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THTR Newsletter No. 117 November 07
How unabashedly the NUKEM group propagandizes everything that comes along is shown by the fact that it has recently adorned its homepage with the motto of the peace movement: “Swords into plowshares” for its activities “purchasing and marketing Russian uranium components”. ! The next company now also has several years of contacts in South Africa and...
Entangled in the network of European uranium transports
Map of the nuclear world The uranium story INES and the nuclear power plant accidents Low-level radioactive radiation?! Uranium transports through Europe The ABC operational concept Uranium transports throughout Europe International uranium hexafluoride tourism through Germany *** By Gerhard Piper, published on June 30.06.2007, XNUMX in www.telepolis.de The author is a research assistant at the 'Berlin Information Center for...
(USA), Yibin (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Irkutsk (Russia) and Gronau in Westphalia together? At first glance nothing, but at second glance there is an intense atomic relationship: the uranium enricher Urenco is active in all of these places around the globe, with Gronau being one of the central nodes in the radiant spider web. While everyone in Germany is still talking about...
THTR Newsletter No. 113 May 07
to talk about the spherical fuel elements of the high-temperature reactor: “A production facility for HTR fuel was set up near Beijing and put into operation in 1997. Their capacity is 0,5 kg of uranium per day (equivalent to approximately 100 graphite balls per day). At that time, this was considered sufficient for the HTR pilot reactor (10 MWth)” (p. 780). Operator of the new HTR on the peninsula...
THTR Circular No. 112 April 07
heard, signed (1). They want to increase nuclear power in the future. Significantly, both countries today defend themselves against “discriminatory” treatment of Iran because of the uranium enrichment plant (2). For a “good” reason: the atomic bomb must always be taken into account in the supposedly peaceful use of nuclear power. Argentina and Brazil, as well as Iran...
THTR Circular No. 110 January 07
can now be contravened in Dortmund. The newly founded citizens' initiative against nuclear facilities, Contratom, distributed leaflets on "Nagasaki Day" at the beginning of August and criticized the uranium enrichment plants in the USA, in Gronau, Westphalia, the planned one in Iran - and the involvement of local companies in the construction of new high-temperature reactors in South Africa. The...
Group with insider knowledge? Nuclear weapons smuggling in the nuclear triangle of Germany, South Africa and Pakistan: Perpetrators still active! New court cases against Khan's backers in the Federal Republic of Germany and South Africa. Uranium hexafluoride transports through Hamm: Many deficits in hazard prevention. The city of Hamm's response was inadequate. New railway accident in the immediate vicinity of the...
Not 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, Namibia). Sustainably expensive Generation IV (HTR line in EU and FRG). Hydrogen is not just a question of technology. * THTR Newsletter No. 105, March 2006 Nuclear hydrogen from...
THTR Circular No. 75 August 02
be made. Further information: WISE, PO Box 59636, 1040 LC Amsterdam and: http://www.antenna.nl/wise/petitions/pbmr.html Gronau: From September 1st (Anti-War Day) Actions Top of page The uranium conference of the nationwide Anti -Nuclear power movement decided at its meeting in Münster that there would be a 14-day, decentralized uranium action day on Anti-War Day in Gronau with a central rally...
THTR Newsletter No. 76 September 02
leads. In the Nuclear Consensus Treaty, the federal government further assured the nuclear industry that its many privileges would remain intact. In contrast to other energy sources, uranium will continue to be tax-exempt, and in contrast to other risky ventures, the nuclear industry will continue to not have risk-adequate liability insurance for its facilities...
THTR Circular No. 79 January 03
the reactor would have had a higher temperature. In addition, the South African region could face another security problem: the highly enriched uranium required in the high-temperature reactor is weapons-grade. TAZ-Ruhr December 5, 12: The first model of the high-temperature reactor developed in collaboration with the Jülich Research Center (FZJ) underwent its stress test in South Africa...
THTR Circular No. 80 February 03
deals. Construction has not yet started. 4. If so, how is the safety of this nuclear technology assessed, particularly with regard to the possible use of uranium suitable for nuclear weapons? The high-temperature reactor concept envisaged by ESKOM is based on the use of low-enriched uranium. This is not capable of nuclear weapons. South Africa has declared itself as a member of...
THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03
to run all activities under the umbrella term “security research”. The state government does not specify specific boundaries as to where security research begins and ends. Uranium from high-temperature reactors is capable of producing nuclear weapons. The state government claims that the low-enriched uranium used is not capable of producing nuclear weapons. The fact is that the uranium in the...
To prevent nuclear war (IPPNW), very complex measurements were then carried out at the universities of Gießen and Marburg, which demonstrated the nuclear origin of the beads, enriched uranium, plutonium isotopes, americium and curium. In addition to the isotopes typical of nuclear fission, there were also isotopes that occur in the area of fusion. This corresponds to the information in the...
taken are out of date. The relevant pages have now been removed or revised. According to the information available to me, the ESKOM PBMR is intended to be operated with low-enriched uranium - without the addition of thorium. This material is not capable of nuclear weapons. Furthermore, South Africa has declared itself as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and as an accession partner...
THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03
last day before the objection period expired. This is an important partial success! Coincidentally, at exactly that time, a freighter carrying 50 tons of medium-enriched uranium ran aground a few hundred meters off Cape Town. In Germany, those responsible for nuclear power know-how export are trying to keep the problem quiet. For 6 months, Environment Minister Trittin has not only been answering...
THTR Circular No. 88 February 04
Improvements to rod drives carried out due to excessive heating of the upper concrete shield. In December 1997, the Japanese company Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd (NFI) completed the production of the fuel elements for the initial loading with 900 kg of uranium. The first criticality took place on November 10, 1998, and the zero energy tests took place in January 1999....
To get to know the burning of plutonium in pebble bed reactors. (...) Two reference cases were derived from the overview study, one for the use of reactor plutonium in conjunction with uranium, the other for weapons plutonium in conjunction with thorium as breeding material. With both reference cycles it can be demonstrated that the concept of the HTR-350 modular reactor is a very good instrument for...
The incident at the THTR in May 1986 in 'Spiegel'
The helium-filled supply pipes to the reactor core resulted in a kind of traffic jam - the triggering factor for the accident. Graphite balls instead of the steel-coated uranium fuel rods normally used in nuclear reactors: that was the core idea for the high-temperature reactor designed three decades ago by the German physicist and Heisenberg student Rudolf Schulten. The idea promised to...
1988 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of proliferation in pebble bed reactors
Which stations through which the fuel passes is fissile material present in a form that is directly suitable for weapons, ie as plutonium (of any isotopic composition) or as highly enriched uranium 235? At which of these stations can fissile material be diverted for direct military use? At which of these stations can fissile material be branched in a form...
