Assuming that "shut down“ is needed, became 136 results found.
THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03
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 building has now given the federal government a...
THTR Circular No. 87 January 04
was reported. By the way, we reprinted the article as a "historical document" in THTR newsletter Nos. 67 and 68 (2000 and 2001) (see the 'circular'). Although the THTR was shut down in 1989, the Research Center Jülich (FZJ) continued research on this reactor line. Even under red-green. The know-how was transferred to South Africa, where the THTR variant Pebble...
'It can be designed in such a way that if the cooling fails, it switches off and the residual heat flows away by itself,' says Christopher Wesselmann from the VGB Power Tech association. The decommissioned German reactor using this technology at Hamm-Uentrop was too large to be inherently safe, but companies in South Africa are developing smaller models. Unsolved again: the waste problem." Behind "VGB Power...
List of incidents at THTR - collected by Horst Blume
a supply air valve during recurring testing. June 20.06.1989, 1989: Failure of the control function of a relief valve for the hot reheating (HZUE). * In September 23.02.1990 the THTR was shut down. But what is a real accident reactor is of course still disruptive: February 28.03.1990, 09.05.1990: An empty fuel can crashes. March XNUMX, XNUMX: Bearing damage on an exhaust fan. May XNUMX, XNUMX: Not...
THTR Circular No. 97 February 05
In Chernobyl in 1986, a major accident occurred in the high-temperature reactor immediately after it was put into operation. Three years later it was shut down after heated disputes, and today, as a reactor line with an eco-label in China, Japan and perhaps also in South Africa, it ushered in a spectacular global renaissance of nuclear power. During the long construction period of 14...
THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05
wrote. Wang recognized his country's growing energy needs and convinced the nomenklatura in Beijing. (...) The University of Tsinghua received money, first bought the decommissioned machines for producing the fuel balls from the Germans, then China acquired the plans drawn up in Germany for the small pebble bed reactor"!!! The "forgotten" HTR-Hanau scandal Bei the...
THTR Newsletter No. 99 April / May 05
put into behavior. The federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have a great interest in ensuring that the shareholders of HKG and the electricity industry bear as high a share as possible of the future costs of the decommissioned THTR." THTR nuclear waste is becoming more and more expensive! Top of page There are 348 containers stored in the Morsleben nuclear waste repository in Saxony-Anhalt (200 l barrels) nuclear waste from the THTR Hamm. In the 90s...
The construction of a new HTR is planned today. Horst Blume South Africa: Subjective approach to a distant country Top of page Renaissance. The THTR in Hamm, fought down after 14 years, had to be shut down in 1989. But after another 14 years it became apparent that the nuclear industry and its allies at the Jülich Research Center had continued to work on their dangerous plans in order to...
THTR Circular No. 104 January 06
Events" further delays in the dismantling attempts. In March 1999, the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry for Economic Affairs and Small Business, Technology and Transport reported: "Radioactively contaminated water has been found in the concrete chamber system of the decommissioned AVR experimental reactor in Jülich. (...) The measured specific activity in the concrete aqueous humor, largely caused by the radionuclide...
THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06
By the way, they went home in Hamm pretty confident after the event, because they now know that if necessary they can still be as strong as before. It was not for nothing that the reactor was shut down in 1989. (This article was already published in WA on March 08.03.2006, XNUMX with a photo of the campaign as a letter to the editor!) Horst Blume Medien-Echo Top of page It's certainly not a bad sign if...
THTR Circular No. 106 April 06
a foreign word here so far. Since the beginning of January 2006, the completely unprofitable 30-year-old coal-fired power plant "Van Eck" in Windhoek has been restarted, even though it had officially been shut down for ten years. The energy supplier Nampower is now running campaigns to save electricity and is trying to quickly make up for neglected efforts in the alternative energy sector. First...
THTR Circular No. 108 August 06
Blume THTR waste to the Baltic Sea: Is the tourism meltdown now coming? Top of page As we have already reported in THTR newsletter No. 104, the smaller research THTR (AVR) in Jülich, which was decommissioned in 1988, is currently being dismantled and dismantled in a complex process. The cost of this is no longer stated to be 400 million euros, but rather 500 million is being talked about more and more often. The...
THTR Newsletter No. 95 December 2004
(Young World - November 04.11.2004, 1989). In the area around Geesthacht, radioactive PAC microspheres that were barely visible to the eye were found in soil samples. Exactly those that were used for the fuel elements in the thorium high-temperature reactor (THTR) Hamm-Uentrop, which was decommissioned in XNUMX, and were manufactured in the notorious Hanau nuclear plants. There, too, researchers only found a few hundred meters...
THTR Newsletter No. 103 December 2005
– That’s terrible and so completely new! The ISR has a nice suggestion ready, at least in terms of volume: By using it in a light water reactor (which, please, cannot be shut down), the original plutonium mass is reduced by 50% and is therefore more manageable, although the radioactivity remains. Major problems such as the long-term safety of the final disposal of...
Reactor failure THTR - communication
will they try to get there! South Korean President Moon shut down South Korea's oldest reactor, Kori-18.06.2017, on June 1, 2040 and the remaining reactors were to be decommissioned by 25 (2022 fewer reactors). MIK couldn't put up with that. Since May XNUMX, the well-known corrupt nuclear clique has been back in power in South Korea with a wafer-thin majority...
in this country, was already more problem than enough for the comrades in North Rhine-Westphalia and then also this unspeakable scandal in tranquil Hamm.... In 1989 the THTR was shut down. The dismantling will take decades and cost several million euros. In 1991, the most modern cooling tower in Europe, located directly on the A2 Dortmund - Hanover motorway, was blown up. 1. Was he simply...
