1. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    The hydrogen required is produced from coal or natural gas using steam reforming. The Haber-Bosch process releases 450 million tons of carbon dioxide every year... * China | HTR-PM | Shandong China's demonstration HTR-PM enters commercial operation The world's first modular high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear power plant has entered commercial operation,...

  2. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    named after Wang Dazong. It has a diameter of 2,9 kilometers, was registered in 1995 and is now referred to as “192353 Wangdazhong”. It is still unclear whether the two HTR-PM reactors in Shandong are really as successful as the honor might suggest, because the reports from the otherwise very lively Chinese propaganda machine are becoming fewer and less substantial...

  3. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    China's demonstration HTR-PM reaches full power The gas-cooled high-temperature pebble-bed module (HTR-PM) demonstration reactor at the Shidaowan site in China's Shandong province has achieved its first full power with stable operation in 'two reactors with one machine' mode. The power plant consists of two small reactors that power a single 210 MWe turbine...

  4. Newsletter LV - 01/07.12.2021/01 to XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX - News+ December XNUMX - How many of our greenhouse gas emissions are we attributing to China?

    The share of nuclear power in energy production is expected to increase to 10%... * Shidaowan (China) The Shidaowan site (also called: Shidao Bay) is located in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong near the city of Weihai in the Rongcheng Nuclear Power Industrial Park. A gas-cooled high-temperature reactor with two modules and an output of 2012 MW has been built there since 211. The unit is...

  5. THTR Circular No. 152, December 2019

    or when building a high-temperature reactor – as BI we are now used to thinking in longer temporal dimensions. This is no different for the two HTR-PM blocks on the Shandong Peninsula in China. The intention to build was announced in 2005, but construction did not actually begin until 2012 and construction has been going on ever since. And the commissioning was repeatedly postponed...

  6. THTR Newsletter No. 151 December 2018

    of the pebble bed reactor may already have become a reality! – Exactly at the place where German colonial troops took possession of a base in the Chinese Kiautschou Bay on the Shandong Peninsula over 150 years ago (1). So the connection to this place is very special. 17 years after the decision to build a larger HTR in China, the...

  7. THTR Circular No. 150 June 2018

    Thorium salt reactor planned in China, news about the HTR In the last issue I reported that the two THTR reactor blocks on the Shandong (Tsingtao) peninsula cannot be completed by the planned date of December 2017. The operators blame problems in the “conventional” part of the nuclear power plant for this. Another source from nuclear power plant advocates states that the...

  8. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018

    - finally comes out of his shell! January 11, 2018 - Live longer thanks to radioactivity * Emmanuel Macron in China January 09, 2018 - France sells nuclear waste facility to China * China - Shandong Peninsula - HTR-PM January 04, 2018 - First HTR-PM container head in position Translate with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Nuclear power - Areva - Framatome January 04, 2018 -...

  9. THTR Newsletter No. 149 December 2017

    Readers! THTR in China: Oh! A problem with “conventional” technology! According to forecasts by the Chinese Atomic Energy Agency, the two THTR reactor blocks on the Shandong (Tsingtao) peninsula should be supplying electricity as early as December 2017. But as has so often happened before, things turned out differently than expected, as has now been admitted by various parties. On April 5, 2017, when...

  10. THTR Newsletter No. 148 Summer 2017

    HTR in China nearing completion? China's deal with Saudi Arabia. HTR lobby active We remember: At the end of 2012, the construction of two 1914 MW HTR reactors began in China on the Shandong peninsula in Shidaowan (called Tsingtao until 200 under German colonial rule). In the last newsletter I reported on the completion of the civil engineering work, the installation of the reactor pressure vessel...

  11. THTR Newsletter No. 147 September 2016

    in North Rhine-Westphalia and the federal government, was always there as a supporter (1). The construction of two 2012 MW HTR reactors began in 200 at the site of the former Imperial German colonial base Tsingtao - in Shidaowan - on the Shandong Peninsula. They are supposed to go into operation in December 2017. How does it look today? Civil engineering work and simulation The “civil engineering work” for...

  12. The current THTR newsletter No. 146 - December 2015

    Plans and well-known bankruptcies - Two new high-temperature reactors planned in Ruijin In addition to the small research reactor in Beijing, which is mostly shut down, a high-temperature reactor (HTR) has been under construction on the Shandong Peninsula near the city of Shidaowan since 2012. It has now been announced that two more HTRs are planned in Ruijin, southern China. Already in October 2013...

