1. April 03, 2020 - Nuclear waste should roll again

    a “comprehensive uranium export ban”. Background: From 1995 to 2009, Urenco exported all "residual materials" from uranium enrichment as nuclear waste to Russia for final storage in order to avoid the much more expensive disposal of uranium waste in Germany. Due to international protests, there was a ten-year break until exports resumed in spring 2019...

  2. April, April 2020 - Democracy in the intensive care unit

    could be discontinued based on the expenditure of France, Great Britain and the United States on the maintenance, modernization and development of their nuclear arsenals. For Germany, we compared the costs of purchasing the nuclear bombers and the investments in the German health system... * March 31, 2020 - Nuclear waste facility in Duisburg...

  3. Feb. 12, 2020 at FUgE - nuclear waste transports from Gronau via Hamm to Russia

    and spreads like a mist in the area! We criticize that the so-called “re-enrichment” of the alleged “recyclable material” is just a smokescreen so that Urenco in Germany can save itself the very expensive, harmless disposal of the depleted uranium. Vladimir Slivyak is co-chairman of the Russian environmental organization Ecodefense and as such has been active against...

  4. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2020

    on the energy transition * August 19, 2020 - Right of way for the energy transition! * August 14, 2020 - Nuclear fusion: ETH physicist calls for ITER exit * Plaything of the nuclear industry August 10, 2020 - Germany's nuclear waste remains in France for decades * Analysis of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 05, 2020 - The bomb serves as life insurance for despots * The United Arab Emirates take first...

  5. Night from December 31, 2019 to January 01, 2020

    Jan 01, 2020 Some of the latest news of the old year made me optimistic. - Three ancient nuclear reactors, Mühleberg in Switzerland, Ringhals 2 in Sweden and Philippsburg 2 in Germany, have been taken offline. - The prospects for solar energy expansion in the new year could be good if the government finally stops playing games. - A dish in...

  6. Newspaper clippings (2018)

    2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 1977 The safest nuclear power plants in the world? A professional reckoning with the nuclear community The author authentically reports that at least 10 of the nuclear power plants that have been operating in Germany for years never had a legal basis, because their approvals were based on fraud with the help of reports with the unmistakable toleration of the...

  7. December 08th, 2019 - Tomorrow, December 09.12.2019th, XNUMX is the day of action against uranium waste exports

    New protests are also planned in Russia. Around 53 people have already signed an online petition from Greenpeace Russia. Anti-nuclear power initiatives and environmental associations in Germany and Russia are demanding immediate action from the operator of the Gronau uranium enrichment plant, the Urenco Group, as well as from the German Urenco shareholders RWE and EON and the federal government...

  8. THTR Circular No. 152, December 2019

    Officially, the transport was not considered a transport of nuclear waste, but was euphemistically described as a transport of recyclables because a very small part of the UF-6 was to be reprocessed and brought back to Germany. But the taz of November 19, 11 wrote: “'This is not a recyclable material, but garbage,' says Vladimir Slivyak from the Russian environmental organization Ecodefense: 'Why...

  9. Nov. 29, 2019 - Urenco's massive uranium waste problems

    still not available at the British location in Capenhurst. The significant construction delays and cost overruns have been impacting the entire group for years, including in Germany. Opponents of nuclear power assume that these problems are one reason for Urenco's desperate attempts to cheaply send the company's own uranium waste to Russia. For monday,...

  10. Nov. 27, 2019 - Uranium waste from Gronau reaches St. Petersburg

    and German environmental organizations that Urenco and the federal government can actually guarantee the harmless and purely civil use of the depleted UF6 in Russia in the future. In Germany, as is well known, the construction of the fast breeder reactor in Kalkar failed due to the incalculable risks - today there is a theme park in the ruins. "It is occurring in several regions of Russia...

  11. Nov. 15, 2019 - Vigil on Nov. 18.11 against the transport of nuclear waste through Hamm!

    Ecodefense calls the deal “cynical and immoral” and Greenpeace Russia demands that Russia should not be the nuclear waste dump for Gronau uranium enrichment. In Germany, Urenco is owned by the energy giants RWE and EON and a third each by the British and Dutch governments. We criticize that the so-called “re-enrichment” of the alleged “recyclable material” is only...

  12. 17.03.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - Deadly dust - use of uranium ammunition and the consequences

    Someone would come up with the crazy idea of ​​grinding 1000 tons of this nuclear waste product "depleted uranium" into fine dust and then distribute this fine uranium dust from an airplane over Germany or Austria. That would be a terrible catastrophe. There should be no more football games, all stadiums and children's playgrounds would have to be closed and all outdoor...

  13. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2019

    2019 as of January 01st, 2020 The last news of the old year made me confident. - Three ancient nuclear reactors, Mühleberg in Switzerland, Ringhals 2 in Sweden and Philippsburg 2 in Germany, have been taken offline. - The prospects for solar energy expansion in the new year could be good if the government finally stops playing games. - A dish in...

  14. THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018

    euphoric spirit of optimism in science and politics in which the development of an independent, national reactor line was celebrated during the 50s and 60s. After losing the Second World War, Germany should finally play an important role in global politics again. - But what was hidden behind the inflated rhetorical bombast (“Technology for...

  15. THTR Circular No. 150 June 2018

    Is there a potential risk of dismantling given the radioactive inventory (including 1,6 kg of nuclear fuel) and past accidents? “The decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear power plants is an established process in Germany, both technically and organizationally, in which the individual dismantling steps are carried out in accordance with previous detailed planning, taking into account the...

  16. Feb 15, 2018 - THTR dismantling: costs and risks as an "established process"

    Is there a potential risk of dismantling given the radioactive inventory (including 1,6 kg of nuclear fuel) and past accidents? “The decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear power plants is an established process in Germany, both technically and organizationally, in which the individual dismantling steps are carried out in accordance with previous detailed planning, taking into account the...

  17. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018

    03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** October 30, 2018 - Vanadium drives development of uranium projects Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Nuclear waste repository in Germany October 30, 2018 - Why The search for a final repository is an ambitious project * October 30, 2018 - Czech Republic is considering operation of the old Dukovany reactor until 2045 * Belgian breakdown reactors 26...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 149 December 2017

    The thoroughly serious “Nuclear Forum Switzerland” offers hard facts instead of fake news in its latest four-page “fact sheet”: “The concept of a gas-cooled high-temperature pebble bed reactor, which was tried out decades ago in Germany, is currently experiencing a REBIRTH in China”!! – Isn’t that what every human being wants? And why shouldn't there be one at THTR too...

  19. The THTR Circulars from 2017

    HTR in China nearing completion? China's deal with Saudi Arabia. HTR lobby active Review: Successful resistance to the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa and Germany. – Nuclear lobby gets a setback when it tries again NRW elections, torment... Poetry and protest against uranium mining and land grabbing in India Dear readers! For work on 'THTR Newsletter',...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017

    HTR in China nearing completion? China's deal with Saudi Arabia. HTR lobby active Review: Successful resistance to the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa and Germany. – Nuclear lobby gets a setback when it tries again NRW elections, torment... Poetry and protest against uranium mining and land grabbing in India Dear readers! Where to put the radiant garbage from...