1. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    become. Chemical-synthetic pesticides are a major problem for biodiversity. They enter the soil, air and water, killing and damaging beneficial insects. Six of the substances found are highly toxic to bees, birds and aquatic organisms... * Schacht Konrad nuclear waste repository Schacht Konrad: Government sticks to plans Despite strong resistance, the controversial nuclear waste repository Schacht...

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

    suffered the accident. The operator of the plant, the Ural Electrochemical Combine, said depleted uranium hexafluoride escaped from a cylinder at 9.13:XNUMX a.m. The substance is highly toxic, radioactive and evaporates easily. It was not stated why the one cubic meter cylinder was leaking. According to local media reports, more than a hundred employees of the...

  3. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    | Poison | PFAS Suppressed findings How the chemical industry conceals the toxicity of eternal chemicals Substances that are found in many materials are not degradable and are sometimes highly toxic. Manufacturers have known this for much longer than the public. They can be found in products as diverse as food packaging, pans, shoe sprays, extinguishing agents or cosmetics -...

  4. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    to achieve the installation of six million heat pumps. One problem with climate-friendly heating systems: the refrigerants used in the pumps, some of which are highly questionable - these are highly toxic PFAS, so-called "poisons of the century". A Europe-wide ban is already being planned; it would affect the majority of heat pumps installed so far... * Nuclear waste | streets | Florida What should...

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

    they will remain in operation for much longer until we find the final resting place of nuclear power. *** News+ Background knowledge *** News+ ** Ukraine | DU ammunition | radioactive | highly toxic What uranium ammunition would do in Ukraine Great Britain would like to supply so-called DU projectiles to Kiev. This weapon has already caused enormous suffering. Why is this so little known...

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

    to those who later used it as a justification for their alleged murder... * United States | Environmental disaster | Train accident Derailed train in Ohio causes release of highly toxic substances Concerns about health consequences are arising in the USA. Photos of dead fish and frogs have been circulating on social media for days. Busy for more than ten days...

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

    126.000 barrels of hazardous waste stored in Asse II Between 1967 and 1978, 126.000 barrels of radioactive and chemical waste were stored in the Asse II nuclear waste storage facility, including highly toxic plutonium and arsenic. Because water is coming in and the tunnel is in danger of collapsing, the barrels have to be salvaged. The neighboring shafts Asse I and Asse III had already filled up earlier...

  8. Newsletter XIII 2022 - March 26-31 - News+ A month of war in Ukraine: developing a tragedy

    also the panic among the population, for which there was no really recognizable reason. Reactor 2 had simply given up, letting out its last sigh, blowing the invisible highly toxic dust into the air and letting the contaminated cooling water flow into the Susquehanna River. No boom and no lurid pictures, that's not sexy! And so the PR fuzzies of...

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

    the nuclear train goes 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...

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

    In autumn 2019, nuclear waste will once again be transported regularly 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 stored at the Hammer marshalling yard for several hours...

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

    In autumn 2019, nuclear waste will once again be transported regularly 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 expected to remain as nuclear waste in Russia at the Novouralsk nuclear facility near Yekaterinburg... * Reimar Paul on moves to revive nuclear energy February 03rd...

  12. THTR Circular No. 152, December 2019

    and new HTR reactors! Where is our beautiful old banner “Dangerous uranium transport - no thanks!” that we used from 2007 in our protests against the transport of highly toxic uranium hexafluoride containers (UF-6) through Hamm? On the way from the French Pierrelatte The rail wagons were transported to the uranium enrichment plant (UAA) in Gronau...

  13. Nov. 15, 2019 - Vigil on Nov. 18.11 against the transport of nuclear waste through Hamm!

    from 13.30 p.m. Willy-Brandt-Platz in front of Hamm main train station. On Monday there will be a transport of nuclear waste from Gronau via Hamm to Russia. The uranium suit is expected to transport 600 t of radioactive and highly toxic uranium hexafluoride (UF6) in twelve wagons, which will remain as nuclear waste in Russia at the Novouralsk nuclear facility near Yekaterinburg. We demand an immediate stop to the...

  14. 17.03.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - Deadly dust - use of uranium ammunition and the consequences

    called YOU. There are now around 1,3 million tonnes of it worldwide and the number is increasing every day. And since this waste product, depleted uranium, is also radioactive as an alpha emitter and is highly toxic and has a half-life of 4,5 billion years, it must be stored and guarded accordingly and that costs money - a lot of money. So the question immediately arose: How do you...

  15. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2019

    from 13.30 p.m. Willy-Brandt-Platz in front of Hamm main train station. On Monday there will be a transport of nuclear waste from Gronau via Hamm to Russia. The uranium suit is expected to transport 600 t of radioactive and highly toxic uranium hexafluoride (UF6) in twelve wagons, which will remain as nuclear waste in Russia at the Novouralsk nuclear facility near Yekaterinburg. We demand an immediate stop to the...

  16. The uranium story

    of uranium, through trade in uranium products, to industrial and military use. Not to forget how to deal with what's left of the party: thousands of tons of highly toxic, radioactive nuclear waste are transported, stored and hidden here and there by some dubious companies! Radioactive waste is created during extraction and...

  17. From uranium mining and processing, to nuclear research, the construction and operation of nuclear plants including nuclear power plant accidents, to dealing with nuclear waste and nuclear weapons! - Worldwide, almost, everything at a glance with Google Maps

    Bullets made from this material have enormous penetrating power. When the armor is penetrated, the frictional heat creates temperatures of 3 - 5000 degrees Celsius and a cloud of highly toxic, radioactive, highly flammable uranium dust, which immediately sets everything on fire. People and material burn up, fuel and ammunition are ignited, what remains is a burnt-out wreck...

  18. Entangled in the network of European uranium transports

    Uranium hexafluoride, which consists of 99,7 fluorine-uranium238 compounds. This nuclear waste is called “tail.” Uranium hexafluoride is neither flammable nor explosive, but is a gamma emitter and highly toxic. Its radioactive radiation is only weak, but with a uranium half-life of 4,5 billion years, once an area has been irradiated, it remains permanently contaminated. When in contact with water...

  19. THTR Circular No. 115 August 07

    but doubt the expertise of those responsible for these statements. A deployment at World Youth Day or the World Cup can hardly be used to derive any special suitability and experience in accidents involving highly toxic and radioactive substances, because this involves a completely different range of tasks and risks. Assumptions that are not appropriate to the situation We read the...

  20. THTR Circular No. 112 April 07

    the trains for several hours at night. Residents in the Pelkum and Hamm-Mitte districts are particularly at risk. When UF-6 escapes from the tanks, it reacts with humidity to form highly toxic hydrofluoric acid. This can be absorbed through the respiratory tract and the skin and is fatal even in small quantities. In contrast to the other cities, the city of Hamm relies on...

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