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1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events
As of March 31, 2016, there have been 447 reportable events since commissioning, two of which involved increased radioactivity emissions... May 13, 1978 (INES Class.?) Nuclear power plant AVR Jülich, DEU Wikipedia de pebble bed reactor AVR (Jülich) A water intrusion accident in the Jülich experimental reactor, the was only assigned to the then lowest category C, which led to high contamination of the cooling circuit and...
AFP reported on Friday evening, citing information from the public prosecutor's office, that Kaili had been arrested. Other media reported that Kaili was being questioned by police... * China | Pebble bed reactor | HTR-PM | Shidaowan China's demonstration HTR-PM reaches full power The gas-cooled high-temperature demonstration reactor with pebble pile module module (HTR-PM) at the Shidaowan site in the...
Newsletter XVIII 2022 - April 28th to May 04th - News+ wind vanes and pocket fillers in tireless use
show how it is now trying to improve returns and image with solar parks. But this threatens to result in the loss of several hundred hectares of forest. * May 04, 1986 - (INES 0) Nuclear power plant THTR 300 The pebble bed reactor THTR-300 in Hamm-Uentrop, also known as the bankruptcy reactor, was shut down in 1989 after 12 years of construction and one year of operation. The incident with which the operators of the THTR sought the favor of...
THTR Circular No. 152, December 2019
that Urenco wants to produce. The federal government writes: “TRISO fuels are very robust nuclear fuels that were used, for example, in pebble bed reactors (AVR, THTR). (...) However, since the beginning of the 70s, some of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs' reactor safety research have been and are still working on...
THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018
and readers! Kugel-Rudi “not entirely legal” gone astray! On August 16, 2018, WDR broadcast a very special “sign of the times” on the radio about the “father of German nuclear technology” and alleged pebble bed reactor inventor Rudolf Schulten (1923 – 1996), also known as “Kugel-Rudi” in his institute (1) . The author of the fourteen-minute program was Martin Herzog, who appeared in the WDR film in 2009...
Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018
of radiant mud: into the sea off Cardiff * From the beginning there were many false assumptions, optimistic announcements, incredible delays and many, many disruptions - both at the pebble bed reactor AVR in Jülich, the THTR in Hamm and now also at the HTR-PM in China . October 09th, 2018 - New attempt for an old idea * October 07th, 2018 - The eighth postponement * The THTR successor in...
THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017
with the THTR fuel elements from Jülich and Hamm and criticized the decision-making process as being non-transparent (2). In his opinion, the two pebble bed reactors represent a much bigger problem in terms of disposal than the waste from light water reactors, both in terms of their quantity (455 castors) and their properties. It goes on to say in the open...
Nov 19, 2016 - Pebble bed reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws in the nuclear lobby
Nov. 19, 2016 On November 19, 2016, the BUND NRW and the Nature and Environmental Protection Academy NRW held the well-attended seminar “Spherical pile reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws of the nuclear lobby” in Hamm with 35 participants. Lectures were given by: - Jürgen Streich (review) - Dr. Rainer Moormann (overview - technology - risk potential) - Uwe Hiksch (overview worldwide) -...
THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016
Cooperation Poland - Great Britain New fairy tales about the THTR dismantling Greetings from the BI Ahaus on the anniversary Greetings from the BBU Laurenz (Meyer), the Taschen-Füller (episode 22) Event on pebble bed reactors etc. on November 19th, 11 in Hamm 2016 years of BI environmental protection Hamm! A total of around 40 participants took part in the bike tour to mark the 40th anniversary of BI Environmental Protection on June 4, 2016...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. since 2011
Ban the “safe enclosure” of nuclear power plants * On November 19, 2016, the BUND NRW and the Nature and Environmental Protection Academy NRW held the well-attended seminar “Spherical pile reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws of the nuclear lobby” with 35 participants in Hamm. Horst Blume gave a lecture on the resistance against the THTR in the Federal Republic of Germany and South Africa,...
Studies on the THTR from 1986 to 2015
and much more. THTR breakdown list The HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' Studies related to the THTR *** Critical studies on nuclear energy and especially on the concept of the high-temperature, pebble bed reactor have existed from the beginning. However, not all studies made it to the public, others were discredited... 2015 - INWORKS study - Leukemia even with the slightest radiation Study on...
