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9. Sommer-Mini-Camp 2014 in Südböhmen | 9. Sommer-Mini-Camp 2014 in Südböhmen | ||
10. Uranfrachter kollidiert in der Ostsee mit Segelyacht | 10. Uranfrachter kollidiert in der Ostsee mit Segelyacht | ||
− | 11. | + | 11. Network office launched |
− | 12. | + | 12. Canada: Liquid high-level nuclear waste could pass through Niagara |
− | + | 13. UK: Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station given 5-year life extension | |
− | 13. UK: 5 | + | 14. Shoddy nuclear technology and poor safety culture should not be |
− | 14. | + | exported from Russia to Finland |
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15. Hinkley Point NPP: "Most expensive in the world" | 15. Hinkley Point NPP: "Most expensive in the world" | ||
16. Save Santa Mountain from Mining | 16. Save Santa Mountain from Mining | ||
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− | + | Since September 2013, the long-announced International Network Office | |
− | + | has been in operation. For now, it has opening hours only once a week: | |
− | + | Wednesdays between 2 and 4 PM CET/CEST (Central European -Summer- | |
− | + | Time). During the opening hours, the office is available via phone | |
− | + | (+49 3431 5894177), email (office AT nuclear-heritage.net), Skype | |
− | + | (projekthaus.mannsdorf), jabber/XMPP (user: network.office, domain: | |
− | + | jabber.ccc.de), and in person (D-04720 Döbeln, Am Bärental 6). | |
− | + | The mission of the International Network Office is to support | |
− | + | anti-nuclear activists by connecting them to other groups, speakers | |
− | + | and experts on specific topics. We also want to support and coordinate | |
− | + | the production (and distribution) of multilingual flyers on local | |
− | + | anti-nuclear topics. And, we also want to help to organize networking | |
− | + | gatherings. Basically, the goal is to support anti-nuclear struggles | |
− | + | by networking and sharing information/contacts. | |
− | |||
− | |||
− | + | Three volunteers committed to office hours shifts until the end of | |
− | + | this year. They are not paid and they do other political work besides | |
− | + | this, too. So please don't expect too much when you are calling. From | |
− | + | January 2014 we will need volunteers again to continue the Network | |
− | + | Office. If you are interested to support this anti-nuclear service, | |
− | + | contact us! | |
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http://office.Nuclear-Heritage.NET | http://office.Nuclear-Heritage.NET | ||
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− | 12. | + | 12. Canada: Liquid high-level nuclear waste could pass through Niagara |
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− | + | Liquid highly-enriched uranium from Canada’s Chalk River research | |
− | + | reactor could be trucked through Niagara on the way to be processed in | |
− | + | South Carolina, says a report bound for regional council's planning | |
− | + | committee in November. The waste could be coming any time between 2013 | |
− | November | + | and 2018 - the period U.S. approval is in force - but the report notes |
− | + | no "special notification" will be given when the waste rolls through, | |
− | + | due to security concerns. | |
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− | + | The report from the Region's planning department notes this will be | |
− | + | the first time Canadian authorities have tried to truck highly- | |
− | + | enriched uranium as a liquid solution. | |
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− | + | source: | |
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2013/11/06/nuclear-waste-could-pass-through-niagara | http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2013/11/06/nuclear-waste-could-pass-through-niagara | ||
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− | 13. UK: 5 | + | 13. UK: Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station given 5-year life extension |
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− | + | As reported by BBC on November 5th, 2013, the Hartlepool NPP is to | |
− | + | stay open for an extra five years. The site was due to close in 2019 | |
− | + | but will now remain operational until 2024, owner EDF Energy | |
− | + | confirmed. It has also been confirmed that a new visitor centre will | |
− | + | open at the plant. | |
− | + | As far as we know this is the first British extension of nuclear power | |
− | + | station lifetimes since Hinkley B and Hunterston B were given 7-year | |
− | + | extensions (both to 2023) in 2012. Original shut-down date for | |
− | + | Hartlepool was 2009. Interesting that Hartlepool only given a 5-year | |
− | + | extension. EDF had announced in 2012 that all its AGR station would be | |
