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THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016
had arrived. Apparently it was believed that the radioactive isotopes blown out would not be noticeable because of the Chernobyl cloud. Dr. Daoud, as representative of the main commissioning company HRB (Hochtemperatur Reaktorbau GmbH) and head of start-up operations, acted on his own authority, which has criminal relevance in view of the release of radioactive substances. The radioactively contaminated bullet fragment...
g/cm³ and is therefore an extremely heavy and hard metal. Bullets made from this material have enormous penetrating power. When the armor is penetrated, the frictional heat creates temperatures of 3 - 5000 degrees Celsius and a cloud of highly toxic, radioactive, highly flammable uranium dust, which immediately sets everything on fire. People and material burn up, fuel and...
March 26, 2014 - THTR research in North Rhine-Westphalia continues!
Blume In the WDR television program “Markt” on March 17, 2014, it was revealed that the research center Jülich (FZJ) and the RWTH Aachen have once again set the course for the further development of high-temperature reactors (HTRs). The small research reactor in Jülich and the THTR 300 in Hamm-Uentrop had to be repaired in 1988 and 1989 after numerous breakdowns and incidents...
THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014
2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 144, Nov. 2014: Contents: 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...
The Jülich Research Center (FZJ) self-appointed expert commission has determined in a 167-page report after three years of research that during the operating period of the high-temperature reactor in Jülich - also known as the “Experimental Reactor Working Group” (AVR) - there were serious accidents and equally serious manipulations and cover-ups by the operators have taken place....
Jun. 04, 2012 - Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up!
Because the population is entitled to complete documentation of the release processes and possible health consequences, including all uncertainties.” Were high reactor temperatures approved? Moormann and Steich conclude by pointing out that in December 1987 it was experimentally determined that the small THTR in Jülich has much higher...
THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012
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 in NRW. Even many people who lived through that time or lived in Hamm...
THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012
iodine and noble gas nuclides, which are problematic in conventional reactors. The positive picture becomes cloudy when other problem nuclides such as cesium, silver or strontium are considered, which can slowly penetrate intact barriers of the spherical fuel element even at normal operating temperatures. This effect, called diffusion, does not exist in conventional fuel elements. The under...
THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011
an anonymous figure who published the video "Collateral Murder" via Wikileaks. Dr. Rainer Moormann, who has been researching high-temperature reactors (HTR) at the Jülich Research Center (FZJ) for 35 years, has made a significant contribution in recent years through scientific publications and lectures to ensuring that the...
THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011
With their miracle reactors there would be neither a disaster nor a nuclear meltdown; they are inherently safe and because of the laws of nature nothing bad can simply happen. It's just unfortunate that their high-temperature thorium reactor (THTR) in Hamm had to be shut down in 1 after an endless series of breakdowns and accidents (1989). In the attempt to dismantle the small 46 MWth (or...
The international INES rating scale and the list of nuclear power plant accidents
vom 11. März 2011 und den darauf folgenden Tsunami kam es im KKW Fukushima-Daini (Fukushima 2) in allen 4 Reaktorblöcken zu einer automatischen Abschaltung. Am 12. März 2011 stieg die Temperatur in den Kondensationskammern von Block 1, 2 und 4 auf über 100 °C und die Druckabbausysteme stellten ihre Funktion ein. Für Fukushima II wurde eine Evakuierungszone von 10 Kilometern Radius angeordnet....
THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010
We had to read it in the media in August 2010: “Costs for dismantling the ex-research reactor have increased”. What was meant was the very small thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) at the Jülich Research Center with an electrical output of 13 MW, which was operated by the Experimental Reactor Association (AVR) from 1967 to 1988. But 11 other nuclear research facilities also have to be built in the Federal Republic of Germany...
HTR Research - The published and true costs
in Dresden, Rossendorf, Zittau, Görlitz, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Garching, Karlsruhe, Bochum, Aachen, Jülich... "Psst, not a word about the extremely embarrassing end of the planned high-temperature reactor in South Africa. Not a word about the 1,5 that was pointlessly wasted on this Billions of euros in the poor country!" This is obviously the motto of the mouthpiece of the nuclear industry, the magazine...
THTR Circular No. 132 July 2010
cost in recent years. That is 70 percent of the cost of building new FIFA stadiums for the World Cup (1). Despite the immense investment of resources, the attempt to build a high-temperature reactor in Africa ended in fiasco. As early as January 2009, the radioactive spherical fuel elements for the PBMR, which were manufactured in South Africa with German help, were shipped by ship to the USA...
Fort St. Vrain, the original HTR didn't work either
the failure of 1985 is accessible again: The operators of HTR precursor Fort St. Vrain in the USA report problems and breakdowns. The USA wants to do more research in the area of high-temperature reactors. We take this as an opportunity to address the previous bad experiences with the American precursor reactor of the HTR line in Fort St. Vrain and document...
THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09
and “bio fools”. It sounds very similar with the NRW ministers Pinkwart (FDP) and Thoben (CDU) 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...
2008 - Moormann study - Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions in the HTR line!
Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions on the HTR line! August 2008 A new investigation (1) by the scientist Rainer Moormann into the operation of the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) AVR in Jülich, which was decommissioned in 1988, not only calls into question the entire previous official safety architecture of this reactor line, but also shakes the statements of the international...
THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08
Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions on the HTR line! Top of page A new investigation (1) by the scientist Rainer Moormann into the operation of the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) AVR in Jülich, which was decommissioned in 1988, not only calls into question the entire previous official safety architecture of this reactor line, but also shakes the statements of the international...
THTR Circular No. 122 August 2008
Federal Research Minister Schavan announced on July 30, 2008 that her ministry would make fresh money available for research on Generation IV nuclear facilities, which also include the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR). According to the Frankfurter Rundschau, it was ten million euros for 2008, 2009 million euros for 13 and 2010 million euros for 14....
Entangled in the network of European uranium transports
The transport containers are again surrounded by protective packaging, the so-called overpack. During transport, there is a negative pressure of 0,1 bar in the airtight container at a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, so that the uranium hexafluoride is always transported in crystalline powder form. According to Urenco, the radioactive radiation on the surface of the steel containers is...
