The reactor bust - THTR

Communication

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Communication is a fine art

After it didn't work out Incident at the THTR to cover it up or keep it out of the media, the "HKG" in the Hammer town hall, at a hearing before the city council, answer questions.

What wonderful, and above all wretchedly long, stories told us the gentlemen of the nuclear industry back then - after weeks of breathing.

The main headings were as follows:

- Trust us!
- We're not lying!
- We guarantee Inherent security!
- We work hard and do everything we can!
- We are your neighbors and we also live here with our children!

Those who were still awake after these tirades of justification felt pity. Yes, you could almost feel sorry for the poor 'causers' of these homemade problems.

Unfortunately, all of these stories had tiny flaws, were barely half-true or just crudely distracted from the topic
- For example, the lecturer's children went to boarding school in Switzerland for 8-9 months a year -

That seems to have been the means of communication of choice back then (1986): not laying it on too thick when lying - telling half the truth - was the trick.

However, it is now clear that times are changing:

At least since Don Trumpl's election campaign for the US presidency in the fall of 2016 Cambridge Analytica was accompanied, will again obviously lied and cheated. Fears and hatred against minorities are fueled again, insanely brutal Reason garnished with wild grimaces and the Mobster activated!

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Tragedy Wikipedia

A few years ago, individual articles in Wikipedia read as if they had been copied directly from the brochures of the nuclear industry, and former employees were suspected of being responsible for the "embellishments in Wikipedia". Apparently, however, the nuclear industry also employs many interns and outside consultants, some of whom "keep Wikipedia in order" to avoid using the nasty word "manipulation". Even in 2022, the situation has not improved, but rather worsened. In the meantime, it can even be observed that important information simply disappears completely.

Apparently, slowly but surely, all important information about accidents in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia!

What's wrong with Wikipedia?

At work on the "Map of the nuclear world" and on "INES and the list of incidents ..." It happens again and again that I get information about an accident at a nuclear facility, but I can't find anything in the relevant Wikipedia articles about this accident. Lately such incidents have become more frequent and I have serious concerns about the credibility of Wikipedia.

Examples:

Sellafield - Nuclear factory, GBR

Between 1955 and 2005, over 20 accidents were reported involving the Sellafield nuclear plant, almost all of which involved significant releases of radioactivity. With the exception of the Windscale fire in 1957 and two other incidents in 2005 and 2014, all of these incidents have been removed from the German Wikipedia.

Nuclear Power Accidents

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LLNL - Lawrenz Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA

Am 20 January 1965 and at June 8, 1970 large releases of radioactivity have occurred in the LLNL.

In the Wikipedia article "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" will both Uncases not even mentioned anymore.

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Millstone NPP, Waterford, CT, USA

A hydrogen gas explosion June 10, 1977 in the Millstone-1 reactor damaged three buildings and forced the shutdown of the reactor.

The Wikipedia article "Millstone Nuclear Power Plant" does not contain any reference to this explosion.

I would regret it very much if Wikipedia were to be made useless by interest-driven, distorted history and the associated loss of credibility.

On the subject of Wikipedia, see also the THTR Newsletter No. 117 from the year 2007.

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Horror clowns, great statesmen and pocket fillers...

'Then as now and here and there' - lack of transparency, deception and disinformation, like at 'Don Nukleone' at home ...

 - "Don Nucleone" and his frantically active helpers -

Speaking of 'Don Nukleone', our older readers will have immediately noticed and recognized the 'Little Angel on the Cloud''s striking resemblance to a prominent German politician and major atomic bomb fan of the last century, but 'Who the Hell' was this handsome one Faucet? N/a?

You can find the solution to this riddle in the THTR Circular No. 127

Yes the Franz-Josef Strauss, he already knew how to do it and he was a gifted speaker - very quietly hide important information in loud rumbling speech - everyone is upset about the shape and tone, and hardly anyone notices the explosiveness of the content.

 Anyone who has 'HEU' (highly enriched uranium) can also build the bomb.

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The regional princes ...

Laurenz Meyer has the nickname "pocket fillerTruly deserved. In the nine months before he left the Bundestag in 2009, Mr. Meyer's office ordered 11 fine fountain pens from Montblanc worth more than 3.000 euros via the Bundestag's contribution-in-kind account.

The RWE paid in the year 2001 only the ex-CDU general Laurence Meyer 130.000 Euros
(Please refer 'Laurenz Very Hungry' in the mirror) ...

So the operators of nuclear facilities are still very skillful in doing what they do best.

They run their nuclear power plants as cheaply as possible, pay their politicians the same way and are true masters of disinformation.

So 'the politicians' (I know: not all of them are like that ...) act, mostly clumsily, as if they were doing something.

Well, 'the politicians' are doing something too, they support themselves first and foremost. They copy diligently for their doctoral theses and/or otherwise fine-tune their careers in order to use the time until the next election sensibly...

