Assuming that "South Africa“ is needed, became 118 results found.
The last time category five, classified as “extreme,” was reached in October 2003 during the so-called Halloween storms. At that time there were power outages in Sweden and transformers were damaged in South Africa. During solar storms, material ejections from the sun throw gigantic amounts of electrically charged particles towards the earth. This allows...
A manufactured) were renovated. The substance has long been banned throughout the EU in baby bottles and receipt paper. A ban on food packaging is currently being discussed at EU level. * South Africa | Eskom | ANC | WDR Story Series: Super election year 2024 South Africa: Elections in a "Failed State" A dilapidated energy infrastructure in South Africa leads to constant power outages and the decline...
regularly contain four grams of added sugar per serving – a whole teaspoon full. Target group: babies from six months. The milk powder Nido, which the Swiss offer in Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua for small children under the age of three, is also said to contain high doses of added sugar. Up to five grams per serving, according to the study... *...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
to demonstrate. Please don't get me wrong: I don't want anyone to make their head a target for crazy thugs, go happily to prison like Gandhi in South Africa or even go voluntarily and death-defyingly to Putin's gulag like Navalny. I have the greatest respect for people like Gandhi and Navalny, but my thoughts and wishes are with those who mourn...
Countries of the Global South and the hypocrisy of the West in Davos The Global South is increasingly opposing Western hypocrisy - China is rightly giving Zelensky the cold shoulder in Davos. South Africa files genocide lawsuit against Israel. When morality and power become multipolar. Comment. [...] Zelensky knows that he doesn't just need the support of Western states for his plan...
The US government sees the allegations as unfounded. Initiated by Sevim Dagdelen and Ilhan Oma, 400 MPs from 28 countries are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Today South Africa argued before the International Court of Justice that Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip were genocidal in nature (complaint). To do this, South Africa does not have to prove the accusation, but...
including Anduril, Hadrian and Rebellion Defense. VCs not only achieve high investment returns, but also gain increasing influence on US foreign policy... December 14th South Africa | Coal phase-out | KfW With 500 million euros: Germany is supporting Africa with renewable energy and the coal phase-out The BMZ has announced that it will provide South Africa with 500 million euros through the KfW development bank...
THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 Content: “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! China: HTR future in the stars? South Africa – on the way to the next bankruptcy Jülich THTR nuclear waste soon on the streets? Interest in mini nuclear power plants is only mini! Climate lawsuit against RWE in Hamm! Car madness in Hamm History: “Non-violent against...
What the states demand. An examination of the official responses of eleven Global South states outside the Middle East/North Africa region - Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam - shows unanimous condemnation of Hamas' attacks become. However, statements differ as to who...
than in the Nazi era. They were not intended for destruction in the first place. If it wasn't about annihilation, then what was it? First of all, it copied a system that the British had already used in South Africa. The population was gathered together to “protect” them, but also to control them. You have to realize that this policy of extermination that Lothar von Trotha had previously...
uranium producer in the world, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, Australia and Russia. Its uranium reserves, estimated at 311.000 tonnes, account for 5 percent of the world's reserves, on par with South Africa and only exceeded by Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada and Namibia. The EU as a whole imported 2021 tonnes of uranium from Niger in 2.905, 24,3 percent of its total imports; Niger was first...
was previously a member of the Federal Security Council. Above all: Niebel was Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2009 to 2013. The group set up branches in South Africa, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan. While Niebel acts discreetly, the journalist Agnes Strack-Zimmermann...
Territory of Ukraine required. [...] Nevertheless, even this result cannot hide the fact that there can be no question of Russia's global isolation. China, India, South Africa and 29 other countries abstained, while eleven others did not even vote. Not to mention the seven dictatorships that voted against it. But also from those who agreed...
