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Strahlentelex with electrosmog report

description German information service
First edition January 15, 1987
Frequency of publication per month
ISSN (print) 0931-4288

Strahlentelex mit ElektrosmogReport was an independent information service on radioactivity , radiation and health as well as the importance of electromagnetic fields for the environment and health and was published in German on the first Thursday of the month.

Strahlentelex first appeared in January 1987. All articles published since 1987 can be researched on the Internet today. Strahlentelex was free of commercial advertising, received no government or other subsidies and was financed exclusively through subscriptions.

The ElektrosmogReport has been published without radiation telex since March 2019 .

history

In December 1986, the year of the Chernobyl disaster , the Independent Radiation Monitoring Center Berlin began its activities. The chemist Peter Plieninger and the nuclear technician Bernd Lehmann put a so-called gamma measuring station into operation in the window of a shop in Berlin-Moabit . The radioactivity meter was acquired from the surplus of a benefit concert.

Strahlentelex as a consumer information service

That was the hour of birth of the information service Strahlentelex . The first edition appeared on January 15, 1987 under the editorial responsibility of the engineer and science journalist Thomas Dersée, who has published it continuously since then. From 1994 the Bremen biologist Bettina Dannheim and afterwards the Berlin physicist Sebastian Pflugbeil from mid-2001 on the editorial team. Up until May 1989, Strahlentelex was published fortnightly, since then monthly.

The specialty of the Strahlentelex in the first years after the Chernobyl reactor disaster in 1986 was the publication of radioactivity readings in foodstuffs with open mention of the product and company names. State measuring stations were forbidden to mention these names - this is still the case today - and required an independent institution, which is what made the Strahlentelex so special and so successful . The first systematic series of measurements on milk and baby food were carried out and published in the form of comparative product tests , the method of which was conveyed by Stiftung Warentest . With this, concerned parents of young children - at least nine months after the Chernobyl reactor disaster - received concrete and unencrypted data for the first time, which enabled them to keep their children's radiation exposure as low as possible. Therefore, the support from individuals, parents' initiatives and associations, such as mothers and fathers against nuclear threats e. V., great. Strahlentelex had up to 3000 subscribers during this time. This made it possible to continuously finance the work of the Independent Radiation Measurement Center Berlin. The support from the members of a scientific advisory board was particularly helpful.

Strahlentelex as a special information service

Strahlentelex developed early on into a special information service for which the minimization of radiation exposure was a central concern. The documentation of the disputes about the effects of small doses of radiation extended from the areas of environmental radioactivity to radiation applications in medicine, such as mammography . With the increasing public interest in environmental radioactivity, as shown by the example of the dispute over the accumulation of leukemia in the vicinity of the Krümmel nuclear power plant and the GKSS in the Elbmarsch, interest in radiation telex also changed .

In December 1993 the independent radiation measuring station had to close due to the waning interest in concrete measurement results and Strahlentelex continued to cooperate with the few free measuring stations and initiatives still working, especially in Munich and Vienna .

Strahlentelex with electrosmog report

Since April 1995, Strahlentelex has also regularly included the section ElectrosmogReport, as an independent specialist information service on the importance of electrical and magnetic fields for the environment and health. It was edited by the physicist Michael Karus, the doctor Franjo Grotenhermen, the physicist Peter Nießen and the geographer Monika Bathow until the end of 2005. Since January 2006, the biologist Isabel Wilke from the Catalysis Institute for Applied Environmental Research e. V. , Cologne, the editorial team of the electrosmog report . The electrosmog report is used to critically monitor and document the scientific dispute about the effects of non-ionizing radiation.

In contrast to the first years after Chernobyl, when the regular publication of comparative product tests in the Strahlentelex was of particular importance for parents of small children, Strahlentelex with ElectrosmogReport was increasingly required as specialist information in the areas of radiation protection, risk assessment and communication, as a contact point for researching journalists, Information seekers from the fields of medicine and physics and especially interested laypeople who wanted to familiarize themselves with the problems of radiation and radiation protection.

In April 2006, the German Environmental Foundation awarded Thomas Dersée its 19th environmental prize for journalists , honoring the "20 years of independent information work by Strahlentelex with electrosmogreport ".

Adjustment and partial continuation

In January 2019 the editor informed the readers that he could not continue the Strahlentelex for health reasons. The December 2018 issue was the last, a successor was not named.

The ElektrosmogReport has been published alone since March 2019, without the radiation telex . The new publisher is the Verein Diagnose-Funk e. V. in Stuttgart

The monthly Strahlentelex for Fukushima has been published since April 2019, which aims to continue the independent reporting of the Strahlentelex on radiation protection after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima . The editor is the publicist and former Strahlentelex author Masao Fukumoto.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Strahlentelex" no longer shines. taz from January 31, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Peter Hensinger: Editorial. In: ElectrosmogReport. diagnose: funk, March 2019, p. 1 , accessed on April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Masao Fukumoto: About us. In: Strahlentelex for Fukushima. April 17, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 .