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December 11th, 2008

The Weihnachtsmarkt invades the UK

by Florian Jensen

About a week ago, the RHUL German Society went to a ‘Weihnachtsmarkt’ in Kingswood.

We quickly realized that this was a joke. It had nothing to do with a real German Christmas Market. It only consisted of a few huts, and it was difficult to find german stuff.

However, apparantly there are some Christmas Markets in the UK that are closer to a real German Christmas Market. This aired yesterday in the German News, so I had to put this in. I’m sorry that this is a German Video, but I just can’t be arsed to write subtitles.

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June 4th, 2008

Slovenia sparks EU nuclear alert

by Florian Jensen

A leak of coolant has prompted Slovenia to shut down the reactor at its only nuclear power plant.

ChernobylThe Commission alerted all 27 EU member states under its Ecurie early warning system for nuclear emergencies.

The European Commission says there has been no discharge into the environment. No explosion was reported either.

A safe shutdown is in progress at the Krsko plant, which has a US-made pressurised water reactor. It supplies energy to Slovenia and Croatia.

“There is no influence on the environment and we do not expect any,” said Slovenia’s nuclear safety chief Andrej Stritar, quoted by Reuters news agency.
(via BBC.co.uk)

However, this is the same thing they said for 3 days about Chernobyl. Let’s wait and see.

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