1. Newsletter XIII 2024 - News+ March 24th - Protest at the first nuclear summit in Brussels against the IAEA's “nuclear fantasies”.

    high rainfall in 2023 and in the autumn and winter months of 2023/24 have made the parched soil wet again... * Coal phase-out | Lignite Seven lignite units will be permanently shut down. A number of coal-fired power plants were allowed to continue operating during the energy crisis in order to reduce natural gas consumption. It's now over for seven blocks. At the end of March, seven more...

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

    Percent of total energy supply. Just 32 countries operate nuclear power plants, 163 countries do not. A good 50 reactors are currently under construction worldwide. However, over 200 reactors have been shut down so far. Many of the 400 or so reactors that are still running are old and will be taken off the grid in the foreseeable future. Global electricity generation from nuclear power plants is therefore also...

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

    There is still no final repository for the highly radioactive nuclear waste. The location will continue to operate. How long is unclear. The nuclear waste interim storage facility in Lingen is located right next to the decommissioned Emsland nuclear power plant. The heart of the interim storage facility is a multi-secure hall made of reinforced concrete. There are currently 47 blue Castor containers with a total of around 900 burned, but...

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

    Blocks 5 and 6 with an output of 1.000 and 1.040 MW, which were put into operation in 1987 and 1991, are still on the grid. Reactors 1 and 2 were decommissioned in 2002, reactors 3 and 4 in 2006. [...] An IAEA ASSET mission in 1993 examined a total of 93 events that occurred between December 1990 and May 1993, of which 73 were considered security-relevant...

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

    Role. [...] Meanwhile, calls for a return to nuclear power are becoming louder. The head of the chemical association VCI, Markus Steilemann, recently called for three to six of the recently decommissioned nuclear power plants to be brought back online in order to generate cheap base-load electricity. The FDP as well as the Union and AfD are also in favor. Not worth considering? No. Even the nuclear power plant operators want...

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

    then announced that it wanted to remove the soil and dispose of it as nuclear waste. On August 27, 2013, despite the extended license, the owner Entergy announced that the nuclear power plant would be shut down in 2014 because continued operation was no longer economically viable. The reason for the Senate decision was a tritium leak into the underground of the plant... Nuclear power accidents by...

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

    and conducted a $3 million effort to clean the area of ​​plutonium, removing truckloads of contaminated soil. In 1975, the decommissioned site was officially opened for unrestricted use by the federal government... https://eu.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/08/12/dateline-nuclear-lake/13976085/.. .

  8. 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”

    hold * Brokdorf | Wind energy | Battery storage Storage instead of nuclear power: Brokdorf nuclear power plant is to get an XXL battery. Nuclear power plant operator PreussenElektra has made a concrete proposal for the reuse of the decommissioned nuclear power plant in Brokdorf. The company wants to build Europe's largest battery storage facility. For example, even when wind turbines are at a standstill, there should always be enough electricity...

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

    Washington and was used from 1943 to produce plutonium for military purposes... With Hanford, the USA has the worst contaminated nuclear facility in the Western world, which was decommissioned in 1988 and has been decontaminated since then... December 1st Low-level radiation | IPPNW | Cancer More cancer deaths than expected even at low radiation doses This is what a study on nuclear workers shows...

  10. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    (2) https://www.reaktorpleite.de/nr-128-november-09.html Jülich THTR nuclear waste soon on the streets? The small THTR experimental reactor in Jülich was decommissioned in 1988. Since then, the 300.000 radioactive fuel balls have been stored there in 152 castors. Now they are to be taken via the motorway to the interim storage facility in Ahaus, 170 kilometers away, where the nuclear waste from Hamm is already stored....

  11. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    there is a lack of cables. But they are gradually being expanded. In any case, on the European market with an electricity consumption of 3315 terawatt hours, the 30 terawatt hours of the last three decommissioned German nuclear power plants are hardly significant. [...] The electricity that comes from the socket increasingly comes from renewable sources. Bruno Burger from the Fraunhofer Institute for...

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

    Protests announced for the afternoon. 152 nuclear waste containers, so-called castors, are to be brought to the Ahaus interim storage facility. The containers contain 300.000 spherical fuel elements from the decommissioned Jülich experimental reactor. There are protests against this in both Jülich and Ahaus. Jülich's mayor Axel Fuchs rejects the transports, as does his counterpart Carola Voß in Ahaus....

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

    20 companies in the industry, including major players such as Baywa Re, Enertrag and Eon Solar, presented a position paper for biodiversity-promoting agri-PV. Bio-agri-PV should primarily take place on agricultural land that has been set aside or is about to be set aside. Compared to classic ground-mounted PV, wider green strips remain free between the rather low modules. In addition, there is a better...

  14. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    leaked The Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant is currently being dismantled. The Ministry of the Environment is now reporting on a slightly radioactive pool of water that was discovered in September. At the decommissioned Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant (Heilbronn district), damage was discovered in the system for treating radioactive wastewater during a routine inspection. According to a statement from...

  15. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Study by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and the T3 Transportation Thinktank on behalf of Greenpeace. In addition, Germany has closed more kilometers of routes for rail passengers than other European countries. According to Greenpeace, the analysis took into account investments in road and rail in the 27 EU states as well as in Great Britain, Norway and Switzerland...

  16. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Risks can come from out-of-control commercial and military nuclear reactors. The starting point of the disaster was the ruins of the Instituto Goiâno de Radioterapia, a disused radiotherapy center that had not been demolished. The government had failed to remove radioactive materials from the site, and the former operator had equipment there...

  17. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    Only traces of this radionuclide have been absorbed by plants and animals... * Switzerland | decommissioning | Mühleberg fuel unloading in Mühleberg completed All nuclear fuel from the decommissioned Mühleberg nuclear power plant has been transported to the Zwilag interim storage facility in Würenlingen, as the Swiss power plant company BKW announced. With the removal of the fuel, the...

  18. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    In addition, an increased tax of 2013 million euros would have been incurred in 153. On June 19, 2013, the Spanish Energy Minister confirmed that the reactor would be officially shut down for good on July 6, 2013... August 18, Finland | Olkiluoto | Humidity Nuclear reactor in Finland taken offline due to increased humidity HELSINKI (dpa-AFX) - A Finnish nuclear reactor is temporarily...

  19. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Washington and was used from 1943 to produce plutonium for military purposes... With Hanford, the USA has the worst contaminated nuclear facility in the Western world, which was decommissioned in 1988 and has been decontaminated ever since... August 29, 1949 - "RDS-1 " 1st atomic bomb test Semipalatinsk, KAZ, USSR Wikipedia List of nuclear weapons tests The Soviet Union conducted its first...

  20. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    near Moorpark, a partial meltdown. Due to the high heat, 10 of 43 fuel elements were damaged and radioactive substances were released. The reactor was decommissioned in February 1964... 1958 December 30, 1958 (INES 4) Los Alamos, NM, USA Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! This INES 4 incident and all...

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