Conspiracy ideologies and disinformation to delegitimize scientific findings on climate change and to exploit unsuspecting people to maximize profits... * South Africa | Emergency | Floods South Africa after the flood: Times of crisis at the Cape South Africa's government declares a state of emergency several times. Recently because of the electricity crisis, now because of floods. Both...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
growth potential is. "Africa has become an arena for competition between world powers," says Jakkie Cilliers, a political analyst at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in South Africa. "It's a huge diplomatic game." Actually, every major power is concerned with something different. As Africa's largest investor and largest trading partner, China is primarily...
over. In his Spiegel column “The saboteurs operate in the background,” columnist Christian Stöcker tracks down those responsible. In addition to China, which produces the most coal per capita after Australia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Russia and Poland, Stöcker focuses on the following number: 636 lobbyists from oil, gas and coal companies took part in Sharm el-Sheikh. That was 25 percent...
From 1986 to 1990, the Submarine Plans Investigation Committee of the German Bundestag investigated the illegal delivery of submarine plans by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) to South Africa... * List of corruption scandals involving politicians in the Federal Republic of Germany List of corruption scandals involving politicians in the Federal Republic of Germany contains proven and suspected cases...
Newsletter XXXIX - 31.08. to 05.09.2021 - News+ August 31st - Armed, corrupt and criminal
Armor | Corruptly armed, corrupt and criminal European arms companies buy politicians in order to secure large contracts and delay legal proceedings. Two examples from South Africa and Greece It is difficult to hold powerful people and large corporations accountable for their crimes against the community. One of the best examples of this is probably...
the misuse of peaceful nuclear power for military purposes. The GIF's partners include Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, the USA and the European Atomic Energy Community EURATOM... ** YouTube channel "Reactor Bankruptcy" Moving images for Topic: Nuclear power without risk? The liquid salt reactor | Harald Lesch A...
2021 - Cold wave: France dependent on electricity imports from Germany - Electricity prices are climbing * February 08th, 2021 - Crooked dealings in Zug: How a former Wehrmacht officer helped India and South Africa build the atomic bomb * February 07th, 2021 - NATO contribution transmitted - Record military spending * February 06, 2021 - Nuclear waste expert on citizen participation: “The opportunity was missed” * 06....
THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018
National Laboratory - historical continuities German Fear at the HTR in China: "Altmaier help!" Criticism of Generation IV and thorium reactors Thorium Congress in Brussels Hydrogen and HTR South Africa - Uranium mining "Left-wing extremist smear" Grassroots revolution Reckoning (book) Westfälischer Anzeiger owner Ippen flees! "Thessaloniki: The destruction of the 'Jewish city' and its consequences"...
THTR Circular No. 150 June 2018
will, is repugnant. On the other hand, because the nuclear industry still didn't give up after the bankruptcy in Hamm and tried to establish this type of reactor in many other countries around the world. In South Africa, preparations to build the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) were particularly well advanced before the experiment was canceled after a billion euros had been spent. An important role in...
National Laboratory - historical continuities German Fear at the HTR in China: "Altmaier help!" Criticism of Generation IV and thorium reactors Thorium Congress in Brussels Hydrogen and HTR South Africa - Uranium mining "Left-wing extremist smear" Grassroots revolution Reckoning (book) Westfälischer Anzeiger owner Ippen flees! "Thessaloniki: The destruction of the 'Jewish city' and its consequences"...
Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018
- Retrofitting of reactor 4 completed - term extended to 60 years! Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Trust is everything... December 10, 2018 - South African government replaces Necsa board Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Neocolonialism, development aid or new Dependencies... December 05, 2018 - Russia...
in Halden (Norway)! HTR in China nearing completion? China's deal with Saudi Arabia. HTR lobby active Review: Successful resistance to the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa and Germany. – Nuclear lobby gets a setback when it tries again NRW elections, torment... Poetry and protest against uranium mining and land grabbing in India Dear readers! For work...
THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017
in Halden (Norway)! HTR in China nearing completion? China's deal with Saudi Arabia. HTR lobby active Review: Successful resistance to the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa and Germany. – Nuclear lobby gets a setback when it tries again NRW elections, torment... Poetry and protest against uranium mining and land grabbing in India Dear readers! Where to go with the...
