Map of the nuclear world The uranium story
INES and the nuclear accidents Radioactive low radiation?!
Uranium transports through Europe The ABC deployment concept

Map of the nuclear world

In development since 2011

***


Radioactivity accumulates; this means that radioactive particles continue to accumulate in the living organism and over time similar damage can occur as with a short-term, massive exposure to radiation...

Since the 1940s, enormous quantities of man-made radioactive radiation have been released. No one can say exactly how many radioactive particles were produced and dispersed by the wind during the more than 2.050 nuclear bomb tests. There are widely differing assessments from various quarters regarding the serious accidents that have come to light in nuclear reactors. Today, we can only document and list the facts and figures concerning the remaining nuclear waste; only our descendants in several hundred to a thousand years will be able to recognize and realistically assess the consequences of the released radioactivity.

This world map was created based on the following data: INES and the list of nuclear eventsBehind the sheer mass of potential radiation sources, hardly any of the landmass of our planet is visible, but just a single "click" on one of the small, colorful images and the details become clear:

Map of the nuclear world

Map of the nuclear world - status of editing when published in summer 2011.Map of the nuclear world - status as of October 2016.Causes of man-made radioactivity, from uranium mining, uranium processing and research, the construction and operation of nuclear facilities, including incidents at nuclear power plants and nuclear factories, to the handling of nuclear weapons, uranium munitions and nuclear waste.

Work on the world map began in the summer of 2011 and now covers over 1270 entries.

The German version of the map was

to April 1, 2026 ≈ 8.367.000 times and
to 1 May 2026 ≈ 8.530.000 called up once.

"Old reactor"

Risks of extending the operating lives of old nuclear power plants

Reactors 40 years and olderNew to the world map is the symbol (yellow nuclear power plant in a red frame) for reactors that have been in operation for more than 40 years and are therefore due to increasing Material embrittlement represent an increasing risk of accidents.

The colorful pictures on the map stand for:


National Nuclear Activities and Ambitions - Warning Sign - 'Attention, Radioactivity - Run away as fast and as far as you can. Radioactivity brings death!Nuclear states -
National nuclear activities

Uranium mining and processingUranium mining
and processing


Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factoriesAtomic research, research reactors
and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operationReactors in planning (white), in operation (yellow) and out of operation (green)


Incidents in reactors and nuclear factories: Where nuclear power plants have wrecked. When people try something, something goes wrong sometimes ...Accidents in reactors
and nuclear factories

Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.Atomic bomb explosions worldwide, under
water and in the upper atmosphere


Test areas where nuclear weapons have been detonated: Where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.Nuclear weapons test site,
irradiated areas

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons: Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Damaged submarines and where there is planing, there are shavings flying - wherever there is a flight, planes also crash ...Uranium ammunition - Damaged nuclear submarines
and Broken Arrows


Nuclear waste, dumping and storageNuclear waste! - Dumpingand Storage:

atom industry lobby 640Nuclear industry lobbyists and MiK - the military-industrial complex


Notes Top

National Nuclear Activities and Ambitions - Warning Sign - 'Attention, Radioactivity - Run away as fast and as far as you can. Radioactivity brings death! National nuclear activities and ambitions

(Attention, irony!)

Naturally, "super-great statesmen" always want only the best for their people; and so these "super-great and corrupt statesmen" have always gifted their people with fantastic palaces and temples. The grateful subjects, in turn, have always had the right and the inestimable honor of being allowed to build and pay for these magnificent structures themselves.

Since the mid-20th century, "super-great statesmen" have also enjoyed gifting their people with a few supposedly super-safe nuclear facilities, which, while not truly safe, are exceptionally expensive. The primary goal has always been to push forward the exorbitantly expensive development of nuclear weapons, prevent protests against them, or at least subsequently restore "peace and order" by any means necessary.

(And that is by no means the end of: more insane than funny)

In short, the goal of nuclear research is to gain military power over as many people as possible and to line one's own pockets with as much money as possible.

Even today, not everyone is aware of these facts, and to ensure it stays that way, they are no longer even discussed. Large parts of our supposedly independent media are complicit in this wicked game and are therefore, unfortunately, part of the problem.

Corruption? Here with us? 
That can't be right, somewhere out there in the world that's possible, but not here.

Radioactivity? From our nuclear power plants? 
It can't be, somewhere in Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Fukushima or anywhere else, but not here.

However, the fact is:

Corruption is ubiquitous, but unlike Horror clowns like Don Trump It usually remains completely invisible; just like radioactivity, it can become lodged and accumulate in the living organism.

The ionizing radiation penetrates completely unnoticed; as invisible radiation from the outside through the skin, as fine dust through the respiratory tract, or the radioactive particles enter the body - completely colorless, odorless and tasteless - with food.

It is possible that we, our children and our grandchildren will "only" be affected by steadily increasing cancer rates, but it is also possible that we will observe an increasing number of birth defects in newborns and various health impairments in people, even if they appear perfectly healthy at first glance.

Radioactive substances and other products of the chemical industry can kill higher life forms—such as all types of live-bearing animals, including mammals like humans—for generations after initial exposure. Therefore, I refer to these substances as Eternity poisons, when I talk about uranium, plutonium or PFAS and others Perpetual chemicals I'm talking about substances that are extremely difficult for nature to break down.

I know this doesn't sound good, and you probably don't like me anymore because of these harsh, blunt words, but I'm just the messenger, and unfortunately, that's the reality...
 

"The tail wags the dog"

A minority of 9 nuclear weapons states impose their nuclear policy on all other 184 UN member states.

The reason for building a nuclear industry was and always has been the desire of the "great statesmen, fools" (Horror clowns), to have the biggest club:

Nine nuclear states threaten the world with nuclear bombs

Russia - 6375 nuclear warheads USA - 5800 nuclear warheads China - 320 nuclear warheads France - 290 nuclear warheads Great Britain - 215 nuclear warheads
Pakistan - 160 nuclear warheads India - 150 nuclear warheads Israel - 90 nuclear warheads North Korea - 40 nuclear warheads  

The nine nuclear-armed states (Russia, USA, China, France, Great Britain, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea) possess approximately 13.400 nuclear weapons. While this is far fewer than at the height of the Cold War, it still represents overkill for the world. 92% of these nuclear weapons belong to the USA and Russia. Around 3.720 warheads are operational...

