Assuming that "experimental reactor“ is needed, became 46 results found.
THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014
The High Temperature Reactor (HTR) on China's Shandong Peninsula is making progress, according to the latest reports. A small HTR experimental reactor has been in operation near Beijing since 2000. From December 2012, a 210 MW “High Temperature Reactor – Pebble Module” (HTR-PM) will be built on the Shandong Peninsula near the former German colonial base...
THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012
the THTR in Hamm. Mayors of the predominantly social democratic municipalities pooled the millions from the respective city coffers and founded the Experimental Reactor Working Group (AVR) for the THTR Jülich. Or they became shareholders in HKG for THTR Hamm and thus joined forces with the energy monopoly VEW. Because he promised them a juicy return and...
THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012
degenerate. All of our critical questions should have been in vain: The accident in 1978? A routine affair! The radioactively contaminated ground beneath the reactor? Can happen in an experimental reactor, not a big deal. The ongoing problems with dismantling? Everything on schedule! The increased rates of leukemia in children in the area? A connection cannot be proven! Without Rainer...
THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011
Research Center in Jülich (FZJ). For a long time, his scientific focus was on the safety of pebble bed reactors (high-temperature reactors, HTR). An experimental reactor of this type (AVR) with a capacity of 15 megawatts was in operation in Jülich until 1988. It was powered by fuel enclosed in graphite spheres and cooled with helium gas...
THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011
FAZ am Sonntag, Focus: They once again discovered their heart for supposedly inherently safe reactor lines where nothing bad can happen. Our THTR in Hamm. Or the small AVR experimental reactor in Jülich. If light water reactors have already fallen into disrepute around the world, why not now rely on pebble bed reactors again and get government subsidies for them, like...
THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010
"Increased". What was meant was the very small thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) in the Jülich Research Center with an electrical output of 13 MW, which was operated by the Experimental Reactor Association (AVR) from 1967 to 1988. However, 11 other nuclear research facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany will also have to be dismantled in the future AVR Jülich, 13 MW electrical output: 612 million euros...
Important books on atomic research, THTR etc.
today's research center in Jülich. For a long time, his scientific work focused on the safety of pebble bed or high-temperature reactors (HTR). An experimental reactor of this type (AVR) with a capacity of 15 megawatts was in operation in Jülich until 1988. Another prototype only ran for 423 days at full load in Hamm-Uentrop until 1989. Both were...
Fort St. Vrain, the original HTR didn't work either
As a precautionary measure, 250 company employees were evacuated to the information center opposite the facility and the surrounding streets were cordoned off. - Water leaks also occurred at the experimental reactor in Jülich..." (5) Greenpeace also reported on another accident on October 3, 1987: "Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant in Colorado: Leaking oil triggers fire in the turbine area....
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
As a precautionary measure, 250 company employees were evacuated to the information center opposite the facility and the surrounding streets were cordoned off. - Water leaks also occurred at the experimental reactor in Jülich..." (7) Greenpeace also reported on another accident on October 3, 1987: "Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant in Colorado: Leaking oil triggers fire in the turbine area....
THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09
It will take 30 to 60 years to subside before sawing robots can get to work." Radioactivity in the groundwater The AVR, with its 15 MW of electrical power, is a tiny experimental reactor. The THTR in Hamm-Uentrop, which is also prone to breakdowns, has an output that is twenty times higher. What problems will occur when dismantling much larger reactors is completely uncertain. -- Der Spiegel...
THTR Circular No. 126 April 09
THTR in Jülich massively contaminated! Top of page It is only rare that critical opinions and independent analyzes find their way into specialist publications on nuclear energy. The General Experimental Reactor (AVR) in Jülich - a small THTR - has been dismantled for several years. Many complications arose and hundreds of millions of euros in costs arose. In addition, the dismantlers were...
2008 - Moormann study - Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions in the HTR line!
(2). With unprecedented openness, this "safety reassessment" reveals for the first time significant problems in the operation and current dismantling of the General Experimental Reactor (AVR) in Jülich and addresses significant radioactive contamination. Here are the results in detail: 1. Many security problems in the AVR have so far been kept secret. "This work...
THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08
official information in the Asse shaft. Thorium is a clear indication that radioactive substances from the THTR Jülich were also stored. The pebble bed reactor of the Experimental Reactor Association (AVR) had an output of 15 MW and was in operation from 1966 (first criticality) to 1988. “By the end of 1985, over 255.000 fuel elements were used in the AVR” (1), according to the...
THTR Circular No. 119 January 08
In 1983 until the closure decision in 1989, the THTR ran a total of 16.410 hours of operation. Short operating time? In contrast to the 15 MW THTR from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor (AVR) in Jülich, the THTR Hamm's output was twenty times higher. According to the operators (Knizia), it was a prototype; represented the first operational version of a special...
THTR Newsletter No. 117 November 07
Cycles in nuclear power plants. There is no mention of the release of radioactivity via exhaust chimneys and wastewater. It is perverse when the following sentence is found in the article about the core meltdown in the Swiss experimental reactor at Lucens: 'From today's perspective, the accident at Lucens must be described as a successful failure. The incident caused reactor and...
THTR Newsletter No. 113 May 07
to the huge country behind the Great Wall, to China. Here he became president of Beijing's Tsinghua University in the 90s and immediately built his own HTR experimental reactor, ushering in the beginning of a new HTR era on this continent. The course has been set. Last year, the “Medium and Long-Term Development Plan for Nuclear Energy 2005 – 2020”...
from Hamm: Arrests at Montanhydraulik. * THTR Newsletter No. 81, March 2003 Research Center Jülich (FZJ) under criticism: Scandals surrounding the decommissioning of the Jülich HTR?s “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor” (AVR). The costs. The NRW state government answers questions about the FZJ's involvement in South African business. The answer is an outrageous imposition (detailed comment from us)!...
THTR Circular No. 79 January 03
Questions about nuclear power and training for employees are used, says Baun. South Africans could soon use answers and training on nuclear power. (...) Even the experimental reactor in Jülich was not spared from accidents. In 1978 there was a water leak in which 25.000 liters of water entered the reactor core via the helium cooling circuit. Critics claim...
THTR Circular No. 80 February 03
which promised that the federal government would cover the costs without specifying anything in return. The struggle with the operator of the research reactor, the Experimental Reactor Association (AVR), was particularly tough. The joint venture of 15 municipal utilities and electricity companies had so far withdrawn from the position that it was not responsible for the disposal of bulky nuclear waste...
THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03
Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) for South Africa, even under a red-green government, this dubious research center is subject to public criticism. The 15 MW HTR of the Jülich Experimental Reactor Association (AVR) was decommissioned in 1988 and is now making headlines and scandals non-stop. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” wrote on February 15, 2 in its national section: “The inconspicuous...
