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Map of the nuclear world
In development since 2011
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Seit den 1940er Jahren sind große Mengen radioaktiver Strahlung freigesetzt worden.
See: INES and the disturbances in nuclear facilities
Based on this data, the following world map was created:
Map of the nuclear world
Ursachen der menschgemachten Radioaktivität, vom Uranabbau, der Uranverarbeitung und der Forschung, dem Bau und Betrieb von Nuklearanlagen, einschließlich der Zwischenfälle in Atomkraftwerken und Atomfabriken, bis hin zum Umgang mit Atomwaffen, Uranmunition und Atommüll.
On the world map you can hardly see anything behind the sheer mass of potential sources of radioactive radiation, but just 1 'click' on one of the colorful images and the details become clearer. Ideally it should Map of the nuclear world should open as large as possible "in a new window/tab".
The work on this world map started in the summer of 2011, meanwhile there are more than 1200 entries. The German version of the map was published until 30 November 2023 and 4.951.750 Times called.
The colorful pictures on the map stand for:
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Atomic research, research reactors 
Reactors in planning (white), in operation (yellow) and out of operation (green)
Uranium ammunition:
Nuclear waste! -
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National nuclear activities and ambitions
(Attention, irony!).
Of course, “great statesmen” always only want the best for their people; and so these "great statesmen" have always gifted their peoples fantastic palaces and temples. The grateful subjects, for their part, always had the right and the invaluable honor of being able to build and pay for these magnificent buildings themselves.
Since the middle of the last century, "great statesmen" have been happy to give their people a few almost super-safe nuclear facilities, which are not really safe, but are particularly expensive. The primary goal was and is always to advance the extremely expensive development of nuclear weapons, to prevent protests against it or at least to restore "peace and order" by all means possible - in short: to divert as much money as possible into one's own pockets without being noticed.
(Here's the end of the funny)
Even today, not everyone knows these facts, and to keep it that way, we don't even talk about them anymore. Large parts of our supposedly independent media are playing along with this evil game and are unfortunately part of the problem.
Corruption? Here with us? Can't be, somewhere out there in Africa, Asia Minor or anywhere else, but not here.
Radioactivity? From our nuclear power plants? Can't be somewhere out there in Harrisburg, Chernobyl, Fukushima or anywhere else, but not here.
The fact is:
Corruption is ubiquitous but mostly invisible, just like radioactivity.
Radioactivity can accumulate in any living organism. The ionizing radiation penetrates completely unnoticed; as invisible radiation from the outside via the skin, as fine dust via the respiratory tract, or as radioactive particles - completely colourless, odorless and tasteless - enter the metabolism with the food.
It is possible that we, our children and grandchildren will "only" be affected by ever-increasing cancer rates, but it is also possible that birth defects are occurring more frequently in newborns and impairments in apparently completely healthy people.
Radioactivity may not kill until generations later.
I know that doesn't sound good and you don't like me anymore because of those evil, true words, but I am just the bearer of the message and unfortunately the content of the message is the reality...
"The tail wags the dog"
A minority of 9 nuclear weapon states is forcing their expansive nuclear policy on all other 184 UN member states.
The reason for the creation of a nuclear industry has always been and is the desire of the "great statesmen" (horror clowns), to have the biggest club:
Nine countries are threatening the world with nuclear bombs
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The nine nuclear weapons states (Russia, USA, China, France, Great Britain, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea) have around 13.400 nuclear weapons. Although this is much less than at the height of the Cold War, it still represents overkill for the world. 92% of nuclear weapons belong to the USA and Russia. About 3.720 warheads are operational...
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI
The sovereign states and the IAEA
There are 193 sovereign states Members of the 'United Nations' (A)
There are 177 states Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
123 UN member states do not operate nuclear power plants or research reactors
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Research reactors (RR)
Research Reactor Database (RRDB)
224 FR in operation
9 RR under construction (Under Construction) and 13 RR in planning (Planned)
76 RR switched off (Temporary/Extended/Permanent Shutdown)
519 FR decommissioned (Under Decommissioning, Decommissioned)
54 countries operate 224 active research reactors and
593 research reactors fall into the nuclear waste category.
(As of October 2023)
Commercial reactors (CR)
Power Reactor Information System (PRIS)
411 KR in operation
58 KR in the construction phase (not counting the countless supposedly planned reactors that the nuclear lobby constantly dreams about out loud)
209 KR shut down (including the damaged reactors in Chernobyl, Fukushima and "Three Mile Island" near Harrisburg)
118 Reactors over 40 years old (i.e. will either be switched off soon or continue to operate with increasing risk to the population)
31 states operate 411 active commercial reactors and
209 commercial reactors fall into the nuclear waste category.