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI

SIPRI Yearbook archives 

The sovereign states in the UN and IAEA

There are 193 sovereign states Members of the United Nations (UN)

There are 178 states Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
 

The 12 most radioactive states are:

April 2021 - The US operates 93 commercial nuclear reactors, 2 are under construction and 40 are decommissioned ... April 2021 - Japan has 60 commercial nuclear reactors, 33 are operational, 2 are under construction and 27 are decommissioned ... April 2021 - France operates 56 commercial nuclear reactors, 1 reactor is under construction and 14 are decommissioned ... April 2021 - China operates 51 commercial nuclear reactors and 13 are under construction ... April 2021 - Russia operates 38 commercial nuclear reactors, 3 are under construction and 9 are decommissioned ...
April 2021 - South Korea operates 24 commercial nuclear reactors, 4 are under construction and 2 are decommissioned ... April 2021 - India operates 23 commercial nuclear reactors and 6 are under construction ... April 2021 - Canada operates 19 commercial nuclear reactors and 6 are decommissioned ... April 2021 - Britain operates 15 commercial nuclear reactors, 2 are under construction and 30 are decommissioned ...  April 2021 - Ukraine operates 15 commercial nuclear reactors, 2 are under construction and 4 are decommissioned ...
April 2021 - Sweden operates 6 commercial nuclear reactors and 7 are decommissioned ... April 2021 - Spain operates 7 commercial nuclear reactors and 3 are decommissioned ...   ...    

 

140 of the 178 IAEA members do not operate commercially nuclear reactors and 108 IAEA members do not operate nuclear power plants Research reactors

Flag of the sovereign state of AustriaAUT - Austria

1 research reactor, 0 commercial reactors

IAEA member since 1957 ...

Austria never put the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant into operation because it was commissioned in November 1978 was rejected by a referendum.
 

Flag of the sovereign state of GermanyDEU - Germany

6 research reactors and 0 commercial reactors in operation

IAEA member since 1957 ...

Since April 15, 2023 all commercial nuclear power plants in Germany have been shut down.

The nuclear lobby likes to work with large numbers and package them in evocative language. Reality is secondary, often only disrupting the attractive image and being reinterpreted or adjusted as needed. We know this strategy from "great statesmen"...

But while we're on the subject of big numbers

October 25, 2013 - Nuclear power subsidized with 304 billion euros

The subsidies for the race for the biggest club can be illustrated quite well using the relatively correctly documented example of “Germany”.

Until 2010 the German nuclear industry was with
EUR 204.000.000.000 (€ 204 billion) subsidized from taxpayers' money.

'Cleaning up after you' will cost the taxpayer at least another
EUR 100.000.000.000 (€ 100 billion)!
 

This cost accounting was updated in 2020

To date (2020), nuclear power has already cost Germany more than one trillion euros

The use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in Germany has caused estimated social costs of more than one trillion euros since the 1950s. This is the result of a new study by the Forum for Ecological-Social Market Economy (FÖS) on behalf of the green energy cooperative Greenpeace Energy. This sum includes state subsidies as well as sales prices of the electricity and external costs.

"No other energy source has caused such high costs as risky nuclear power, which is still highly uneconomical even after 65 years," says Sönke Tangermann, board member at Greenpeace Energy ...

*

By the way, "MIC" and the shareholders of the nuclear industry really enjoyed the party, the champagne, the dividends and the tears of joy flowed in streams, it went brilliantly well. The risk was socialized!

Conclusion: The taxpayer is paying for yet another local round!

We, who are not shareholders in the nuclear industry, have no other choice. Either we pay the billions for the dismantling of the nuclear facilities and for the safe storage of the radioactive nuclear waste until the “Day of Saints” or we risk the gradual poisoning of future generations.
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Uranium mining, processing and storage of toxic and radiating materials. Uranium mining and processing

- The first uranium ore was mined in Johanngeorgenstadt in 1839.

- Up to 1939, 104 t of uranium ore had been mined in Germany.

- Between 1946 and 1995 the Wismut company mined 235 t of uranium ore (for the benefit of the Soviet nuclear industry).

Since then, the production of uranium ore has increased worldwide:

- In 2014 it was 56041 t

- In 2015 it was 60496 t

- In 2016, 62027 t

- In 2017, 69026 t of uranium were mined.
 

WISE uranium project

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

-

The most comprehensive information on uranium mines is available from Wise:

https://www.wise-uranium.org/indexu.html
 

Dam breach 

In some cases, retention basins for radioactive sludge are insufficiently secured against dam breaches ...

TAILINGS DAM SAFETY

Chronology of uranium tailings dam failures

https://www.wise-uranium.org/mdafu.html
 

AtomkraftwerkePlag

Uranium mining worldwide

Radiant legacy

Uranium mining is at the beginning of the nuclear industry's value chain. The fact that uranium mining results in health and environmental damage as well as radioactive waste is conveniently ignored by the public...
 

Environmental damage, numbers, production 

The nuclear lobby determines “environmental protection”.

The consequences of this "responsibility" are described by the anti-nuclear physicians' organization IPPNW: "Inhaling uranium dust and radon can cause cancer – primarily lung cancer. (...) Uranium is highly toxic and attacks internal organs such as the kidneys. Studies show that uranium is responsible for birth defects in fetuses and infants and increases the risk of leukemia..."
 

Wikipedia de

Even when mining uranium ore, deadly dangers lurk, radioactive radon gas is released and the spoil still contains up to 85 percent of the original radioactivity.

These spoil heaps are exposed to wind and weather

- the wind blows the radiating particles from the spoil heaps in all directions

- The rainwater seeps through the spoil heaps, contaminating more and more soil and groundwater...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear energy # loads_by_the_uranium mining

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_% 28Company% 29 #Work incidents C3.A4lle_und_Health Sch.C3.A4den

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity% C3% A4t

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium mining
 

The following paragraph can only be found in the German Wikipedia if you are really looking for it: 

Dam break in Lengenfeld, Saxony

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_Objekt_31#Entwicklung_des_Objektes

Due to extreme rainfall between July 9th and 12th, 1954, which led to a flood of the century, the dam of the sedimentation system broke. As a result, 50.000 m³ of tailings were washed out and largely flushed into the steering pond through which the Plohnbach flows. This pond is a small dam built in 1890. The pond was almost completely filled with the mud. The uranium quantity calculated in the tailings of the steering pond is given as 10 to 14 t.
 

It works a little better in the English Wikipedia:

Wikipedia en

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

-

Category: Tailings dam failures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tailings_dam_failures
 

1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mailuu-Suu_tailings_dam_failure

The 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure in the industrial town of Mailuu-Suu, (Kyrgyz: Майлуусуу), Jalal-Abad Region, southern Kyrgyzstan, caused the uncontrolled release of 600,000 cubic meters (21,000,000 cu ft) of radio wasteactive ...
 