THTR Newsletter No. 145 May 2015
The conspicuous interest in this special nuclear technology is rationally understandable. The uranium-plutonium nuclear fuel of the pebble bed reactor developed in the 60s can be further enriched and thus used to build atomic bombs. This was also one reason why the USA reacted so indignantly in the 60s, because the Federal Republic initially...
March 26, 2014 - THTR research in North Rhine-Westphalia continues!
took another step. The supervisory board of the FZJ, in which the red-green NRW state government is also represented with a seat and vote, approved at the end of 2013 that the fanatical pebble bed reactor promoter Prof. Hans-Josef Allelein (born in 1952) will continue to work for five years until his retirement HTR reactor line is allowed to conduct research! Accordingly, this nuclear fan appears boldly in the...
Hamm SPD coal power makes energy companies happy Dear readers! * THTR Newsletter No. 141, July 2013 After 26 years: Will the THTR accident be forgotten? Here are the facts again. Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up! Hamm: Found tons of bullets -- and now? Nuclear terrorism: Not "crazy" Khan villains, but governments...
THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013
is. The USA is interested in collecting the HEU, which was once so generously distributed, so that it cannot be used to build atomic bombs. “A total of around 1977 kg of HEU for pebble bed reactors were delivered to Germany from the USA by 1250.” THTR fuel elements are an invitation for terrorists! In this situation, the two scientists appear with their new investigation...
THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014
published (10): - “Experimentally supported assessment of accident scenarios for high-temperature reactor fuel systems” (atw, November 2013). - “Researchers clarify an important question about the pebble bed reactor” (atw, March 2014). - “A method for evaluating the graphite structures of a VHTR” (atw, April 2014). - “A Reliability Assessment Methodology for VHTR’s Passive Safety Systems”...
THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013
The high-temperature reactor (HTR) developed with tax money at the Jülich Research Center is now being built in China. In old issues of the THTR newsletter we reported that it was no coincidence that this pebble bed reactor was planned on the Shandong Peninsula, the former German colonial base until 1914. At that time it was said that the HTR would go into operation in 2010. Because of...
THTR Newsletter No. 140 December 2012
Rainer Moormann (2) dead and discredited for all eternity – one would think! But none of this challenges a tiny group of incorrigible, ultra-fanatical supporters of the pebble bed reactor in Jülich. They want to continue to earn money from the further development of the chaos reactor in a very selfish way. You haven't learned anything else. The Aachener Zeitung from July 25, 7...
Jun. 04, 2012 - Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up!
June 04th, 2012 Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up! By Horst Blume On May 15, 2012, Rainer Moormann and the journalist Jürgen Streich turned to Christian Küppers, the chairman of the investigative commission that was dealing with the history of the accident and the previously unresolved radioactive water leak at the AVR in 1978 in Jülich...
THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012
2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 *** THTR Newsletter No. 139, June 2012 Contents: According to 26 XNUMX years: Black-out in the event of a THTR incident? Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up! Found tons of bullets - what now?? Nuclear terrorism: Not "crazy" villains, but power-hungry governments!...
Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2012
Private households pay for industry *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** June 19, 2012 - Radioactive cloud, authorities misled Fukushima refugees * June 04, 2012 - Particle bed reactor in Jülich: The On the trail of attempts by the operators to cover up! Horst Blume On May 15, 2012, Rainer Moormann and the journalist Jürgen Streich turned to Christian Küppers, the...
Non-violent against nuclear power in India: Kudankulam Dear readers! * THTR Newsletter No. 139, June 2012 After 26 years: Will the THTR accident be forgotten? Here are the facts again. Pebble bed reactor in Jülich: On the trail of the operators' attempts to cover up! Hamm: Found tons of bullets -- and now? Nuclear terrorism: Not "crazy" Khan villains, but governments...
THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012
This year a 122-page booklet with contributions from several authors and Moormann himself was published for the award ceremony. The book is about the accidents in the two pebble bed reactors in Jülich and Hamm, about attempts at cover-up by operators and at the Research Center Jülich (FZJ). And the struggle of a single scientist to discover the truth of a broader...