  13. THTR Newsletter No. 145 May 2015

    Jülich Professor Antonio Hurtado (4) in Rossendorf near Dresden continues to work at the THTR, writes reports and carries out experiments for his Chinese clients, who are now building the THTR on the Shandong Peninsula. – If that’s not historical continuity! - And now we are on to the next secret service operation: *** THTR in China and South Africa: An attack at the top of the page In South Africa...

  14. Apr 06, 2015 - THTR in China: A robbery and a pile of bullets

    of the nuclear industry. In the meantime, China is also continuing to build the high-temperature reactor on the Shandong (Weihai) peninsula with the help of the information apparently captured through this secret service operation (3). The fuel assembly factory in Inner Mongolia (Baotou) is said to be almost finished and is undergoing several tests. With the production of 300.000 radioactive...

  15. THTR Circular No. 143 June 14

    University and HTR sponsor, Wang Dazhong, did his doctorate in Aachen through the THTR and learned in Jülich. In addition to the THTR research reactor on the Beijing university campus, the location for a large THTR was determined on the Shandong Peninsula in Kiautschou Bay at a former German colonial base (Qingdao or Tsingtau) (3). The Peking-Jülich Connection was founded in the 80s...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014

    Spiegel, No. 2/1989 Everything about Indonesia in www.reaktorpleite.de *** The high-temperature reactor in China in 2014 Top of page According to the latest reports, the construction of the high-temperature reactor (HTR) on the Shandong Peninsula in China is making progress. A small HTR experimental reactor has been in operation near Beijing since 2000. From December 2012 onwards...

  17. THTR Circular No. 141 July 2013

    High-temperature reactor (HTR) 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. Due to various difficulties and the preliminary...

  18. THTR Circular No. 139 June 2012

    EU level as well as in the USA, India and Japan. In China, preparations are being made to build a pebble bed reactor in response to the Fukushima disaster. And not by chance on the Shandong peninsula in Tsingtau (Qingdao), the former German colonial base. A significant transfer of science about pebble bed reactors is taking place in Poland with the help of Rossendorf researchers....

  19. THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011

    The so-called “Alumni Group” in Aachen, which also has good relationships with Tsinghua University on the Shandong Peninsula (China), acts as a connecting link and international communication and career network. China's THTR is to be built there on the former German colonial base (4). Alberto Ribeiro is an ambassador and co-author of the "Strategic...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 120 March 08

    “It’s just fun to take part,” write the inviting initiatives from Münsterland. Further information: www.sofa-ms.de Olympics in front of the THTR construction site in China Although the THTR on the Shandong peninsula in China has been under construction since 2007, we currently hear very little from the former German colonial territory (see THTR newsletter No. 105). Only the Tsingtau beer brewed here is...

  21. THTR Newsletter No. 113 May 07

    belongs to the HTR. It is one of 16 key projects with the highest priority. After the experimental reactor near Beijing has been in operation since 2000, a 195 MW HTR is to be built on the Shandong Peninsula. Until 1914, this was an old German colonial territory - what a significant pointer! According to Chinese information, construction is scheduled to begin in 2009 and commissioning in 2013. A bit overzealous...

  22. THTR Newsletter No. 98 March 05

    The decades-long efforts of the German HTR lobby have borne fruit. Spiegel-Online reported on February 8, 2: "A Chinese energy consortium has already selected a construction site in Shandong province, reports the Financial Times. A 2005-megawatt reactor is to be built there that works on the pebble pile principle. One person responsible of the Chinese energy company...

  23. THTR Newsletter No. 101 October 05

    Military maneuvers by these two states are taking place at the very place where construction of the first Chinese HTR power reactor is to begin in 18 months: on the Shandong peninsula, which juts out on the opposite border between North and South Korea. The Xinhua News Agency writes: "The exercise will strengthen the ability of our two countries' militaries to...

  24. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    later Bayer, Rheinmetall, Degussa - and where, next year, an old German technology that had long been thought dead emerges from obscurity to conquer the world again: it is no coincidence that the Thorium High-Temperature Reactor (THTR) is being built here on the Shandong Peninsula. Since the middle of the 19th century, China had suffered many military defeats. In the following years...

  25. Reactor failure THTR - communication

    almost all done. Only in China does a 10 MW HTR experimental reactor, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, remain mostly idle. Two 200 MW HTRs were actually supposed to go online in Shandong in December 2017, but they won't be until 2021... However, we can be quite sure about one point. They won't let up, as long as tax money keeps flowing, they'll try to get there...

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