Newspaper clippings 2016

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Westfälischer Anzeiger from April 18.11.2016, XNUMX

Interview with Dr. Rainer Moormann: 'The dismantling will not be harmless'

On November 19, 2016, the BUND NRW and the Nature and Environmental Protection Academy NRW held the seminar “Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: the last straws of the atomic lobby”, which was well attended by 35 participants.

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Westfälischer Anzeiger from April 06.06.2016, XNUMX

40 years of resistance to nuclear power

Citizens' initiative environmental protection has been warning of the effects of the THTR in Uentrop since 1976

After the catastrophic reactor accident in Chernobyl in 1986, many groups formed nationwide to protest against nuclear power and to offer resistance. A citizens' initiative (BI) was also founded in Hamm - but long before that.

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The bell of April 04.06.2016nd, XNUMX

Intentional or operator error:

Ambiguity about incident

For decades, the nuclear power plant in Hamm-Uentrop, which was shut down in 1989, was quiet. 30 years after the reactor disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the THTR hit the headlines. It is about an accident on May 04.05.1986th, XNUMX, in which radioactivity was released ...

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"Billions put in the sand"

Clearly behind the observations and conclusions of Dr. Hermann Schollmeyer faces Dr. Rainer Moormann. As a scientist at the nuclear research facility in Jülich, the 66-year-old was involved in work on the THTR in Hamm ...

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Westfälischer Anzeiger from April 31.05.2016, XNUMX

Statute of limitations

Residents complain about THTR incident

The incident in the Uentrop THTR on May 4, 1986 will no longer be the subject of a public prosecutor's investigation. A spokesman for the Arnsberg public prosecutor's office said this yesterday in response to a WA request. More about the background ...

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Comment: The fairy tale of radioactive helium has haunted the media for 30 years - but it's not primarily about the radioactivity of helium - helium was only the medium with which the remains of the broken, radioactive graphite fuel element balls, above all the Graphite dust that was blown out of the reactor into the environment.

Please stop talking about the helium, the truth is an unknown amount of highly hazardous, radioactive graphite dust.

Another aspect of the accident on May 04.05.1986th, XNUMX is related to the cooling medium helium. Due to the open, stuck valve and the decision of the surgeon to use the radioactive helium from the primary cooling circuit of the reactor for purging in addition to the non-radioactive purge gas helium, the helium was able to flow out of the primary cooling circuit. The cooling of the reactor was therefore no longer ensured. The reactor could possibly have overheated dangerously.

See: The study by Lothar Hahn from 1986

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New Germany from December 15.04.2016th, XNUMX

There are even better terrorist targets than Jülich

By Marcus Meier - Plane crash can lead to disaster

The alleged terrorist Salah Abdeslam is said to have spied on the former nuclear research center in Jülich. There a research reactor was operated with uranium suitable for nuclear weapons.

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