Even if I should 'here and there' give the impression that I want to 'lump everyone together', I can assure you that I am very much in a position to differentiate.

I know there are also 'politicians' who don't deal with'MIC'and honestly just follow their conscience (I just can't think of a name).

So when I say 'the politicians', I mean the people who are willing to sacrifice 'everything and everyone' to gain power and/or even just a little bit of it, the pocket fillers...

The gentlemen from the nuclear industry and theirs lobbyists In politics you can blame a lot, but when it comes to 'communication as art' I can only take my hat off, they take a very clear and consistent line:

Hear nothing - say nothing - see nothing

If that doesn't work anymore then the motto is 'babble to sleep' or 'chatter to death'. To this day, supervisory authorities and politicians have allegedly not found any means (or sought?) To keep an eye on these gentlemen and / or. to control the ways of money.

From the beginning there were secret agreements and contracts for the benefit of the nuclear industry, not just for the Nuclear phase-out!

See: Documents on nuclear policy

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Dear politicians! Instead of just promoting the video surveillance of public places, you should finally order independent, complete video surveillance of the nuclear control centers - and maybe also work on your own credibility ;-)

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Addendum 2016 - The video surveillance of public places in all of Germany is as good as done, no subway station and no fountain without video surveillance, only the control rooms of atomic plants are - as before - not independently monitored.

If an accident happens, as happened at THTR in May 1986, the Measuring devices switched off will ...

My intention - why I have been working on 'reaktorpleite.de' since 2003:

When I searched the 'world wide web' in 2003 for the terms - atomic power plant, nuclear power plant, atomic plants, power plant, THTR, HTR, PBMR, pebble cluster, THTR 300 Thorium high temperature reactor Hamm-Uentrop - etc. I noticed that the internet was teeming with praise and belittling retellings from the brochures of the industry, but there was hardly any critical comment, e.g. on the scandalous events surrounding the 'Incident' at THTR in May 1986 and also the newer developments, e.g. the planned construction of an HTR in South Africa, were kept quiet.

I was fed up with the lies of this corrupt gang ...

So I went to work and ordered the first domain - www.thtr-a.de - THTR-A was the name of the transport cask with which the spent fuel element balls of the THTR were brought to the interim storage facility in Ahaus.

Back in 1989, when the THTR was finally switched off, the responsible men howled softly to themselves, the politicians would have given in, would have let them down and anyway would not be real men, because real men don't just shut the shop down when things get tight.

To this day, these Stromers still tell the same half-true stories. The nuclear power plant operators and their well-financed lobbyists and supporters in politics are talking about the shutdown of the THTR for economic reasons and - as is their style - simply not telling the whole truth, because:

The fact is:

1.) The construction time of the reactor was estimated at 5 years, but then it took three times as long, namely an impressive 15 years. The costs did not triple in that time, no, they multiplied by 6, from the planned 650 million DM to at least 4 billion DM.

The necessary repairs to the THTR would have devoured a further billions of DM in taxpayers' money and the reactor just a little more Runtime given.

Please refer: 'The THTR breakdown list'

Any other decision by politics, other than shutting down the THTR, would actually have been economic nonsense.

2.) The accident in May 1986. The incident was denied by the operating company HKG - "On which day did you say? No, there is nothing, nothing unusual happened that day!" When the incident could no longer be denied, the release of radioactivity into the environment was first denied, then admitted 'very carefully' and finally they argued about the amount of radiation that had escaped, because the measuring device had been switched off and so there was now times no exact dates.
The truth only came to light bit by bit, always just as much as could no longer be denied.

3.) The danger of proliferation (Dissemination of weapons-grade material). Yuck, how indecent - you don't talk about that, either then or now, on the Internet any more than in the glossy brochures of the industry. Although these gentlemen know very well that it is particularly easy to remove fuel from the pebble bed reactor, as this is an important part of the pebble bed reactor system. The freshly enriched, approx. 6 cm large uranium balls come in at the top and at the bottom they fall out again as ready-hatched, handy plutonium portions.
An ideal starting material for building bombs at home after work.

4.) Disposal. Is it really worth talking about? This calming-sounding word creation is just a linguistic joke anyway. Just like the end in 'final storage', there is no 'disposal' and also no 'final storage', there is at most a postponement of the problem to tomorrow via interim storage - Manjana, Manjana.
In a few hundred years, our descendants will be much smarter than we are anyway. If they survive this!

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The nuclear lobbyists tell us - nuclear power could protect the climate, no CO2 and such ... - Hurray, hurray and how well that fits the spirit of the times! It's not true, but it sounds amazing!

Nuclear power is not a solution - The energy cliff -
by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen

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What is it really about:

- Cancer studies - When will the health risks of nuclear power plants finally be comprehensively and seriously investigated?