The Church Rock uranium mill spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill

occurred in the US state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's tailings disposal pond at its uranium mill in Church Rock breached its dam ... 
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


From nuclear research to nuclear factory: Where nuclear research becomes reality Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Fabrication - enrichment - reprocessing

The history of uranium research begins with big names like Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Frederick Soddy, william ramsey and many more, but unfortunately does not end with the more than two hundred thousand deaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

The uranium story

'Hanford' in the USA,
'Mayak ' in Russia,
'Sellafield' (Windscale) in Great Britain
'La Hague' in France and
Tokaimura in Japan are only the best-known examples of the operation of nuclear facilities and their catastrophic consequences for the environment and people ...
 

Wikipedia de

List of nuclear facilities

This article contains a list of all planned or definitely not completed nuclear power plants, research reactors, interim and final storage facilities as well as reprocessing plants...
 

AtomkraftwerkePlag

Nuclear factories

Gronau uranium enrichment plant

The uranium enrichment plant in Gronau is particularly controversial because it is viewed as a contradiction to the nuclear phase-out and there are dangers associated with enrichment, transport and storage ...

By the way, from 1996 to 2010 27.300 tons of nuclear waste were transported from the uranium enrichment plant to Russia and stored there in corrosive containers in the open air. These transports were only stopped on October 17th, 2010 ...

However, since 2017 at the latest, nuclear waste has been transported to Russia again. However, the URENCO company has redeclared nuclear waste as a valuable material and, unlike nuclear waste, valuable materials can be exported ...
 

Hanford Site (USA)

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Hanford_(USA)

Radiation ruin in the northwest of the USA

The Hanford Military Complex is located on the Columbia River north of the city of Richland in northwest Washington state and was used to produce plutonium for military use from 1943 ...
 

Mayak (Russia)

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Majak_(Russland)

Mayak is located 15 kilometers east of the city of Kyshtym in the Chelyabinsk Oblast on the eastern side of the southern Urals and, from 1945 onwards, was an important component of Stalin's plans to quickly produce weapons-grade plutonium and catch up with the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons shortage...

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/majak-/-kyschtym
 

Sellafield (UK)

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Sellafield_(ehemals_Windscale)%2C_Gro%C3%9Fbritannien_1957

The most notorious part of Sellafield, however, is its reprocessing plants. For over a quarter of a century, until the end of the 1980s, their plutonium-contaminated wastewater flowed into the sea in enormous quantities. (...) The coastal strips around the nuclear plant are plutonium dumps. The Geiger counter shows higher levels of radioactivity than in the exclusion zone around the nuclear ruin in Ukraine...
 

La Hague (France)

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/La_Hague_(Frankreich)

World's largest reprocessing plant

The operators of reprocessing plants dispose of some of the nuclear waste cheaply via wastewater pipelines. Approximately 500 million liters of radioactive wastewater are pumped into the English Channel/North Sea annually.

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/la-hague
 

Tokaimura (Japan) 

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Tokaimura,_Japan_1999

On September 30, 1999, the most serious nuclear accident in Japan to date occurred in the Tokaimura fuel element factory in Japan. Two workers, who had not been informed of the dangers of highly enriched uranium by the operator JCO, had filled a uranium solution with steel buckets and by hand in too large a quantity into a tank and used "spoon-like devices" for mixing. In order to save time during production, the operator changed a procedural regulation without the knowledge of the nuclear supervisory authority and the work steps were shortened ...
 

Rokkasho (Japan) 

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Rokkasho_(Japan)

The construction of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant in particular has been plagued by years of delays: The plant was originally scheduled to go into operation in 1997, but was postponed 24 times.

New earthquake safety regulations in 2015 were cited as the reason for the delays.

Despite the delays, Rokkasho will continue because the government considers the fuel cycle to be essential in Japan. In addition, around 27,5 billion US dollars have already been invested by 2016, which we do not want to waste - three times the originally estimated costs.

In August 2023, the completion dates for the reprocessing plant and the MOX factory were announced as the first half of 2024...
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Reactors in the construction or planning phase: where new nuclear power plants are to be built.Reactors in planning

Just a few years ago, the USA, Germany, France, and Great Britain tried to sell as many nuclear power plants as possible to anyone who couldn't run away fast enough. Then, many of these suppliers slowly but surely withdrew from this surefire business – those pesky liability issues! China and Russia took over the role of selling, building, and financing nuclear facilities for the world's notorious "great statesmen." "Made in China" and "Made in Russia" come with no guarantees. However, the situation has since changed again, and nuclear power plant builders from the USA, France, South Korea, and others are once again going "all in."
 

WNISR - World Nuclear Industry Status Report - 2025

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

-

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/World-Nuclear-Industry-Status-Report-2025

New construction of nuclear reactors declining worldwide

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/reactors.html

The niche market of nuclear energy is dominated by China and Russia ...
 

The IAEA lists worldwide:

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

63 commercial Reactors are considered to be "under construction"

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionReactorsByCountry.aspx

However, reactors are also listed whose realization seems doubtful or may take many years.
 

23 research reactors are considered "under construction"

https://nucleus.iaea.org/rrdb/#/home
 

*

Reactors in operation: where nuclear power plants produce electricity when they are running. In addition to weapons-grade material, nuclear power plants also produce electricity and heat ...Reactors in operation

There are 439 worldwide commercial Reactors as "in operation" and "temporarily shut down"
 

The IAEA lists worldwide

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

-

416 commercial reactors are in operation and producing electricity

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/OperationalReactorsByCountry.aspx
 

Reactors 40 years and olderOf these, 171 reactors have been in operation for 40 years or more.

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/OperationalByAge.aspx
 

The blue nuclear power plants stand for research reactors.227 of 847 research reactors in 54 countries are in operation. 

https://nucleus.iaea.org/rrdb/#/home

*

Shut down nuclear power plants: where nuclear power plants have been shut down, shut down and dismantled. The end of the history of a nuclear facility is the beginning of the history of final disposal, which must be guaranteed for thousands of years ...Reactors out of operation

The end of the history of a nuclear facility is the beginning of the history of the storage of nuclear waste, which must be safely guaranteed for thousands of years!
 

The IAEA lists worldwide:

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

215 commercial reactors are out of service

Permanent shutdown

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ShutdownReactorsByCountry.aspx
 

590 research reactors out of operation

Extended Shutdown, Permanent Shutdown, Under Decommissioning, Decommissioned

https://nucleus.iaea.org/rrdb/#/home

 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Incidents in reactors or nuclear factories: where nuclear power plants have broken down. When people try something, something goes wrong sometimes ...Incidents in reactors and nuclear facilities (INES 0 to 7)

The most well-known accidents in nuclear facilities are:

March 12 - 15, 2011 - Fukushima - Japan (INES 7)

April 26, 1986 - Chernobyl - USSR (INES 7)

March 28, 1979 - Three Mile Island - USA (INES 5)

1977 and December 30 - 31, 1978 - Beloyarsk - USSR (INES 5)

January 21, 1969 - Lucens - Switzerland (INES 5)

07. - 12. October 1957 - Windscale/Sellafield, GBR (INES 5)

September 29, 1957 - Mayak - USSR - The Kyshtym accident (INES 6)

In addition to these prominent examples, there were and are countless less serious incidents that, if they even made it into the media, quickly disappeared from the headlines, see: Nuclear Power Accidents (PDF).
 

