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

    you choose this party. But you can't say you didn't know anything!” I recently heard the cabaret artist Wilfried Schmickler say... * Czech Republic | EDF | KHNP | Dukovany Westinghouse does not deliver - Prague speculates on volume discounts for new nuclear power plants The Czech Republic launched a tender for another nuclear power plant at the Dukovany site in March 2022....

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

    don't go home and build nuclear power plants. It takes an industry to do this, but you can count on one hand the companies capable of building nuclear power plants. In the USA, Westinghouse had to file for bankruptcy in 2017 after very bad experiences with the construction of two nuclear power plants: The V.C. project. Summer was abandoned. Construction times at the Vogtle nuclear power plant have...

  3. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Nobody knows exactly where the money to finance these right-wing horror clowns comes from. Not a conspiracy theory, but demonstrably common practice! The manufacturers of nuclear power plants such as EDF, Westinghouse etc. have actually been bankrupt for years and would have been out of the energy market long ago without the intervention of honorable statesmen and their billions in taxpayer subsidies...

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

    "No society, no matter how highly developed, can afford the financial means to replace these services provided by nature for our livelihoods with technological solutions." * Westinghouse | Takeover | Brookfield | Cameco Acquisition of Westinghouse Completed Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management, together with its subsidiary Brookfield, now own...

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

    In a particularly absurd case, a Jewish Israeli woman was arrested for holding a sign denouncing the war her country is waging... * Slovenia | Westinghouse | Krško nuclear power plant Leak in the primary circuit of the Krško nuclear power plant: fuel rods go into the decay tank In order to be able to repair the leak in the primary circuit of the Slovenian nuclear power plant, all...

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

    and cause economic damage. "The water cycle is becoming unbalanced due to climate change and human activities," is how the WMO summarizes the problem... * Was Westinghouse excluded from the procurement process for the dismantling of the SM-1A in Alaska due to suspected corruption? Contract to decommission a historic US reactor newly awarded to Aptim-Amentum Alaska...

  7. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    the size of eight football fields. It will be built on the site of Weezer Airport. Rheinmetall wants to produce parts for American stealth bombers there... * United States | Westinghouse | cost increase | AP1000 High additional costs and delays First new US nuclear power plant in decades goes online For some it is a pioneering breakthrough, for others it is...

  8. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    (free version) 1960 April 3, 1960 (INES 4) Research reactor WTR-2 reactor, Waltz Mill, USA Accident with core meltdown in the WTR-2 reactor on the site of Westinghouse's Waltz Mill plant. (Cost approximately US$38 million) Nuclear Power Accidents This incident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity, can no longer be found on Wikipedia. Wikipedia...

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

    and arable land would have to be removed from financial speculation and agricultural subsidies would have to be given to ecological, regional farms, Rackete made his first substantive points... * Slovakia | Westinghouse | AP1000 | SMR JAVYS of Slovakia Signs AP1000 and AP300 Agreements Westinghouse Electric Company has signed letters of intent with Slovakian company JAVYS regarding the possible...

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

    The project dates back to the 1980s and was then shut down. In 2011, further construction was agreed with Russia, but this was ended again in 2015. In 2021, a contract was signed with Westinghouse to finish building the reactors, but this failed to materialize. Instead, Westinghouse will build a new reactor at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant and supply fuel rods for a Russian...

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

    due to terrorist attacks, plane crashes or unrecognized security gaps. Or in the worst case, through attacks like the ones Ukraine has suffered as a result of Russia's war... * Poland | Westinghouse | Areva government in Poland wants to get into nuclear power - and relies on crisis group Energy and Climate - compact: Government is aiming for new nuclear power plants. But their meaning is being questioned all over Europe...

  12. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    “Ozone killers” are increasingly being released again, including the banned trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11) and new chlorofluorocarbons... *** April 3 Fuel elements | Rosatom | Framatomes | Westinghouse Czech Republic and Slovakia want nuclear power independence from Russia The Czech Republic and Slovakia insist on compliance with EU sanctions, including on nuclear power. The two prime ministers emphasize this...

  13. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    that the French nuclear power plants could not be sufficiently cooled due to a lack of water in the rivers and had to be shut down... *** March 29th Czech Republic | Dukovany | Temelin | Westinghouse | Framatome US company Westinghouse will supply nuclear fuel for the Czech nuclear power plant in Dukovany from 2024 The nuclear fuel for the Dukovany nuclear power plant will be supplied by the American company Westinghouse from 2024...

  14. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    forbidden." According to the research, a local company called Saniral is responsible for the clear-cutting. The company left a written request unanswered... * United States | Westinghouse | Vogtle New construction of power plant capacity in 2023 in the USA: over 50 percent solar output Washington - In the USA, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes data on...

  15. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    And here too, lobbyists actually have more influence than ordinary voters - while those who have to suffer the longest are not even allowed to vote... * Poland | Westinghouse | Lubiatowo-Kopalino Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania against Polish nuclear power plant plans Resistance in Germany to the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in Poland is growing. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also has...

  16. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    Japanese Ministry of Commerce published a market analysis according to which all long-term contracts at a stable price - with oil price pegs - are sold out until 2026... * Finland | Westinghouse | Fuel rods Two Finnish nuclear reactors to receive fuel rods from the USA The Finnish energy company Fortum, which is 51 percent state-owned, signed...

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

    He didn't tell us how people should have confidence in humanity's ability and how they should achieve the feat of being optimistic under today's conditions... * Poland | Westinghouse | Lubiatowo-Kopalino Why Poland orders nuclear reactors from the USA Poland is relying on nuclear energy, even though it is being phased out according to the International Energy Agency. Bizarre: The bankrupt...

  18. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    Waving protest posters and flags, we walked single file from the Kirchheim train station along the temporarily closed Kreisstraße 1625 through the vineyards up to the reactor blocks... * Poland | Westinghouse | Lubiatowo-Kopalino Energy transition in the neighboring country: Poland is moving into nuclear energy. The government is planning three nuclear power plants in order to be able to do without coal-fired power. The first reactor...

  19. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    which was the most effective atomic bomb ever tested by the United States. The zone of total destruction had a radius of 35 km, the fireball had a radius of 3,5 km... ** October 29 Poland | Westinghouse | Choczewo Signal to Russia Poland has its first nuclear power plant built by a US company The US company Westinghouse is to build Poland's first nuclear power plant not far from the Baltic Sea coast. Together with other systems...

  20. Newsletter XXIV 2022 - June 10th to 17th - News+ Majority for nuclear weapons? – Now the peace movement speaks

    with an output of 1.270/1.230 MW, which went into operation in 1987 and 1988. The plant is owned by Exelon Corporation, operated by Exelon Generation Co., and manufactured by Westinghouse. In 2006, Excelon was accused of discharging millions of gallons of tritum-contaminated wastewater into the groundwater from spring 1996 to March 2006, which the operator did not admit until December...

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