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THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013
until 1914, was planned. At that time it was said that the HTR would go into operation in 2010. Due to various difficulties and the temporary construction stop due to the reactor disaster in Fukushima, the start was delayed several times. Since the nuclear industry is increasingly struggling with legitimacy problems, it is now trying to score points by building supposedly disaster-proof HTRs....
May 13, 2013 - UAA-Gronau: NRW atomic bomb manufacturer in great demand!
May 13, 2013 UAA-Gronau: NRW atomic bomb factory in high demand! Horst Blume Shortly after the disaster in Fukushima, 15.000 people demonstrated in Gronau against the continued operation of the uranium enrichment plant (UAA) in Gronau. This supplies the fuel for around 35 nuclear plants worldwide - even though the Federal Republic of Germany has apparently said goodbye to nuclear power. An obvious...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2013
... *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** May 17, 2013 - Freighter fire in the port of Hamburg * May 13, 2013 - UAA-Gronau: NRW atomic bomb factory in high demand! Horst Blume Shortly after the disaster in Fukushima, 15.000 people demonstrated in Gronau against the continued operation of the uranium enrichment plant (UAA) in Gronau. This supplies the fuel for around 35 nuclear plants worldwide - although the...
THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012
on LANUV measurements of the beads at the THTR: crucial measurement areas were left out! The background: In 1986, eight days after the reactor disaster in Chernobyl, there was an accident in the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) in Hamm, in which radioactivity was released into the surrounding area. Destroyed fuel balls containing tens of thousands of 0,4 mm PAC beads (plutonium,...
THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012
In recent years, this has meant that the Springer press, FAZ and other media have been able to fantasize about the incredible future prospects of an alleged disaster-free pebble bed reactor without provoking an outraged outcry. After Fukushima, they presented the THTR as a great hope for energy policy, even though all the facts speak against it. At this point...
THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012
to save what can still be saved. She made use of the nuclear industry's in-house magazines and their obliging writers. In 2011, shortly after the Fukushima disaster, the FAZ praised the “most beautiful of all machines” (1), and “Die Welt” had Prof. Hurtado, of all people dependent on THTR research funds, lecture on the alleged advantages of pebble pile technology...
THTR Newsletter No. 137 December 2011
have. It is only a stone's throw from Poland to Dresden-Rossendorf, where Professor Hurtado, who originally trained in Jülich, is busy promoting pebble bed reactors. The disaster in Fukushima has not dissuaded the government in Poland from its plans. It wants to start building a nuclear power plant in 2016, which is expected to supply electricity in 2020. So far Poland has...
THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011
and are still praised in politics today for being “inherently safe”: In contrast to light water reactors, for example, there is no risk of a core meltdown; Nuclear catastrophes are therefore not to be feared. Dr. In his investigations, Moormann came to the conclusion that other, no less threatening...
THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011
to go to the eco-congress. The phone rang, I hesitated for a moment and then picked up the receiver because it could be important. On the other end, the familiar voice of a WA editor who wanted to write an article about the end of the THTR after the Fukushima disaster. “When I looked at the old documents and reports again,” he noticed that no “accident” had happened back then...
The international INES rating scale and the list of nuclear power plant accidents
on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. March 12, 2011 (INES 3) Fukushima II Daini Nuclear Power Plant, JPN Wikipedia de Chronology_of_catastrophe_in_Japan_of_2011 Due to the great Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 and the subsequent tsunami, there was a disaster in all four reactor blocks at the Fukushima-Daini NPP (Fukushima 2). automatic...
Important books on atomic research, THTR etc.
They are still praised in professional, business and political circles for being “inherently safe”: There is no risk of a core meltdown with them. Nuclear catastrophes are therefore not to be feared. This argument has been used for a long time to export this type of reactor to countries with lower safety standards. Dr. Moormann is in his...
Fort St. Vrain, the original HTR didn't work either
Performance - liner leaks on core support" (4) * 250 employees were evacuated... All of this is nothing compared to what Holger Strohm researched in his bestseller "Peaceful into Catastrophe": "The Americans had high hopes and A lot of money was invested in the development of high-temperature reactors. With the construction of the Fort St. Vrain demonstration reactor with...
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
January 20, 1 www.savebantamsklip.org See note 2010, page 2 Cape Times from February 33, 19 Soon another THTR barrack(s) in the USA? Top of page Three decades after the Harrisburg reactor disaster, US President Obama announced on February 2, 2010 that he would provide government loans totaling around eight billion dollars for the construction of two reactors in the state of Georgia. The...
THTR Newsletter No. 129 December 09
Poster pointing to the three-day tractor trek of "Farmers and Consumers Against Nuclear Energy" through the Ruhr area from July 10, 1986. A few weeks after the accident in the THTR and the disaster in Chernobyl, farmers drove their tractors in a sensational trek with stations and rallies in Dortmund and Essen to the NRW state capital Düsseldorf to put pressure on...
THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09
of the reactor core. According to a scientific analysis, the research reactor has been operating at temperatures that were far too high for years and may have narrowly avoided catastrophe. The use of immature fuel elements and the high temperatures, according to Rainer Moormann, the author of the study, who spent years in safety research in Jülich...
The special forces in the national ABC deployment concept
the national NBC protection concept is largely based on so-called "special forces", although their personnel capacities and technical resources are limited. 1. Disaster protection and NBC protection According to the federal legal system of the Federal Republic, the federal states are responsible for disaster protection (Article 30 of the Basic Law) and the federal government...
THTR Circular No. 125 February 09
Anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany led to detailed reports in this newspaper (No. 75) about how the descendants of several million Jews in Russia and Ukraine processed the Chernobyl disaster in klezmer music, because the Kiev region is an old one Jewish settlement area - one has to say now. In many ways it was unavoidable...
THTR Circular No. 122 August 2008
Buses are used from Münster. Departure: 7 a.m. Info: www.sofa-ms.de From THTR to Generation IV: The nuclear industry is setting the course for the coming decades! Top of page Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the nuclear industry worldwide has tended to be on the defensive. When, significantly, a THTR is now built at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and...
Expert commission: The long-time employee of the Jülich Nuclear Research Center is right with his insider criticism of the Jülich research reactor AVR. Yes, the AVR narrowly avoided disaster in 1978. Safety rules were massively violated. Westfälischer Anzeiger from May 22.05.2015, XNUMX Dubious fame: THTR in Uentrop one of the biggest construction flops nationwide The THTR in Uentrop...
*** The bell from June 04.06.2016th, 1989 Intention or operating error: Uncertainty surrounding the accident For decades, things were quiet around the nuclear power plant in Hamm-Uentrop, which was decommissioned in 30. 04.05.1986 years after the reactor disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the THTR is in the headlines. It's about an accident on May XNUMXth, XNUMX, in which radioactivity was released... * "Billions wasted" Quite...
