1. THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010

    Algeria's Atomic Energy Agency Comena, Dr. M. Derdour, was visiting South Africa these days and saw the whole mess firsthand. The declaration of intent (!) from the Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Lrd should be taken a little more seriously. (MHI) wants to further develop the pebble bed reactor together with South Africa. The Japanese company had already...

  2. THTR Circular No. 127 July 09

    which was considered (!) to dismantle the THTR by 2044. The following statements he made are also incorrect: “The ball-bed systems that are now under construction and in operation in South Africa, China, Japan and other countries show that we are not alone.” There is no reactor in South Africa. He prefers to keep quiet about it because it doesn't fit into his fictitious success story. With the construction of...

  3. THTR Circular No. 126 April 09

    to use. Outlook: unreasonableness or alternative energy The South African PBMR company is now a partner of the large US reactor company Westinghouse, which is now majority owned by Japanese shareholders. As Westinghouse plans to ship its large light water reactors to South Africa in a few years, they may not abandon PBMR entirely and the...

  4. THTR Circular No. 122 August 2008

    The “Generation IV International Forum” (GIF) was established to coordinate research and development work. The following countries took part: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA. In 2003, Euratom became the eleventh member to sign. In this way, in EU countries that have decided to phase out nuclear power, these...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 121 May 08

    Notes: 1. Between 2003 and 2007, Verfondern published at least nine publications on the THTR as part of his work in the FZJ. Including in South Korea and Japan, where research is also being carried out on this reactor line. 2. IEF-6: Institute for Energy Research and Reactor Technology in the Research Center Jülich 3. WA from June 24, 6 Helmuth Bolle is dead Helmuth Bolle has...

  6. THTR Newsletter No. 120 March 08

    held by decision makers. In 2002, Switzerland joined the “Generation IV International Forum” (GIF). Nine countries (USA, France, South Africa, China, Japan...) had already come together to plan and advance the long-term research and development of new, innovative reactors at an international level. This is very expensive and will last for decades...

  7. THTR Circular No. 119 January 08

    Meanwhile, other countries in the world, like France, like the USA, are leading the way here, and the safe high-temperature reactor that we decided on in Germany is now being built in South Africa and Japan, and the German researchers were working on site there. (...) The radiation exposure in the vicinity of nuclear power plants is significantly lower than the natural radiation exposure in...

  8. THTR Newsletter No. 117 November 07

    for nuclear energy” wrote the Atomic Forum in September 2007: “Experts all over the world are working intensively on the realization of new reactor technologies. Ten countries, including the USA, France, Japan and Great Britain, have launched the 'Generation IV' project. Unfortunately, Germany is not directly involved in this program due to political decisions.” The indirect...

  9. THTR Newsletter No. 116 September 07

    Be commercially usable by 2025. The research and development initiative for this so-called 'Generation IV' was launched five years ago by ten countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Switzerland, Great Britain and the United States). Unfortunately, Germany is not there. Germany is therefore threatened with joining the...

  10. THTR Circular No. 114 June 07

    AREVA developed the ANTARES reactor. Through AREVA, Siemens is also involved in the "International Generation IV Forum", in which South Africa, Brazil, Canada, South Korea, the USA, France, Japan, Great Britain and the EU also take part. Ultimately, Siemens offers old wine in new bottles - and continues its global nuclear strategy unabated. (We leave out the THTR sales here). What...

  11. THTR Circular No. 110 January 07

    (around 600 engineers and scientists on a full-time basis)" for the PBMR. Preliminary discussions about HTR deliveries are being held with the Swiss, Poles, Spaniards, Koreans, Australians, Americans and Japanese: "The Koreans have made the fundamental decision to produce hydrogen through nuclear power and are therefore very interested.” Meanwhile, the “Finanznachrichten” reported on December 06.12.2006th, XNUMX...

  12. THTR newsletters from 2004

    of the two nuclear communities applied for. A special kind of “accident chronicle” in the Hamm City Council. * THTR Newsletter No. 88, February 2004 Focus: High-temperature reactors in China and Japan. The High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Japan. Special features, history and current situation. The HTR in China. Decades of collaboration with BRD (Jülich). EU network for...

  13. THTR newsletters from 2005

    and Rössing. South Africa's focus on future HTR customers is taking concrete shape. Was the person behind the London attacks based in South Africa? (Al Qaeda) News from the HTR locations: Oari (Japan), China. Repression against the “anti atom aktuell” (aaa). * THTR Newsletter No. 100, July/August 2005 Foreword to the 20-page anniversary edition. South Africa: Subjective approach to a distant country. Dortmund:...

  14. THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03

    had already been passed around, the state government was the very last to inform us as the questioners and added a few lines: “Since a large number of companies in the USA, Japan or Europe are eligible as technologically cooperating partners, your request for a list of the current partners could be of interest can only be fulfilled by the ESKOM company itself. Own information...

  15. THTR Circular No. 87 January 04

    Page seven is listed at number 74, but on page one as number one. This year there will hopefully be more detailed information about HTR's in China, Japan and India in the next editions of the newsletter. I initiated the appropriate preparations weeks ago. Recipients who have not paid ten or twenty euros in the last two years will...

  16. THTR Circular No. 88 February 04

    2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 88 February 2004 1989 The nuclear lobby strikes back: HTRs in operation in China and Japan! EU funds for HTR further development! Neither apartheid in South Africa nor the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in XNUMX affected the nuclear industry and...

  17. THTR Newsletter No. 89 March 04

    Pebble bed reactor, a never-ending source of eternal knowledge about the undeniable advantages of HTR technology. Out into the whole world with the good news, to South Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, even the USA! In the luggage is the certificate: Export with the tolerance of the federal government, because security research! The necessary change for these missions is still flowing in abundance...

  18. THTR Circular No. 90 June 04

    to develop with spherical fuel elements. At the same time, efforts are being made there, in South Africa and in China, to exploit the possibilities and advantages of the pebble bed reactor. Japan is seriously studying the use of the high-temperature reactor to convert CO2 and water into methane." If you look at the CV of the author Kottowski-Dümenil, you will notice that he is a professor at...

  19. THTR Circular No. 91 July 04

    "Preserve know-how so that we can fall back on it at any time." At the Congress of the International Atomic Energy Agency from June 24th to 27th, 1991 in Vienna, there was intensive discussion about HTR projects in Japan, China, Indonesia, USA, Poland and Germany . Professor Schwarz from the VEW reported on the Soviet contribution: "VN Grebennik from the Kurt Shatow Institute in Moscow reported...

  20. THTR Circular No. 92 August 04

    Content information is only provided in a few cases. But where they are found, they provide interesting insights. A 160-page study on the HTTR in Japan was recently completed a few weeks ago. In 2002 and 1999, the FZJ documented its own work on the further development of the PBMR in South Africa. From the contents of the publications it can be seen that...