Nov 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws in the nuclear lobby
Moormann (overview - technology - danger potential) - Uwe Hiksch (overview worldwide) - Horst Blume gave a lecture on the resistance against the THTR in the Federal Republic of Germany and in South Africa, which we document here: pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: the last Straws of the nuclear lobby Resistance against the THTR in the Federal Republic of Germany and South Africa The BI Hamm is now...
THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016
and state governments with hundreds of millions of euros meant that with this aggressively exported know-how the THTR was not finally buried, but was instead built and further developed within the EU, in China, South Africa and the USA! The Jülich Research Center (in which NRW is involved) aggressively supported the construction of the HTR in South Africa, and TÜV Rheinland added...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. since 2011
Thorium and Transmutation: The Last Straws of the Nuclear Lobby”. In this context, Horst Blume gave a lecture about the resistance against the THTR in the Federal Republic of Germany and in South Africa, which we document here: November 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straw of the nuclear lobby Resistance against the THTR in the Federal Republic of Germany and in South Africa BI Hamm is...
146, December 2015 China: New plans and well-known bankruptcies. Two new high-temperature reactors planned in Ruijin Generation IV reactors: Setting the course for the next 10 years, also in South Africa HTR research: 3sat broadcast adopts rhetoric from the nuclear industry! What will become of the 152 castors in Jülich? Hannelore Kraft ignores climate protection and human rights Obituary: Wolfgang breeding is...
The current THTR newsletter No. 146 - December 2015
took place in 2000 on the initiative of the USA. Today 13 countries are involved. Ten of them, namely China, France, Japan, Canada, Russia, Switzerland (through the Paul Scherrer Institute), South Africa, South Korea, the USA and Euratom, have signed the framework agreement and are considered GIF members. Argentina, Brazil and Great Britain are not active members. About the...
THTR Newsletter No. 145 May 2015
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 THTR newsletter No. 145, May 2015: Content: The THTR is in the sights of the secret service e THTR in China and South Africa: A raid AVR Jülich: Should Castoren go Ahaus? THTR costs: equity used up WA publisher expands: Tipping for Ippen Erwitte: Longest strike in FRG history 30 years ago:...
Apr 06, 2015 - THTR in China: A robbery and a pile of bullets
April 06, 2015 THTR in China: A raid and a bunch of bullets... By Horst Blume In South Africa, numerous secret service scandals are shaking the country and also cast a very bad light on the “friendly” China, which is making many major investments in the African country Continent is making a name for itself. Fed by South African intelligence sources published in this...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2015
now, according to media reports, apparently shared by some employees of the responsible ministries... * April 06, 2015 - THTR in China: A raid and a bunch of bullets... By Horst Blume In South Africa, numerous secret service scandals are shaking the country and are also throwing a very bad one Light on the “friendly” China, which is making many major investments on the African continent...
Newsletter No. 144, November 2014 THTR in Indonesia? Reactor construction planned with Japanese help High-temperature reactor construction in China is making progress. Spherical fuel element factory completed South Africa sees nuclear power through rose-colored glasses again! Eight nuclear power plants planned with Russian help Massive protests against Jülich Castor transports announced! South Carolina is not...
have dismissed our requests! For example, on May 14, 2003, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research wrote to us about the Jülich Research Center's THTR know-how export to South Africa: “A transfer of the high German safety standards to third countries is in the interest of the Federal Government, as this would mean nuclear power plants in... third countries can become safer...
THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013
"The development work for future reactors has already caused considerable damage to the difficult pebble bed reactor - dismantling/disposal." The last thing: FZ Jülich helped the apartheid state of South Africa to acquire nuclear know-how! Moormann and Streich write: “Incidentally, Jülich/Aachen were involved in the South African apartheid government's nuclear weapons program as follows: The South Africans needed...
THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013
the start is repeated several times. Since the nuclear industry is increasingly struggling with legitimacy problems, it is now trying to score points by building supposedly disaster-proof HTRs. In South Africa, the development of this new fourth-generation reactor line had to be canceled without results in 1,5 after investing 2010 billion euros. Now China is trying this quintessentially German...
THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014
No. 144, Nov. 2014: Content: THTR in Indonesia? Reactor construction planned with Japanese help High-temperature reactor construction in China is making progress. Spherical fuel element factory completed South Africa sees nuclear power through rose-colored glasses again! Eight nuclear power plants planned with Russian help Massive protests against Jülich Castor transports announced! South Carolina is not a waste disposal site...
THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012
is still unclear 24 years after it was decommissioned. Nobody in the world wants to know anything about this reactor line today. Even the Chinese regime is no longer doing anything. South Africa got a bloody nose and had to pay a billion euros in lessons - for nothing and nothing. The nuclear phase-out in the Federal Republic of Germany has long been decided. This reactor line is...
THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012
THTR research to get these reactors built again. Research into this line continued, particularly in Jülich, during the two red-green legislative periods from 1995 to 2005. The know-how was sold to South Africa, North Rhine-Westphalia companies like Uhde-Dortmund and the Essener Hülsenwerke earned a lot from the nuclear deal -- and the construction in South Africa failed! 1,5 billion euros were invested in...
THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012
to make it accessible to a wider public. Three years ago, when the end of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (PBMR), which was being prepared with Jülich know-how in South Africa, became apparent, the THTR lobby used its last strength to launch a propaganda counterattack in order to save what could still be saved. She used the nuclear industry's in-house magazines...
THTR Newsletter No. 137 December 2011
1. see: www.nuclearforum.ch 2. see: www.nuclearforum.ch 3. Junge Welt from October 29, 10 2011. See 4. 3. See: Sächsische Zeitung from April 5, 13 Is Africa lost? Top of page After the construction of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa failed spectacularly and wasted 4 billion euros, one would think that the political leaders there would...
THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011
to bring the HTR line back into the discussion as a particularly safe nuclear variant. Although the pebble bed reactor has once again failed brilliantly in South Africa despite the current investment of a total of 1,5 billion euros, attempts are still being made to build this type of reactor in other countries! In the Jülich Research Center alone, in 2010,...
THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011
Scientists dismantling the Jülich research reactor identified these problems clearly and objectively in a 2008 study (2) that received a lot of international attention. The development of the South African HTR, called the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), had to be stopped in 2010 after 1,5 billion euros had already been spent. This is what the propagandists of...
THTR Circular No. 134 January 2011
August 9, 2010 "Business news from India", January 2009 Atomwirtschaft-Zeitung actually reports on the end of PBMR! Top of page Almost two years after the foreseeable end of the PBMR in South Africa, the magazine "atw" (Nuclear Economy) is only now reporting on the inglorious end of the failed reactor. To this day, countless pro-nuclear websites still talk about...
Newsletter No. 137, December 2011 THTR: Half -- (value) -- time. A review after 15 years of decommissioning. Poland is not lost yet! Nuclear program and HTR?s planned Is Africa lost? South Africa wants to build six new nuclear power plants. Arab Emirates: Lies and deceit Angra 3: Fascist continuities Spring 2012: Castor transports Jülich -- Ahaus! Marc Herter, Part 3: Abuse of the Pope!...
THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010
The large power plant operators (VGB) want further, high HTR subsidies! CDU business association wants millions in subsidies for bankrupt technology! PBMR bankruptcy continues: corporations cash in, 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 report it in the media for the hundredth time in August 2010...
HTR Research - The published and true costs
Zittau, Görlitz, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Garching, Karlsruhe, Bochum, Aachen, Jülich... "Psst, not a single word about the extremely embarrassing end of the planned high-temperature reactor in South Africa. Not a word about the 1,5 billion euros that were pointlessly squandered in this poor place Country!" This is obviously the motto of the mouthpiece of the nuclear industry, the magazine "atw", which covers...
