1. 1988 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of proliferation in pebble bed reactors

    not withstand. Propaganda campaigns dominate the public security debate, and the necessary differentiated consideration has so far failed to take place. In principle, the nuclear industry is choosing the same approach that was introduced at the beginning of the 70s in the safety debate about the light water reactor. Such a style is favored in which...

  2. 1986 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of safety at HTR

    has undoubtedly had some success, as it has led to unprecedented levels of disinformation, even in the nuclear energy debate. Like hardly any other claim made by the nuclear industry, it is based on scientifically untenable assumptions and inaccurate conclusions. In technology, especially nuclear technology, a system is considered to be inherent (=adhering, inherent)...

  3. THTR Circular No. 92 August 04

    build! The state government's claim that the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) only carried out safety analyzes on this reactor technology belongs to the realm of legend. The nuclear industry itself boasts that "the fundamental development work for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa was carried out at the Jülich Research Center" (in: atw, in the report...

  4. THTR Newsletter No. 93 September 04

    NRW (this is where the FZJ; HB is located) would receive a total of around 18% of the total amount (60,5 billion euros). That corresponds to 8,6 billion euros per year" (VDI news from March 05.03.2004, 2004). The nuclear industry and its representatives have of course been sitting on the respective committees for a long time and are trying to achieve a result that is favorable for them. The "atw" wrote in its May issue XNUMX already...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 94 October 04

    Dismiss responsibility. The Euratom Treaty of 1957 is the only one of the four founding treaties of the EU that was never changed and thus the promotion of nuclear energy was enshrined. The nuclear industry has made the EU its very own instrument. So nothing other than unconditional nuclear support can come from here - unless the requirements are fundamentally...

  6. THTR Circular No. 96 January 05

    the THTR Hamm has become quiet. Even 15 years after its official decommissioning, the 3,034 million euro decommissioning costs have been paid every year without complaint, despite tight public coffers for the nuclear industry. This should continue until 2009. “The federal government, state and shareholders will discuss the financing for the phase after 2009 in good time,” wrote us in 1997...

  7. THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05

    German nuclear technology is supported. "Die Zeit" headlined on March 16, 2000: "Germany encourages China to get involved in nuclear power" and concluded: "Everyone knows that the nuclear industry ties its chances of survival with its entry into China." The calculation worked out and the red-green ministerial bureaucracy helped diligently and kept shouting loudly: It's just...

  8. THTR Newsletter No. 99 April / May 05

    illuminated in this case) HTR lobby wants more EU money! Top of page To ensure that the sources of money for the nuclear industry continue to flow strongly in future negotiations on the EU's 7th research framework program, the biennial conference of the nuclear industry association Foratom (European Atomic Forum) in Brussels has made an appeal to EU politicians , "at...

  9. THTR Circular No. 100 July 05

    Approaching a distant land Top of page Renaissance. The THTR in Hamm, fought down after 14 years, had to be shut down in 1989. But after another 14 years, it became apparent that the nuclear industry and its allies at the Jülich Research Center had continued working on their dangerous plans to build a new high-temperature reactor on the other side of the world. It turned out...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 102 November 05

    garnished with an advertisement from the “Environmental Bank”. “Sponsored” is everywhere these days! All that remains is sobering to note that although a long-term "exit" from the nuclear industry has been decided in the Federal Republic of Germany, this does not in the least prevent German companies (integrated into an international structure) from continuing to do good business with them ...

  11. THTR Circular No. 104 January 06

    215 million euros. That would be 64,5 million for the AVR-HTR. In addition, there are 5,6 million euros annually for the decommissioning operation of the THTR in Hamm. The nuclear industry likes to sweep these costs under the carpet. The decades-long HTR disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia will not prevent the nuclear industry from continuing to aggressively propagate this bankrupt technology. Right next door in Jülichs...

  12. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    enrichment, the remediation of huge waste dumps. Not to mention the danger of nuclear contamination and nuclear waste. With nuclear hydrogen technology, the nuclear industry is trying to give itself a CO2-free, positive image and, through this fraudulent label, divert funding from the renewable energy sector back to nuclear power research. How many tens of millions...

  13. Imprint

    If necessary, the external site may also be responsible if the criminal liability of the linked sites is apparent at first glance.' Conclusion: Since the criminality of the nuclear industry's activities strikes me at first glance, I'd rather leave everything as it is. I distance myself... (see above). Because maybe at some point one of our upper courts will recognize...

  14. THTR Circular No. 108 August 06

    gives? It is the same kind of "all clear" with which red-green politicians drove the electorate crazy by claiming that the alleged nuclear phase-out would be the end of the nuclear industry. We know today that this was not just an embarrassing misjudgment, but a deliberate deception motivated by party politics. Why not: Pinkepink(e)warts Sommer-TheaTeR Top of page...

  15. THTR Newsletter No. 86 November 2003

    223-page report that Lothar Hahn prepared in 1990 on behalf of Greenpeace and based on the report written in 1988 "The small high-temperature reactor - the last straw in the nuclear industry?" In 1988, Hahn stated: "The question of the possibility of using fissile material for weapons purposes has so far been excluded with the utmost care from the discussion about the THTR...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 95 December 2004

    (see THTR-RB No. 93), international conferences now take place every month, as the International Atomic Energy Agency announced. This underlines how important this reactor line has become for the nuclear industry. Here are the dates in detail: October 18th to 22nd: Second research coordination meeting "Advances in the HTGR (High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor)...

  17. THTR Circular No. 107 June 06

    Nuclear and hydrogen research has not been made public in previous projects. Not from red-green to avoid trouble with consistent environmentalists. Not from the nuclear industry and the CDU, because they were happy that nuclear research was still continuing diligently. The complicated connections hidden behind difficult-to-understand scientific jargon...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 103 December 2005

    in the future, through standardization and simplification of approval procedures for nuclear power plants, institutional obstacles will appear more quickly than before. Financial compensation for the nuclear industry in the event of delays in the start of operations at nuclear facilities was also established. The US Department of Energy is embarking on a new construction offensive with a special Nuclear Power 2010 program....

  19. Reactor bankruptcy nuclear power plant THTR 300 - Thorium high-temperature reactor in Hamm Uentrop

    Jokes like Don Trumpl etc... I hope reading reactorpleite.de can help to clear this fog a little here and there! Hubris, fraud, corruption? Not just in the nuclear industry... joke on the side and completely off topic; But what comes to mind is Berlin's BER airport, which is no longer so new, the Elbphilharmonie and the gradient train station...

  20. Reactor failure THTR - communication

    garnished with wild grimaces and the mobsters activated! * Wikipedia tragedy A few years ago, individual articles in Wikipedia read as if they had been copied directly from the nuclear industry's brochures and former employees came under suspicion of being responsible for the "embellishments in Wikipedia". However, the nuclear industry apparently also employs many...