1. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    can go into operation. After the accident, the operators assumed that Unit A would be put back into operation quickly... Nuclear power plantsPlag Gundremmingen A (Bavaria)... But then the TÜV discovered cracks in the pipes of the cooling circuit and demanded that parts of the reactor be replaced. This was too expensive for the companies, which is why they decided in 1980 to shut down Gundremmingen A forever... 12...

  2. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    The incident was not reported by the operator, but was discovered days later by the supervisory authority during an investigation into another fault at the nuclear power plant. During the subsequent investigation, TÜV Bayern found that an accident that could no longer be controlled had only just been avoided and that there had been serious violations of safety regulations for years. The story of this...

  3. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    requested. The criticism: Konrad does not correspond to the state of science and technology, it is an old mine, and there was no comparative selection process. In a study commissioned by Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, TÜV recently questioned whether an upstream logistics center is even needed. The state government in Hanover positioned...

  4. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    The incident was not reported by the operator, but was discovered days later by the supervisory authority during an investigation into another fault at the nuclear power plant. During the subsequent investigation, TÜV Bayern found that an accident that could no longer be controlled had only just been avoided and that there had been serious violations of safety regulations for years. The story of this...

  5. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    in Betrieb gehen können. Nach dem Störfall gingen die Betreiber von einer zügigen Wiederinbetriebnahme von Block A aus... AtomkraftwerkePlag Gundremmingen A (Bayern)... Dann entdeckte aber der TÜV Risse an Rohren des Kühlkreislaufs und forderte, Teile des Reaktors auszutauschen. Dies war den Konzernen zu teuer, weshalb diese 1980 beschlossen, Gundremmingen A für immer stillzulegen... 1. Januar...

  6. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    District - Pomerania". There is not a meeting of the German environment ministers that goes by that does not involve safety-relevant situations in Belgian or French nuclear power plants... * Isar | TÜV | Safety inspection of light projection on nuclear power plants: Greenpeace protests at Isar 2. It will end on April 15th be with nuclear power - that's what the federal government has decided. It's about time...

  7. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    Manure, manure and leftover food are mixed into a paste. Fermentation produces methane, a biogas that can be used for heating... *** December 08th Neckarwestheim | Continued operation | TÜV test for continued operation of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant. Nuclear reactor needs new TÜV test. The Neckarwestheim II reactor could continue to operate until April 2023. But the TÜV, internal documents show, is only valid until...

  8. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    explained that the waste disposal commission would first be asked to evaluate the report presented by Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia in August. In this report, TÜV Nord came to the conclusion that such a nuclear waste logistics center is not absolutely necessary... * Belgium | Doel | Doel 3 nuclear reactor shut down: Belgium shuts down controversial reactor Enters...

  9. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    came. Accordingly, the operator EnBW loaded a castor that contained a fuel element with radiation levels that were probably too high. The entire process, loading and closing the container, was documented by TÜV. However, there was no reference to the increased radiation levels in the detailed documentation of the process. Only now, during an audit, did the incident become known... *...

  10. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    a total of about 92.000 people immediately. A further 130.000 people died as a result of the attacks by the end of 1945, and countless others died from consequential damage in the years that followed. ** August 08th TÜV Süd | Additional income | Bag filler Controversial additional income: Sauter collected more than 250 euros from TÜV Süd The testing company and the long-time CSU mastermind broke up shortly after the start of...

  11. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    The traditional Swiss newspaper Der Bund quoted him as saying that atomic bombs on the civilian population of the two major cities served "primarily to deter the Soviet Union." * TÜV Süd | Report Federal Environment Ministry sharply criticizes TÜV paper on nuclear power plants Berlin A report on the two Bavarian nuclear power plants has been heavily criticized. The paper does not meet nuclear law...

  12. Nov 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws in the nuclear lobby

    for THTR research and the red-green governments in the federal government and in North Rhine-Westphalia financed and tolerated the THTR further development in the Federal Republic of Germany itself. The FZJ and TÜV Rheinland were mainly involved. This was a very annoying development. But what could we do to counter this? THTR newsletter Since 1987 we have published the THTR newsletter, which appeared monthly at times. The scope...

  13. THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016

    is built and further developed within the EU, 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 a quality certificate. I have written a detailed article about the current state of affairs in this issue. Those to be named by the federal government...

  14. THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013

    "Chancellor" Schröder in "Vorwärts" calls for increased THTR research in order to be able to build these reactors again. FZ Jülich: Markets and promotes pebble bed reactors! The Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) works together with TÜV Rheinland, the Technical University of Dresden and a number of nuclear companies. have been working on the further development of the HTR line for two years as part of the project...

  15. Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2011

    *** July 14, 2011 - Problematic uranium extraction - The Wild West shines brighter than Fukushima *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** June 23, 2011 - The rbb program KONTRASTE reports: TÜV confirms crack in the cooling system of the Berlin research reactor * June 06th, 2011 - Nuclear power plants in France: Nothing works in hot and cold conditions *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** May 11th...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010

    (from South Africa!) is, by the way, still a “full member company” of the VGB today, as are the Experimental Reactor Working Group (AVR Jülich), RWTH Aachen, Stadtwerke Münster or TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH (extraordinary member) and many, many others. The inglorious end of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa is documented in the 32-page study...

  17. HTR Research - The published and true costs

    the Institute for Nuclear Energy Technology at the University of Stuttgart (W. Scheuermann) and the Jülich Research Center (W. von Lensa). Further information can be found in THTR newsletters 107 and 117. * Hamburg "TÜV Nord has specifically expanded the number of employees in the field of nuclear technology in recent years. (...) TÜV Nord is also involved in projects, for example in Finland, Sweden, Argentina or South Africa...

  18. THTR Circular No. 91 July 04

    These small nuclear power plants can be built in the metropolitan areas of Germany. In January 1989 it was announced that the first German testing center for nuclear facilities was to be built by TÜV Hannover in the USSR. "The permanent position was granted to the Soviet Government in connection with the Treaty on Joint Development and...

  19. 1988 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of proliferation in pebble bed reactors

    Isolation of the security debate from the public technical discussion. The amalgamation of interests and the at least ideal interrelationships between official actions, expert services (e.g. TÜV, Society for Reactor Safety = GRS), consulting (e.g. Reactor Safety Commission), large research institutions (e.g. nuclear research facility) and industry ensure that no...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 99 April / May 05

    At the meeting we once again landed on a particularly German matter: In the “Safety and Approval” working group, a certain R. Sartori from the Rheinisch-Westphalian TÜV in Germany gives the eager HTR experts tips for the future. His presentation was: "Lessons from the safety assessment of the THTR Hamm-Uentrop for further developments and assessments...

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