Rainer Moormann

Rainer Moormann (* 1950 ) is a German chemist and whistleblowers.

He grew up in Osnabrück. After high school, he studied physical chemistry in Braunschweig and received his doctorate there with Raman spectroscopic and theoretical studies of hydrogen bonds in liquids. From 1976 to 2012 he worked at the Forschungszentrum Jülich with security problems of pebble bed reactors ( in particular the example of the AVR ( Jülich) ), fusion reactors and spallation neutron sources. He published in 2008 a highly regarded in professional circles, critical study of the safety of pebble bed reactors, and provided against considerable resistance on the media for their dissemination. It contradicts the characterization of pebble bed reactors inherently safe and disaster- free and keeps it reasonable advertising strategy to pebble-bed reactors for scientifically dishonest. Furthermore, he turns against the export of this technology in emerging markets such as South Africa or China. His works are considered to be a cause for the failure of the South African PBMR PBMR project in 2010. For this and for the acceptance of vocational disadvantages associated he got the 2011 Whistleblower price of the Federation of German Scientists ( VDW) and the German section of the nuclear critical Lawyers Association IALANA. Of the proponents of the globular clusters reactors at Forschungszentrum Jülich Moormann's public ministry is viewed critically and from their ranks he is referred to as " demagogue who has pulled the safest reactor in the world in the dirt ."