1. Entangled in the network of European uranium transports

    a license was obtained there for transport in European traffic in accordance with international guidelines. This approval has been confirmed for Germany by the Federal Institute for Radiation Protection in Salzgitter. Their “Section SE 1.1 Transports” is e.g. Currently by Dr. Frank Nitsche directed. As the federal government itself had to admit on July 16, 2001, the...

  2. THTR Circular No. 115 August 07

    an ancient decontamination multi-purpose vehicle and a new decon roll-off container) because their own base itself would already be contaminated. Only two roll-off containers for radiation protection and chemical protection remained available at the main station of the Hammer professional fire department. With these limited ABC resources, the firefighters would largely be condemned to inactivity and would have to...

  3. THTR Newsletter No. 109 November 2006

    for nuclear research at the Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen are to be filled - the chairs for reactor safety and technology, for nuclear waste disposal and for radiation protection. In addition to their teaching activities at the RWTH, two professors will be entrusted with the management of the Institute for Safety Research and Reactor Technology at the Research Center Jülich. The country wants...

  4. THTR Circular No. 75 August 02

    the error was discovered. The operator of the Gorleben and Ahaus nuclear waste storage facilities, Gesellschaft für Kernservice mbH (GNS), has admitted this. According to a statement from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), the responsible licensing authority, the GNS reported errors in previous calculations at the end of April. (...) An important piece of safety evidence simply evaporated overnight...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 76 September 02

    of nuclear power plants, the Red-Green Party supported the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. As a third key component of its nuclear policy, the federal government changed the Radiation Protection Ordinance in 2001. The new regulation allows the release of radioactive waste into the environment in unlimited quantities. According to her, a large part of the rubble from demolished nuclear reactors will be...

  6. THTR Circular No. 83 July 03

    in France and England. But last week German nuclear waste was delivered to the LaHague and Sellafield factories again. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BFS), which reports to Trittin, had approved the transport of a total of 14 Castor containers with spent fuel - the largest shipment of radioactive scrap this year. The nuclear waste came from the nuclear power plants...

  7. 1988 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of proliferation in pebble bed reactors

    can only be obtained through a reprocessing process. Civilian reprocessing of HTR fuel elements - as mentioned above - has so far failed due to, among other things, unresolved safety and radiation protection problems (e.g. in connection with the combustion of graphite). In contrast to the possible large-scale introduction of the reprocessing of HTR fuel elements for the purpose of...

  8. THTR Newsletter No. 99 April / May 05

    Fill the cavity with salt crumble to mitigate the feared impact of the large chunks. The costs of decommissioning the plant were estimated by the Federal Institute for Radiation Protection (BfS) at four billion DM in 2000 (FAZ dated November 10, 11). Today, in 2000, only three of the 2005 “dismantling sites” have been filled, although 20 more employees have been hired. The...

  9. THTR Newsletter No. 102 November 05

    to Gorleben from November 19th to 22nd. Info: www.castor.de THTR nuclear waste Top of page In Morsleben: 348 containers are stored here in 200 l barrels from the THTR. In September 2005, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) handed over the plans for the final closure of the final repository to the Ministry of the Environment in Saxony-Anhalt. The public display will probably take place in about a year...

  10. THTR Circular No. 104 January 06

    Those who trivialize incidents are still tirelessly active. Significantly, the THTR safety officer from 1986, Ivar Kalinowski, moved in 1991 to the very Federal Office for Radiation Protection that so generously approved the THTR castor storage in Ahaus. As the newspaper "atw" reported in the November 2005 issue, Kalinowski worked at the annual conference on nuclear technology in...

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