− | + | considered for a 7-year extension in 2016. (And that Sizewell B would | |
− | 7- | + | be considered for a 20-year extension - from 2034 - then... |
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− | + | source: | |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-24824816 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-24824816 | ||
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− | 14. | + | 14. Shoddy nuclear technology and poor safety culture should not be |
− | + | exported from Russia to Finland | |
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− | + | The Finnish nuclear operator Fennovoima publicly announced on | |
− | + | September 3 the intention to buy a VVER-1200 (AES-2006) reactor from | |
− | + | the Russian state nuclear corporation "Rosatom". The deal may cost | |
− | 6 | + | around 6.4 billion Euro and include transferring 34% of Fennovoima's |
− | + | ownership to Rosatom. Corruption scandals involving Rosatom over the | |
− | + | past several years clearly demonstrate that the Russian nuclear | |
− | + | industry cannot be trusted to produce quality equipment for nuclear | |
− | + | plants. In February 2012, for example, a Rosatom-owned company was | |
− | + | accused of selling shoddy equipment to nuclear plants inside and | |
− | + | outside Russia. | |
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− | + | According to Russian experts, VVER technology is far from perfect: "If | |
− | + | an uncontainable leak breaks out in the primary circuit of a VVER-type | |
− | + | reactor, or other failures cause water to stop circulating in the | |
− | + | cooling system, core damage could occur, complete with the resulting | |
− | + | massive release of radiation." | |
− | + | "It is truly shocking that Fennovoima decided to help Rosatom in | |
− | " | + | building of Russian-designed nuclear reactors in Finland and the |
− | + | European Union. This is highly risky and unacceptable, and may lead to | |
− | + | a repetition of the Fukushima disaster inside Europe", said Russian | |
− | + | Ecodefense in a press release. | |
− | Fukushima | ||
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− | + | Read more: | |
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/PR:Shoddy_nuclear_technology_and_poor_safety_culture_should_not_be_exported_from_Russia_to_Finland | http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/PR:Shoddy_nuclear_technology_and_poor_safety_culture_should_not_be_exported_from_Russia_to_Finland | ||
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************************************************************ * NukeNews #11 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service * ************************************************************ SORRY! Not all parts of this newsletter have been translated into English, as we didn't have enough translation support. Please help us to change this! Tell us if you can help with translation of the NukeNews into English! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this 11th issue of the NukeNews we are unfortunately quite late. Apologizes for that! However, with 30 news this is our second largest newsletter ever. And we are close to finishing the third year of this news tool - amazing if you imagine that the NukeNews are in operation as a completely volunteer based and no-budget service for this long time, and always more the less regularly was released. Before the start of this tool in June 2011, some three months after the beginning of the Fukushima disaster, it took the project three more years from the first attempts to get started until the official launching. In this release, we have news, events and campaign updates from activists in ten countries around the world. We cover basic news on safety issues in nuclear waste management, some recent accidents, projects against the EU subsidies plans for nuclear power, specific nuclear power plants like Hinkley Point and Visaginas, and some more. If you have updates for our next newsletter, check the section at the end of this email for information on deadlines, format and contact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Outline of the current NukeNews issue #11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface 1. "Feldgewahrsam" gegen Aktivist*innen der Castor-Blockade war rechtswidrig 2. Auswirkungen von Freisetzungen beim Rückbau von Atomanlagen auf die öffentliche Gesundheit 3. Aktion zur Bannung der Bombe in Livermore 4. Fennovoimas Imagewashing, Manipulation der öffentlichen Meinung & mehr 5. Die radioaktiven Risiken des Frackings 6. CASE PYHÄJOKI: Künstlerische Reflexionen der Auswirkungen der Atomkraft 7. Talvivaara will Aktivist*innen fernhalten 8. Aktuelle Entwicklungen zu Fennovoimas AKW-Neubauprojekt 9. Sommer-Mini-Camp 