1. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    block, she says. Despite the violence she will almost certainly experience again. After all: the anger that comes from it is the end of indifference. * Battery technology | Lithium | graphite | Silicon revolution at the negative pole: is super-fast charging coming now? Batteries have become more and more powerful - but the anode, the negative pole of the cells, has hardly changed. A...

  2. THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013

    with spherical fuel elements is important, in which, in addition to possible chemical reactions, abrasion during fuel element handling and ball flow are particular mechanisms for the formation of graphitic dust. (...) The aim of the experiments is to provide reliable data for validating the models for calculating dust production and transport, as well as simulating the...

  3. THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012

    of which there were 675.000 in Hamm. As the name suggests, they are piled up in a large container to form a pile of balls. In addition to the graphite, a single fuel ball contains thousands of tiny PAC beads that can just be seen with the eye. PAC stands for Plutonium, Americium, Curium. If the highly radioactive fuel sphere is destroyed, the tiny spheres can...

  4. THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011

    and what did you uncover there? I worked in the field of safety for pebble bed reactors for a long time. 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...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010

    Nuclear power plants have thought about what should happen with the radioactive waste!! "In Germany, approximately 1.000 Mg (that's 1 million kilograms or 1.000 tons!) of irradiated graphite must be disposed of as radioactive waste. These essentially come from the 2 high temperatures AVR and THTR. Studies of the AVR's C-14 inventory have demonstrated that the disposal of...

  6. HTR Research - The published and true costs

    The nuclear power plant operators thought about what should happen with the radioactive waste before putting nuclear power plants into operation!! * Decontamination of 1.000 tons of irradiated graphite. "In Germany, approximately 1.000 Mg (that's 1 million kilograms or 1.000 tons!) of irradiated graphite must be disposed of as radioactive waste. This essentially comes from the 2...

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