1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - News+ April 14th - Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    in Sellafield nach Windscale 1957, der noch in Wikipedia de zu finden ist. Wikipedia de Sellafield# Zwischenfälle Im April 2005 wurde in Sellafield ein Leck entdeckt, durch das etwa 83.000 Liter radioaktive Flüssigkeit, bestehend aus Salpetersäure, Uran und Plutonium, monatelang unbemerkt entweichen konnten. Es handelt sich um den schwersten Zwischenfall in einer Atomanlage Großbritanniens seit...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    werden darf. Nach Auffassung des Gerichts ist die erforderliche Vorsorge gegen Schäden gewährleistet. Mehrere Anwohner hatten gegen das Zwischenlager geklagt. Ihrer Ansicht nach ist das hoch radioaktive Material nicht ausreichend vor einem Terrorangriff oder einem Flugzeugabsturz geschützt. "Über hundert Castoren lagern in Gundremmingen und jeder enthält das zigfache dessen, was in Tschernobyl...

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

    Helfer wurden getötet, und wir wollen wissen, warum jeder einzelne getötet wurde.« * 6. April 1993 (INES 4 | NAMS 4,8) Atomfabrik Tomsk 7, RUS Im Jahr 1993 ereignete sich in Seversk ein radioaktiver Unfall, als ein Tank explodierte und große Mengen radioaktiver Partikel (3500 Tbq) die Umgebung verseuchten. (Kosten ca. 51 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents AtomkraftwerkePlag Sewersk, Tomsk-7,...

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    schon 50 Jahre oder länger. Ausgelegt sind die Reaktoren in der Regel für 40 Jahre Betriebszeit. Eines ihrer Alterungsprobleme ist der Stahl der Reaktordruckbehälter, in denen sich das hoch radioaktive Material befindet. Dieser versprödet mit der Zeit durch den Neutronenbeschuss der Kettenreaktion. Er wird also anfälliger für Risse und Brüche. Man muss sich also angesichts all der...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    The world's population is growing, and in many places there is not enough fresh water. More and more droughts due to climate change are leading to water shortages in more and more regions... * Generation IV reactors | radioactive waste | Repository New study: Fourth generation nuclear reactors will not be ready for decades New fourth generation nuclear reactors will not be available. Study says it won't be used for decades...

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

    in reactor A-2 on March 13, 1980. A metal plate had come loose and blocked dozens of cooling tubes, causing the cooling system to partially fail. Two fuel elements melted and the radioactive load in the cooling gas increased massively. Fortunately, the emergency shutdown worked and the reactor was automatically deactivated... Wikipedia...

  7. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    Thousands of skilled workers are still working on the plant site every month to prepare for the dismantling of the reactors. Last year, the public focus was primarily on how to deal with the large amounts of radioactively contaminated water stored on the plant site. Dealing with the contaminated water on the plant premises On August 24, 2023, the operator...

  8. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Week... * Plutonium | Intermediate storage | Survey Survey on interim storage: Citizens support state responsibility What do people in the vicinity of the interim storage facilities for radioactive waste know and think about their radiant neighbors? To this end, the Society for Intermediate Storage (BGZ) had a survey carried out, the results of which were published on. According to the survey...

  9. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    do not answer... * February 22, 1977 (INES 4) Jaslovské Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant, SVK A mechanical failure in the fuel loading of the KS 150 reactor caused severe corrosion and released radioactivity in the plant area, which required a complete shutdown. (Cost approx. 1965 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant On February 22, 1977...

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

    similar weather chaos. * Radon | Lung cancer | Stroke Radon also increases the risk of stroke Even moderate amounts of radon can be harmful to health. Double risk: The radioactive radon can not only cause cancer - anyone who is exposed to this gas also has an increased risk of suffering a stroke. This applies not only to high ones, but even to...

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

    because only Westinghouse can demonstrate the type of nuclear power plant originally required by the Czech government as a single plant with an output of up to 1.200 MW... * Leak | radioactive water | Fukushima leak in processing plant Radioactive water leaked from Fukushima nuclear power plant Thousands of liters of radioactive water have leaked from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant. A...

  12. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    ... Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Vermont_Yankee_(USA) In 2010 it turned out that radioactive water containing tritium had leaked into the groundwater. The operator incurred costs of $821 million. In addition, cesium-137 was detected on the site. As a result of...

  13. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    Maintenance work. A chain of irregularities and damage to various systems followed... * January 21, 1969 (INES 5 | NAMS 1,6) VAKL Lucens, CHE About 2,1 TBq of radioactive radiation was released. (Costs approx. 26 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Reactor Lucens #The accident of January 21, 1969 On January 21, 1969, operations were stopped after an overhaul...

  14. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    and in 1970, the Livermore Lab released approximately 650.000 curies (23.700 TBq) of tritium into the air from the chimneys of the tritium facility (Building 331). Note: One curie corresponds to 37 billion radioactive decay processes per second, in Becquerels 37 GBq. After the 1965 accident, not much data is available on wind patterns, precipitation, etc., but after the 1970 accident,...

  15. 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

    correct. Due to incorrect control, too much water is forced into the reactor for emergency cooling. According to various sources, between 200 m³ and 400 m³ of radioactive cooling water (approx. 280 degrees Celsius) enter the reactor building through pressure relief valves. After about ten minutes the water is about three meters high and the temperature has risen to around 80 degrees Celsius. Here is...

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

    Uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... Youtube Uranium economy: Plants for processing uranium All uranium and plutonium factories produce radioactive nuclear waste: uranium processing, enrichment and reprocessing plants, whether in Hanford, La Hague, Sellafield, Mayak, Tokaimura or wherever everywhere in the world, everyone has the same problem:...

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

    to evacuate the nearby workers' town of Zarechny. Attempts have already been made to organize many buses and trains for the evacuation in the Sverdlovsk Oblast. Eight people were severely radioactively contaminated, almost two dozen were temporarily unconscious due to the smoke, but after a few hours the reactors were back under control... Nuclear power accidents by country#Russia...

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

    '72 fueled fears over Nuclear Lake In December 1972, a chemical explosion resulted in a United Nuclear Corp. building. at Nuclear Lake in Pawling resulted in an unknown amount of radioactive plutonium dust being spread throughout the building and into the surrounding woods and shoreline. [...] Following the incident, authorized activities at the complex were suspended and a 3 million...

  19. 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”

    A, DEU Nuclear power plantsPlag Biblis (Hesse) An accident occurred in Biblis A on December 16, 1987, in which radioactive water escaped outside the containment due to the failure of valves and misconduct by the operating team. "There (...) for 15 hours the outside world was only protected from radiation by a barrier, the so-called secondary barrier...

  20. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    to be able to. It's not about the climate. The main thing is to save the Western nuclear industry... * December 8, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR A fire broke out in a silo for radioactive waste in building B247. (Cost approximately US$1300 million) Nuclear Power Accidents This incident, as well as several other releases of radioactivity, are listed in Wikipedia...