(As of October 2023)
146 of the 177 IAEA members do not operate commercial nuclear reactors!
These include:
AUT - Austria
1 research reactor, 0 commercial reactors
IAEA member since 1957...
Austria never put the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant into operation, since it was commissioned in November 1978 was rejected by a referendum.
DEU - Germany
6 research reactors and 0 commercial reactors in operation
IAEA member since 1957...
Since April 15th 2023 all commercial nuclear power plants have been shut down.
The nuclear lobby likes to work with large numbers and package them in well-sounding words. Reality is irrelevant, often only disturbs the beautiful picture and is reinterpreted or adjusted if necessary. We know this strategy from the “great statesmen”...
But while we're at the big numbers:
Nuclear power - subsidized with 304 billion euros
October 25.10.2013, XNUMX - 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
204.000.000.000 Euros (€ 204 billion) subsidized from taxpayers' money.
The 'cleaning behind you' gets the taxpayer at least one more time
100.000.000.000 Euros (€ 100 billion)!
In 2020 the cost accounting was updated:
To date (2020), nuclear power has already cost Germany more than one trillion euros
Since the 1950s, the use of atomic energy to generate electricity in Germany has resulted in costs for society as a whole of more than one trillion euros. This is the result of a new study that the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum (FÖS) carried out on behalf of the eco-energy cooperative Greenpeace Energy. This sum includes both state subsidies and sales prices for the electricity as well as external costs. "No other energy source has caused such high costs as the risky nuclear power, which is extremely uneconomical even after 65 years," says Sönke Tangermann, Member of the Board at Greenpeace Energy ...
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By the way, "MiK" and the shareholders of the nuclear industry really enjoyed the party, the champagne, the dividends and the tears of joy flowed freely, and it went brilliantly well. The risk has been socialized!
Conclusion: The taxpayer gives 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 the Dead" or we risk the gradual poisoning of all future generations.
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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.
Uranium mining: environmental damage, numbers, production
Wikipedia
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 heaps and contaminates more and more soil and the groundwater...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The IAEA lists 2050 uranium deposits worldwide
https://infcis.iaea.org/UDEPO/Deposits
WISE uranium project
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
The following paragraph can only be found in the German Wikipedia if you are really looking for it:
Dam break in Lengenfeld, Saxony
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.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_Objekt_31#Entwicklung_des_Objektes
It works a little better in the English Wikipedia:
Category: Tailings dam failures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tailings_dam_failures
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 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mailuu-Suu_tailings_dam_failure
The 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 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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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 etc., but unfortunately it doesn't end with the over two hundred thousand deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
reaktorpleite.de: The uranium story
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 ...
From 1996 to 2010, 27.300 tons of nuclear waste were transported from the uranium enrichment plant to Russia and stored there in corroding containers in the open air. These transports were only stopped on October 17, 2010...
However, nuclear waste has been transported to Russia again since 2017 at the latest. However, the company URENCO has re-declared the nuclear waste as a recyclable material and, in contrast to nuclear waste, recyclable materials can be exported...
'Hanford' in the USA,
'Mayak' in Russia,
'Sellafield' (Windscale) in the UK and
'La Hague' in France are just the best-known examples of the operation of nuclear facilities and their catastrophic consequences for the environment and people...
Nuclear facilities (decommissioned)
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Kategorie:Atomanlagen_(stillgelegt)
Hanford Site (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 northwestern Washington state and was used to produce plutonium for military purposes starting in 1943...
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Hanford_(USA)
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/h/h-texte/artikel/ac11e74021/hanford.html
Mayak (Russia)
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 was an important part of Stalin's plans to quickly produce weapons-grade plutonium and to catch up with the Soviet Union in nuclear weapons...
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Majak_(Russland)
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/m/m-texte/artikel/4f5fafd6a9/majak-kyschtym.html
Sellafield (UK)
But the most notorious part of Sellafield is its reprocessing facilities. For a quarter of a century, until the end of the XNUMXs, their plutonium-contaminated wastewater flowed into the sea in huge quantities. (...) The coastal strips around the nuclear facility are plutonium waste dumps. The Geiger counter shows higher radioactivity levels than in the exclusion zone around the nuclear ruins in Ukraine...