2014 in Südböhmen 10. Uranfrachter kollidiert in der Ostsee mit Segelyacht 11. Network office launched 12. Canada: Liquid high-level nuclear waste could pass through Niagara 13. UK: Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station given 5-year life extension 14. Shoddy nuclear technology and poor safety culture should not be exported from Russia to Finland 15. Hinkley Point NPP: "Most expensive in the world" 16. Save Santa Mountain from Mining 17. UK: Opposing the Hinkley Deal 18. Radiation Free Lakeland: NEW website 19. Nuclear Train Derailment - Barrow, Cumbria 20. Final repositories in Scandinavia: report indicates threats shown in seismology and palaeoseismology 21. Dumping Low Level Radioactive Waste in Landfill 22. Campaign "No to State aid for nuclear!" 23. NO Geological Dumping of High Level Nuclear Waste! The Wrong Answer? 24. CASE PYHÄJOKI in retrospect: With joy and love 25. China Eyes Up Sellafield - while scrapping nuclear plans at home 26. Activists block a uranium transport in the South of France 27. Say no! to an uranium mining project in Nunavut 28. Visaginas NPP fate "undecided", As politicians ignore the decision of the referendum 29. Update on repression against environmental groups in Russia 30. Decisions move closer in the UK 31. Upcoming events 32. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Feldgewahrsam" gegen Aktivist*innen der Castor-Blockade war rechtswidrig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wie das Landgericht Lüneburg in einem im August 2013 ergangenen Beschluss feststellte, war die Festsetzung von rund 1.300 Demonstrant*innen in einem "Feldgewahrsam" beim Castor-Transport im November 2011 bei Harlingen rechtswidrig. Die Anti-Atom-Aktivist*innen hatten eine Sitzblockade im Rahmen einer Aktion der Gruppe "WiderSetzen" auf der Castor-Transportstrecke verlassen, nachdem die Polizei das Bahngleis unter Anwendung von Gewalt räumte. Laut Gerichtsbeschluss hätte die Polizei gegen die Aktivist*innen zunächst einen Platzverweis aussprechen und ihnen die Möglichkeit des Verlassens des Geländes einräumen müssen. Und selbst danach hätte die Polizei sofort nach der Festnahme die betreffenden Aktivist*innen einem Richter vorführen müssen, was jedoch nur bei 21 der 1.300 Festgenommenen der Fall war. Die Aktivist*innen erwägen nun, auf Schadensersatz für die rechtswidrige Festnahme zu klagen. Die Entscheidung des Landgerichts könnte bis zu 3.000 Aktivist*innen betreffen, die während der Castor-Blockaden 2010 und 2011 unter diesen Bedingungen in Gewahrsam genommen wurden. Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.widersetzen.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164:pe-2082013-polizeikessel-nach-castor-blockade-unzulaessig&catid=106:presseerklaerung-2013&Itemid=75 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Auswirkungen von Freisetzungen beim Rückbau von Atomanlagen auf die öffentliche Gesundheit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Der Rückbau der britischen Atomanlage Hinkley Point A begann 2006 mit der Installation von Abluftstutzen direkt in den Kern der zwei entleerten Magnox-Reaktoren, die für die gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Frist von 80 Jahren versiegelt bleiben sollten. Zudem gibt es Emissionen bei der Stilllegung der Kühlbecken und Abwasserbehälter, welche in die Atmosphäre entleert wurden. Die gemeldeten Gesundheitsschäden der Öffentlichkeit haben in dieser Zeit zugenommen, darunter ein plötzlicher Tod durch Herz-Kreislauf-Störungen, zahlreiche Krebsfälle und -tote, zunehmende Kinder- und Embryonensterblichkeit, sowie eine vergrößerte Anzahl von Mutationen durch Erbkrankheiten. Den Gesundheitsbericht und weitere Details gibt's auf der Stop-Hinkley-Webseite. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Aktion zur Bannung der Bombe in Livermore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mehr als 200 Aktivist*innen trafen sich an den Toren des Lawrence Livermore-Labors 68 Jahre nachdem die USA eine Atombombe auf Hiroshima in Japan warfen. Das Livermore-Labor liegt in der San Francisco Bay Area und ist einer der beiden Orte, die jeden nuklearen Sprengkopf des U.S.-Arsenals entwickeln. Die Demo am 6. August hatte großartige Sprecher*innen, darunter der gefeierte Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Geistliche Nobuaki Hanaoka, die Autorin Cecile Pineda, der Dichter Pete Yamamoto und Loulena Miles von Tri-Velley CAREs. Das Thema dieses Jahres war "Unfertige Angelegenheiten und unsere dringendste Verantwortung; die Bombe am Livermore-Labor und weltweit verbannen." Die Demo wurde durch dutzende Friedens- und Bürgerrechtsgruppen gefördert. Die Teilnehmer*innen marschierten von der nordwestlichen Ecke des Livermore-Labors zum Westtor, wo 31 Menschen wegen der Teilnahme an dieser gewaltfreien direkten Aktion inhaftiert wurden. Mehr: http://www.trivalleycares.