THTR Circular No. 132 July 2010
The THTR newsletters from 2010 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 132, July 2010 Contents: South Africa: World Champion of Waste? Nuclear plant "Angra 3", Brazil HTR planned in Poland? Herter: Marcig-Rechts South Africa: World champion of waste? The development of the...
THTR Newsletter No. 131 May 2010
Arab Emirates: Nuclear power and "alternative" breakdowns 3 large demonstrations put government under pressure! PBMR: The penultimate contingent - with Obama dollars! After the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa was cut off from funding by the state due to a lack of success, the meager remainder of the bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps companies in the USA are trying to carry on. At the same time...
Fort St. Vrain, the original HTR didn't work either
Original document from the then operator from 1985, admitting many problems and breakdowns during its period of operation. For two years it has become increasingly clear that the HTR no longer has a future in South Africa. The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor company had to lay off around 800 of its 2010 employees in March 600 because the South African state did not...
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
from 2010 *** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 130, March 2010 Content: Still 1:0 in South Africa against the nuclear industry Soon another THTR barrack(s) in the USA? United Arab Emirates oil nuclear power - help comes from the Federal Republic of Germany and South Korea Chimney collapse next to the THTR 24.04.10/XNUMX/XNUMX --...
The large power plant operators (VGB) want further, high HTR subsidies! CDU business association wants millions in subsidies for bankrupt technology! PBMR bankruptcy continues: corporations cash in, South Africa's poor pay! HTR research in the Federal Republic of Germany from 2008 to the present 35 years of BI environmental protection * THTR circular No. 132, July 2010 PBMR in South Africa: world champion of waste? From the planned reactor...
THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09
as well as with the Hammer Bundestag member Jörg von Essen (FDP), when they also support the high-temperature reactor and defame environmentalists. The collaboration between the South African operating company PBMR and BÜSO has intensified in recent years. The new planned nuclear project was on very shaky ground for years and at least the original...
2011 2010 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”! - "This...
THTR Circular No. 126 April 09
2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 126, April 2009 Contents: Renaissance a bankruptcy: The THTR also failed in South Africa! THTR in Jülich massively contaminated! WDR film: Nuclear power for Africa Chernobyl warns: National demonstration in Münster Laurenz Meyer, episode 20: At the bottom, a renaissance of a...
THTR Circular No. 125 February 09
Reformers who will betray our cause the moment the pressure eases. A few years ago, when it became increasingly clear that a new THTR was to be built near Cape Town in South Africa, an unexpected connection emerged with one of the most important thought leaders in the BI movement. In the extensive anniversary edition 100 it was reported that Mahatma...
THTR inclusion: A lot of money for sure. Will taxpayers have to pay the annual decommissioning costs of 5,6 million euros over the next few decades? 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 through the local and national...
2008 - Moormann study - Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions in the HTR line!
In this critical study carried out by the Jülich Research Center there can only be one demand: no more euros for HTR and Generation IV research; no construction of the PBMR in South Africa, which would have exactly the problems mentioned! Horst Blume Top of page Notes: 1. Rainer Moormann: "A safety-related reassessment of the operation of the AVR pebble bed reactor and...
THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08
In this critical study carried out by the Jülich Research Center there can only be one demand: no more euros for HTR and Generation IV research; no construction of the PBMR in South Africa, which would have exactly the problems mentioned! Notes: 1. Rainer Moormann: “A safety-related reassessment of the operation of the AVR pebble bed reactor and conclusions for future...
THTR Circular No. 122 August 2008
Top of page Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the nuclear industry worldwide has tended to be on the defensive. When, significantly, a THTR is now being built at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and is being celebrated as a milestone for the future, this is an alarming sign. In 1986 there was no catastrophe in the THTR prototype in Hamm, but...
