Assuming that "koeberg“ is needed, became 20 results found.
to become the first climate-neutral federal state. If we were finished with battery storage in 2036, that would fit well into the strategy," says Knott... December 12th South Africa | Nuclear power | Koeberg South Africa begins procuring new nuclear energy. While the second block of the Koeberg nuclear power plant is due to longer maintenance work The South African Ministry for...
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
Bed Reactor), on high-performance transport (Gautrain) and on Nobel Prize winners for literature (Doris Lessing, John M. Coetzee)." (6) In February 2009 it was announced that the planned 165 MW PBMR in Koeberg near Cape Town would not be built, although the fuel element factory, which several German companies were involved in, was already completed. A reorientation towards nuclear process heat was...
THTR Circular No. 126 April 09
referred to the realm of fairy tales. South Africa is moving away from THTR construction! The Thorium High Temperature Reactor (THTR), also known as the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa, will not be built in Koeberg near Cape Town, although the spherical fuel element factory in Pelindaba, which is necessary for THTR operation and was built with German help, is already producing the nuclear fuel has. This comes from the...
THTR Circular No. 125 February 09
Construction of a second pressurized water reactor has been canceled. The final selection was the French Areva group and the US manufacturer Westinghouse. The Cape State currently operates Africa's only commercial nuclear power plant in Koeberg (near Cape Town). The uranium producer South Africa is currently developing a mini-reactor (PBMR) in parallel with China, the prototype of which will be completed by 2012...
THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08
The award-winning documentary “The Big Sellout” by Florian Opitz showed the reality in Africa's only country with nuclear power on September 23, 9 on ARTE. In South Africa there are two nuclear power plants in Koeberg near Cape Town and the costs for the THTR (called PBMR) planned directly next to them have already increased tenfold in 2008 years. In 10, the state-owned energy supply company ESKOM...
THTR Newsletter No. 117 November 07
South African customers PBMR Ltd. "However, it doesn't fit at all with this nuclear optimism that recently concerned residents of the planned PBMR near Koeberg have asked us as a citizens' initiative to be allowed to distribute the content of our homepage. It started in a similar way in Hamm-Uentrop in 1975. For NUKEM see also the THTR newsletter No. 101...
THTR Newsletter No. 111 March 07
Energy company is not a reliable partner. At the beginning of 2006, the Cape region was plagued by severe power outages and narrowly escaped a major reactor accident at the Koeberg nuclear power plant near Cape Town. One of the causes was apparently a bolt that had damaged a turbine. But poor maintenance work at the nuclear power plant also contributed to the problem. Due to the failures...
NUKEM (HTR fuel element manufacturer) to Advent. DIDO switched off in Jülich. Wind energy in Cape Town. Press review for the Chernobyl anniversary. * THTR Newsletter No. 106, April 2006 Incident at the Koeberg nuclear power plant (South Africa): No sabotage, but frightening normality! Energy problems and destabilization in South Africa. Terrorists in the Koeberg nuclear power plant? PBMR construction delayed. Power gap in...
THTR Newsletter No. 76 September 02
Action carried out against the planned prototype of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) - a THTR variant. The environmentalists climbed the walls of South Africa's only nuclear power plant in Koeberg, 30 km north of Cape Town, and attached a banner with the following text: "Nukes Out Of Africa". This Koeberg location is also intended for the planned PBMR. Greenpeace wanted...
THTR Circular No. 84 August 03
in Jülich (!), as a well-known champion of high-temperature reactor technology, should also appear as a speaker. A visit to South Africa's only nuclear power plant in Koeberg was part of the "basic program", which was supplemented by ESKOM cocktail parties and "follow-up trips" to wildlife reserves or the Naguib Desert. The German anti-apartheid groups stormed against this...
THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03
Chippy Olver* had to extend the objection deadline until August 25th. During this time, the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce, which previously supported the construction of the PBMR just 28 km north of the city of three million people in Koeberg, reassessed the economic viability of this planned reactor. Recently it became known that huge natural gas fields on the west coast of South Africa...
THTR Circular No. 87 January 04
(FZJ) continued research on this reactor line. Even under red-green. The know-how was transferred to South Africa, where the THTR variant Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is to be built in Koeberg near Cape Town from the 1st quarter of 2005. Incidentally, this development is regularly reported on in the “Grassroots Revolution” (see appendix or at www.gras Wurzel.net). On March 18.03.2003, XNUMX we...
THTR Circular No. 88 February 04
"It is true that ESKOM operated effectively as an apartheid institution, serving primarily white interests." ESKOM operated 14 coal-fired power plants and two nuclear power plants in Koeberg near Cape Town. “The Deutsche, the Dresdner, the Commerz-, the Westdeutsche Landesbank and the Bayrische Vereinsbank gave 30 – 70% of their loans to ESKOM.” The vast majority of the electricity went into...
THTR Newsletter No. 89 March 04
to replace the companies Exlelon (USA) and British Nuclear Field Limited (BNFL). South African environmental activists have now revealed that the energy company Areva Group is supposed to deliver the new HTRs to Koeberg. This French holding company called Areva, founded in 2001, includes Framatome ANP and Cogema, the Framatome subsidiary FCI and the semiconductor manufacturer ST Microelectronics....
THTR Newsletter No. 93 September 04
The fears cited in the last THTR newsletter that militant Islamists are active in South Africa and could pose a threat to the existing and planned (HTR) reactor blocks in Koeberg near Cape Town have been given new fuel. The "Neues Deutschland" reported on August 07.08.2004, 200.000: "The approximately XNUMX Muslims in South Africa have fallen into disrepute. Two of them are said to...
to eat. It is doubtful whether this actually happens. A few 100 kilometers south of the planned uranium mine, as part of the renaissance of nuclear power, a high-temperature reactor is planned to be built in Koeberg, South Africa, well known to readers of this magazine as the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). One day, uranium will be urgently needed for its spherical fuel elements...
THTR Newsletter No. 101 October 05
If the new cooperation comes into being, it would primarily take care of the maintenance of the systems. Not too far from the Namibian uranium mines and gas fields is Koeberg in South Africa, where, in addition to two pressurized water reactors (built by Framatome, now part of the AREVA Group), the high-temperature reactor PBMR is planned. As part of the AREVA Group, Siemens is involved in research and...
THTR Circular No. 106 April 06
THTR newsletters from 2006 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 106 *** THTR Newsletter No. 2006, April 1984 Incident in the Koeberg nuclear power plant/South Africa: No sabotage , but frightening normality! In Koeberg near Cape Town, two pressurized water reactors, each with an output of 900 MW, have been in operation since XNUMX. Really? Hardly now...
THTR Newsletter No. 86 November 2003
the fundamental development work was carried out at the Jülich Research Center. (Internet presence of "Atomwirtschaft", October 2003) PBMR: Investors wanted Top of page "The costs of the PBMR planned in Koeberg were estimated at 1,6 billion US dollars. The operating company PBMR Ltd. has already invested 230 million US dollars for this project spent and is now looking for foreign...
At the end of the world, ten percent of their energy needs will come from renewable sources. This is also a victory over the nuclear lobby, which touts the Koeberg nuclear power plant, just 35 kilometers from Cape Town, as the only electricity supplier for the Western Cape. (...) The mayor's office in Cape Town has finally recognized the shock of the days-long power outages with millions in damage to the economy...