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Fennovoimas Imagewashing, Manipulation der öffentlichen Meinung & mehr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fennovoima-Logos schmücken öffentliche Einrichtungen in Pyhäjoki, wie den Zaun des Sportplatzes nahe der Oberschule. Der Name des Unternehmens ist zweigeteilt auf diesem Schild. Die gewählten Farben erinnern an einen sauberen blauen Himmel und saftige grüne Erde. Das minimalistische, serifenlose, ultra-saubere Logo trägt zur Markenbildung bei. All das zusammen formt ein subtil verzerrtes und zynisches Bild der falschen Geschichte von der ökologischen Atomenergie: Die Befürworter*innen behaupten sie sei grün, weil kein Kohlendioxid bei der Produktion frei werde. Fennovoimas Müll ist weit tödlicher und eine Gefahr für den ganzen Planeten wie es lokale Kohlendioxidemissionen nicht sind. Dieses klassische Greenwashing ist Teil einer breiten Strategie, um die Realität der wahren Kosten dieser Energieproduktion zu verschleiern. Lies den vollständigen Artikel: http://casepyhajoki.info/english-fennovoimas-image-washing-manipulating-public-opinion-normalizing-their-presence/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Die radioaktiven Risiken des Frackings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fracking ist nicht nur schlecht für das Klima, weil es in Verbindung zur Freisetzung großer Mengen Kohlendioxid steht und eine Gefahr für Gesundheit und Umwelt durch die giftigen Flüssigkeiten darstellt, die benutzt werden, um das Schiefergas aus dem Gestein zu pressen, sondern auch eine Gefahr durch austretendes Radongas. "Public Health England", früher "Health Protection Agency", bereitet einen Bericht vor, um mögliche Gefährdungen der öffentlichen Gesundheit in Bezug auf Fracking auszumachen, welcher die Gefahren durch radioaktive Emissionen zeigt. PHE untersucht die möglichen Risiken durch Radon in Folge von austretenden Gasströmen in die Häuser der Bevölkerung. Radon wird als zweitgrößte Ursache von Lungenkrebs in Großbritannien gehandelt. Ein US-amerikanischer Bericht bestätigte Bedenken, dass Radon mit dem Erdgas aus dem Schiefer vermischt und gemeinsam zu den Kund*innen transportiert wird. Zusätzlich hat die norwegische Umweltberatungsfirma Det Norske Veritas Kontamination mit Atommüll als Problem des Frackings identifiziert. Mehr dazu: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/136661 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. CASE PYHÄJOKI: Künstlerische Reflexionen der Auswirkungen der Atomkraft ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ein einzigartiges Treffen fand von 1. bis 11. August 2013 im Dorf Pyhäjoki statt - die Region wurde von Fennovoima für den Neubau eines Atomkraftwerks in Finnland ausgewählt. Fennovoima wurde ursprünglich durch den deutschen Atomkonzern EON initiiert, gab aber das Projekt auf - vielleicht ein Erfolg der lokalen und internationalen Kampagnen gegen das neue Atomkraftwerk. Unglücklicherweise scheint ein neuer Spieler das Feld (und EONs Anteile) zu übernehmen: der russische Atomgigant Rosatom. Um das Bewusstsein zu diesem Thema zu steigern und um die Angelegenheit mit einem anderen Blickwinkel zu betrachten, wurde das Kunstprojekt "CASE PYHÄJOKI - Künstlerische Reflexionen der Auswirkungen der Atomkraft" gestartet - eine transdisziplinäre künstlerische Expedition, Produktionswerkstatt und Präsentationsveranstaltungen in Pyhäjoki, Nordösterbotten. Großartiges Material ist dabei entstanden, viele Lesungen und Exkursionen wurden in Film und Text dokumentiert: http://casepyhajoki.info/en ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Talvivaara will Aktivist*innen fernhalten ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wie im August berichtet, forderte das Bergbauunternehmen Talvivaara das finnische Innenministerium um Unterstützung bei der Entfernung von Aktivist*innen an, die das Gelände ohne Erlaubnis besuchen. Dasselbe Unternehmen ist für verschiedene ökologische Unfälle in ihren Anlagen verantwortlich, besonders für die riesige Leckage im November 2012, welche als das größte Chemie-Desaster in der Geschichte Finnlands gilt. Im Frühling entzog das Verwaltungsgericht von Vaasa die Erlaubnis für außerordentliche Aktivitäten, die illegal durch lokale Autoritäten gewährt wurden. Verschiedene Regel- und Gesetzesbrüche durch das Bergbauunternehmen wurden zuerst durch besorgte Bürger*innen und Aktivst*innen veröffentlicht. Der Betreiber verschmutzt ständig die Umwelt verschmutzt und verstößt gegen die ohnehin schwachen Umweltschutzauflagen. Jene, welche auf diese Themen aufmerksam machen, sollen stärker verfolgt werden. Das Ministerium hat angedeutet dem Talvivaara-Bergbau helfen zu wollen, wenn im Herbst die Polizeigesetze