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“Süddeutsche Zeitung” was discontinued. Nuclear weapon accessories for India from Hamm: arrests at Montanhydraulik. * THTR Newsletter No. 81, March 2003 Research Center Jülich (FZJ) under criticism: Scandals surrounding the decommissioning of the Jülich HTR?s “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor” (AVR). The costs. The NRW state government answers questions about the FZJ's involvement in South African business. The answer...
THTR Newsletter No. 77 November 02
For some time now, various internet users have been asking us about a long article from the alternative news agency "Indymedia", which is not only about the "super scandal" at the Grohnde nuclear power plant, but also about alleged or actual irregularities in safety checks at the THTR in the first half of the year 80s goes. Before Indymedia received the letter from the former...
THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03
This dubious research center is subject to public criticism. The 15 MW HTR of the Jülich Experimental Reactor Association (AVR) was decommissioned in 1988 and is now making headlines and scandals non-stop. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” wrote in its national section on February 15, 2: “The inconspicuous building has now caused the federal government an unprecedented cost explosion:...
Broken balls and graphite dust that had to be vacuumed out. During the accident in May 1986, the measuring devices were switched off during this time and one of the biggest scandals in German nuclear power plant history occurred. The radioactive “release rate” could only be roughly “estimated” with the THTR. The operators of the THTR stated that a single fuel ball is produced only every two years...
The incident at the THTR in May 1986 in 'Spiegel'
like the one on May 4th does not appear in it. What came out of the chimney, an estimated 90 million becquerels, was just a radioactive cloud - no comparison to Chernobyl. What turned the incident into a scandal was the company's attempt to cover everything up. When the reactor breakdown became known little by little last week and the North Rhine-Westphalian Economics Minister Reimut Jochimsen...
THTR Circular No. 92 August 04
There seems to be a method to the approach: the Ahaus police have even decided internally not to accept any registrations from so-called spontaneous demonstrations - a "scandal", say the initiatives: "The Ahaus police cannot choose from whom they receive demonstrations accepts." What is now required is the State Ministry of the Interior." In a press release from...
Based on the pebble bed reactor planned in Hamm-Uentrop, the construction of a fuel element factory is absolutely necessary. After the THTR was decommissioned in Germany, the plant was dismantled by the Hanau-based scandal company NUKEM (or its subsidiary Hobeg) and shipped to China in order to supply the HTR there with fuel elements. The old Hobeg system could no longer be used....
THTR Circular No. 104 January 06
and wastewater are seeping into London and have caused massive environmental damage. RWE is the company most frequently accused of environmental crimes in England. As a result of these scandals, Prime Minister Blair had to appoint a regulatory authority to invest a total of 1.184 million euros by 2010 in repairing the dilapidated pipe systems of...
THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06
written. He went back to China, made a career and became president of Tsinghua University in Beijing. China bought the decommissioned facilities from Hanau for producing the HTR fuel elements - there was no scandal at the time - and acquired the know-how that was still missing. In 1995, the Chinese began building a 10 MW experimental reactor on the military-secured grounds of Beijing University. In the...
THTR Circular No. 108 August 06
provide important information about the fuel used and the research subject. The responsible state governments in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein tried to cover up the scandal for 15 years, citing Chernobyl radioactivity and "fly ash" from worldwide above-ground atomic bomb tests. The lives of children outweigh the interests of the nuclear and...
THTR Newsletter No. 95 December 2004
and work with hundreds of companies in more than 20 states. Prosecutors in Germany, Switzerland and South Africa, who have been investigating for months, are surprised by the extent of the scandal and have already had some engineers and company employees arrested. A key project is the South African Pelindaba uranium enrichment plant, which was built based on the German model....
"mobile" Kalkar, with construction costs of 7 billion DM the most expensive technology museum in this country, was more than enough of a problem for the comrades in North Rhine-Westphalia and then also this unspeakable scandal in tranquil Hamm... In 1989 the THTR was shut down. The dismantling will take decades and cost several million euros. In 1991, the most modern cooling tower in Europe was built directly...
