1. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    of the event was 0, it was increased to 1 because procedural deficiencies contributed to the occurrence of a common cause failure. OL3 started regular electricity production in April after completing trial operation. Construction of OL3 began in 2005 and various setbacks and delays have left the facility approximately 14 years behind schedule...

  2. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    other systems ran for over 30 years. However, the reactor in Mülheim-Kärlich near Koblenz, which cost around seven billion marks (3,6 billion euros), was only in operation for a very short time. After the trial operation, it only ran for 100 days due to the lack of a building permit. In the GDR plants in Rheinsberg and Greifswald, the nuclear power era came to an end shortly after reunification due to safety concerns. A huge facility...

  3. Newsletter XXXIV 2022 - August 22nd to 31st - News+ Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of damage to pipes hidden

    could start: a photovoltaic system above the orchard. After all, the trees and fruits underneath need a lot of light. However, the first interim balance is positive. * Olkiluoto | Trial operation Repeated problems during trial operation in Finnish nuclear power plant The new reactor unit 3, which is currently in trial operation in the Finnish nuclear power plant, which is already equipped with two reactor blocks...

  4. 1986 - Lothar Hahn on the subject of safety at HTR

    designed to absorb ball breakage that occurs over the entire service life of the system. (The "Westfälische Anzeiger of May 19, 5 reported: "Almost a year and a half after trial operation began, 1987 (!) of the tennis ball-sized fuel elements had to be separated..."; Horst Blume). The unexpectedly high amount of radioactively contaminated graphite and... Fuel dust and...

  5. THTR Newsletter No. 94 October 04

    taken and confirmed. I therefore ask, for the sake of the truth, to accept the correct facts here and not to repeat the same false statements again and again. The difficulties that arose during trial operation of the THTR 300 system, which are naturally to be expected with a prototype, have been described in numerous publications, including by my predecessors as managing directors...

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