1. THTR Circular No. 88 February 04

    German Foreign Minister Fischer complained that during the debate on the EU constitution in the European Convention, he "watched in silence as the draft enshrined the promotion of nuclear power as the only form of energy." The HTTR in Japan Top of page The Japan Atomic Research Institute (JAERI), a scientific cooperation partner of the Research Center Jülich (FZJ), has been working...

  2. THTR Circular No. 91 July 04

    50 years ago, on June 26, 1954, nuclear power flowed into a public power grid for the first time in the world at the Obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow. Reason enough for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to look to the future with hope at the anniversary conference in Moscow with several hundred scientists. And where this hope is linked to tangible economic...

  3. THTR Circular No. 92 August 04

    of the double lid system on the container is not affected by this. The container remains completely tight. We immediately informed our supervisory authority, the MVEL (Ministry of Transport, Energy and Regional Planning). "The castors are closed with two lids, although the tightness of the container is already guaranteed by one lid. One in the second lid...

  4. THTR Newsletter No. 93 September 04

    answers to problems with THTR casks in Ahaus On July 30.07.2004, 13.08.2004, we received the following response from the Ministry of Transport, Energy and State Planning of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to our inquiry on July 15.07.2004, XNUMX about an incident in the interim fuel storage facility (BEZ): "On August XNUMX, XNUMX: On July XNUMX, XNUMX, the storage container monitoring system (LBÜS) of the transport container warehouse...

  5. THTR Circular No. 96 January 05

    Dieter Herrmann (Fichtner Consulting & IT GmbH, Stuttgart) held the presentation "A qualitative model approach to the long-term development of nuclear energy in the context of global energy production" as the chair of Section 10. He concluded - obviously completely unimpressed by Germany's "nuclear phase-out" - with the following perspective: "And with regard to future developments...

  6. THTR Circular No. 97 February 05

    Collected horse manure with the help of a shovel to fertilize the plants in the garden. As a fourteen-year-old, he had no idea that scientists and energy companies were already planning to build a pebble bed reactor within sight of his parents' house. So the boy went this way to the rifle shelter, carefully stepped on the doormat...

  7. THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05

    No. 93). HTR is scheduled to supply electricity in 2010. The decades-long efforts of the German HTR lobby have now borne fruit. Spiegel-Online reported on February 8, 2: "A Chinese energy consortium has already selected a building site in Shandong province, reports the "Financial Times." A 2005-megawatt reactor is to be built there that works on the pebble pile principle. A. ..

  8. THTR Newsletter No. 99 April / May 05

    305 THTR-Castor containers deposited in the interim fuel storage facility in Ahaus were reported in the media, we once again asked the responsible NRW Ministry for Transport, Energy and State Planning on March 18.03.2005, XNUMX to find out the causes of the problems and what they were Solution requested. The wording of our request can be found on our homepage. Frankfurter Rundschau “cooks”...

  9. THTR Circular No. 100 July 05

    away from citizens' initiatives. The result can currently be seen as a political pile of rubble. In order to work successfully, it is always necessary to consciously direct all available energy and attention to a very specific focus. After it became clear that the HTR would be built as a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa near Cape Town...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 101 October 05

    for environmental protection. The Bundesdeutsche is called “Environmental Magazine”. This newspaper is published by Springer VDI Verlag. Spicy detail: This Springer VDI Verlag also publishes the energy specialist magazine "BWK". In June 2005, a certain Prof. Dr-Ing. wrote there under the heading “TOP Topic”. eh Klaus Knizia, the former chairman of the VEW board. And what about? Of course about the advantages...

  11. THTR Newsletter No. 102 November 05

    supply the necessary graphite. On the group's homepage, under the heading "SGL Carbon selected as strategic graphite supplier. Collaboration with South African nuclear energy technology companies" the following details can be found: "PBMR technology is expected to become a cost-effective and Co2-free form of energy production in the near future as an alternative to the...

  12. THTR Circular No. 104 January 06

    The soil in the immediate vicinity of the reactor building was contaminated and contaminated concrete chamber fluid got into the rainwater canal on the AVR and FZJ premises." The 15 energy supply companies (EVUs), as AVR shareholders, were overwhelmed by the project and transferred it to Energiewerken Nord (EWN) GmbH the further responsibility and were in this elegant way...

  13. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 105, March 2006 Nuclear hydrogen from high-temperature reactors Thoben's dreams With an unexpected bang, CDU Energy Minister Christa Thoben spoke up in the energy policy debate. Of all things, the billion-dollar high-temperature reactor (HTR) bankruptcy project favors them as a more...

  14. THTR Circular No. 106 April 06

    barely. The power plant site, where a high-temperature reactor is to be added in the next few years, has now caused numerous discussions in southern Africa because the energy supply is increasingly collapsing. With dramatic consequences for the economy – and for the Football World Cup in South Africa in 2010! The only two nuclear power plants in the...

  15. THTR Newsletter No. 78 December 2002

    Inside the grove, a core space made of rusted steel is explored and defined as a new center. Through the strict and precise assignment of the angle pieces to one another, the spatial energies are bundled, condensed and held into a continuum of space, time and silence. This creates a dignified, soulful place beyond all superficial symbolism of mourning and celebration...

  16. THTR Circular No. 107 June 06

    The stuff atomic dreams are made of Ministries: The earth is flat! RWE sells HTR fuel element manufacturer to Advent press review DIDO switched off in Jülich Wind energy in Cape Town New generation of nuclear power plants in England June 18th: Inspection in Gronau Hydrogen research is also nuclear research! In early 2003, US President Bush announced a $1,2 billion...

  17. THTR Newsletter No. 103 December 2005

    The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is only too happy to finance such promising projects. And finally, the results report contains very, very high praise on our own behalf: In its statement from December 2004, the FZJ's Energy Advisory Board described the quality of the ISR's interdisciplinary research on international soil as excellent. HTR security research and...

  18. History, what was it like back then with the THTR 300 thorium high-temperature reactor in Hamm-Uentrop

    because I probably had insufficient specialist knowledge. So I delved into the matter as best I could and soon saw where the weak points in the arguments for nuclear energy were and still are today. The Arguments The Facts The Incident The End!? Arguments against the nuclear industry: Murphy's Law (in other words): If something can go wrong, it will...