geändert werden sollen. Es scheint als würden die Behörden sagen: "Stoppt nicht die immensen Umweltverschmutzungen, sondern bestraft jene, die darüber reden!" Quelle: http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa.shtml/2013/08/1791177/talvivaara-pyytaa-ministeriolta-apua-aktivistien-karkottamiseksi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Aktuelle Entwicklungen zu Fennovoimas AKW-Neubauprojekt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fennovoima hat den russischen Staatskonzern Rosatom als Betreiber für sein geplantes Atomkraftwerk in Pyhäjoki (Finnland) am Felsen "Hanhikivi" ausgesucht. Die Verhandlungen zur Übernahme Rosatoms als größten Investor für das Vorhaben wurden begonnen. Rosatom würde Eigentümer von einem Drittel der Anteile werden und damit E-ON ersetzen, das zuvor das Projekt verlassen hatte. Ein weiteres Drittel der Anteile gehört Energieunternehmen überall in Finnland, der Rest der finnischen Industrie. Die Energieunternehmen sind kommunale Firmen und die politische Entscheidung zur Fortsetzung des AKW-Projekts liegt im Moment in verschiedenen Kommunen auf dem Tisch. Sie müssen bis Ende Oktober 2013 entscheiden, ob sie weiterhin in das Atomkraftwerk investieren wollen. Rosatom war nicht als Hersteller des Atomkraftwerks vorgesehen und die eigentliche Anlage unterscheidet sich von der, auf die sich die ursprüngliche Grundsatzentscheidung der finnischen Regierung bezogen hatte. Daher muss Fennovoima dem Ministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft im kommenden Frühjahr 2014 ein neues Gutachten über die Umweltauswirkungen und Sicherheit der Anlage vorlegen. Quellen: http://www.hs.fi/talous/Fennovoima+luottaa+omistajiinsa/a1382040393873 http://www.hs.fi/talous/Fennovoima+toimitti+Stukille+voimalan+turvaselvitykset/a1381481389020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Sommer-Mini-Camp 2014 in Südböhmen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Als jemand, der schon an mehreren AKtivitäten des Nuclear Heritage Network teilgenommen hat, schätze ich besonders die nukenews und weiß, dass es keine einfache Sache ist, so etwas ohne großes Geld aufrecht zu erhalten. Für mache von Euch, welche dieses Infonetzwerk noch verbessert sehen möchten (z.B. indem sie einige Übersetzungen machen) und die persönlichen Kontakte unter uns intensivieren wollen, möchte ich anbieten, etwas wie ein Arbeits- und Kennenlern-Camp in der Nähe der südböhmischen Stadt Kaplice, nahe der Grenze zu Österreich gelegen, zu organiseren. Für etwa 5 bis max. 10 Menschen kann ich eine einfache Unterkunft und tlw. Verpflegung anbieten. Den Transport bis mindestens Prag oder Linz müsstet Ihr selber organisieren, mit dem Rest würde ich Euch so gut es geht helfen. Zeit: etwa eine Woche im Juli oder August 2014. Interessierte schreiben bitte bis etwa März 2014 an "b.riepl AT eduhi.at" (http://sonneundfreiheit.eu bzw. http://slunceasvoboda.eu) Die einladende NGO hat einige Erfahrungen und know-how in grenzüberschreitenden Kooperationen mit Interessen auch den eigentlichen Anti-Atom-Aktivismus überschreitend, indem versucht wird, kultur- und erneuerbare Energieelemente zu integrieren. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Uranfrachter kollidiert in der Ostsee mit Segelyacht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Am 18. Oktober 2013 kollidierte vor der Insel Rügen der russische Atomfrachter "Mikhail Lomonosov" mit einer Segelyacht. Der Frachter der russischen Reederei "Northern Shipping Company" ist bekannt für Transporte von radioaktivem Material, und Medienberichten zufolge hatte er auch hier Uranhexafluorid und Urandioxid geladen. Die Yacht wurde bei dem Zusammenstoß schwer beschädigt, während über eventuelle Schäden am Frachter noch keine Angaben gemacht wurden. In Bezug auf Uranhexafluorid ist besonders alarmierend, dass die Substanz bei Kontakt mit Wasser die tödliche Flusssäure bildet. Nach von Anti-Atom-Aktivist*innen beschafften Informationen sollte das radioaktive Material per LKW von Hamburg zur Urananreicherungsanlage Gronau transportiert werden. Aktuelle Informationen unter: http://www.mzeise.net/uran/news/aktuell.php?tsnews4=archiv&dots=169 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Network office launched ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Since September 2013, the long-announced International Network Office has been in operation. For now, it has opening hours only once a week: Wednesdays between 2 and 4 PM CET/CEST (Central European -Summer- Time). During the opening hours, the office is available via phone (+49 3431 5894177), email (office AT nuclear-heritage.net), Skype (projekthaus.mannsdorf), jabber/XMPP (user: network.office, domain: jabber.ccc.de), and in person (D-04720 Döbeln, Am Bärental 6). The mission of the International