INES - International Rating Scale - Image from the Society for Plant and Reactor Safety (GRS)

Forum for Ecological-Social Market Economy (FÖS)

Costs of the Chernobyl disaster in Germany

Follow-up costs and international expenses

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, is the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation. According to an extensive literature review by the University of Southern California, the global costs of the disaster amounted to approximately 700 billion dollars (about 646 billion euros) (Samet/Seo 2016).

The total includes direct costs (damage to the facility and the surrounding area, production losses, immediate health consequences) as well as indirect costs. These include the construction and renovation of the sarcophagus, the relocation of 200.000 people from the affected areas, compensation payments, radiation monitoring, and healthcare for the 10 million people in surrounding countries who were exposed to nuclear radiation.
 

Wikipedia de

List of reportable events in German nuclear facilities

This list deals with reportable operational events in German nuclear facilities.
 

List of accidents in European nuclear facilities

This list deals with known incidents in European nuclear facilities outside Germany.

This primarily includes events that fall into category 2 or 3 according to the International Nuclear Event Assessment Scale (INES) and are reportable operational disruptions or incidents...
 

List of accidents in nuclear facilities

The list of accidents in nuclear facilities lists accidents that have been classified according to the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) (English International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale) have been classified as an accident of level 4 and higher ...
 

AtomkraftwerkePlag

Accidents in nuclear facilities 

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Kategorie:Atomunf%C3%A4lle 
 

Other nuclear accidents and incidents

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Weitere_Atomunf%C3%A4lle_und_St%C3%B6rf%C3%A4lle

*

IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

List of incidents from the last 12 months

https://www-news.iaea.org/EventList.aspx?pno=0&sc=EventDate&ps=100
 

This quasi-official list of radioactive incidents (The Information Channel on nuclear and radiological events) from the IAEA and its partners only goes back about a year...

Why? I do not know.
 

I have been working on this world map for years and yet I keep stumbling over - for myself - 'new' information that I absolutely have to incorporate.

INES and the disturbances in nuclear facilities

Should I have forgotten or overlooked anything important, or made any other error, please share your knowledge and point it out to me. I will follow up on every suggestion.
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated. Nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons tests above ground

Where nuclear weapons were detonated.

According to the official version, 'only' two nuclear weapons were detonated, the uranium bomb "Little boy" on August 06, 1945 about Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb "Fat man" on August 09, 1945 over Nagasaki ...
 

"Little boy" had an explosive force of 12,5 kT = 12.500 tons of TNT.

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/hiroshima 

"Fat man" had an explosive force of 20 kT = 22.000 tons of TNT.

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/nagasaki 

The atomic bomb explosions killed a total of around 100.000 people immediately - almost exclusively civilians and forced laborers abducted by the Japanese army. A further 1945 people died of consequential damage by the end of 130.000. In the following years, several more victims with less severe radiation exposure were added...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atombombenabwürfe_auf_Hiroshima_und_Nagasaki

In total, more than 2050 nuclear weapons tests have been carried out worldwide, with more than 530 above-ground tests being equivalent to the detonation of atomic bombs.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Kernwaffentests

In some of these tests, both in the USA and in the Soviet Union, soldiers were used to better assess and assess the effects of the bombs on people and material. The data on the development of the damage to health of these soldiers over the years are almost even more secret than the data on the technology of the bombs ...
 

Example from 1953:

Operation Upshot Knothole

Operation Upshot-Knothole was the ninth American nuclear weapons test series. It took place in 1953 on the Nevada Test Site instead of. A total of eleven bombs were tested, seven of which were detonated on towers, three were dropped from aircraft and one test involved a nuclear artillery shell.

1000 soldiers observed the Harry (Dirty Harry) explosion on May 19, 1953 as part of the Desert Rock V military exercise.

3.388 soldiers took part in maneuvers during and after the detonation as part of the Desert Rock V military exercise.

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/strahlenwirkung-auf-menschen
 

Example from 1954:

Tozkoye military training area

On September 14, 1954, the Soviet Army led the 215 km from Orenburg distant Tozkoye military training area carried out a maneuver with the use of an atomic bomb. At 09:53 a.m., a Tu-4 bomber dropped an atomic bomb with an explosive force of 40 kilotons on the area of ​​the military training area. The aim of the "experiment" was to examine the stability of material and people in a battle under the conditions of a nuclear war.

After the atomic bomb was dropped and exploded, the soldiers were sent out of their protective trenches to face the explosion ...

The death toll from this maneuver is still unknown. Even today, the number of diseases of some types of cancer in Orenburg is twice as high as among the victims of the Chernobyl reactor disaster.
 

The development of nuclear weapons continues. After generation 1 (uranium and plutonium bombs) in the 1940s, generation 2 (hydrogen bombs) was developed in the 1950s, generation 3 (neutron bombs) from 1960 and later generation 4 (nanotechnology bombs) ...

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/nuklearwaffen
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Test areas where nuclear weapons have been detonated: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.Nuclear Weapons Tests - Proving Grounds

On July 16, 1945, the United States of America detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico "Trinity"...

More than 2050 nuclear weapons tests have been carried out worldwide since 1945

The 520 above-ground nuclear tests were atomic bomb explosions, and at least 15 of the more than 1530 underground tests were so powerful that the cap rock was simply blown away, thus becoming above-ground tests.

The explosive power of the nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s was mostly much higher than the explosive power of the two atomic bombs from 1945. The USA and the Soviet Union rocked each other higher and higher over the years, up to the hydrogen bombs' Castle Bravo '1954 and' AN 602 'The so-called' Tsar bomb '1961. This was no longer about kilotons (1000 tons of TNT) explosive force, meanwhile the suspects, strange professors, researchers and politicians calculated in megatons (1000.000 tons of TNT) explosive force.

Detonated on February 28, 1954 "Castle Bravo" in Bikini Atoll with an explosive force of 15 mT (15.000.000 tons of TNT).

On October 30, 1961, AN 602 exploded, the "Tsar bomb"over Novaya Zemlya with 58 mT (58.000.000 tons of TNT).

The explosive force of 58 mT corresponds approximately to a ball of TNT with a diameter of 400 meters...
 

