1. THTR Newsletter No. 113 May 07

    belongs to the HTR. It is one of 16 key projects with the highest priority. After the experimental reactor near Beijing has been in operation since 2000, a 195 MW HTR is to be built on the Shandong Peninsula. Until 1914, this was an old German colonial territory - what a significant pointer! According to Chinese information, construction is scheduled to begin in 2009 and commissioning in 2013. A bit overzealous...

  2. THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05

    The decades-long efforts of the German HTR lobby have borne fruit. Spiegel-Online reported on February 8, 2: "A Chinese energy consortium has already selected a construction site in Shandong province, reports the Financial Times. A 2005-megawatt reactor is to be built there that works on the pebble pile principle. One person responsible of the Chinese energy company...

  3. THTR Newsletter No. 101 October 05

    Military maneuvers by these two states are taking place at the very place where construction of the first Chinese HTR power reactor is to begin in 18 months: on the Shandong peninsula, which juts out on the opposite border between North and South Korea. The Xinhua News Agency writes: "The exercise will strengthen the ability of our two countries' militaries to...

  4. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    later Bayer, Rheinmetall, Degussa - and where, next year, an old German technology that had long been thought dead emerges from obscurity to conquer the world again: it is no coincidence that the Thorium High-Temperature Reactor (THTR) is being built here on the Shandong Peninsula. Since the middle of the 19th century, China had suffered many military defeats. In the following years...

  5. Reactor failure THTR - communication

    almost all done. Only in China does a 10 MW HTR experimental reactor, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, remain mostly idle. Two 200 MW HTRs were actually supposed to go online in Shandong in December 2017, but they won't be until 2021... However, we can be quite sure about one point. They won't let up, as long as tax money keeps flowing, they'll try to get there...

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