THTR Newsletter No. 121 May 08
to be at the top of Generation IV: “In fact, IEF-6 (2) is one of the few research institutes in the world that is involved in real construction projects for innovative reactors (e.g. China, South Africa).” – And all in one “Exit country”!! This is not a real solution via the small detour of Euratom, the International Atomic Energy Agency or direct financing from the nuclear industry...
be burdened. WA Westfälischer Anzeiger from June 26.06.2009th, 21.04.2009 Visit from Belene, Bulgaria Westfälischer Anzeiger from April 24.03.2009st, 07.01.2009 BI Hamm goes to the demo in Münster TAZ from March XNUMXth, XNUMX South Africa - showcase PBMR construction site stopped Weekly newspaper from January XNUMXth, XNUMX Dangerous goods - nuclear transports pass through Hamm We are looking for current information . If anyone can help, please send a message to:...
Failed in Germany, rebuilt in China The high-temperature reactor was supposed to be safer than conventional nuclear power plants, but in Germany it only caused problems. Then South Africa tried it and gave up too. Now China wants to build a pebble bed reactor. By Reimar Paul We are looking for current information. If anyone can help, please send a message to:...
Videos and TV clips about the THTR
Hamm-Uentrop will remain with us until the 2030s, will cost one to Modular Reactor (PBMR) will not be built in South Africa... WDR 2009 - 12:50 - Cancer from nuclear power plants Danger from low-level radiation from...
THTR Newsletter No. 120 March 08
also held by political decision-makers. In 2002, Switzerland joined the “Generation IV International Forum” (GIF). Nine countries (USA, France, South Africa, China, Japan...) had already come together to plan and advance the long-term research and development of new, innovative reactors at an international level. This is very...
at HTR line! This calls the entire security architecture of Generation IV into question. The big sell-off: Florian Opitz's documentary shows, using the example of South Africa, among other things, that privatization and nuclear power plants make electricity very expensive. Dear readers: media coverage, Hamm coal-fired power plants, etc... * THTR circular No. 122, August 2008 4.000 signatures for...
THTR Circular No. 119 January 08
particularly reassuring for those affected by cancer, said the SPD parliamentary group leader. The results of such a study would be very helpful, especially in view of the fact that further research has been carried out on high-temperature technology and that it is to be used again in South Africa and China and other parts of the world. .
THTR Newsletter No. 118 December 2007
*** 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 118 Dec 2007, XNUMX Nuclear gangsters! Brutal attack on the South African nuclear research center Pelindaba, where FRG companies produce nuclear fuel for the high-temperature reactor. Fight in the control center where, with the help of the German companies NUKEM...
THTR Newsletter No. 117 November 07
With the lecture “Energy and environmental issues on the island of Mallorca” we introduced the depths of the German national soul quite sensitively. Since the reactor pressure vessel for the South African PBMR is currently being produced in Spain, why not another one for Mallorca? The grateful nuclear friends would have one more attraction there, because here in the Federal Republic of Germany, unfortunately, such a miracle thing...
THTR Newsletter No. 116 September 07
be. The research and development initiative for this so-called 'Generation IV' was launched five years ago by ten countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Switzerland, Great Britain and the United States). Unfortunately, Germany is not there. In this respect, Germany is threatened with being left behind in global development and...
THTR Circular No. 115 August 07
the pebble bed reactor” (4). However, this innovative demand only brought a few votes. But the Wiesbaden-based company SGL Carbon, which produces the graphite for the THTR fuel balls in South Africa, will certainly have been very pleased. Pinkwart calls for the end of Germany as an industrial location and wants “the option of nuclear energy to remain researched so that we can...
have been fully completed. The cooperation agreements of all the companies involved have not yet been concluded. Therefore, the final version of the plans cannot be submitted to the South African Atomic Energy Authority before the end of 2007. It can be assumed that this authority will need at least two years to examine the documents. Construction could therefore begin...
THTR Newsletter No. 113 May 07
“Rat Line”, Part 2 Top of page In part 1 of the article I reported that the Essen High Pressure Tube Works (EHR) with its branch in Dortmund not only supplies parts for the THTR in South Africa, but also for the Atucha nuclear power plant, which was only 1995 percent completed in 80 2 is being built in Argentina. With these business relationships, the EHR stands in an inglorious historical continuity...