IPPNW Report - Nuclear Weapons Tests - August 2023 (PDF file)

... Above-ground tests were carried out in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, on traditional land of the Western Shoshone in Nevada, USA, on Aboriginal land in Australian Outback, on the land of the indigenous Nenetz in the Russian Arctic, in the territory of nomads in the Algerian Sahara, in Uighur region in China and elsewhere. Residents were often evacuated late or not at all and were not informed about the impact of the tests.
Radioactive fallout fell as dust and rain, contaminating drinking water and locally produced food...
 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Kernwaffentests

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/wissen/atomtests.html
 

But of course we cannot ignore the other nuclear powers. Great Britain, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea are pumping enormous amounts of tax money into nuclear armaments

Money that none of them actually have or could use it more sensibly - for the good of the population and for securing the future.

North Korea, for example, could not starve its population ...

In Pakistan and India the situation looks only slightly better and all the other countries would also be better advised to stop saving their infrastructure, education and health care ...

And even the "non-nuclear country" Germany could easily spend less money on death and destruction.

According to ICAN calculations, the total costs of a total of 135 new aircraft including 90 »Eurofighters« over an estimated 30-year usage period with expenses for maintenance, fuel, etc. could amount to more than 100 billion euros. The fact that both US and EU-produced jets are to be bought for the successor to the "tornadoes" goes back to a compromise made by former Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Ordering 35 F-18 fighter jets would be a welcome billion dollar injection for the crisis-ridden US manufacturer Boeing ...

April 21, 2020 - Armament - atomic bombs on the approach

Update:

March 14, 2022 - Federal government wants to buy F-35 stealth jets for the German armed forces
 

Between 1945 and 1962, the USA alone conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests - initially only in the desert of New Mexico, later on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

http://www.scinexx.de/dossier-430-1.html
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Uranium ammunition: Not only contaminates the soil - Where 'armor piercing' uranium ammunition was and is used.Uranium ammunition - Broken Arrow - Nuclear submarines

From uranium to uranium ammunition

Natural uranium in the commercial form "yellow cake" dissolved from the rock consists of only about 0,7% fissile uranium-235 and 99% of non-fissile uranium-238. Enriched uranium with a content of at least 5% uranium-235 is required for further use in the nuclear industry. During the enrichment in centrifuges, 7 ton of material enriched to 1% uranium-5 is obtained from 235 tons of "yellow cake" and about 6 tons of depleted uranium (DU Depleted Uranium) remain. As a result, depleted uranium is available in abundance as a waste product of the civil nuclear industry and actually has to be disposed of as nuclear waste at an expensive rate.

However, the uranium industry is very creative when it comes to marketing its nuclear waste. In the past, lead, for example, was used as a trim weight in aircraft and as ballast in ships, since the uranium industry has pushed nuclear waste into the market as a valuable material, depleted uranium has also been used as a weight.

The effect of uranium bullets

Depleted uranium (99,8% uranium-238, 0,2% uranium-235) has a very high density of 19,1 g / cm³ and is therefore an extremely heavy and hard metal. Projectiles made from this material have enormous penetrating power. When penetrating the armor, the frictional heat creates temperatures of 3 - 5000 degrees Celsius and a cloud of highly toxic, radioactive, highly flammable uranium dust that immediately sets everything on fire. People and material burn up, fuel and ammunition are ignited, what remains is a burned-out wreck and uranium dust.

Uranium dust in the body

The uranium in this cloud is in the form of nanoparticles as metal gas, this gas is either washed into the groundwater by the rain and / or the wind can blow it far away or through all the cracks. No living being is safe from inhaling this gas or ingesting uranium nanoparticles with food.

Residents of the surrounding villages are slowly but surely being poisoned.

If uranium gets into the body, the affected organs are irradiated from the inside; Depending on the dose, dying can take days or even years. Under certain circumstances there are changes in the genetic make-up and the consequences of the radiation will only be visible in the next generations. With the current state of science, the true cause of the deformities cannot be determined with certainty.

Dealing with the problem

So it is easy for those responsible for the use of uranium ammunition to parry every critical objection with the same slogan: "Fake news, nothing has been proven, there is no danger"; and because what cannot be, all calls for consequences are ignored and the topic is kept out of the media and thus out of public discussion by all means.

The media are gently embedded and sung to sleep with angels' tongues or blackmailed, coerced and threatened, the best are sacrificed.

The history of DU ammunition

Tests with uranium ammunition were carried out by German scientists as early as the 1940s, but because of the uranium shortage, these projectiles could not be produced in large quantities at that time. Ammunition hardened with uranium has been used to combat armored vehicles since the mid-1970s.

Uranium ammunition is hoarded by the armed forces of at least 21 countries: USA, Russia, Great Britain, People's Republic of China, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, South Korea, Japan ...

Uranium ammunition has been used in Serbia, Bosnia (1991), Somalia (1993), Kosovo (1995), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (1991, 2003), Chechnya (1999-2009), Libya and Syria (since 2014). During a three-week mission in the Iraq war in 2003, between 1.000 and 2.000 tons of uranium ammunition were fired by the "coalition of the willing" ...
 

Article from March 17, 2019:

Deadly dust - uranium ammunition use and the consequences

Uranium ammunition and uranium bombs are arguably the most terrible weapons used in wars today because they inevitably lead humanity into the abyss. Uranium bullets and bombs are made from a waste product from the nuclear industry ...
 

Article from June 16, 2017:

Is Saudi Arabia using uranium ammunition in Yemen?

Cases of malformations in newborns are increasing

It is not known whether the Saudi Arabian military actually uses uranium ammunition and will - if at all - only be determined after the end of the war ...
 

Article from December 1, 2016:

Pentagon confirms use of uranium ammunition in Syria

Once again the United States, which had bombed Iraq with tons of uranium ammunition, together with Israel, France and Great Britain voted against a UN resolution on uranium ammunition a month ago - Germany abstained

The Pentagon has confirmed suspicions that uranium ammunition had also been used in bombing during the anti-IS war. However, Centcom only concedes that this only happened twice on November 18 and 23, 2015. 5100 30mm ammunition were used by an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, which corresponds to an amount of 1524 kg of depleted uranium ...
 

The taboo subject of uranium ammunition - why are our media involved?

The quiet dying after the war

The German media last debated the dangers of uranium ammunition seven years ago. Since then there has been almost silence - although the USA and NATO continue to use the controversial projectiles in wars. Why is that so - this question is Dr. Sabine Schiffer, founder and head of the Institute for Media Responsibility in Erlangen.
 

YouTube 

Keyword search: uranium ammunition docu

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uranmunition+doku

ZDF planet e 2012 - Sardinia's deadly secret (uranium ammunition, thorium)

In Sardinia, in the Salto di Quirra region, there is the largest NATO military training area in Europe ...
 

