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In March 2015 in response to declining economic news the state
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Premier of South Australia set up a Royal Commission (a high level
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inquiry) to explore opportunities to expand the nuclear industry in
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SA. This involvement is currently restricted to uranium mining – SA
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mines around 75% of Australia’s uranium contribution and is home to
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the massive BHP Billiton Olympic Dam mine.
 
   
 
   
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In May 2016 the Commission reported and found that while there are
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few opportunities re increased uranium mining, mineral processing or
 +
enrichment or domestic nuclear power - there is money in waste. The
 +
Commission recommended that South Australia move ‘as soon as
 +
possible’ to import, store and ultimately bury around one-third of the
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global high level waste stockpile.
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The state government is now running a very pro-industry ‘community
 +
conversation’ before making a formal response to the Commission’s
 +
recommendations later this calendar year. There is so much wrong with
 +
this process but a particular concern is that a firm contracted to
 +
provided key economic modelling and data (Swiss based MCM) was founded
 +
by the former technical manager of Pangea Resources – the group behind
 +
a failed attempt to start an international waste dump in Australia in
 +
the 1990’s. Not surprisingly the Royal Commissions economic
 +
assumptions are opaque and highly optimistic.
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   

Revision as of 17:55, 2 September 2016


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*     NukeNews #22 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service      *
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0.  Preface
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Outline of the current NukeNews issue #22
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0.  Preface
1.  Czech Republic: Why is the Working Group for Dialogue on a
    Geological Disposal Facility falling apart?
2.  Big Demonstration at Nuclear Plant in Lingen 29/10/2016
3.  Poison in the Heart. The Nuclear Wasting of South Australia
4.  Report: Trinational Fasting in Büchel from 6th till 9th of August
5.  Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World
6.  Radioactive liquid nuclear waste: stop the transport
7.  Mulga Rock uranium proposal under Appeal
8.  Preparation of International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp 2017
9.  Russia: Samples from Chernobyl affected regions in court
10. Australia's International nuclear waste plans
XX. Upcoming events
YY. About NukeNews


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1.  Czech Republic: Why is the Working Group for Dialogue on a
    Geological Disposal Facility falling apart?
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At the end of June 2016 Calla and the Green Circle (which is the
association comprised of 26 prominent environmental NGOs) issued a
press release, in which they informed about six representatives of the
sites of Březový potok and Hrádek leaving the Working Group (WG) for
Dialogue on a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) during April and May
2016. The mayors and associations in both sites feel that the WG is
being misused and that it violate its statute by not contributing to
transparent siting process for a GDF. What are the reasons for this
happening?

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Why_is_the_Working_Group_for_Dialogue_on_a_Geological_Disposal_Facility_falling_apart%3F


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2.  Big Demonstration at Nuclear Plant in Lingen 29/10/2016
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The production of nuclear fuel elements is still taking place at
Lingen/Lower Saxonary. Allthough the german government has decided a
step by step phase out, the atomic pants of Lingen and Gronau
(uranium enrichment) have no point of closing down, the opposite is
reality, plans for expanding and storing more and more waste. We want
an immediate stop of delivering nuclear plants worldwide with fuels!!
A pact of several anti nuclear groups and networks has started a
campaign against these nuclear facilities and is pushing the topic
into the center of society. Please come and join the big manifestation
in Lingen on 29.10.2016!!

http://weltweit.nirgendwo.info/2016/07/08/29-10-2016-demonstration-in-lingen-aufruf/


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3.  Poison in the Heart. The Nuclear Wasting of South Australia
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While nowhere in the world such a safe final repository exists, a
small cadre of aspirational Promethean technocrats in South Australia
have somehow decided that Australia holds the solution to the global
problem of nuclear waste. The recently released Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Royal Commission Report recommends that the South Australian
government accepts over one third of the world's high level waste for
above-ground storage and eventual burial in yet-to-be-built
underground repositories in the South Australian desert. The report
proposes that South Australia imports 138,000 tons of high level
radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods as well as an
additional 390,000 cubic metres of intermediate level waste for
storage and eventual disposal.

The project to bury the world's nuclear poison in the heart of the
Australian desert has not sprung out of a void. It is an idea that has
been insidiously festering for two decades in a variety of
incarnations. The first stirrings of the hellish project to turn
Australia into the world's nuclear dumping ground emerged in the late
1990s when Pangea Resources, a U.K. based company promoted the
construction of a commercially-operated international waste repository
in Western Australia. The project was supported by a $40 million
budget, 80% of which came from British Nuclear Fuels Limited (wholly
owned by the U.K. government), with the remaining 20% from two nuclear
waste management companies.

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Poison_in_the_Heart._The_Nuclear_Wasting_of_South_Australia


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4.  Report: Trinational Fasting in Büchel from 6th till 9th of August
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People in Paris, London, some in Africa and the usual ones in Japan
commemorated the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki again.
Global Communication among each other “just in time” is still a little
complicated, therefore let's say "trinational" for now. Also for me it
was hard this time, but the group motivates. In addition to that I
knew that some people already stopped eating on July 30th.
atomwaffenfrei.de (ICAN) and the international Fellowship of
reconciliation were those who invited to come to Büchel. Some of the
youngsters played a theatre piecec with music, a trumpet player blew
"we shall overcome" every hour on the dot in front of the military
airbase and of course we had interesting dialogues during our protest.