THTR Circular No. 112 April 07
Newsletter No. 112, April 2007 Nuclear “Rat Line”: Eichmann and EHR in Argentina The Essen High Pressure Tube Works (EHR) with its branch in Dortmund not only builds parts for the THTR in South Africa, but also for the nuclear power plant, which was only 1995 percent completed in 80 Atucha 2 in Argentina. The EHEA therefore stands in an inglorious historical continuity. Because they were...
THTR Newsletter No. 111 March 07
Focus In Dortmund, the Uhde company and Essener Hochdruck-Ripleitungsbau (EHR) and their Dortmund branch are participating in the construction of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa. Understandably, there was initially a certain need for discussion in Dortmund. The realization that making money by building a death technology is simply immoral must...
was damaged in Hamm's twin town Oranienburg. 25 years ago the first issue of the city newspaper “Der Grüne Hammer” appeared, part 1. Research in North Rhine-Westphalia for new nuclear power plants in South Africa. The never-ending story in the THTR newsletter began with this little article. * THTR Circular No. 77, November 2002 Decommissioning operation: Another 11 years of tax relief for...
THTR Circular No. 110 January 07
Of course, corporations don't spend the 3,5 million euros. The ThyssenKrupp subsidiary Uhde (Dortmund) is already making a killing by spending $20 million on the construction of a nuclear fuel element factory for the THTR in South Africa. When the nuclear business really takes off, profits increase immeasurably. And Pinkwart, who is nostalgic for technology, will also be...
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 118 , December 2007 Nuclear gangsters! Brutal attack on the South African nuclear research center Pelindaba, where FRG companies produce nuclear fuel for the high-temperature reactor. Fight in the control center. Who is behind this highly specialized...
Nuclear bombs are being built worldwide! Plutonium diversion is possible, wrote Lothar Hahn in his report. US military interest in the HTR. Tritium from HTR for nuclear warheads. South Africa: Letter to the Federal Ministry of Research and the answer. PBMR: Investors wanted. Citizen's request for information exchange. Visit of South African NGO delegations to the Ruhr area. Press review....
2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 95, December 2004 The Research Center Jülich is always there: the atomic triangle of Germany, South Africa and Pakistan. GKSS, THTR PAC beads, Urenco and terrorism. Abdul Quadeer Khan's Nuclear Supermarket. International HTR conferences every month! "We are still alive" --...
at today's Ippen-Blatt "tz" (Munich). Laurenz Meyer, Part 19: Expenses and Social Robbery. * THTR Newsletter No. 102, November 2005 SGL Carbon supplies graphite for high-temperature reactor in South Africa! IAEA: The Nuclear Power International received the Nobel Peace Prize. Next time the mafia?? Ver.di on a pro-nuclear course. Joint position paper from unions and energy companies against...
on 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. Electricity gap in Namibia. Uranium and racism (Rössing,...
THTR Circular No. 75 August 02
500 million euros. If the disposal of the Hammer Reactor becomes more expensive than planned, this will not burden the HKG. The country is responsible for 90 percent of the decommissioning." THTR variant in South Africa? Top of page Apparently completely unimpressed by the failure of HTR technology, the nuclear industry is obviously trying a special variant of the THTR, the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor...
THTR Newsletter No. 76 September 02
The author is an employee of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). From: "Junge Welt" from August 28th, 8 INTERNATIONAL Greenpeace action against the planned THTR variant in South Africa Top of page On August 2002th, at the beginning of the World Environmental Summit in South Africa, Greenpeace activists from nine different countries took an action against the planned prototype of the Pebble Bed...
THTR Circular No. 79 January 03
from the last THTR newsletter triggered a considerable number of reactions. The cooperation of a red-green research institution to build a new THTR variant in South Africa startled many people who thought they could sit back and wait with the so-called nuclear phase-out. The opposite is the case. The nuclear industry and...
