1. THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012

    The research center and the DOE have been positive. The federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are supporting these discussions, especially since the transport required in this case would no longer be aimed at further interim storage in Germany, but would lead to the permanent storage of the fuel in the country of origin. The DOE has shown itself generally open to removing the AVR fuel elements from...

  2. THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010

    contaminated the soil due to a problem with the strontium-90 steam generator. Also expensive for taxpayers are around 300.000 spent fuel balls, which are stored in 152 Castor containers in an interim storage facility on the Jülich site. These Castor containers will soon have to be moved to the interim nuclear storage facility in Ahaus, as there is only a deadline for their disposal in Jülich until 2013...

  3. THTR Newsletter No. 131 May 2010

    - including the Gronau uranium enrichment plant and the Duisburg nuclear waste conditioning plant. NRW is a center of nuclear energy and is massively affected by the dangers: Ahaus: Hundreds of nuclear waste transports have been approved for the interim storage facility, "on average twice a week"! From 2011, 152 castors with highly radioactive nuclear waste are scheduled to arrive from the Jülich Research Center -- but...

  4. THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010

    announced: A lot of things can “fall over” even in normal operation. 24.04.10/24/12.30 -- Large Chernobyl demonstration in Ahaus Top of page On April XNUMXth at XNUMX p.m. the central NRW demonstration for the Ahaus interim storage facility begins at Ahaus train station. We want to remember the Chernobyl disaster and demand an immediate nuclear phase-out. NRW is a center of the nuclear industry, which is why we believe it is necessary here in Münsterland...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 129 December 09

    A total of four nuclear power plants are in operation, construction or planning. VEW is also a member of the German Society for the Reprocessing of Nuclear Fuels, which is responsible for the construction of the interim nuclear waste storage facility in Ahaus and the reprocessing plant in Gorleben. For about half a year, we organized, developed materials, distributed leaflets, organized groups and individuals...

  6. THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09

    Cargo: 198 spherical fuel elements, some with highly enriched uranium, which have become stuck and cannot be removed. In two years, the core will be locked in a specially built interim storage facility on the research center site. It is one of the most complicated and dangerous dismantling of a nuclear facility that the world has seen to date. A whole...

  7. Chernobyl anniversary 2009

    the continued operation of nuclear power plants. Cécile Lecomte from the French network Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire” spoke out against uranium transport from France to Gronau and from La Hague to the Ahaus interim storage facility and invited resistance to the construction of new nuclear power plants in France. Felix Ruwe from the BI “No Nuclear Waste in Ahaus” also announced massive resistance to new...

  8. THTR Circular No. 126 April 09

    can, the NRW state government is investing many millions in further development and even wants to build new high-temperature reactors in NRW after the federal election! Jülich: The nuclear research center's interim storage facility is to be evacuated by 2013 - to Ahaus! But the lightweight construction hall in Ahaus is not a solution, but rather obscures the basic problem: There is no long-term safe disposal of...

  9. THTR Newsletter No. 124 December 2008

    The traditional Advent Sunday walk begins at 7 p.m. in front of the Ahaus interim storage facility on Sunday, December 11, 2008. The traditional Advent Sunday walk is planned to walk around the facility Level crossing on a private track. The Münster district government is currently pumping 21.12.2008 euros into...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 93 September 04

    2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR circular no. 93 Sept. 2004 Ministry responds to problems with THTR containers in Ahaus In response to our request from July 30.07.2004, 13.08.2004 about an incident in the interim fuel storage facility (BEZ), we received on August 15.07.2004, XNUMX from Ministry of Transport, Energy and State Planning of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia gave the following answer: "On July XNUMX, XNUMX...

  11. THTR Circular No. 96 January 05

    Sit-ins are planned in Dresden and Ahaus. Decentralized actions should take place at as many places as possible along the transport routes. When the castors arrive in Ahaus, the interim storage facility is immediately closed again through blockades in order to prevent the transport trucks and shock absorbers from returning. So there is enough time for everyone interested to do their own activities...

  12. THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05

    The warehouse resembles a “stalactite cave” and the nuclear waste castors continue to rust. The faulty pressure switch of a Castor container triggered the monitoring system of the Ahaus interim fuel storage facility on Sunday. However, the nuclear container was completely sealed at all times and radioactivity did not escape, the operating company “Brennelemente-Zwischenlager Ahaus” announced on...

  13. THTR Newsletter No. 102 November 05

    The focus of the initiatives was on the demand for an immediate nuclear phase-out. This also includes the closure of the Gronau uranium enrichment plant, a storage stop for the Ahaus interim storage facility and the closure of the Lingen nuclear power plant. In total, around 7000 people demonstrated in Lüneburg. The demonstration is also a signal to the Berlin negotiating rounds...

  14. THTR Circular No. 104 January 06

    gave Energiewerke Nord (EWN) GmbH further responsibility and in this elegant way got rid of a major problem. The originally East German company EWN has already dismantled interim storage facilities for nuclear submarines in Murmansk and the Greifswald nuclear power plant. As deputy chairman of the supervisory board, the "trade unionist" Jobst Weißenborn from IG assists...

  15. THTR Circular No. 106 April 06

    The Nuclear Container Company (GNB) from Essen and Mühlheim/Ruhr supplied the nuclear waste. It is the same company that manufactured the 1992 THTR Castors for transport to the Ahaus interim storage facility in 305. In order for nuclear operations to run like clockwork, the maintenance staff must of course also be in top shape. The “World Association of Nuclear Operators” (WANO), which...

  16. THTR Circular No. 108 August 06

    the speech. The mining in Jülich is carried out by the federally owned company Energiewerke Nord (EWN). Since 1998, this same EWN has been operating an interim storage facility for low- and medium-level waste a few kilometers from the holiday island of Rügen in Lublin. It is called the North Intermediate Storage Facility (ZLN). The scope and time period have so far been limited: 6.700 tons have been able to be stored there for up to two years...

  17. Reactor failure THTR - communication

    ... So I went to work and ordered the first domain - www.thtr-a.de - THTR-A was the name of the transport container with which the spent fuel balls from the THTR were brought to the interim storage facility in Ahaus. Back in 1989, when the THTR was finally switched off, the people responsible for the radiation were quietly crying to themselves that the politicians had caved in and left them hanging...

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