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THTR Newsletter No. 116 September 07
Properties significantly better than our current systems. That's why the dream of HTR proponents is to build many such small modules next to each other. But then they run into an economic problem: small modules are more expensive per megawatt of installed capacity than large ones. This is actually not an option because there are no fully developed modules. In principle we work...
THTR Circular No. 115 August 07
was therefore in the area where a stay in the event of a disaster could have potentially fatal consequences. In 2007, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management wrote in a brochure about the dangers of transporting uranium hexafluoride: “People are exposed to severe poisoning and chemical burns at a distance of up to 500 m...
sobering temporal dimensions within which the nuclear industry's extremely laborious attempts to make progress are moving. In the November 2006 issue of the magazine atw (Nuclear Economy), a four-page article boldly claimed that the “basic design” of the PBMR had already been completed in 2005 and that the reactor would be put into operation in 2010...
THTR Newsletter No. 113 May 07
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 113, May 2007 The HTR in China: “..... which originally comes from Germany” (1) 19 pages are about nuclear power in China in the “atw” (Nuclear Economy), the heart and soul of enthusiastic nuclear fetishists. It is also a small homage to Wang Dazong, who appeared in the brilliantly dressed up...
THTR Circular No. 112 April 07
most of them in the armed forces' research facilities. About a third of them found jobs at Argentine universities. The number of scientists who became active in the private sector cannot be determined. As a result of research in the Berlin Document Center, around 40 percent of those working in the civil service were members of the NSDAP...
THTR Newsletter No. 77 November 02
to make your point of view clear? 5. Is the tax exemption already legally binding? 6. Why was the partial tax exemption granted until 2009? The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Small Business, Technology and Transport of the State of NW replied: "With your letter you request, with reference to an alleged communication (What a German!, THTR-RB) in the 'taz -...
THTR Circular No. 79 January 03
The paper expressly confirms that research in the field of nuclear technology, particularly in the area of safety, remains free. “This is primarily intended to underline the possibility of private sector involvement,” says Ziegler. This is the case in South Africa. - This is what the WA wrote. on December 20, 12. Questions from the citizens' initiative Top of page On November 2002, 29.11.2002, we...
THTR Circular No. 84 August 03
the social democratic supervisory boards at RWE and VEW. The SPD-led state government also: "'Everyone has to examine their involvement in South Africa with their conscience', says the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which is probably aware that the state government could exert more than just philosophical influence through the Westdeutsche Landesbank, which is involved in VEW " (September 7, 9). Only after...
THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03
August had to be extended. During this time, the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce, which previously supported the construction of the PBMR just 28 km north of the city of three million people in Koeberg, reassessed the economic viability of this planned reactor. In recent days it has been announced that huge natural gas fields have been discovered on the west coast of South Africa! This event has...
THTR Circular No. 88 February 04
HTTR full load for the first time. However, the so-called high-temperature operation could not take place due to technical problems. In the various articles in the magazine "Atomwirtschaft" (atw) it was pointed out several times that the extensive know-how from Germany was used in the development of the HTTR. This particularly applies to the “recipe” for...
THTR Newsletter No. 89 March 04
Specialist conferences, panel discussions, workshop discussions and conferences of all kinds ensure lively and exciting intellectual exchange. A close dialogue between science, politics and business that is unparalleled. No question, the ministers and state secretaries, some of whom sit on the supervisory board of this research center, learn here on site - if necessary with the help of tried and tested...
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the anniversary conference in Moscow with several hundred scientists to look hopefully into the future. And where this hope is combined with tangible economic interests, the HTR lobby is not far away. On June 30, 6, Christopher Schrader prays the same thing on the science page of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" in a fairly uncritical way...
The incident at the THTR in May 1986 in 'Spiegel'
What turned the incident into a scandal was the company's attempt to cover everything up. When the reactor breakdown became known piece by piece last week and the North Rhine-Westphalian Economics Minister Reimut Jochimsen initially shut down the nuclear power plant, a favorite argument of West German nuclear politicians was invalidated: that the domestic reactors were the safest in the world. The incident...
1986 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of safety at HTR
However, this doesn't help, as the ball pile is repeatedly compacted by retracting the rods. The ball breakage rate is much higher than predicted. While in the "Atomwirtschaft" (atw) from December 1982, in an article by employees of Hochtemperatur-Reaktorbau GmbH, it is said that "in two years of operation, on average only one fuel element is removed from the core rods...
THTR Newsletter No. 93 September 04
They underline the need for energy policy to turn more towards 'clean air' energy options, such as nuclear energy and renewable energies." The European Economic and Social Committee adopted positive opinions on the "Green Paper" and the "Nuclear Package" and confirmed them at its plenary session on February 25.02.2004, XNUMX with a very large majority: "In connection with...
THTR Newsletter No. 94 October 04
So nothing other than unconditional nuclear funding can be expected - unless the requirements are fundamentally changed. The Green Foreign Minister Fischer, as the economically most powerful representative in the European Convention, failed to work towards the latter during the constitutional deliberations in 2003. The result is that the EU Industry Committee not only supports the increase in...
THTR Circular No. 96 January 05
is handled. There are only four years left until 2009. Does the NRW state government have concrete ideas about what it thinks should happen to the bankrupt ruins and is it trying to pressure the electricity industry to finally pay a share of the decommissioning costs? We would like to know that before the state elections in May 2005 and asked on January 3, 1 with a longer list of questions...
THTR Circular No. 97 February 05
their dismantling. In addition to non-violent actions, constructive work for a new social order was propagated as methods. This means that the realization of alternative ways of life in the economy, society and politics until - I quote - "a dense carpet of grass gradually forms from the thousand grass roots of the individual initiatives, which profoundly affects our society (...)...
THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05
years into operation. This would mean China taking a pioneering role in nuclear technology. The country urgently needs new energy sources to satisfy the booming economy's hunger for energy." The friends of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) are also on board: "South African President Thabo Mbeki announced that he would work with China to further develop the technology. .
on apartheid crimes, spoke out in November 2004 and heavily criticized the ANC (8). He castigated the enrichment of a black elite as part of the ANC economic program and criticized the fact that there was no longer a critical and open debate in the ANC. Tutu's words also found some resonance within the ranks of the ANC. But with 69,68 percent, the ANC received...