We need cancer studies without lousy compromises. Not a childhood cancer study with questionable restrictions - 'But please only near the nuclear power plants that are still producing electricity'. - No, comprehensive cancer studies that include all people and all nuclear facilities, including facilities that have long been closed or test sites. Research and test facilities such as those in Jülich and Hamm as well as the former uranium mining sites in the Ore Mountains, production facilities such as the interim storage facility in Ahaus, Urenco in Gronau and the GKSS locations ... and much more.

Addendum - There are now some 'Radioactivity studies'.

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- How can one, on the one hand, propagate the 'war on terror' and, on the other hand, ensure the worldwide dissemination of nuclear weapons-grade material?

The civil nuclear industry and the arms industry work highly lucratively, effectively and hand in hand. Some spread the material for building dirty bombs all over the world. The others are arming the police and the military so that they can fight the terrorists and bring back the scattered radioactive material, worldwide.

Please refer: 'War on terror'

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- Where did all the money go? Where is it stored?
In Switzerland, in Lichtenstein or in the Caribbean ?!

Only several billion DM and later at least as many billions of euros in tax money wandered through the pockets of the nuclear industry. Was everything kosher?

Please refer: 'Corruption and revolving door'

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Question after question, we are looking for answers.
Help with!

I, built in 1957, have very good memories of the events around the THTR in the years 1986 - 1989 and therefore consider it my task to document the history from my point of view before the great forgetfulness strikes me too.

Similarities with other living people are not excluded ... ;-)

I make no claim to the completeness of my research and / or the like. technical overview, that means: You are cordially invited to work on 'reaktorpleite.de' as well as on the 'THTR-Rundbrief'.

See the contacts in: 'Imprint'

What can i do?

1.) Change the electricity provider, Electricity without an atom there are now quite cheap ...

2.) To be informed! Read the 'reaktorpleite.de' regularly - e.g. 'http://www.reaktorpleite.de/aktuelles.html'- is a good start ...

3.) Get active yourself, support your local Citizens' Initiative and sponsor independent control bodies, for example the 'THTR circular'and with it this homepage' reaktorpleite.de '...

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Work on phasing out nuclear power!

A few years ago the USA, France and Great Britain tried to sell a few atomic plants to anyone who was not quick enough on the tree.

In the meantime these providers have withdrawn from the surefire business - but always these annoying liability questions too -

The offended at that time Companies are today (2017) either totally bankrupt or vegetate as undead with state alimentation!

The new pseudo-economic giants China and Russia have now taken on the part of notoriously great statesmen around the world to finance and build expensive nuclear facilities.

'Made in China' and 'Made in Russia' and guaranteed 'without guarantee'.

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As you will see on the following pages, the matter is far from over. As always, the 'Friends of a bright future' are optimistic and don't allow themselves to be shaken by reality.

The HTR technology, here in Germany - in spite of all verbal declarations of exit, with taxpayers money - should be used in several places around the world - see for example South Africa - Go online under the name PBMR (Pebble Bed Modular Reactor).

Almost all of these projects have now been completed. Only in China there is a 10 MW HTR experimental reactor on which Tsinghua University in Beijing, but mostly silent. Two 200 MW HTR should actually be in Dec. 2017 in Shandong go online, but they won't be until 2021...

However, we can be absolutely sure of one thing. They won't give up, as long as the tax money is flowing, they'll try to get there!

South Korean President Moon had the oldest reactor in South Korea on June 18.06.2017, XNUMX Kori-1 switched off and by 2040 the remaining reactors should be shut down (25 reactors down). That could MIC not put up with. Since May 2022 is in South Korea the well-known corrupt nuclear clique, came back to power with a wafer-thin majority and the new conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol stopped the nuclear phase-out in July 2022.

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The latest hit in the nuclear industry is called 'generation IV'.

Of course, the development and processing costs will continue to be borne by the taxpayer, the risks will be left to the local population and the resulting profits will be privatized!

So everything as usual, even with the 6 new lines of the fourth generation of nuclear reactors!

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This page is dedicated to the members of the various citizens' groups from the near and far vicinity of the reactor, very different people without certain political preferences who are interested in THTR 300 Thorium high temperature reactor in Hamm - Uentrop met to demonstrate unity against a 'despicable technique'.

Without the non-violent commitment of all these people, it would not have been possible to change the 'Atom Hurray Policy' of that time in Hamm and North Rhine-Westphalia. The continuous and tireless efforts of the farmers and their willingness to do whatever is necessary deserve special mention.

Wishing you a lot of fun reading would not be appropriate on this topic, instead I wish you a lot of perseverance in reading and a lot more patience and passion in implementing the knowledge you have gained.

If you happen to have photos, illustrative material, etc. If you have other information, please send it to me.

Werner Neubauer

PS: The names of informants and supporters are only given at their express request.

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