THTR Newsletter No. 137 December 2011
about the alleged advantages of the HTR line. It is only a stone's throw from Poland to Dresden-Rossendorf, where Professor Hurtado, who originally trained in Jülich, is busy promoting pebble bed reactors. The disaster in Fukushima has not dissuaded the government in Poland from its plans. She wants to start building a nuclear power plant in 2016...
THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011
The founding of the VDW was both an expression of a new sense of responsibility among the scientists gathered there after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Criticism of the pebble bed reactor is strengthened The BI Environmental Protection Hamm has been focusing on the dangers and accidents of the same type of reactor as in Jülich for 36 years and feels...
THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011
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, as has been the case in the social democratic home state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1961? It's just stupid that a three-part WDR series and the...
THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010
Additional chapter on high-temperature reactors is intended to eliminate the last doubt. There is a reference to Jülich: "Furthermore, with the AVR pebble bed reactor, which was put into operation for the first time in Germany in 1967, it is possible to reload fuel elements and unload spent fuel elements during ongoing operation." -- And of course not a single word about incidents, uncontrolled...
THTR Circular No. 132 July 2010
Advantage over the Federal Republic of Germany: It does not have a radiant reactor ruin like the THTR Hamm, whose nuclear waste has to be looked after for thousands of years. The depressed nuclear community has lost an important prestige object in the form of the pebble bed reactor in South Africa. The "18th International Conference on High Temperature Reactor Technology HTR" planned for October 20th to 5th in Prague...
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
Days in South Africa and saw the whole mess first hand. The declaration of intent (!) from the Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Lrd should be taken a little more seriously. (MHI) wants to further develop the pebble bed reactor together with South Africa. The Japanese company had already carried out design work for the PBMR in previous years. But first of all, they...
THTR Newsletter No. 128 November 09
requested a report from the state government on February 24, 2 on new findings about the AVR problems. Because: Under the title “A safety-related reassessment of the operation of the AVR pebble bed reactor and conclusions for future reactors,” Dr. Last year, Rainer Moormann from the Institute for Safety Research and Reactor Technology at the Research Center Jülich...
THTR Circular No. 126 April 09
A fourteen-page article has now appeared in the magazine “Kerntechnik” No. 74, (2009), 1-2 (Carl Hanser Verlag). We document the short German-language summary here: “The pebble bed reactor AVR (46 MWth) was operated from 1967 – 1988 at cooling gas temperatures of up to 9900 C suitable for process heat. The AVR is a model for future pebble bed reactors, as there are no other...
2008 - Moormann study - Inherent accidents and radioactivity emissions in the HTR line!
HTR cooling circuits were developed on the basis of German regulations for design accidents as well as maintenance and dismantling requirements. The application of these criteria to pebble bed reactors leads to the conclusion that gas-tight containment is required even if excessive core temperatures are not assumed." 10. In his study, the author discusses whether...
THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08
and 11,6 kg of plutonium are located in the Asse shaft, according to official information. 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 had arrived in the AVR...
THTR Circular No. 122 August 2008
to recover. These more sophisticated security systems are more expensive - but shouldn't Generation IV be particularly cost-effective? This effect should also be achieved by the fact that the pebble bed reactors have no containment (safety container) because the graphite-coated spherical fuel elements are trusted to retain the radioactivity. If air gets into the primary...
was supposed to be safer than conventional nuclear power plants, but in Germany it only caused problems. Then South Africa tried it and gave up too. Now China wants to build a pebble bed reactor. By Reimar Paul We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de Call for donations - The THTR newsletter is published by the 'BI Environmental Protection...
Rainer Moormann: 'The dismantling will not be without danger' On November 19, 2016, the BUND NRW and the Nature and Environmental Protection Academy NRW held the well-attended seminar “Spherical pile reactors, thorium and transmutation: The last straws of the nuclear lobby” in Hamm with 35 participants. *** Westfälischer Anzeiger from June 06.06.2016th, 40 XNUMX years of resistance to nuclear power Citizens' environmental protection initiative warns...
