1. THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018

    Rudolf Schulten Oak Ridge 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 escapes! “Thessaloniki: The Destruction of...

  2. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018

    (free version) * Monitoring for nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons October 23, 2018 - Neutrinos reveal illegal plutonium production * Problems in the underground nuclear waste storage facility October 22, 2018 - More water penetrates - Asse residents demand more speed in evacuation * October 22, 2018 - Cracks in the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant more dangerous than previously known * Japan - Fukushima... October 22, 2018 - Fukushima:...

  3. THTR Newsletter No. 149 December 2017

    the steam generators and reactor vessel in final assembly, Wu said. Prominent work includes the final testing of the steam generator, which transfers heat from helium coolant to a water/steam loop. Wu said these should be completed by next April” (1). So bullets are still being loaded and the functionality of the...

  4. Special unit rescue ABC

    The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), as the federal disaster protection organization, is responsible for providing extensive technical assistance in the event of an incident: rescue, clearing, power and water supply, bridge construction, etc. Since 2005, the THW has been setting up special deployment formations to help rescue buried people to be able to locate and rescue collapsed houses under ABC conditions....

  5. Analytical task forces

    to determine, ie with the help of remote sensing or exploration in the field, the quantitative distribution of the substances can be determined mainly in the air, but if necessary also in the soil and water. When the analytical facts are available, the data research begins so that the final step is to advise the operations management on operational tactics or medicine and the environment."...

  6. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2017

    Geothermal energy is taboo * France - Areva - EDF July 22, 2017 - Can France no longer afford its nuclear power plants? * July 15, 2017 - Fukushima nuclear power plant: operator wants to release water contaminated with tritium into the sea * July 10, 2017 - France could close up to 17 nuclear reactors *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Components fake June 29th. 2017 - Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant: Despite...

  7. Dec 18, 2016 - OLG rejects revision - unusually high judgment for anti-nuclear chain action is legally binding

    to encourage people to deal with the dangers of uranium transport and nuclear facilities. The train was carrying over 400 tons of uranium hexafluoride. This toxic substance reacts with water to form hydrofluoric acid, which in turn can form deadly toxic gas clouds and cause severe chemical burns even in small quantities. Train accidents also occur again and again in Germany and...

  8. The uranium story

    (1749 – 1832) Faust. The first part of the tragedy, 1808. Mephistopheles speaks to Faust. * The creation of uranium After the Big Bang around 13,8 billion years ago, the light elements hydrogen (H1) and helium (He2) were first created. As the universe evolved, increasingly 'heavier elements' were created through nuclear reactions in stars. The explosions of young stars 'vaccinate'...

  9. Apr. 26, 2016 - 30 years after Chernobyl - 5 years after Fukushima

    a. But we should take the Chinese as an example. They abolished the 'one-child policy' in 2015 and are instead increasingly focusing on the expansion of nuclear energy, worldwide, on water and on land, regardless of the country. The main thing is that population growth is slowed down and the gross national product goes down like Schmidt's cat. This is how forward-looking, efficient politics works. 5 years...

  10. From uranium mining and processing, to nuclear research, the construction and operation of nuclear plants including nuclear power plant accidents, to dealing with nuclear waste and nuclear weapons! - Worldwide, almost, everything at a glance with Google Maps

    Percent of original radioactivity. These spoil heaps are exposed to wind and weather - the wind blows the radiant particles from the spoil heaps in all directions - the rainwater seeps through the heaps and contaminates more and more soil and the groundwater... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki /Nuclear energy#burdens_due_to_uraniummining...

  11. THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013

    electricity, even though they live in close proximity to the power plant. When they protested, police forcibly evicted them from their villages and bulldozed their homes. The hot cooling water destroyed all the fish in the coastal waters, forcing fishermen to travel far out in motorboats to catch just a few tiny fish that no one wants to buy. Most of the villagers...

  12. THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013

    Reactor is misleading, however. According to the original report (Chinadaily Europe, January 6.600, 6), behind the grandiosely named 1 MW there are various well-known pressurized water blocks with 2013 MW with several expansion stages and only a single HTR with 6.400 MW. In the original announcements from China, not only is there no reference to Jülich's “pioneering work”,...

  13. THTR Circular No. 143 June 14

    No further safety-related analyzes were carried out.” + “There was no environmental monitoring program,” says Christian Küppers, explaining why the contamination of the water in the foundation concrete chambers was only discovered “accidentally” 20 years after the 1978 accident – ​​in a rainwater canal that flows over a mill pond into the Rur. As the cause of...

  14. THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012

    could affect the winegrowers' harvest, in some cases there were no specific nuclear concerns that spurred resistance in southern India. The water released from the nuclear power plants will increase sea temperatures and endanger fishermen's fishing grounds. When tens of thousands now put up resistance like in Kudankulam, then this inevitably also calls out the "friends...

  15. Jun. 04, 2012 - Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up!

    Moormann and the journalist Jürgen Streich to Christian Küppers, the chairman of the investigative commission that deals with the history of the accident and the previously unresolved radioactive water leak at the AVR in Jülich in 1978. Significantly, the Research Center Jülich (FZJ) has allowed the two critics of the pebble bed reactor to release detailed information...

  16. THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012

    and the Essen tube works earned a lot from the nuclear deal -- and the construction in South Africa failed! 1,5 billion euros were wasted in South Africa. THTR research Because the light water reactors have fallen into disrepute due to the current accidents, there is now a risk that the HTR line will be brought back out of the mothballs in many countries. Research continues...

  17. THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012

    have to accept whatever arguments were presented to us. We would have had to capitulate to the constant bombardment with highly technical vocabulary. We would never have known about the behavior of this reactor in the event of water ingress, which is quite comparable to Chernobyl, and would never have even noticed that this reactor in Jülich probably only escaped a nuclear explosion by a hair's breadth...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 137 December 2011

    Poland won't exactly build the HTR as its first nuclear reactor. Because the first companies willing to cooperate have something different to offer: "Areva and Westinghaus are sending pressurized water reactors with an output of 1100 to 1650 MW into the race, while GE Hitachi wants to build a boiling water reactor with 1600 MW" (4). The decision should be made in 2013. But we shouldn't...

  19. 28.03.2011/XNUMX/XNUMX - Tepco is the end of the market economy

    go out. Any other action would not be responsible. Klaus Töpfer This means: Energy can no longer be left to a fictitious “energy market”. But how then do raw materials, food, water, currencies, credit, transport, medicines, chemical products and telecommunications? In most economic sectors there are incalculable risks for the community, the consequences of which...

  20. THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011

    are still praised by interested circles in the professional world, in business and in politics for being "inherently safe": In contrast to light water reactors, for example, there is no risk of a core meltdown; Nuclear catastrophes are therefore not to be feared. Dr. In his investigations, Moormann came to the conclusion that...