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+ | On 30th of July Cumbria Wildlife Trust held again an annual event | ||
+ | "Beached Art" for young children at St Bees beach encouraging them to | ||
+ | play for hours in this same sand where there are the most dangerous | ||
+ | radionuclides which should be kept separate from the biosphere. | ||
+ | This sand sculpture event organised by a trusted charity is not only | ||
+ | unethical but it is aiding and abetting the continuing tsumani of | ||
+ | radioactive wastes being dumped into the Irish Sea. | ||
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+ | Radiation Free Lakeland point out that the Sellafield Annual Report | ||
+ | states that one of the last radioactive particles to be picked up from | ||
+ | St Bees was a tiny metal particle of Cobalt 60 which is a synthetic | ||
+ | radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2714 years. It is | ||
+ | produced artificially in nuclear reactors. CWT insist that all | ||
+ | radioactive particles have been picked up from St Bees beach. However, | ||
+ | Sellafield themselves admit that their monitoring is limited, they do | ||
+ | not pick up all radioactive particles, monitoring stops over Easter, | ||
+ | Summer and Christmas in order not to frighten beach users. | ||
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+ | Learn more: | ||
+ | https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/the-last-radioactive-particle-has-been-removed-from-st-bees-cumbria-wildlife-trust-presented-with-award/ | ||
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************************************************************ * NukeNews #26 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service * ************************************************************ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Outline of the current NukeNews issue #26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface 1. Czech liability for nuclear damage in billions instead of trillions 2. CZ: Bukov Laboratory - research on geological conditions in an unsuitable location 3. Slovenia: Construction of dry depository for spent nuclear fuel at Krško NPP 4. UK: "No Need For Nuclear" conference videos 5. UK: Beware nuclear trains bearing gifts 6. UK: "The last radioactive particle has been picked up" from St Bees beach 7. Canada: Further Delay of Decision on OPG's Nuclear Waste Burial Plan 8. Canadian federal government wants more information on impact of proposed nuclear-waste bunker near Indigenous community XX. Upcoming events YY. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Czech liability for nuclear damage in billions instead of trillions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CEZ operator insures its nuclear power plant assets against damage of up to tens of billions crowns, while the Czech administration avoids fully insuring residents and entrepreneurs around Dukovany and Temelin Nuclear Power Plants against a nuclear accident. Is it just an effort to save money what’s hiding behind the behavior of Czech institutions? Read the complete article: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Czech_liability_for_nuclear_damage_in_billions_instead_of_trillions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CZ: Bukov Laboratory - research on geological conditions in an unsuitable location ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (RAWRA) does not want to make a technical-economic study on the implementation of the research program in the Bukov underground research facility available to the public. Thus, the public can not verify whether the Bukov site, located in the former uranium mines, Dolní Rožínka, the Vysočina Region, is really suitable for research activities for the deep repository. In August 2017, Calla warned about this dodgy behaviour in its press release. Read the complete article: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Czech_liability_for_nuclear_damage_in_billions_instead_of_trillions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Slovenia: Construction of dry depository for spent nuclear fuel at Krško NPP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Association of Environmental Movements Slovenia and Posavian Nuclear Local Partnership Krško are convinced that Krško NPP when planning the construction of a dry depository of spent nuclear fuel did not have all necessary permissions. In a letter sent to the Ministry for Environment, Space and Infrastructure Karel Lipič from the Association and Aleš Zajc from the Local Partnership wrote that this is not just a safety upgrade, like the NPP claims, but a whole new nuclear facility, which requires a national spatial plan and comprehensive approach according to the Environmental Protection Act. Krško NPP has planned to construct this only according to the Building Construction Act. "By our opinion the Ministry, the Nuclear Safety Administration and Krško NPP must start all procedures about social acceptability and allow residents participation in accordance with international conventions. The transition to dry storage will be carried out by the American company Holtec with a contractual value of 68.3 millions euros and shall be done until 2028. Learn more: https://www.dnevnik.si/1042777467/lokalno/zasavje-in-posavje/suho-skladisce-izrabljenega-goriva-v-nuklearni-elektrarni-krsko-bo-zasciteno-tudi-pred-padcem-letala ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. UK: "No Need For Nuclear" conference videos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 17th June, 2017, we in London held a conference, "No Need For Nuclear: The Renewables Are Here", in Conway Hall, London. We filmed the 16 speakers, and made 16 little videos of their speeches and their slide presentations, (plus one of the welcoming/intro speeches.) Here is a link to the videos. Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/UK:_%22No_Need_For_Nuclear%22_conference_videos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. UK: Beware nuclear trains bearing gifts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As announced in the last newsletter, British activists with "Close Capenhurst" and "Radiation Free Lakeland" took an action at Direct Rail Services open day on 22nd of July in Carlisle. Braving the rain in Carlisle campaigners went to bear witness to the Nuclear Industry’s whitewashing of its seemingly never ending transports of mountains of spent fuel and nuclear materials. Created in 1994 by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (now the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) to take over British Rail’s handling of nuclear material. DRS has since diversified into other freight operations including food. Learn more: https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/beware-nuclear-trains-bearing-gifts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. UK: "The last radioactive particle has been picked up" from St Bees beach ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 30th of July Cumbria Wildlife Trust held again an annual event "Beached Art" for young children at St Bees beach encouraging them to play for hours in this same sand where there are the most dangerous radionuclides which should be kept separate from the biosphere. This sand sculpture event organised by a trusted charity is not only unethical but it is aiding and abetting the continuing tsumani of radioactive wastes being dumped into the Irish Sea. Radiation Free Lakeland point out that the Sellafield Annual Report states that one of the last radioactive particles to be picked up from St Bees was a tiny metal particle of Cobalt 60 which is a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2714 years. It is produced artificially in nuclear reactors. CWT insist that all radioactive particles have been picked up from St Bees beach. However, Sellafield themselves admit that their monitoring is limited, they do not pick up all radioactive particles, monitoring stops over Easter, Summer and Christmas in order not to frighten beach users. Learn more: https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/the-last-radioactive-particle-has-been-removed-from-st-bees-cumbria-wildlife-trust-presented-with-award/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Canada: Further Delay of Decision on OPG's Nuclear Waste Burial Plan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The federal Minister of the Environment and Climate has released a letter to OPG with a third request for additional information. With this request, the timeline for the reviews completion and the Minister's decision has been suspended. Read the complete article: http://mailchi.mp/9bc6bc1794a1/sko9xiuupq-2752985?e=f56b9c558c ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Canadian federal government wants more information on impact of proposed nuclear-waste bunker near Indigenous community ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information on how a proposed nuclear-waste bunker near Lake Huron might affect area First Nations peoples is needed before the government decides whether to approve the project. Learn more: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/21/federal-government-wants-more-information-on-impact-of-proposed-nuclear-waste-bunker-near-indigenous-community.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XX. Upcoming events ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 XX/YY/ZZ-XX/YY/ZZ: ABCDEFG http://... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- YY. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 27th issue of the NukeNews is 26th of November, 2017. Spread the word and learn more about the NukeNews: http://NukeNews.Nuclear-Heritage.NET