Videos and TV clips about the THTR
in Hamm-Uentrop will remain with us until the 2030s, will cost one to Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) will not be built in South Africa... WDR 2009 - 12:50 - Cancer from nuclear power plants Danger from low-level radiation...
THTR Newsletter No. 120 March 08
In 1990, Nockenberg wrote the following in a longer report: “Switzerland has its own HTR research program, within which people took part in the development of the German pebble bed reactor. Through cooperation between the German nuclear industry (ABB Mannheim or HRB) and IGNT, the Swiss interest group for the realization of common...
THTR Newsletter No. 117 November 07
THTR and AVR were manufactured. The PBMR fuel element production in Pelindaba, approx. 50 km northwest of Pretoria, is being built to ensure the fuel supply for the planned pebble bed reactor." In a press release dated October 9, 10 it was emphasized again that this company will focus in particular on the future HTR development “focused”. How unabashedly the NUKEM group...
THTR Newsletter No. 116 September 07
commented critically on the HTR line in the magazine “Technology-Review” on July 20, 2007. We document: “TR: The fourth generation nuclear power plants, the so-called high-temperature or pebble bed reactors, are said to be inherently safe. Is there this inherent security? Sailer: There is no absolute inherent security. On paper you can see an inherently safe...
THTR Circular No. 79 January 03
is participating in the planning for the construction of a pebble bed reactor together with the British company AEA-Technologies, ABB from Mannheim and the Siemens subsidiary HTR GmbH Gesellschaft für Hochtemperaturreaktoren. According to their own information, the Jülich team qualified for the project because “the idea for building a pebble bed reactor originally came from the research center.” The Jülich people talk...
THTR Circular No. 80 February 03
of the THTR in 1985 and described the operation of this type of reactor as a 'dangerous large-scale experiment' that had to be stopped as quickly as possible. He declared the technology of the pebble bed reactor to have failed (see appendix). The current chairman of the German Reactor Safety Commission, Michael Sailer, comes to a critical assessment of the possibility of the THTR tritium...
Letter to Federal Environment Minister Trittin discussed and approved. A passage that deals with the current global political situation is particularly interesting: “The operating mode of the pebble bed reactor coupled with uncontrolled mass production reveals obvious dangers that go beyond the unresolved questions of 'peaceful use'. In contrast to the...
THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03
put into operation. This is the world's first multi-stage, closed-cycle gas turbine. The South African energy company ESKOM has been researching pebble bed reactors since 1993. In doing so, ESKOM is reviving a technology that has been known for around 40 years, but has hardly been further developed to date. ESKOM was able to partner with the Industrial Development Corporation and British...
THTR Circular No. 87 January 04
The embassy's response on December 03.12.2003, 20: "Dear Mr. Blume, thank you for your letter of November 2003, XNUMX and your extensive interest in the planned construction of a modular pebble bed reactor (PBMR) in South Africa. We have your concerns about the construction of this Reactor forwarded to the South African Ministry of Mines and Energy. The South African government shares its...
THTR Circular No. 88 February 04
the German Rear Gate Safety Commission. The Chinese began building a 1995 MW high-temperature reactor on the grounds of Tsinghua University in Beijing in 10. It is a pebble bed reactor like the one in Hamm-Uentrop. On December 1, 12, the reactor became critical for the first time. "The tests of the hot gas systems have been successfully completed and the drying of the ceramic reactor internals is well underway...
THTR Newsletter No. 89 March 04
EU funding pots. In this research center, tireless research is carried out for technical progress - of course for the benefit of humanity. Origin and cradle of the atomic pebble bed reactor, a never-ending source of eternal knowledge about the undeniable advantages of HTR technology. Out into the whole world with the good news, to South Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia,...
Scientists to develop a high-temperature reactor with spherical fuel elements. At the same time, efforts are being made there, in South Africa and in China, to exploit the possibilities and advantages of the pebble bed reactor. Japan is seriously studying the use of the high-temperature reactor to convert CO2 and water into methane." If you look at the CV of the author Kottowski-Dümenil,...
VEW reported on the Soviet contribution: "VN Grebennik from the Kurt Shatow Institute in Moscow reported on progress in the planning of the Soviet HTR construction line, the modular pebble bed reactor VGM, and stated the safety-related framework conditions used for this."17 From now on the Curtain for us common people and we don't know what will happen in the following seven...
