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

    Network. WASHINGTON taz | The Biden government wants to continue investing in nuclear power in the future. Just last week, the US Department of Energy announced that it had offered the operating company a loan of more than $1,5 billion to restart a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Michigan. Should the nuclear power plant overcome the bureaucratic and high...

  2. 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

    ... Wikipedia Gundremmingen nuclear power plant... Initially it was said that the reactor would be able to go back into operation in a few weeks. After the accident, the operators assumed that Unit A would be put back into operation quickly... Nuclear power plantsPlag Gundremmingen A (Bavaria)... But then the TÜV discovered cracks in the pipes of the cooling circuit and demanded that parts of the reactor be replaced. This was...

  3. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    3 had to be taken off the grid. Specifically, a short circuit led to a shutdown this Wednesday after a fault in the turbine system had already occurred last Sunday. The restart was actually planned for the middle of the week. “During tests, a brief short circuit was generated in the power plant environment, which caused a voltage drop,”...

  4. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    abandoned nuclear energy – for now. Because if parts of the federal FDP had their way, the nuclear phase-out would probably be reversed. Even if the Liberals managed to force the restart of seven shutdown reactors, they would face huge problems - the taxpayer would be asked to pay in the long run. Because with regard to nuclear power today...

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

    in Essenbach. "The preparations for the dismantling are in full swing and the colleagues we need to operate are simply no longer available to us. The topic of recommissioning is definitely off the table for us," said Knott... October 25th Israel | Guterres | Hamas After controversial Middle East statement, federal government stands behind Guterres With his statement about...

  6. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Wikipedia de Gundremmingen nuclear power plant Initially it was said that the reactor would be able to go back into operation in a few weeks. After the accident, the operators assumed that Unit A would be put back into operation quickly... Nuclear power plantsPlag Gundremmingen A (Bavaria)... But then the TÜV discovered cracks in the pipes of the cooling circuit and demanded that parts of the reactor be replaced. This was the...

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

    If it actually gets cold in winter, you are not really prepared. This has, among other things, to do with the fact that there are still delays in the government-ordered restart of the nuclear reactors. Dangerous crack reactors like those in Cattenom on the German border are to be brought online with all force in order to supply electricity again in the winter....

  8. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    Requests. [...] Because anti-nuclear opposition is not very far behind in the SPD and many media outlets, led by "FAZ" and "Welt", are drumming up strong support for extending the life of nuclear power plants and restarting them, Habeck found himself on the defensive: His “compromise offer” was intended to take some pressure off the cauldron and at the same time take the Greens’ base with it. It would be like...

  9. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    Grid The district court in Sapporo has ruled that the Tomari nuclear power plant in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, will not be allowed to go back online. More than 1.000 people had sued against the restart. * Climate crisis | Dependent | fossil Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: “A new climate foreign policy is needed” Researcher Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker on five decades of environmental debate,...

  10. Newsletter XIV 2022 - April 01st to 07th - News+ Media: The truth and all the other victims

    to destroy with sanctions and isolation, why is Europe instead in an economic free fall? - IMHO Europe between hammer and anvil... * Japan Quick restart not possible at all Proponents of nuclear power in Japan ignore the risks The number of proponents of nuclear power in Japan is growing and the demand for a restart of the nuclear power plants is becoming more and more...

  11. Newsletter XIII - March 25 to 30.03.2021, 25 - News+ March XNUMX - Macron, Orbán and Co. call for "active" EU support for nuclear energy

    - Small reactors, big problems * Grafenrheinfeld March 25, 2021 - The Greens' resolution is defused * Due to serious safety deficiencies March 25, 2021 - Japan's nuclear regulator prohibits the recommissioning of the Niigata nuclear power plant *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ ** March 25, 2021 - Macron, Orbán and Co. call for “active” EU support for nuclear energy A...

  12. Newsletter I - January 01st to 07.01.2021th, 04 - News+ January XNUMXth - Radiation exposure in Fukushima: between lies and self-deception

    Meter. The older reactor blocks 1 to 4 are built 10 meters higher (above sea level), the newer blocks 5 and 6 are 13 meters higher... * Anti-nuclear power movement in Japan Before the first nuclear power plant was put back into operation after the Fukushima reactor accidents in 2011 In the summer of 2012 there were mass protests with up to 75.000 participants in Tokyo and numerous other...

  13. THTR Circular No. 83 July 03

    produced and designed the above-mentioned website on his own initiative. There he remembers the major accident in 1986 and the resistance of farmers and consumers to the recommissioning of the THTR. In addition to some pictures, you can also see the collapsing cooling tower. A number of sub-windows invite you to deal with various more specific topics. The...

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