Deadly Dust by Frieder Wagner

Death dust uranium ammunition and the consequences 2006

The doctor (Prof. Siegwart-Horst Günther) and the irradiated children of Basra ...
 

Further information about uranium ammunition (Depleted Uranium, DU)

IPPNW in Cooperation with ICBUW Germany - International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

IPPNW Report - Uranium Ammunition (PDF file)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranmunition

https://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begriff/abgereichertes-uran

https://uol.de/physik/forschung/ehemalige/uwa/rad/du

http://www.uranmunition.net/

http://www.efriz.ch/archiv/093/f-1.html

http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/DU-Geschosse/Welcome.html

https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?tag=uranmunition

https://www.woz.ch/-a85e

http://www.scienzz.de/magazin/art12195.html

https://www.freitag.de/autoren/exnihilo/uranmunition-stiller-todesengel

https://magazin.spiegel.de/EpubDelivery/spiegel/pdf/18309044
 

*

Broken Arrows - Nuclear Weapons Accidents: Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Damaged submarines and where there is planing, there are shavings flying - wherever there is a flight, planes also crash ...Uranium ammunition - Broken Arrow - Nuclear submarines

Where nuclear weapons were lost everywhere

Wikipedia en

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

-

Broken Arrow incidents

The U.S. Department of Defense has officially recognized at least 32 Broken Arrow incidents between 1950 and 1980.

Examples of these events are:

1950 British Columbia B-36 crash1950 B-50 Rivière-du-Loup, Canada
1956 B-47 disappearance
1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
1961 Yuba City B-52 crash
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
1964 Bunker Hill AFB runway accident
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, Arkansas

Unofficially, the Defense Atomic Support Agency (now known as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)) has detailed hundreds of "Broken Arrow" incidents.

Wayback Machine en

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

The OOPS List

A 1973 Sandia Laboratories report, citing a then-classified army compilation, stated that between 1950 and 1968, a total of 1.250 U.S. nuclear weapons were involved in accidents or incidents of varying severity, including 272 (22 percent) in circumstances involving impacts which, in several instances, caused the detonation of the weapon's conventional high explosives...
 

Atomwaffen A-Z

Nuclear weapon accidents

Some examples - Broken Arrows
 

Wikipedia de

Crashed planes and lost atomic bombs ...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernwaffe#Unf.C3.A4lle_mit_Kernwaffen
 

B-52 crash near Thule Air Base on January 21, 1968

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absturz_einer_B-52_nahe_der_Thule_Air_Base_1968
 

Spectrum

http://www.spektrum.de/news/when-it-rained-atomic-bombs /1393804

B-52 crash near Palomares on January 17th, 1966 
 

*

Damaged nuclear submarinesUranium ammunition - Broken Arrow - Nuclear submarines

Wikipedia de

Where sunken nuclear submarines lie, there is also a lot of radioactive material in propulsion reactors, nuclear-armed torpedoes and missiles equipped with nuclear warheads.

List of U-boat accidents since 1945

The list of submarine accidents since 1945 documents submarines that were lost or suffered severe damage due to accidents or combat since the end of World War II (Japan's surrender on September 2, 1945). At least nine of the lost vessels were nuclear-powered, some armed with nuclear missiles or torpedoes. Accidents involving radioactive contamination of the environment are also documented, where known.
 

SSN-583, Sargo

On June 14, 1960, a fire and explosion occurred in the torpedo room of the nuclear submarine in Pearl Harbor. The cause was a leak in an oxygen line. The submarine sank in the harbor, but was later raised and returned to service.
 

K-19

July 4, 1961 - Reactor overheating due to a leak in the cooling system southeast of Greenland. During makeshift emergency repairs, eight crew members were exposed to lethal doses of radiation and died in the following days and weeks. At least ten other crew members suffered radiation damage, some of it severe.

Feb 24, 1972 - Fire on board caused by a hydraulic leak. 12 of the 28 dead were trapped in the torpedo room and could not be rescued until 24 days later, after the boat had been towed to a harbor. Two more injured people later succumbed to their injuries in the hospital. 
 

SSN-593, USS Thresher

sank on April 10, 1963, about 350 km off Cape Cod to a depth of about 2500 meters, and 129 men died...
 

K-129

was a Soviet submarine of Project 629 (Golf class) and sank on March 8, 1968. It was a diesel-electric missile submarine. In 1974, it was partially raised by the United States Navy as part of the Azorian project. A secret service thriller could hardly be more exciting.
 

USS Scorpion (SSN-589)

sank on May 22, 1968, about 400 miles (740 km) southwest of the Azores with 99 crew members on board at a depth of about 3380 meters.
 

K-8

was a Soviet nuclear submarine and sank in the Bay of Biscay on the night of April 11-12, 1970. Since then, the boat has been lying at a depth of approximately 20 meters with two reactors and 4500 nuclear torpedoes on board.
 

K-219

was a nuclear submarine of the Soviet Navy. After the explosion of a missile in its silo on October 3, 1986, the boat drifted on the surface of the water for three days. In the early morning hours of October 6, 1986, it sank. K-219 with two reactors and 14 nuclear missiles at a depth of about 5.550 m east of the Bermuda Islands.
 

K-278 Komsomolets

The K-278 Komsomolets was a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine. It was commissioned in 1984 and sank on April 7, 1989. The sinking claimed the lives of 42 crew members. The submarine lies approximately 190 km west-southwest of Bear Island in the Norwegian Sea, off the coast of Norway, at a depth of approximately 1858 meters. At the time of the sinking, the submarine was carrying two nuclear-armed and eight conventional torpedoes.
 

K-141 Kursk

On August 12, 2000, the Soviet nuclear submarine sank, killing 118 sailors. The ship was raised on October 8, 2001...
 

Bellona

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

-

The Russian Northern Fleet

Accidents involving nuclear submarines

http://spb.org.ru/bellona/ehome/russia/nfl/nfl8.htm

There were also a number of other incidents involving Northern Fleet submarines...
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Nuclear waste! Folding and storageNuclear waste! dumping and Storage:

All radioactively contaminated materials, work equipment, containers, protective clothing, tools and machines, right up to the rubble of entire building parts, must be safely packaged and stored. This safe storage of radioactive waste has to be guaranteed in some cases for thousands of years.

Those in charge, acting irresponsibly, prefer to take the easy and cheaper route. For 50 years, radioactive waste was simply and cheaply dumped into the sea. This practice was only banned in 1994 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), unfortunately only for solid waste.

84.688 TBq The radioactive contamination of the solids, mostly packed in concrete or metal drums, was dumped at sea until 1994.

