height of a hydrogen bomb...

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

    the site became contaminated; the population was not informed. In 1969, this level 4 accident on the INES scale was declared an 'incident' by the EdF... October 16th Italy | Earthquake | Volcano Extreme smell of sulfur in the air, sea is retreating - Italy's super volcano is shaking again The super volcano near Naples had been quiet for a few days. But again...

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

    They are suitable for exactly such purposes, but can also be manufactured very cheaply. Because, as Scitech Daily summarizes, it consists of readily available ingredients: cement, water and soot... * Afghanistan | Earthquake Again tremors of magnitude 6,3 Afghanistan again shaken by a severe earthquake - at least 100 injured The earth does not come to rest in western Afghanistan. Once again in the region...

  9. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    a fraction of the estimated 40.000 to 60.000 industrial chemicals. According to the German Nature Conservation Association, pesticides contain around 1.000 different substances... * Netherlands | Natural gas | Earthquake Netherlands closes Europe's largest gas field For years there have been calls for an end to production in Groningen due to earthquakes in the region. 429 billion euros were generated, the profits...

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

    “commit to reducing the negative effects of the use of chemicals,” as stated by the Federal Environment Ministry. However, this declaration is not binding under international law... * Italy | Earthquake | Volcano Endless earthquake on Italy's super volcano - expert warns of huge explosion The fear of an explosion of the super volcano of the Phlegraean Fields near Naples is growing: the earth is shaking...

  11. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Africa needs their labor. Africa is collapsing. In Libya, floods wash half a city into the sea and tens of thousands drown. In Morocco, the High Atlas collapses in a severe earthquake, burying villages with thousands of people. Further south, military coups are causing regional tensions and instability, and the economy is lying idle. Sudan's new war has...

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

    Keeping 2023 in check has not yet made any suggestions on how to curb government spending by reducing climate-damaging fossil fuel subsidies... * Morocco | Earthquake | Disaster area Number of deaths after earthquake in Morocco increased to more than 2.000 At least 2.059 more people were injured. According to WHO, more than 300.000 people have been affected by the disaster...

  13. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Land through small farming practices”. * September 9, 2016 (5th atomic bomb test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia North Korean nuclear weapons program On September 09, 2016 at around 2:30 a.m. CET, earthquake monitors in South Korea, China, the USA and Europe registered a magnitude 5,3 earthquake in North Korea. A few hours later, North Korea announced the successful test of a nuclear bomb... Punggye-ri...

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

    The greenhouse gas CO2 is pressed into deep layers of the earth in order to banish it from the atmosphere. Opponents of the CCS projects, especially in Schleswig-Holstein, feared leaks, artificial earthquakes and risks to groundwater. [...] Until now, the technology has also been very controversial in politics. The Greens and the SPD in particular spoke out against it, but the Union and the FDP also...

  15. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    Bolts at the THTR - a good 20 years later the dowels in Brunsbüttel and 25 years later the tsunami protection wall in Fukushima was a few meters short of height. Natural disasters, such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in Japan, cannot be precisely predicted. Just like big fires in Los Alamos/New Mexico, floods in Nebraska, or earthquakes in the eastern USA. But...

  16. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    A tornado struck the power plant's electrical switchgear, disrupting primary power to the plant's cooling pumps... - On August 23, 2011, an earthquake in central Virginia automatically shut down Dominion's North Anna reactors 11 miles from the epicenter. .. Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)...

  17. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Tarō Kōno and South Korean media announced on September 3, 2017 that North Korea had carried out another nuclear weapon test. This was indicated by measurements from various earthquake monitoring stations, which registered two tremors. The American USGS gave the strengths as 6,3 and 4,6. The first shock came from an explosion, the second, about 8 minutes later, from an...

  18. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear power plantsPlag Akw Shika (Japan) From 1992 and 2005, two boiling water reactors with an output of 540 and 1.206 MW were operated in Shika. After the severe earthquake on July 16, 2007 off the west coast of Japan, the two reactors were retrofitted from December 2007 for safety reasons. On March 18, 2009, a lawsuit filed by Japanese...

  19. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    (France) The Center de Cadarache is located on the so-called Durance fault, a geological fault zone where strong to devastating earthquakes have repeatedly occurred every 100 years, most recently in 1913. Most of the systems in Cadarache are therefore run by French seismologists considered a radiation risk to the region... May 25, 2009 (North Korea's 2....

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

    operating nuclear reactor in the country. It was commissioned in 1974 before being taken offline in January 2011 for regular inspections. When core meltdowns occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power plant shortly afterwards in March as a result of an earthquake and massive tsunami, the reactor remained shut down afterwards. On Friday, the operating company Kansai Electric Power (Kepco) drove it again...

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