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/s/s-texte/artikel/787ac88349/sellafield.html
La Hague (France)
World's largest reprocessing plant
The operators of the reprocessing plants dispose of some of the nuclear waste cheaply via wastewater pipelines. Every year around 500 million liters of radioactive wastewater (...) are pumped into the English Channel/North Sea...
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/La_Hague_(Frankreich)
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/l/l-texte/artikel/f0e2f049c7/la-hague.html
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Reactors in planning ...
Just a few years ago, the USA, Germany, France and Great Britain tried to sell as many nuclear facilities as possible to anyone who was not quick enough on the tree. For a few years, however, these providers have slowly said goodbye to the surefire thing - but always these annoying liability issues too!
China and Russia have now taken on the part of notoriously 'great statesmen' to build and finance nuclear facilities around the world. 'Made in China' and 'Made in Russia' are guaranteed 'without engagement'.
Several reactors are under construction and / or. in the planning, says the nuclear lobby. The reality looks less bright (data from April 07.04.2021th, XNUMX).
The IAEA lists worldwide:
51 commercial Reactors as Reactors under construction
https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionReactorsByCountry.aspx
However, there are also reactors listed, the planning of which has meanwhile been done; e.g. the 2 reactors in Taiwan.
16 research reactors be as 'Reactors in planning' listed
https://nucleus.iaea.org/RRDB/RR/ReactorSearch.aspx?RS=3P
11 research reactors are as Reactors under construction declared
https://nucleus.iaea.org/RRDB/RR/ReactorSearch.aspx?RS=2C
The future of the nuclear industry is not looking really good
no matter what the lobbyists are trying to tell us.
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Reactors in operation ...
There are over 440 worldwide commercial Reactors in operation. By the way, nuclear reactors actually produce electricity as well as weapons-grade material ...
The IAEA lists worldwide:
444 commercial reactors in operation
https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/OperationalReactorsByCountry.aspx
223 research reactors in operation
https://nucleus.iaea.org/RRDB/RR/ReactorSearch.aspx?RS=1O
130 reactors are 40 years and older
https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/OperationalByAge.aspx
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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!
193 commercial reactor blocks have been decommissioned so far ...
Nuclear facilities (decommissioned)
This category contains locations worldwide in which all or only individual commercial reactors (power reactors) have been decommissioned.
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Kategorie:Atomanlagen_(stillgelegt)
The IAEA lists worldwide:
193 commercial reactors out of order
(Permanent shutdown)
https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ShutdownReactorsByCountry.aspx
> 580 research reactors out of operation
(Extended Shutdown, Permanent Shutdown, Under Decommissioning, Decommissioning)
https://nucleus.iaea.org/RRDB/RR/ReactorSearch.aspx?RS=4S
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Incidents in reactors and nuclear facilities (INES 1 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)
Mar 28, 1979 - Three Mile Island - USA (INES 5)
1977 and December 30-31, 1978 - Beloyarsk - USSR (INES 5)
Jan. 21, 1969 - Lucens - Switzerland (INES 5)
October 07-12, 1957 Sellafield - UK - The Windscale Fire (INES 5)
September 29, 1957 - Mayak - USSR - The Kyshtym Accident (INES 6)
In addition to these prominent examples, there were and are countless smaller incidents that, if they even made it into the media, quickly disappeared from the headlines ...
AtomkraftwerkePlag
Accidents in nuclear facilities
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Kategorie:Atomunf%C3%A4lle
Other nuclear accidents and incidents
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Weitere_Atomunf%C3%A4lle_und_St%C3%B6rf%C3%A4lle
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Wikipedia
List of accidents in nuclear facilities
The list of accidents in nuclear facilities names accidents that are based on the international assessment scale for nuclear incidents INES (English International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale) have been classified as an accident of level 4 and higher ...
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IAEA
https://www-news.iaea.org/EventList.aspx?pno=0&sc=EventDate&ps=100
The 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.
The following link leads to a list of incidents related to the release of radioactivity. The data in this list was the basis for creating the "Map of the Nuclear World".
INES and the disturbances in nuclear facilities
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.
If I forget or overlook something important or have made some other mistake, please share your knowledge with me and point it out to me. I will follow up every lead.
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Nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons tests above ground
Where nuclear weapons were detonated.
According to the official reading, 'only' two nuclear weapons were detonated, the uranium bomb 'Little boy'on August 06, 1945 over Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb'Fat man'on August 09, 1945 over Nagasaki ...