Who dumped nuclear waste into the sea, where and how much?

Nuclear waste sunk in the sea - (PDF 4,3 MB) IAEA-TECDOC-1105 from 1999
 

GBq - 10^9 Bq | TBq - 10^12 Bq | PBq - 10^15 Bq
1 Becquerel = 1 nuclear disintegration per second.
The EU limit value for drinking water is 10 Becquerel per liter.
 

Final disposal at sea (PBq 10^15 Bq)

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

https://www.reaktorpleite.de/images/stories/pdf/atommuell-im-ozean.pdf#page=3

The first work on marine disposal of radioactive waste took place in 1946 in the Northeast Pacific, about 80 km off the coast of California. Over the course of the 48-year history of marine disposal, 13 countries have discharged approximately 140 PBq (140 x 10^15 Bq) of radioactive waste into the oceans. The waste can be divided into three categories based on its type: liquid low-level waste; solid low-level waste, either packaged in containers or large unpackaged items; reactor vessels without nuclear fuel or with damaged nuclear fuel.

Disposal of radioactive waste at sea by various countries (TBq 10^12 Bq)
Soviet Union (90859.0 TBq, Arctic, Pacific)
UK (35078.0 TBq, Atlantic)
Switzerland (4419.0 TBq, Atlantic)
United States of America (3496.0 TBq)
Belgium (2120.0 TBq, Atlantic)
France (353.0 TBq, Atlantic)
Netherlands (336.0 TBq, Atlantic)
Japan (15.0 TBq)
Sweden (3.2 TBq, Baltic Sea)
Russia (2.8 TBq, Arctic, Pacific)
New Zealand (1.4 TBq, Pacific)
Germany (0.2 TBq, Atlantic)
Italy (0.2 TBq, Atlantic)
South Korea (? TBq)
 

Wikipedia de

In the past, the dumping areas were regularly examined and the seabed, water and fish checked for radioactivity. In fact, researchers found radionuclides that indicate that barrels have leaked. Traces of plutonium have been found in fish. But then the governments simply stopped investigations in the vicinity of the so-called dumping grounds. Today the more than 100.000 tons of radioactive waste lying on the ocean floor west of Europe have long been displaced and forgotten ...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altlasten_in_den_Meeren

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd's_Deep
 

The ban on dumping only applies to contaminated solids, not to radioactive liquids, such as those in Sellafield, La Haque and all other uranium factories worldwide! In both Sellafield and La Hague, large amounts of toxic wastewater are discharged into the sea every day by means of long pipes below the surface of the water ...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiederaufarbeitungsanlage_La_Hague

 

*

Nuclear waste! dumping and Storage:

Attention nuclear wasteWhat to do with the nuclear waste?

The search for and the construction of 'safe repositories', this is becoming more and more evident, is just another beautiful and expensive story of the nuclear lobby; a utopia, because safe repositories for eternity do not exist and will not exist in the future either.

Toxic radioactive waste is not allowed into the 'end of the world' Taiga or dumped into some deposit deep down in the mountain, where it can react 'out of sight, out of mind', for thousands of years, unobserved ...

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Atomm%C3%BCll_-_Zwischen-_und_Endlagerung

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioaktiver_Abfall
 

Nuclear waste in the Asse II salt mineAsse II: Irradiated Legacy

Nuclear waste, a test repository and the return plan

For thousands of years, the nuclear waste in Asse II mine should be safe. But the reality is different: since the last barrel with low and medium level radioactive nuclear waste was dumped, more and more water has been entering the salt dome. Now the radiating waste has to be recovered, otherwise there is a risk of contamination.

Between 1967 and 1978 a good 120.000 barrels of low and medium level radioactive nuclear waste were stored in the former Asse II salt mine - some neatly set up, but most of them simply dumped. Although water seeped in in some places at that time, the test repository was partially filled in, and flooding with brine was also planned ...

https://www.scinexx.de/dossier/asse-ii-verstrahltes-erbe/

Asse mine:

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Asse

Konrad shaft:

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Schacht_Konrad
 

Final storage of nuclear waste can only mean interim storage of nuclear waste

This material must be easily accessible, stored in manageable small units and under constant observation of science, research and the public behind thick walls, as safely as possible. That is expensive, but inevitable and quite feasible.

There is no end, as the word repository implies, when it comes to atoms and radioactivity...
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de  

**


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...


Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


The nuclear industry lobbyistsMIC and the Lobbyists the nuclear industry

A information war, or in other words a war against the free flow of information, is in full swing. All nine nuclear weapons states and many other repressive states stand firmly together and fight side by side against press freedom and to keep relevant information under MIK's control.

Information Control and Wikipedia

The Association of the German Nuclear Lobby, known since 1959 as the German Atomic Forum e. V. , has adopted a new name in 2019 and is now called Core Technology Germany e. V.! This belittling language used by the nuclear lobby was introduced in the German Wikipedia several years ago and has now been almost completely implemented. Bad words like Nuclear bomb can no longer be found. In the German language, Core weapon decidedly better, a bit like peanuts and/or. pea gun. That too Nuclear power stations is no longer available in the German Wikipedia, the redirect now leads to Nuclear power plant.
Unfortunately, more and more article content in the German Wikipedia is being "revised" and facts that, for example, pointed to problems in research facilities and / or in the operation of nuclear reactors are simply no longer to be found ...

 

On the subject of 'language' I read an interesting article in the 'World Nuclear News':

Mind your (nuclear) language

Translation https://www.DeepL.com/Translator

Point of view: Pay attention to your (nuclear) language

The nuclear industry cannot assume that the words and phrases it commonly understands as scientific or technical terms have a positive connotation to the public, writes Neil Alexander, Principal Consultant at Bucephalus Consulting.

"We have all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. That should come as no surprise, because our minds have always been focused on dealing with pictures, with the face of our mother, the outline of a lion in the savannah, the path of ours Cave to the berry bush. Images have always been vital to our survival and are inevitably powerful.

Less valued is the power of words to create mental images and how this affects the perception of nuclear power. The power of words shouldn't come as a surprise either, as language was developed so that we could describe things to each other when there was no picture and then evolved to describe things like emotions or complex principles by creating virtual images .

Linguists speak of words with two meanings, denotative and connotative. The dictionary definition is denotative and the image that creates the word connotative. Scientists and engineers are taught to write denotatively and convey information, while poets and journalists commonly work with connotation and paint pictures for the mind. While denotative meanings may be correct, it is the images that have authority. They can make the words even more powerful than swords.

And here lies one of the challenges of the nuclear industry: to avoid unfortunate images...
 

