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

    in Gore, OK, USA Wikipedia List of accidents in nuclear facilities #1980s At Kerr-McGee's Sequoyah uranium conversion plant in Gore, Oklahoma, an overfilled cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride burst after improper heating. While filling uranium hexafluoride into a transport cylinder intended for this purpose, it was noticed that due to the incorrect calibration of a scale...

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

    Sequoyah, USA Wikipedia List of accidents in nuclear facilities #1980s At Kerr-McGee's Sequoyah uranium conversion plant in Gore, Oklahoma, an overfilled cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride burst after improper heating. While filling uranium hexafluoride into a transport cylinder intended for this purpose, it was noticed that due to the incorrect calibration of a scale...

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

    It is certain that “Nius” is a right-wing populist propaganda campaign. And also that Jan Fleischhauer and Judith Sevinc Basad work for the portal... * Russia | Uranium enrichment | Uranium hexafluoride | Nowouralsk Nuclear accident in Nowouralsk: Uranium barrel from Gronau under suspicion Serious accident in the Russian nuclear complex Nowouralsk with at least one fatality After a serious nuclear accident in...

  4. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    The test was a complete success. This was evidenced by a 330 meter wide crater in the desert sand and a mushroom cloud that grew twelve kilometers into the sky... July 14th Russia | Uranium enrichment | Uranium hexafluoride | Novouralsk | Ural Electrochemical Combine Accident at Russian uranium enrichment plant, at least one fatality According to the operator, a container containing uranium hexafluoride...

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

    such as "France Séisme" report a value of 5,2 on the Richter scale. This makes it one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the region... * Nuclear transport | Uranium hexafluoride BBU sounds the alarm Secret nuclear transport rolls over the A31 near Ahaus On Friday morning (June 31th) - according to the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) - there was a...

  6. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    Raw materials dispensed with. The Innobatt project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the “Batterie2020Transfer” program... * Fuel elements Lingen | Uranium hexafluoride | Advanced Nuclear Fuels How dangerous is the production of fuel elements in Lingen? The risk of a catastrophe has decreased with the decommissioning of the Emsland nuclear power plant in Lingen. And thus...

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

    There are castors with highly radioactive nuclear waste. 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 nuclear waste, for which there is (of course) no safe disposal in Germany because the uranium waste was conveniently exported to Russia until 2020. 4. Against all reason in NRW...

  8. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    reached in Lingen in Emsland. This emerges from data published on the Internet by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE). Accordingly, enriched uranium hexafluoride was transported to Lingen on September 28th and 29th. A spokesman for the authority confirmed the delivery upon request. The authority did not provide any further information. The basis for the transport was...

  9. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    BASE spokesperson. He did not provide any details for security reasons. According to the Alliance of Opponents of Nuclear Power in Emsland (AgiEL), the Russian ship carrying enriched uranium hexafluoride did not call at the port of Rotterdam (Netherlands) on Sunday, but is now on its way to France. Therefore, at least this Monday, there will be no uranium transport from Russia to...

  10. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    be won. Test drilling and uranium mining mark the beginning of the uranium industry. Fuel elements for nuclear power plants are created via several processing stages (processing into yellowcake, then chemical conversion to uranium hexafluoride and uranium enrichment)... * Uranium industry Uranium industry refers to all economic activities that range from the processing of uranium ore to...

  11. Newsletter XII 2022 - March 19th to 25th - News+ Collateral damage to the climate?

    marks, according to experts, a series of crises (part 1) * Gronau | Russia | Urenco state government: No transports from Gronau to Russia There are currently no transports of uranium hexafluoride from Gronau to Russia. This emerges from a response from the state government to a request from the Greens in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament. There are no such...

  12. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    Course correction in economic relations with Russia. Voting result: [Yes: 27, No:2, Enth:0] Decided by majority 2. The city of Hamm rejects future transports of uranium hexafluoride to and from the uranium enrichment plant in Gronau via the Hammer city area. Voting result: [Yes: 18, No: 10, Enth: 1] Decided by a majority 3. The city of Hamm supports the demand of...

  13. Newsletter XLIII - September 20th to 23.09.2021rd, 20 - News+ September XNUMXth - climate strike / uranium waste export Russia / Gorleben / shaft Konrad

    a parking lot. It also became public that Germany was exporting radioactive waste to Russia to an even greater extent. This is depleted uranium in the form of uranium hexafluoride, which is to be further processed... ** Continue to: Newspaper article 2021 *** Top of page Current news + background knowledge *** Call for donations - The THTR newsletter is published by the 'BI...

  14. April 06, 2020 - Nuclear waste rolls through NRW

    go to Amsterdam. There he is loaded onto a ship. The destination of the German uranium waste is Novouralsk. The Russian energy company has a nuclear factory there in which the highly toxic uranium hexafluoride is to be further processed. Environmentalists have been doubting this for years and are talking about a "nuclear waste dump"... *** Map of the nuclear world: All participants wore respiratory masks that...

  15. April 03, 2020 - Nuclear waste should roll again

    currently exists. We also remind you that the meeting is only necessary because the Gronau uranium enricher Urenco stubbornly insists on such a transport, which is completely operationally irrelevant, despite the considerable dangers posed by uranium hexafluoride transport. We once again urge Urenco to stop this dangerous uranium waste export to...

  16. Feb. 12, 2020 at FUgE - nuclear waste transports from Gronau via Hamm to Russia

    Nuclear waste is once again regularly transported from the uranium enrichment plant (UAA) in Gronau via Hamm to Russia. These uranium suits transport around 600 t of radioactive and highly toxic uranium hexafluoride (UF6), which is intended to remain as nuclear waste in Russia at the Novouralsk nuclear facility near Yekaterinburg. The nuclear waste is left at the Hammer marshalling yard for several hours. At a...

  17. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2020

    before the end: the path is clear for renewable energies * IPPNW | Trial in Cochem June 25th, 2020 - Doctor and medical student convicted of "trespassing" at Bundeswehr airfield The government stands by and does nothing” * Role model for...

  18. December 08th, 2019 - Tomorrow, December 09.12.2019th, XNUMX is the day of action against uranium waste exports

    On Monday, December 9th, protests will take place in twelve cities as part of a national day of action against the expected departure of a new uranium waste transport with 600 t of depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from the uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, Westphalia, to the Novouralsk nuclear plant in Russia. The protests are not only taking place in Münsterland, but for the first time also in the Ruhr area...

  19. Nov. 29, 2019 - Urenco's massive uranium waste problems

    in Novouralsk The uranium enricher Urenco, which operates the only uranium enrichment plant in the country in Gronau/Westphalia, continues to have massive problems with the disposal of the depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6), which is produced in large quantities as waste material during uranium enrichment. According to information from the NRW state government, the company's own deconversion plant for depleted UF6 is...

  20. Nov. 27, 2019 - Uranium waste from Gronau reaches St. Petersburg

    *** Newspaper article 2019 Background knowledge Current+. *** By the way, the next URENCO uranium hexafluoride transport to Russia is scheduled to start on December 09th, 2019 in Gronau... ** Joint press release from: Greenpeace Russia, Ecodefense Russia, Münsterland Action Alliance Against Nuclear Plants, Environmental Working Group (AKU) Gronau, working group Environment (AKU) Schüttorf, Alliance AgiEL –...

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