1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    only a mountain of rubble remained. In addition, the power went out in thousands of households. [...] Severe weather warnings were in effect for more than 50 million residents. In addition to storms and heavy rain, hail is also expected in some places. Experts attribute the increase in natural disasters in the USA - storms, floods and forest fires - to the consequences of climate change. * Russia | Ukraine |...

  2. THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017

    In this case it is a particularly bizarre case of an FDP politician. However, the FDP and CDU have governed North Rhine-Westphalia since the new state elections in 2017. And if it was possible for decades under red-green to promote HTR research through sometimes somewhat convoluted paths, something like this will certainly be even more to be expected under black-and-yellow. That's why we should be vigilant. Notes (1)...

  3. Nov 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws in the nuclear lobby

    of the THTR in Germany the operators have found their best friends here. And it is even more astonishing that after the racist regime was replaced, the new ANC government after 1994 stuck to the intentions of its predecessors and also wanted to build a THTR. Böll Foundation The intensive contact with Stefan Cramer in South Africa was of outstanding importance for us...

  4. THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03

    stated that a gas power plant on the west coast would be more economical and would have far-reaching consequences for economic development. In the province of Cape Town, a coalition of the ANC and the New National Party (the former ruling party of the apartheid regime) governs, which has so far been rather skeptical about the planned construction of the PBMR. However, in order not to disturb the coalition peace...

  5. THTR Circular No. 100 July 05

    directed at specific danger. Then very soon the focus of the actors first expanded to neighboring areas, went further and many people realized that a lot had to be changed. However, some then thought that comprehensive changes would only be possible through participation in parties and turned away from citizens' initiatives away. The result is currently seen as a political...

  6. THTR Circular No. 106 April 06

    The country's parliament was plunged into darkness, several fires broke out due to overloaded emergency generators and power went out in several skyscrapers. Candles and emergency generators have now become a box office hit in Cape Town. After further failures, including at Christmas, there was a lot of guesswork as to whether the operating staff had serious problems...

  7. THTR Circular No. 107 June 06

    High temperature reactor. We reported on this in detail in issue number 101 of the THTR newsletter. Now RWE has sold exactly this division to the financial investor “Advent”. The Financial Times Deutschland reported on May 19.05.2006, 9.500: "The US investment company Advent acquired the five companies grouped under the name RWE Solutions, which employ a total of XNUMX people...

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