The incident at the THTR in May 1986 in 'Spiegel'
When they came to inspect it, the politicians were not shown an accident report, but rather an advertising film that, in the voice of Tagesschau spokeswoman Dagmar Berghoff, praised the advantages of the pebble bed reactor. The Bielefeld newspaper "Neue Westfälische" about the visit: "In brightly - come out cleanly." Meanwhile, the Düsseldorf Ministry of Economic Affairs was already following the first indications...
1988 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of proliferation in pebble bed reactors
Excerpts from the report by Lothar Hahn - June 1988 Safety problems and accident risks Chapter 6.) Safety problems and accident risks of the HTR module and other high-temperature reactors to Chapter 8.) Proliferation problems with the HTR line In terms of safety, the HTR, but especially the small high-temperature reactors HTR module and HTR-100, wonders...
1986 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of safety at HTR
Considerations) the operator is asked to stop the dangerous large-scale test with the THTR-300. The conclusion can already be drawn today that the technology of the pebble bed reactor has failed. (Release of atomic radiation since the beginning of the 1940s: see INES - The international assessment scale and the list of worldwide nuclear accidents) - The map of...
THTR Circular No. 92 August 04
and deposition of droplets in the primary circuit of the high-temperature reactor in the event of water intrusion accidents". 161 pages. Zucker: "Neutron physical properties of a heavy water-cooled pebble bed reactor with a non-melting core". 120 pages. Raepsaet, Ohlig, Haas, Wallerbos: "Analysis of the European results on the HTTR's core physics benchmarks". In: Nuclear engineering and design 222. S....
THTR Circular No. 97 February 05
As a fourteen-year-old, he had no idea that scientists and energy companies were already planning to build a pebble bed reactor within sight of his parents' house. So the boy went this way to the rifle shelter, carefully kicked off the dirt from his shoes on the doormat, passed the cigarette machine in the anteroom and crept...
THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05
to cooperate in the further development of the technology." The very industry-friendly VDI Nachrichten even cautiously commented on this development on February 11, 2: "Critics, however, see pebble bed reactors as a target for terrorist attacks. In addition, the question of how to dispose of the radioactive waste remains." The Swiss magazine "FACTS" quoted above, on the other hand, leaves the former...
came with the radioactive spherical fuel elements. From that point on, however, things got really dangerous! The order For the pebble bed reactor planned in Hamm-Uentrop based on the German model, the construction of a fuel element factory is absolutely necessary. After the THTR was shut down in Germany, the system was taken over by the Hanau scandal company NUKEM (or its subsidiary Hobeg)...
THTR Newsletter No. 78 December 2002
in Risley in close contact. The company AEA-Technologies will build the new reactor. The Jülich Research Center was involved in this project because the idea for building a pebble bed reactor originally came from the research center (Prof. Schulten), because the research and development work on the THTR was primarily carried out at the Jülich Research Center and because the...
Reactor failure THTR - communication
THTR 300 The THTR newsletters Studies on THTR and much more. THTR breakdown list HTR research The THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The reactor failure - THTR communication *** THTR 300 problems Truth and lies Communication Intention What to do? Communication is a fine art After it was not possible to cover up the incident at the THTR or keep it out of the media, the "HKG" had to...
Reactor bankruptcy nuclear power plant THTR 300 - Thorium high-temperature reactor in Hamm Uentrop
THTR accident in the 'Spiegel' The reactor failure THTR-300 *** THTR 300 Problems Truth and lies Communication Intention What to do? The thorium high-temperature reactor in Hamm-Uentrop, Schmehausen Pebble bed reactor with 300 MW output by Werner Neubauer The THTR-300 nuclear reactor in Hamm-Uentrop, Schmehausen was shut down in 1989 because the operating company could not get the reactor under control...
- so the legend goes - developed in the 1950s. But the fact is that Leo Szilard was already talking about fuel spheres in the 1930s and Farrigton Daniels developed the concept of the pebble bed reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee in 1942! In 1967 the first prototype of a 'spherical bed reactor', the AVR Jülich, was built with a nominal output of 15...