Sources

AtomkraftwerkePlag

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Die_Atomlobby

"The atomic lobby is made up of organizations, corporations and people from politics, business, research and the media who, for political and economic reasons and / or often out of personal conviction, support and promote the use of atomic energy ..."

Lobby Control

https://www.lobbycontrol.de/2010/09/der-atomdeal-eine-kleine-chronologie-undemokratischer-politik/

The emergence of the deal between energy companies and the federal government to extend the operating lives of nuclear power plants is a prime example of deeply undemocratic politics...

Wikipedia de

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbyismus

Lobbying is a term taken from the English (lobbying) for a form of representation of interests in politics and society, in which interest groups ("lobbies") try to influence the executive, the legislature and other official bodies mainly by cultivating personal connections .

The nuclear industry is supported by financially strong organizations

Here I have only listed the 4 major international lobby organizations, but the world map also includes national organizations, associations and pro-nuclear citizens' initiatives. These associations and citizens' initiatives are often closely linked to one another through important members. Inbreeding à la the nuclear industry, so to speak...
 

IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Internationale_Atomenergie-Organisation_(IAEO)

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, English: IAEA) was founded on July 29, 1957. The mandate and goal of this organization is to "increase the contribution of nuclear energy to peace, health and prosperity in the world". This goal is described in detail in the IAEA Statute and has not been changed since it was founded.
 

EURATOM - European Atomic Energy Community

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/EURATOM

Aims of EURATOM

EURATOM (also known as Eurotom) is a European community that was founded in 1957 as a result of the 1955 UN Conference in Geneva.

EURATOM is based on the "Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC Treaty)", which regulates European cooperation with the aim of promoting the development of atomic energy and creating "core industries".
 

WANO - World Association of Nuclear Operators

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/World_Association_of_Nuclear_Operators_(WANO)

Foundation and goals

The WANO is an interest group of the operators of the nuclear power plants, which was founded after the Chernobyl disaster. It should prevent such a disaster from ever happening again. The official establishment took place on May 15, 1989.
 

WNA - World Nuclear Association

https://atomkraftwerkeplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/World_Nuclear_Association_(WNA)

Lobbying organization of the nuclear industry

The World Nuclear Association (WNA), headquartered in London, is the most important international lobbying organization for nuclear energy alongside the IAEA. It was founded in 1975 under the name Uranium Institute as a market forum for uranium. In 2001 it was given its current name and set itself the expanded goal of promoting nuclear energy and supporting the nuclear industry. The WNA also advises the IAEA, among others.
 

On September 17, 2011 the following article appeared on stromseite.de:

(stromseite.de will no longer be available in 2026.)

German nuclear lobby met with sympathy in London

"We will not stop until our mission is accomplished and we have brought the numerous benefits of nuclear energy to humanity," Gerald Grandey, Honorary Chairman of the World Nuclear Association (WNA), called out to his approximately 700 colleagues from the podium...

In Fukushima, reactor unit 12 exploded on March 2011, 1, unit 14 exploded on March 3, and unit 15 also blew up on March 2.  
 

*

MIC and the Lobbyists the nuclear industry

MiK = Military-Industrial Complex

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärisch-industrieller_Komplex

Quote from Wikipedia:

"Anyone who talks about the 'lobbyists of the nuclear industry' cannot ignore the topic of 'MiK'. The term '(MiK) military-industrial complex' is used in socio-critical analyzes to describe the close cooperation and mutual relationships between politicians and representatives of the military as well as representatives of the defense industry ... "

This quote from Wikipedia is no longer current. The censors of the MiK cleaning crew have since deleted the first sentence without replacement.
 

More on the topic in reaktorpleite.de: 

http://www.reaktorpleite.de/nukleare-welt/die-uranstory.html#nutzung-uran
 

Will open in a new window! - YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite" playlist - radioactivity worldwide ... - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJI6AtdHGth3FZbWsyyMMoIw-mT1Psuc5Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...

This playlist contains more than 150 videos on the following topics: nuclear, solar and wind energy, nuclear weapons, armaments and military-industrial complex (MiK), climate, nature and environmental protection ...
 

We are looking for current information, if anyone can help, please send a message to:
nuclear-world@reaktorpleite.de 

***


National Nuclear Activities - Warning sign 'Attention radioactivity' or 'Run away as fast and as far as you can' Radioactivity kills you!

Uranium mining and processing

Nuclear research, research reactors and nuclear factories

Nuclear power plants and reactors in planning, in operation and out of operation

Incidents in reactors and atomic factories: when people try something, things sometimes go wrong ...

Nuclear bombs and aboveground nuclear weapons tests: Where nuclear weapons, atomic or hydrogen bombs have been detonated.

Test areas: where atomic or hydrogen bombs have been and are being tested.

Uranium Ammunition: Use and Consequences - Broken Arrows: Accidents with Nuclear Weapons - Where Nuclear Weapons Were Lost. Wrecked nuclear submarines and crashed aircraft with atomic bombs on board ...

Nuclear waste! Folding and storage

MiK and the lobbyists of the nuclear industry


Notes

Top


Notes:

As the shock following Fukushima slowly subsided in the summer of 2011, I began researching and creating the page 'INES and Incidents in Nuclear Facilities'. For easier digestibility, and with the help of Google Maps, I then incorporated the data on which this seemingly endless expanse of text was based into this attractive, colorful map.

Fortunately, at the time I had no clue how much work I would do to create this map. However, the longer and more often I work on it, the clearer it becomes to me.

Warning sign - Caution! Radioactivity! Danger to life!The result was a world map of 'galloping nonsense', more and more irradiated places and landscapes from which 'humans' can actually only stay away. Unfortunately, this world map will remain incomplete forever, because I have to keep adding new entries from 'Sources of radioactive radiation'.

With the tens of billions of euros, pounds, dollars, rubles, renminbi and yen etc., which the construction of this madness cost around the world and which the inevitable exit will cost, humanity would have:

We can defeat hunger worldwide, house all refugees in palaces, and do all sorts of other things!

Instead, we used the money to contaminate this planet ...

 


For work on 'THTR Rundbrief', 'reaktorpleite.de' and 'Map of the nuclear world'We need up-to-date information, active supporters, and donations. If you can help, please send a message to: info@reaktorpleite.de

Donation appeal

- The THTR circular is published by the 'BI Environmental Protection Hamm' and is financed by donations.

- The THTR circular has meanwhile become a much-noticed information medium. However, there are ongoing costs due to the expansion of the website and the printing of additional information sheets.

- The THTR circular researches and reports in detail. In order for us to be able to do that, we depend on donations. We are happy about every donation!

Donation account: BI environmental protection Hamm

Purpose: THTR circular

IBAN: DE31 4105 0095 0000 0394 79

BIC: WELADED1HAM

 


***