Bundestag reveals truth on German spent fuel
Despite feeble efforts by DOE and certain special interests and a few in Germany to rebrand the AVR reactor as a “research” reactor, the proof is overwhelming that the AVR was an experimental power reactor that fed electricity to the grid. The evidence comes from the Bundestag as well.
See the response to a member of the Bundestag – Antwort des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs Stefan Müller vom 15. April 2014 – about the ownership of the AVR reactor at Juelich. Special interests are trying 25 years after the reactor’s closure to claim that the experimental power reactor was actually a research reactor. This trickery, aimed at dodging the German law against export of spent nuclear power reactor fuel, is about 35 years too late and is not working.
“The General Experimental Reactor (AVR) belonged to the time of the establishment and the operation of the Working Group Experimental Reactor GmbH. At its inception, the Working Group was experimental reactor GmbH, a consortium of 15 municipal electric utilities (EVU). The following table the individual utilities with the respective ownership percentage. During the
21 years of operation of the research reactor were 1.63 TWh fed to electrical energy into the public grid.” (translation from Google Translate)
A list of the municipal electric company owners follows the above text.
This document has been submitted into the record of the DOE’s “environmental assessment” being prepared on the dumping at SRS of 900,000 highly radioactive graphite fuel balls from the AVR and THTR-300 gas-cooled power reactors. The comment period ends on July 21 – see here for a message you can send in, even if it’s sent after July 21.