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'Little boy'had an explosive force of 12,5 kT = 12.500 tons of TNT.
'Fat man'had an explosive force of 20 kT = 22.000 tons of TNT.
The atomic bomb explosions killed a total of around 100.000 people immediately - almost exclusively civilians and slave laborers who had been abducted by the Japanese army. By the end of 1945, another 130.000 people had died of consequential damage. Quite a few were added over the next few years ...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atombombenabwürfe_auf_Hiroshima_und_Nagasaki
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/h/h-texte/artikel/7205992544/hiroshima.html
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/n/n-texte/artikel/6ec52d7020/nagasaki.html
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... overall, however, were over 2050 nuclear weapons tests performed, the more than 500 attempts above ground are to be equated with Ignition 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 ...
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Example from 1953:
Operation Upshot Knothole
The Operation Upshot Knothole was the ninth American series of nuclear weapons tests. It took place in 1953 at 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://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Upshot-Knothole
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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.
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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) ...
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/n/n-texte/artikel/2c762a885f/nuklearwaffen.html
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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 more than 500 aboveground nuclear weapons tests were nothing more than atomic bomb explosions and at least 15 of the more than 1500 underground tests were so violent that the overburden was simply blasted away and they became aboveground 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'' via Novaya Zemlya with 50 - 58 mT (58.000.000 tons of TNT).
The explosive force of 58 mT corresponds roughly to a ball made of TNT with a diameter of 400 meters ...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Kernwaffentests
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/wissen/atomtests.html
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But of course we cannot ignore the other nuclear powers either. Great Britain, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea are pumping enormous amounts of tax money into the nuclear armament.
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-atomic bomb country' Germany could spend less on 'death and perdition':
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
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Between 1945 and 1962 the USA alone carried out 210 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests - initially only in the desert of New Mexico, later on, among other places, on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
http://www.scinexx.de/dossier-
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Uranium ammunition
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" ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
https://www.reaktorpleite.de/nukleare-welt/60-aktuelles/wichtige-artikel/wichtige-artikel-2016/666-01-12-2016-pentagon-bestaetigt-einsatz-von-uran-munition-in-syrien.html
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.
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12168
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YouTube
Keyword search: uranium ammunition docu
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uranmunition+doku
Videos:
ZDF planet e 2012 - 29:21 - 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 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkGxOVopTM&list=PLJI6AtdHGth3FZbWsyyMMoIw-mT1Psuc5
Deadly Dust by Frieder Wagner - 01:32:12
Death dust uranium ammunition and the consequences 2006
The doctor (Prof. Siegwart-Horst Günther) and the irradiated children of Basra ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXHfburcDEg&list=PLJI6AtdHGth3FZbWsyyMMoIw-mT1Psuc5
More 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)
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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranmunition
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http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/u/u-texte/artikel/736d04e582/uranwaffen.html
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https://uol.de/physik/forschung/ehemalige/uwa/rad/du
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http://www.efriz.ch/archiv/093/f-1.html
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http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/DU-Geschosse/Welcome.html
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https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?tag=uranmunition
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http://www.scienzz.de/magazin/art12195.html
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https://www.freitag.de/autoren/exnihilo/uranmunition-stiller-todesengel
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https://magazin.spiegel.de/EpubDelivery/spiegel/pdf/18309044
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Broken Arrow - Accidents with Nuclear Weapons
Where nuclear weapons were lost everywhere.
Crashed planes and lost atomic bombs ...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernwaffe#Unf.C3.A4lle_mit_Kernwaffen
B-52 crash near Palomares on January 17th, 1966
http://www.spektrum.de/news/
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
US military nuclear incident terminology
Broken Arrow - Nucflash etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Damaged nuclear submarines
Where the sunken nuclear submarines are ...
there is also a lot of radioactive material in the propulsion reactors, nuclear-armed torpedoes and missiles armed with nuclear warheads.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/
K-129
was a Soviet submarine of Project 629 (Golf class). It was a diesel-electric powered missile submarine. After sinking in 1968, it was partially lifted by the United States Navy in the Azorian Project in 1974.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-129
USS Scorpion (SSN-589)
The Scorpion sank on May 22, 1968 about 400 miles (740 km) southwest of the Azores with 99 crew members on board to a depth of about 3380 meters.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
K-219
was a nuclear submarine of the Soviet Navy and sank on October 6, 1986. In sank early in the morning K-219 with 14 nuclear missiles and two reactors at a depth of about 5.550 m.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-219
http://www.atomwaffena-z.info/geschichte/atomwaffenunfaelle/unfallbeispiele.html
http://spb.org.ru/bellona/
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Nuclear waste! Folding 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.
