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

    Newspaper article 2019 *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Night of 31. December 2019 to 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...

  2. THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017

    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 funding for HTR research was possible for decades under red-green in sometimes somewhat convoluted ways, 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. Special NBC defense reaction train of the Bundeswehr

    Map of the nuclear world The uranium story INES and the nuclear power plant accidents Low-level radioactive radiation?! Uranium transports through Europe The ABC operational concept National NBC operational concept - 4. - 1. The special forces in the national NBC operational concept 2. Analytical task forces 3. Central federal support group (Meckenheim) 4. Special NBC defense reaction platoon of the Bundeswehr (Sonthofen) 5....

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

    IV: At various demonstrations of the environmental movement, we distributed various leaflets several times starting in 2004, in which we complained about the lack of engagement with Generation IV and the EU funding of the HTR line. Over the last 12 years I have written many articles on the EU, Euratom, Generation IV reactors and HTR development. Here is a small selection in...

  5. The uranium story

    and observe. ** History and mythology Uranium mining Uranium research Fissile atoms Half-life Nuclear accidents Nuclear lobby / uranium industry / MiK Notes Top of page Uranium mining - uranium production First uranium discoveries in the 16th century Silver has been mined in large quantities in Joachimsthal (Jáchymov in the Czech Republic) since 1516. The resulting black rock, called 'pitchblende', was...

  6. Oct 13, 2016 - Opponents of nuclear power disappointed with the green election manifesto

    Münsterland Action Alliance Against Nuclear Facilities Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) Oct. 13, 2016 Opponents of nuclear power disappointed by green election program: - no concrete statements about the decommissioning of uranium enrichment in Gronau - no concrete statements about uranium waste storage in Gronau - no concrete statements about the Ahaus interim nuclear waste storage facility - no concrete statements for the...

  7. THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016

    to describe the efforts to clarify this scandalous incident as a "backward-looking discussion" and would rather "turn to the future" (4). The consequences of red-green HTR development funding So let's talk about the future: The decades-long funding of research and further development of the HTR line at the Jülich Research Center by red-green federal and state governments with...

  8. From uranium mining and processing, to nuclear research, the construction and operation of nuclear plants including nuclear power plant accidents, to dealing with nuclear waste and nuclear weapons! - Worldwide, almost, everything at a glance with Google Maps

    a new study prepared by the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum (FÖS) on behalf of the eco-energy cooperative Greenpeace Energy. This sum includes both government subsidies and electricity sales prices as well as external costs. “No other energy source has caused such high costs as risky nuclear power, which remains highly uneconomical even after 65 years...

  9. THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013

    Germany is involved in new nuclear power plant projects, for which companies from Europe, the USA and Russia are supplying components. Although the German government's application for Hermes guarantees to support the Jaitapur project has not yet been decided, according to Hauck, the IG Metall union is arguing for it because it will secure German jobs. What technology to work with...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012

    of this Generation IV reactor. The beneficiaries of the generous state subsidies declare the whole thing to be security research and, to top it all off, export promotion. Even the red-green NRW state government practiced this extensively (3)! Four doctoral positions for scrap reactor research in NRW! "Hans-Josef Allelein, holder of the RWTH Chair for...

  11. THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011

    They are against a nuclear facility that their own NRW state parliamentary groups have voted to expand! Furthermore, reference should be made here to the very special North Rhine-Westphalian experiences in promoting high-temperature reactors under a red-green NRW state government and federal government at the same time. Both governments supported tens of millions of euros from...

  12. THTR Circular No. 134 January 2011

    Schwarzgelber), the thorium reactor project didn't really make any progress. Reason enough for Wieck to show the oft-cited market economy initiative. A “society for the promotion of promising patents - development, evaluation, publication and exploitation” with the somewhat complicated name “SBE Safe Clean Affordable Energy” was founded. The already mentioned...

  13. THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010

    and gas - technologies for a low-carbon future". Notes: See WA from July 10, 07 See at http://www.vgb.org/vgbmultimedia/News/Kraftwerke2010plus_D.pdf See under "More HTR funding, but Hurtado! " in THTR circular No. 2020 from 117 From THTR circular No. 2007 from 88 From THTR circular No. 2004 from 105 From THTR circular No. 2006 from 84 http://www.vgb.org/hv_2003.html ...

  14. HTR Research - The published and true costs

    to THTR and much more. THTR breakdown list HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' HTR research in the Federal Republic of Germany even in the 3rd millennium *** Scientific nuclear elite earn well from HTR funding! A lot of money for HTR research institutions in Dresden, Rossendorf, Zittau, Görlitz, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Garching, Karlsruhe, Bochum, Aachen, Jülich... "Psst, not a single word about that...

  15. THTR Newsletter No. 131 May 2010

    Questions from us citizens' initiatives were ironed out in stilted bureaucratic German. Dozens of issues of the THTR newsletter are full of them!! From 1995 to 2005: 10 years of red-green HTR research funding! The support of high-temperature reactor research with state money in North Rhine-Westphalia is not the result of black-and-yellow lobby politics, but was the result of the Social Democratic Party, which believes in large-scale technology...

  16. THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010

    against sustainability Because the misery is so great, an overarching idea is needed that obscures critical awareness and pushes all problems into the background: "The promotion of national identity and national pride does not only happen through the trilingual national anthem. (...) In the re-branding of South Africa, in which the 2010 World Cup is intended to make an important contribution,...

  17. THTR Circular No. 127 July 09

    The reactor failure - THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on the THTR and much more. The THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The THTR newsletters from 2009 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 127 *** THTR Newsletter No. 2009, July XNUMX Contents: The rooster growls THTR inclusion: A lot of money for sure In the year...

  18. THTR Circular No. 126 April 09

    The reactor failure - THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on the THTR and much more. The THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The THTR newsletters from 2009 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 126 *** THTR Newsletter No. 2009, April XNUMX Contents: Renaissance of a bankruptcy: The THTR is also in South Africa...

  19. 2008 - Moormann study - Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions in the HTR line!

    Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions on the HTR line! August 2008 A new investigation (1) by the scientist Rainer Moormann into the operation of the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) AVR in Jülich, which was decommissioned in 1988, not only calls into question the entire previous official safety architecture of this reactor line, but also shakes the statements of the international...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08

    The reactor failure - THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on the THTR and much more. The THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The THTR newsletters from 2008 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 123 *** THTR Newsletter No. 2008, October XNUMX Contents: It is now time to act: Childhood cancer around nuclear power plants *...