1. THTR Circular No. 143 June 14

    We have reported on it in countless articles over entire decades and have therefore been met with hostility or not taken seriously. – It’s nice that now, after 30 – 40 years, the mainstream media is also reporting critically! Horst Blume The expert report can be viewed on the Internet. Short form 14 pages:...

  2. THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013

    the Indians from nuclear energy? Despite the Fukushima disaster, public opinion in India is still overwhelmingly in favor of nuclear energy because of government propaganda, and the media also mostly reports in a pro-government manner, reports Indulkar. “That’s why I made the film, to educate my compatriots about the truth.” In the meantime, he was able to show “High Power” in Mumbai: “The viewers...

  3. THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012

    Read a report about the Kolping Society in India (Kolping India), which has been active for many decades: "In South India, the Catholic Church is supporting a hunger strike against a nuclear power plant. According to Indian media reports, a total of 127 people, including 15 Hindus and 112 Catholics, have been in prison for nine days Hunger strike against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu state....

  4. THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012

    old -- and celebrates and discusses! Successful campaign for the election campaign THeaTeR After 26 years: black-out during THTR incident? On April 26th, the GAU in Chernobyl was once again remembered in various media this year. However, the accident in the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) in Hamm-Uentrop that occurred just eight days later on May 4, 1986 was often forgotten in this context. Even...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 137 December 2011

    on December 31, 2009. Four negotiations about financing were broken off in 2009 without any results. The result of another conversation on July 18, 7 has not yet been announced in the media. Participants were representatives of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the federal government, HKG, the shareholders of HKG and PriceWaterhouse Coopers. An HKG shareholder, presumably RWE, has so far...

  6. THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011

    People and the environment are connected. In recent years, with scientific publications and lectures at home and abroad, but above all with statements and interviews in the media, he has made a significant contribution to ensuring that the risk potential associated with pebble bed reactors appears in a new light. The myth of the "inherent safety" of this type of reactor is...

  7. THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011

    to reopen the THTR's impressive history of mishaps. Something really bad had to happen again before most people woke up for a while, and with them the media. Large demonstration with several tens of thousands in Cologne (etc.) and vigils and demonstrations in 800 cities every week. Anyone in Hamm who wanted to be informed about the weekly number of participants added...

  8. The international INES rating scale and the list of nuclear power plant accidents

    | 1949-1940 | Previously 2017 September 3, 2017 (North Korea's 6th nuclear weapon test) Punggye-ri, PRK Wikipedia en North Korean nuclear weapons program Japan's Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno and South Korean media announced on September 3, 2017 that North Korea had probably carried out another nuclear weapon test. This was indicated by measurements from various earthquake monitoring stations, which registered two tremors. The...

  9. THTR Circular No. 134 January 2011

    is picked up by larger newspapers. In this case from Tagesspiegel (Berlin), Junge Welt, Neues Deutschland, Fuge News and of course Grassroots Revolution. When reports of cancer cases near the Asse appeared in the media at the end of November 2010, the WDR reacted quickly and filmed a short report on the similar problem at the THTR on November 26th with me as an interview partner. Before...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010

    South Africa's poor pay! HTR research in the Federal Republic of Germany from 2008 to today: 35 years of BI environmental protection Expensive dismantling of 12 research reactors! We had to read it in the media for the hundredth time in August 2010: “Costs for dismantling the ex-research reactor have increased.” What was meant was the very small thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) in the Jülich Research Center with an electrical output of 13 MW, which...

  11. THTR Circular No. 132 July 2010

    must save. Poverty, AIDS and crime are causing problems for the country. Money is missing everywhere. There are no new investors in sight for the controversial project. The waste and mismanagement associated with the development of the PBMR are now openly criticized and discussed in the media. In April 4, "Mail & Guardian Online" (2010) listed a whole series of...

  12. THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010

    Conflicts, interests, decisions", 1991, page 120 United Arab Emirates oil nuclear power Help comes from the Federal Republic of Germany and South Korea Top of page When the spectacular news was spread in numerous media on December 28, 12 that a South Korean company consortium was starting to build four 2009 -Megawatt nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates was aimed at...

  13. THTR Circular No. 127 July 09

    2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 127, July 2009 Content: The rooster growls THTR inclusion: Certainly a lot of money In the year 2025: But still “Bonsei-THTR” in South Africa? Media under the hammer (without sickle) September 5, 2009: Anti-nuclear drumbeat before the election! The wererooster growls “small grains of sand,” surrounded by a “diamond-hard shell”! – “These grains...

  14. THTR Circular No. 126 April 09

    spent funds on a flop. That's why you can only hear all sorts of convoluted formulations about continuing HTR development under different circumstances in the USA. And the media in the Federal Republic of Germany have not received any official government statement on the PBMR shutdown - so they don't even report on it (exception: TAZ). According to a press release from a...

  15. THTR newsletters from 2009

    the taxpayer has to pay? In the year 2025: Still “Bonsei-THTR” in South Africa?? The nuclear industry is trying again and this time it's baking small cakes: an 80 MW reactor in 9 years. Media under the hammer (without a sickle). Foray into the local and national daily newspaper disinformation system using the example of THTR and social robbery. September 5, 2009: Anti-nuclear bombshell before...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 124 December 2008

    Cooperation with the nuclear industry: - Extreme reactivity accidents (reactivity behavior of water reactors and high-temperature reactors in extreme accidents, e.g. the intrusion of foreign media, failure of the shutdown systems). - Technology of using high-temperature reactors to generate electricity and process heat (e.g. combined heat and power for district heating and process steam supply,...

  17. THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08

    Moormann study on the THTR in Jülich, the still current 198-page analysis of the HTR line by the Öko-Institut from 1986 can now be viewed on our homepage. The media still reports in great detail about the THTR, for example: “Nuclear energy and its opponents. A History of the Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Movement” on Deutschlandradio on August 6, 8. “Where is the outcry...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 121 May 08

    A well-founded investigation by independent experts would be just the thing. But according to Federal Environment Minister Gabriel, this shouldn't exist. Hence the excitement and the countless media reports. Even before the minister's negative response was received by the citizens' initiative, Welver decided on March 12, 2008 to become the third municipality after Lippborg and Hamm to accept the demand for a cancer study...

  19. Newspaper clippings 2016

    A spokesman for the Arnsberg public prosecutor's office said this yesterday when asked by WA. More about the background... * Comment: The fairy tale about radioactive helium has been haunting the media for 30 years - but it's not primarily about the radioactivity of helium - helium was just the medium with which the remains of the broken , radioactive graphite fuel element balls,...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 120 March 08

    not very convenient. That is why citizens must ensure that this issue is not swept under the table! The events of January After the exciting events of December, the media continued to report critically. With the long article from January 2, 2008 in the weekly paper, even those people who have not subscribed to a daily newspaper for expensive money received a lot...