Assuming that "fuel elements“ is needed, became 186 results found.
THTR Newsletter No. 145 May 2015
has” (5). Exchange of fire in the nuclear center In Pelindaba, South Africa, not only were the now defused atomic bombs from the apartheid era stored, but also the first radioactive fuel elements for the planned Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), which was to be built with the help of the Research Center Jülich (FZJ). I commented on the attack in the 2007 THTR newsletter as follows: “A...
Apr. 13, 2015 - Castor transports from Jülich to the USA off the table?
and the entire federal territory are in agreement: they demand that the 152 castors remain in a safe camp in Jülich. Neither the USA nor Ahaus are sensible options for the 300.000 fuel balls! German ministries doubt the USA option and US authorities postpone environmental impact assessments several times. Regarding the export plans to the USA, the...
Apr 06, 2015 - THTR in China: A robbery and a pile of bullets
has” (1). Exchange of fire in the nuclear center In Pelindaba, South Africa, not only were the now defused atomic bombs from the apartheid era stored, but also the first radioactive fuel elements for the planned Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), which was to be built with the help of the Research Center Jülich (FZJ). I commented on the attack in the 2007 THTR newsletter as follows: “A...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2014
* August 24, 2014 - Decline in nuclear power accelerates *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** July 12, 2014 - Almost 1000 clandestine nuclear transports since 2012 * July 02, 2014 - Fuel elements are no longer allowed stay in Jülich *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** June 18, 2014 - Russia - Ecodefense in trouble * June 04, 2014 - German nuclear waste is to be sent to the USA *** 01 02.. .
March 26, 2014 - THTR research in North Rhine-Westphalia continues!
it's coming: the nuclear phase-out. This is also known at the Research Center Jülich. There is a nuclear facility contaminated with beta radiation here. Now, among other things, the question arises: what to do with the fuel elements? But Jülich is obviously also concerned with the further development of a controversial nuclear technology. The experimental reactor in Jülich was a failure. Research disaster:...
are several things, but above all the poor monitoring - with regard to the flow of activity in the plant, the control of the temperature, until 1981 the control of the burn-up of the fuel elements. That extends to the strategy of filling the system, which needs to be questioned.” On April 26, 2014, the “Aachener Nachrichten” reported in detail about the...
THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014
2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 144, Nov. 2014: Content: THTR in Indonesia? Reactor construction planned with Japanese help High-temperature reactor construction in China is making progress. Spherical fuel element factory completed South Africa sees nuclear power through rose-colored glasses again! Eight nuclear power plants planned with Russian help Massive protests against Jülich Castor transports announced!...
THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013
due to countless incidents and breakdowns, it was shut down at the end of the 80s. The current HTR problem reports will soon come from China if the censorship allows it. THTR fuel elements: Rare earths fuel a rarely functioning reactor. It has now become known where the spherical fuel elements necessary for the THTR are produced. This is said to be around 700...
THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013
in India Kudankulam: Non-violent resistance against nuclear power plants in South India Criticism unwanted: Government turns civil society's money off to Nuclear Read: Indian film needs donations THTR fuel elements are first-class atomic bomb material! THTR: The costs of decommissioning Accidents in the Hamm coal-fired power plant SPD coal power makes energy companies happy Dear readers! Effects of...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2013
determined... * November 22, 2013 - Cosmic neutrinos detected for the first time * November 13, 2013 - "We are at a very critical point" - The recovery of the fuel elements is now to begin in Fukushima. *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Controlled by the nuclear lobby October 26, 2013 - Fukushima disaster: Doctors accuse UN rapporteurs of deliberately targeting health consequences...
THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012
There was an accident in the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) in Hamm eight days after the reactor disaster in Chernobyl, in which radioactivity was released into the surrounding area. Destroyed fuel balls containing tens of thousands of 0,4 mm PAC beads (plutonium, americium, curium) were blown out over the exhaust chimney. The measuring strips for radioactivity emissions...
THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012
There is no mention of the fact that 30 tons of water leaked into the reactor. In AVR's public relations work, the ingress of water is hidden as much as possible." (Page 110) Spherical fuel elements contaminated reactor radioactively In his acceptance speech for the awarding of the whistleblower award, Moormann also mentioned the different reactions of the characteristic...
THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011
active in the field of safety of pebble bed reactors. Unlike conventional light water reactors, the fuel here is enclosed in graphite and cooled with helium. The fuel elements are the size of a tennis ball and are constantly in motion. Over the years, more precisely: when this model was exported to South Africa, it became more and more clear to me that only positive qualities...
THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011
NRW Science Minister Svenja Schulze came up with a magnificent diversionary maneuver: She sent the startled media mob and environmentalists into the desert behind supposedly lost THTR fuel balls! The pre-Easter hunt lasting several weeks for the unpopular nuclear eggs allowed the real scandal - successfully suppressed under social democratic governments - to emerge...
The international INES rating scale and the list of nuclear power plant accidents
To promote sharing Korea... 2012 January 18, 2012 (INES 2) Akw Cattenom, FRA Wikipedia de Cattenom A missing component did not prevent the backflow in the cooling lines of the storage pool of the fuel elements of blocks 2 and 3. The storage pool could have become empty in an uncontrolled manner. Due to a malfunction, the cooling water feed line of the decay tank could...
THTR Circular No. 134 January 2011
in a new attempt by the somewhat obtuse public again: "Like the amorphous nuclear fuel, the way the reactor is controlled and the arrangement of the fuel elements in the reactor itself are part of nuclear energy production, which is based on the use of thorium. In the theoretical approaches of the past For decades the idea played out that...
THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010
goes back to an accident in 1978, when strontium-90 contaminated the soil due to a problem with the steam generator. Also expensive for taxpayers are around 300.000 spent fuel balls, which are stored in 152 Castor containers in an interim storage facility on the Jülich site. These Castor containers will soon have to be moved to the interim nuclear storage facility in Ahaus, as...
HTR Research - The published and true costs
Projects ADRIANA and CP-ESFR" (2010, p. 261). A new experimental platform for liquid metal flows (DRESDYN) was created. - Since the final storage of the radioactive spherical fuel elements of HTRs still has to be regulated somehow for the next centuries, the Research has been carried out to reduce waste volume and radioactive radiation. The "transmutation" involves...
THTR Newsletter No. 131 May 2010
Urban Cleve “wickedly incorrigible” (3)! The reactor often reacted badly. It didn't want to work the way the engineer had imagined: "Difficulties arose when extracting fuel elements due to a significantly higher fracture rate of the fuel elements compared to the AVR" (4). -- For Cleve, the licensing authority is to blame for everything. This one had outrageously...
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
combined with inert gas could significantly increase the safety of nuclear power plants. (...) A hoped-for advantage of this principle is that the reactor can continue to run while new fuel elements are being added. (...) A core meltdown seems impossible..." The rather inelegant belly landing of this reactor line in the Federal Republic of Germany, including the really impressive series of accidents...
