1. Newsletter

    grüner Vize-Ministerpräsidentin Mona Neubaur und Umweltorganisationen frostig. In wenigen Monaten sollen die ersten Castoren mit radioaktivem Atommüll aus dem ehemaligen Kernforschungszentrum Jülich in das Zwischenlager Ahaus verlegt werden. Jetzt dürfen Ver­tre­te­r:in­nen von Neubaurs Landeswirtschaftsministerium, das auch für die Atomaufsicht zuständig ist, offenbar nicht mehr persönlich mit...

  2. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    from Jülich in the Rhineland to Ahaus in Münsterland. Why? Kerstin Ciesla: Because the transports are dangerous. It's about highly radioactive nuclear waste from the reactor of the former Jülich Nuclear Research Center, which is to be driven almost every week for two years on more than 170 kilometers along highways through the most densely populated regions of North Rhine-Westphalia - for example...

  3. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    “My suggestion is to make a massive impact on social issues, but not at the expense of pensioners,” said the free-voter politician on Monday evening on ZDF’s “heute journal”... * Nuclear waste storage facility | Nuclear Research Center | JRC new building delayed by years Nuclear storage facility in Karlsruhe: Opponents speak of "worrying conditions" The planned new building for the EU nuclear research center at the Karlsruhe Institute...

  4. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Waste on the KIT Campus North Two new interim storage facilities for low- and medium-level radioactive nuclear waste are to go into operation in Eggenstein. On the KIT Campus North site, the former Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center. This year, two new interim storage facilities for weak and...

  5. Newsletter XI 2022 - March 12th to 18th - News+ Poisoned Bravery

    A worldview that historians believed had been overcome. ** March 15, Asse II Dilapidated Asse nuclear waste repository: "Holy as cheese" 55 years ago, the first barrels of nuclear waste from the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center were sunk into the Asse. Since the late 80s it has been clear that water is coming in. The nuclear waste is supposed to go out again in 2033 - but where to? * China | Large-scale energy transition China is building...

  6. THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018

    was the not quite 95th birthday of Rudolf Schulten, who worked for over 30 years on the research and development of the thorium high-temperature reactor in what was then known as the Jülich Nuclear Research Center. Herzog lets former companions and archivists from Jülich speak in detail. They eloquently describe the euphoric mood of optimism in science and politics, in which...

  7. THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012

    at URENCO in the neighboring uranium enrichment plants in Almelo and Gronau and had blueprints and addresses of supplier companies taken away. Through the Uranit company, the Jülich Nuclear Research Center was not only involved in the creation and development of high-temperature reactors, but also in the UAA Gronau. And there is a second reason: South Africa, which...

  8. THTR Circular No. 134 January 2011

    Generation should be" (34). Thorium and reprocessing in India In 2007, the monthly magazine "atw" wrote about the status of the development of the thorium reactor line: "At the Bhabha Nuclear Research Center (BARC) an advanced thorium reactor with an output of 300 MW (Advanced Heavy Water Reactor: AHWR) worked, with which the use of thorium as...

  9. THTR Circular No. 132 July 2010

    was. As Interior Minister, Genscher was also responsible for “environmental protection measures”. During this time, in 1972, sixty officers of the Brazilian military dictatorship visited the Jülich nuclear research center, where uranium centrifuges were being put into operation and Brazilian scientists were being trained. Three years later, Foreign Minister Genscher and his...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09

    At the end of his term in office, it is interesting to examine whether operators and nuclear regulators in North Rhine-Westphalia have done something wrong in the old social democratic model state. So whether the SPD state government (involved in the Jülich Nuclear Research Center) and the SPD-led municipalities, which were also involved in the AVR reactor, have failed for decades. Gabriel is original. He even examined whether he himself could serve as environment minister...

  11. THTR Circular No. 126 April 09

    NRW's, when in the 50s and 60s former Nazi scientists, brought back from exile in Argentina and Brazil by Franz-Josef Strauss, set about building the Jülich Nuclear Research Center and developing the THTR. These activities were viewed with great suspicion by the Western powers because they feared the secret construction of nuclear weapons and...

  12. THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08

    However, there are examples of unauthorized releases occurring. This is reflected, among other things, in the fact that a complex study found significantly more dicentric chromosomes in the blood of children in the area around the Krümmel nuclear power plant and the GKSS nuclear research center than in the unexposed children. However, dicentric chromosomes are a...

  13. Newspaper clippings (2015)

    by Marcus Meier Rainer Moormann can be considered one of the most successful whistleblowers in Germany. Last year, a commission of experts confirmed: The long-time employee of the Jülich Nuclear Research Center is right in his insider criticism of the Jülich research reactor AVR. Yes, the AVR narrowly avoided disaster in 1978. Safety rules have been massively violated...

  14. Newspaper clippings 2016

    from April 15.04.2016, XNUMX There are even better terrorist targets than Jülich By Marcus Meier - Plane crash can lead to catastrophe The suspected terrorist Salah Abdeslam is said to have spied on the former Jülich nuclear research center. A research reactor was operated there with nuclear weapons-grade uranium. We are looking for current information. If anyone can help, please send a message to:...

  15. THTR Circular No. 112 April 07

    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 2007 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 112 *** THTR Newsletter No. 2007, April XNUMX Nuclear “Rat Line”: Eichmann and EHR in Argentina The Essen...

  16. THTR Circular No. 110 January 07

    The assertion made 'I will not go into detail about the legally convicted SS-Obersturmbannführer in Leiden (Holland) Alfred Boettcher, the (...) director of the Jülich Nuclear Research Center...' would provide verifiable proof of the conviction. I think that articles, especially if they are under the address of a German university, have at least the quality...

  17. THTR Circular No. 88 February 04

    as well as for process steam generation and heat generation for coal gasification" (Westfälischer Anzeiger from January 21, 1). During this time there were already intensive contacts between the Jülich Nuclear Research Center and the Institute of Nuclear Engineering Technology (INET) at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. In the 1986-page report “Assessment of domestic and foreign concepts...

  18. THTR Circular No. 91 July 04

    – a general contract for the delivery of the module HTR to the SU was signed. A consortium of companies consisting of Siemens/KWU and ABB was involved. The 200 MW HTR was to be built in Dimitrovgrad at the Niiar Nuclear Research Center, 1000 kilometers east of Moscow6. However, what was lost in the media hype was that this framework agreement did not constitute a contract award, two more years...

  19. THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05

    Subsequently, the Essen company Innotec Energietechnik KG had plans to market smaller HTRs to China. In the 80s there were intensive contacts between the Jülich Nuclear Research Center and the Tsinghua University in Beijing (see THTR RB No. 88). At this time, Siemens subsidiary Interatom and the Swedish-Swiss group (ABB) were planning HTR module systems in China. The...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    China's Deputy Energy Minister, Chan Pin, visited the THTR in Hamm/Westphalia, which was then under construction. In the 80s there were intensive contacts between the Jülich Nuclear Research Center, where the THTR was developed, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Even after the massacre on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, German and...

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