THTR Circular No. 80 February 03
“The federal government emphasizes the point that further development of nuclear energy in South Africa, which Germany cannot prevent, will have a positive and corrective influence through the Jülich safety analyses. The research center deserves support in this transfer of security standards.” Read the chronicle...
THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03
Circular No. 81 March 2003 Jülich Research Center in Criticism This dubious research center is in public criticism not only because of the controversial development and assistance in the construction of the THTR variant Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) for South Africa, even under a red-green government . The 15 MW HTR from the Jülich Experimental Reactor Association (AVR) was...
can be detected using an orienting measurement program. Together with in-depth investigations, this would be relatively expensive and would have to be financed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Activities against THTR construction in South Africa with German help Top of page One of the largest green district associations in Germany put a lot of effort into it. In January, the KV Münster member newsletter discussed the problem...
Trittin and Verdi boss Bsirske, who is represented on the advisory board of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Institutes, presented our criticism of the export of know-how for the construction of a THTR variant to South Africa and asked for a statement. Bsirske and Bulmahn have answered, Trittin has not yet. We first document the answer of Ver.di chairman Bsirske from April 19.04.2003, XNUMX:...
THTR Circular No. 84 August 03
2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 84 August 2003 VEW in the 80s: Nuclear cooperation with South Africa's racist regime! While in 1987 the citizens' initiatives in the Hamm area fought for its final decommissioning after the major accident in the THTR with all sorts of actions,...
THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03
2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 85 Sept. 2003 Resistance on the Cape - Silence in Germany Events are moving fast in South Africa. The deadline to object to the approval of the environmental impact assessment for the proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) expired on July 25. Numerous protests and public pressure...
THTR Circular No. 87 January 04
After all, 15 regular issues and one extra issue were published during this time! The account number is at the bottom of this page and in the legal notice. Propaganda for the HTR in Germany PBMR in South Africa before the end? Top of page On December 05.12.2003th, XNUMX, the FAZ wrote the following on the top of page one in a comment on the export of nuclear technology to China: "(...) The world was partly surprised, partly...
THTR Circular No. 88 February 04
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 88 February 2004 The nuclear lobby strikes back: HTRs in operation in China and Japan! EU funds for HTR further development! Neither apartheid in South Africa nor the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989 prevented the nuclear industry and its beneficiaries from using intensive lobbying to...
THTR Newsletter No. 89 March 04
and cradle of the atomic pebble bed reactor, a never-ending source of eternal knowledge about the undeniable advantages of HTR technology. Out into the whole world with the good news, to South Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, even the USA! In the luggage is the certificate: Export with the tolerance of the federal government, because security research! The necessary change for these missions goes...
which also reports on the THTR. The "Grassroots Revolution" published a detailed article about the current situation in South Africa and the PBMR in its April issue (No. 288), which is also available on the Internet. The "FugE-News" from Hamm, with a circulation of 2.500 copies, published an article by me in May about EU funding for HTR research. The...
flows away," says Christopher Wesselmann from the VGB Power Tech association. The decommissioned German reactor using this technology at Hamm-Uentrop was too large to be inherently safe, but companies in South Africa are developing smaller models. Unsolved again: the waste problem." Behind "VGB Power Tech" is the well-known "Association of Large Power Plant Operators" from Essen. This has been going on for decades...
THTR Circular No. 92 August 04
A 160-page study on the HTTR in Japan was recently completed a few weeks ago. In 2002 and 1999, the FZJ documented its own work on the further development of the PBMR in South Africa. From the contents of the publications it can be seen that with various specialized test facilities built since the beginning of the 90s, the HTR line still belongs to this day...
THTR Newsletter No. 93 September 04
engineering, design and applications, material and components, safety and licensing, economics, new experimental studies and operation." Al Qaeda in Cape Town and nuclear smuggling Germany/South Africa uncovered! Top of page The fear quoted in the last THTR newsletter that militant Islamists are active in South Africa and are a threat also to the existing and planned...