The irresponsible 'responsible persons' like to make things a little easier and cheaper for themselves. For 50 years radioactive waste was simply and cheaply dumped into the sea. This procedure was only banned by the 'International Maritime Organization' (IMO) in 1994, unfortunately only for solids.
84.688 TBq was the radioactive contamination of the solids, mostly packed in concrete or metal drums, which were dumped in the sea until 1994.
By whom and where, how much nuclear waste was dumped into the sea?
Nuclear waste sunk in the sea - (PDF 4,3 MB) IAEA-TECDOC-1105 from 1999
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1 Terabecquerel = 1000 billion Becquerel (1000.000.000.000 Bq)
1 Becquerel = 1 nuclear disintegration per second.
The EU limit value for drinking water is 10 Becquerel per liter.
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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
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What 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 ...
http://de.atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.com/wiki/Atomm%C3%BCll_-_Zwischen-_und_Endlagerung
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioaktiver_Abfall
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Aces II: Irradiated Legacy
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:
http://de.atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.com/wiki/Asse
Konrad shaft:
http://de.atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.com/wiki/Schacht_Konrad
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Final storage of nuclear waste can only mean interim storage.
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 'atomic and radioactivity' ...
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Nuclear industry lobbyists
The 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 German Nuclear lobby, known as the since 1959 German Atomic Forum e. V. , has adopted a new name in 2019 and is now called Core Technology Germany e. V.! This belittling language of the Nuclear lobby was in German Wikipedia started a few 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 there is in German Wikipedia no more, the detour now leads to Nuclear power plant.
Unfortunately, more and more article content in the German Wikipedia "revised" and facts that indicated e.g. 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
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 facing the nuclear industry, unfortunate images ...
Translate with https://www.deepl.com/translator (free version)
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Sources
AtomkraftwerkePlag:
"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 ..."
http://de.atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.com/wiki/Die_Atomlobby
Lobby control:
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...
https://www.lobbycontrol.de/2010/09/der-atomdeal-eine-kleine-chronologie-undemokratischer-politik/
Wikipedia:
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 .
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbyismus
The nuclear industry is funded by financially strong organizations:
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Organization
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.
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/Internationale_Atomenergie-Organisation_(IAEO)
EURATOM
European Atomic Energy Community
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".
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/EURATOM
WANO
World Association of Nuclear Operators
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.
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/World_Association_of_Nuclear_Operators_(WANO)
WNA
World Nuclear Association
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.
https://atomkraftwerkeplag.wikia.org/de/wiki/World_Nuclear_Association_(WNA)
Here I have only listed the 4 major international lobby organizations, but the world map also contains national organizations, associations and pro-atom citizens' initiatives. These associations and citizens' initiatives are often closely linked to one another through important members.
Inbreeding à la nuclear industry, so to speak ...
The following article was published on stromseite.de on September 17.09.2011th, XNUMX:
German nuclear lobby met with sympathy in London
"We will not stop until our mission is accomplished and we have brought the many benefits of nuclear energy to mankind," said Gerald Grandey, honorary chairman of the World Nuclear Association (WNA) to his around 700 colleagues who had traveled from the podium ...
In Fukushima, reactor block 12.03.2011 exploded on March 1th, 14.03, on March 3th. Block 15.03 and on March 2th Block XNUMX also went up in the air.
MIC
Military-industrial complex
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 ... "
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärisch-industrieller_Komplex
This quote from Wikipedia is no longer current. In the meantime, the censors of the MIK cleaning crew have deleted the first sentence without replacement.
More on the topic in reaktorpleite.de:
http://www.reaktorpleite.de/nukleare-welt/die-uranstory.html#nutzung-uran
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Playlist - 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 ...
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When the paralysis in Fukushima slowly dissolved in the summer of 2011, I started researching and creating the page 'INES and accidents in nuclear facilities' began. The data on which this almost infinite lead desert is based, I then incorporated into this pretty, colorful map for the purpose of easier digestion and with the help of Google Maps.
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.
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:
Defeat hunger worldwide, accommodate all refugees in palaces and what I don't know can do that is sensible!
Instead, we used the money to contaminate this planet ...
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