Rainer Moormann

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Rainer Moormann

Rainer Moormann (born 1950) is a German

hydrogen bonds
in liquids.

Since 1976 he had been working at the

pebble bed reactors (especially with the AVR reactor), fusion power and spallation neutron sources
.

Papers

In 2008 Moormann published a critical paper on the safety of pebble bed reactors,[1][2] which raised attention among specialists in the field, and managed to distribute it via the media, facing considerable opposition.[3][4]

In 2020, Moormann co-authored a paper that argued in favor of keeping the by then six German nuclear power plants running in order to reduce CO2 emissions.[5]

Whistleblower award

For doing this despite the occupational disadvantages he had to accept as a consequence, Moormann was awarded the whistleblower award of the Federation of German Scientists (VDW)[6] and of the German section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).

See also

References

  1. ^ Moormann, Rainer (2008). "A safety re-evaluation of the AVR pebble bed reactor operation and its consequences for future HTR concepts" (PDF). Berichte des Forschungszentrums Jülich. 4275.
  2. doi:10.3139/124.110001
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  3. ISSN 1687-6075
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  4. ISSN 1687-6075
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  5. ^ Appunn, Kerstine (2021-12-28). "Q&A: Why is Germany phasing out nuclear power and why now?". Clean Energy Wire. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  6. ^ Press statement of the VWD (in German)[permanent dead link], official short version in English: http://ialana.net/uploads/media/Program_Whistleblower_Award_2011.pdf, unofficial English translation of the press release: https://euzicasa.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/presentation-of-whistleblower-award-2011_via-hintergrund/

External links

  • [1] PBR safety revisited by Rainer Moormann, Nuclear Engineering International, 1 April 2009
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