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Trinational_Fasting_in_B%C3%BCchel_from_6th_till_9th_of_August


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5.  Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World
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We collectively call for a mobilization of civil society around the
world to bring about the elimination of all nuclear weapons, to put an
end to the continued mass-production of all high-level nuclear wastes
by phasing out all nuclear reactors, and to bring to a halt all
uranium mining worldwide. Created Aug. 8 – 12, 2016 at the World
Social Forum Anti-Nuclear Stream.

http://ccnr.org/declaration_WSF_e_2016.pdf


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6.  Radioactive liquid nuclear waste: stop the transport
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Radioactive liquid nuclear waste could be transported by armed convoy,
1100 miles over the Great Lakes water system from Chalk River, Ontario
to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina for the first time, and
it could begin as soon as September. A legal challenge by 7 non-profit
groups was filed requesting an injunction from the federal court in
Washington, DC, to halt the transport until an adequate environmental
impact statement is completed.

Learn more:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/08/16/radioactive-liquid-nuclear-waste-stop-the-transport/

Background information:
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/waste-transportation/2016/8/1/documents-re-unprecedented-truck-shipments-of-highly-radioac.html


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7.  Mulga Rock uranium proposal under Appeal
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In the middle of August the WA EPA recommended approval for the Mulga
Rock Uranium mine proposal - 240km North East of Kalgoorlie. The
project is headed up by the company Vimy Resources - funded by Twiggy
Forest, a executive team made up of former FMG and Mineroo Group
executives and one former Liberal MP. Soon afterwards we had a great
workshop with about 10 people who are all preparing to lodge appeals
against the EPA decision - urging the Environment Minister not to
approve to proposed mine. We are working with the Spinifex and Pilki
people from the Great Victorian Desert.

http://www.ccwa.org.au/mulga_rock_appeal


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8.  Preparation of International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp 2017
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In June 2017 an international anti-nuclear summer camp is supposed to
invite activists and interested audience from allover Europe (or
further) to exchange experiences, teach about nuclear issues in their
regions, develop organizing, campaigning and action skills, and to get
in touch with each other. The camp, which will be the annual Nuclear
Heritage Network Gathering, will probably take place near one of the
possible Polish NPP construction sites. We currently start preparation
and urgently need some more people who want to join the preparation.
If you are willing to help to make this camp possible, please connect
as soon as possible to "contact AT nuclear-heritage DOT net".

The last bigger Nuclear Heritage Network Gathering took place in 2012:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/International_Anti-nuclear_Network_Meeting_in_D%C3%B6beln
This time we want it bigger and broader. The last years almost no
international anti-nuclear summer gatherings took place in Europe, we
want this one also to be a platform for activists, organizers and
other interested people to network and discuss strategies against
nuclear power.


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9.  Russia: Samples from Chernobyl affected regions in court
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June, 28th Greenpeace presented results of measuring cesium-137
contamination of soil samples to the Supreme court of Russia. 53
inhabitants of different Chernobyl affected towns and villages in
Bryansk were appealing an earlier court decision, which let stay the
governmental decree to downgrade or lift the status of some villages
and towns in contaminated zones.

The government claims, due to cs-137 decay, Chernobyl contamination is
substantially reduced. Institute 'Taifun' has not taken samples in
most of these towns and villages recently, but just re-calculated
earlier results of samples taken in 1980ies and 1990ies. The decree
led to lifting of social priviledges as well.

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Russia:_Samples_from_Chernobyl_affected_regions_in_court


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10. Australia's International nuclear waste plans
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In March 2015 in response to declining economic news the state
Premier of South Australia set up a Royal Commission (a high level
inquiry) to explore opportunities to expand the nuclear industry in
SA. This involvement is currently restricted to uranium mining – SA
mines around 75% of Australia’s uranium contribution and is home to
the massive BHP Billiton Olympic Dam mine.

In May 2016 the Commission reported and found that while there are
few opportunities re increased uranium mining, mineral processing or
enrichment or domestic nuclear power - there is money in waste. The
Commission recommended that South Australia move ‘as soon as
possible’ to import, store and ultimately bury around one-third of the
global high level waste stockpile.

The state government is now running a very pro-industry ‘community 
conversation’ before making a formal response to the Commission’s 
recommendations later this calendar year. There is so much wrong with
this process but a particular concern is that a firm contracted to
provided key economic modelling and data (Swiss based MCM) was founded
by the former technical manager of Pangea Resources – the group behind
a failed attempt to start an international waste dump in Australia in 
the 1990’s. Not surprisingly the Royal Commissions economic
assumptions are opaque and highly optimistic.


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XX. Upcoming events
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Feel free to send us your local and international events for the large
upcoming events collection on Nuclear Heritage Network website, and
for this extract in the NukeNews!
http://upcoming.nuclear-heritage.net


August 2016:       Walkatjurra Walkabout (AUS)
08/08/16-14/08/16: Second Anti-nuclear Thematic World Social Forum in
                   Montreal, Quebec (CDN)
24/09/16-25/09/16: 6th Temelín Conference 2016 at Temelín NPP (CZ)
August 2016:       Walkatjurra Walkabout (AUS)


http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Second_Anti-nuclear_Thematic_World_Social_Forum
http://gruene-fichtelgebirge.de/akw-temelin/6-temelin-konferenz-2016/


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YY. About NukeNews
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NukeNews is a multilingual newsletter system of the Nuclear Heritage
Network. It reflects the activities, topics and struggles of
anti-nuclear activists connected through this international community.
The messages are written and translated by activists, additionally to
their usual anti-nuclear activities. The newsletter aims to inform and
update as well activists as the interested audience.

Your contributions to the NukeNews are welcome! Send them via email to
"newsletter AT nuclear-heritage DOT net". The text should be very
brief and in English. Please don't make it longer than one paragraph.
We need a concise headline for your article, and you can add a link to
a webpage providing more information. Deadline for the 23rd issue of
the NukeNews is 9th of October, 2016.

Spread the word and learn more about the NukeNews:
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