Network Office is to support anti-nuclear activists by connecting them to other groups, speakers and experts on specific topics. We also want to support and coordinate the production (and distribution) of multilingual flyers on local anti-nuclear topics. And, we also want to help to organize networking gatherings. Basically, the goal is to support anti-nuclear struggles by networking and sharing information/contacts. Three volunteers committed to office hours shifts until the end of this year. They are not paid and they do other political work besides this, too. So please don't expect too much when you are calling. From January 2014 we will need volunteers again to continue the Network Office. If you are interested to support this anti-nuclear service, contact us! http://office.Nuclear-Heritage.NET ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. Canada: Liquid high-level nuclear waste could pass through Niagara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liquid highly-enriched uranium from Canada’s Chalk River research reactor could be trucked through Niagara on the way to be processed in South Carolina, says a report bound for regional council's planning committee in November. The waste could be coming any time between 2013 and 2018 - the period U.S. approval is in force - but the report notes no "special notification" will be given when the waste rolls through, due to security concerns. The report from the Region's planning department notes this will be the first time Canadian authorities have tried to truck highly- enriched uranium as a liquid solution. source: http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2013/11/06/nuclear-waste-could-pass-through-niagara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. UK: Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station given 5-year life extension ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As reported by BBC on November 5th, 2013, the Hartlepool NPP is to stay open for an extra five years. The site was due to close in 2019 but will now remain operational until 2024, owner EDF Energy confirmed. It has also been confirmed that a new visitor centre will open at the plant. As far as we know this is the first British extension of nuclear power station lifetimes since Hinkley B and Hunterston B were given 7-year extensions (both to 2023) in 2012. Original shut-down date for Hartlepool was 2009. Interesting that Hartlepool only given a 5-year extension. EDF had announced in 2012 that all its AGR station would be considered for a 7-year extension in 2016. (And that Sizewell B would be considered for a 20-year extension - from 2034 - then... source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-24824816 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Shoddy nuclear technology and poor safety culture should not be exported from Russia to Finland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Finnish nuclear operator Fennovoima publicly announced on September 3 the intention to buy a VVER-1200 (AES-2006) reactor from the Russian state nuclear corporation "Rosatom". The deal may cost around 6.4 billion Euro and include transferring 34% of Fennovoima's ownership to Rosatom. Corruption scandals involving Rosatom over the past several years clearly demonstrate that the Russian nuclear industry cannot be trusted to produce quality equipment for nuclear plants. In February 2012, for example, a Rosatom-owned company was accused of selling shoddy equipment to nuclear plants inside and outside Russia. According to Russian experts, VVER technology is far from perfect: "If an uncontainable leak breaks out in the primary circuit of a VVER-type reactor, or other failures cause water to stop circulating in the cooling system, core damage could occur, complete with the resulting massive release of radiation." "It is truly shocking that Fennovoima decided to help Rosatom in building of Russian-designed nuclear reactors in Finland and the European Union. This is highly risky and unacceptable, and may lead to a repetition of the Fukushima disaster inside Europe", said Russian Ecodefense in a press release. Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/PR:Shoddy_nuclear_technology_and_poor_safety_culture_should_not_be_exported_from_Russia_to_Finland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. Hinkley Point NPP: "Most expensive in the world" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- According to an analysis published by reputable equity investors Liberium Capital, the agreement signed by the UK Government with Electricité de France to build a new nuclear power station, Hinkley C, in Somerset would make Hinkley C "The most expensive power station" in the world; with the longest construction period. They go on to argue that the the government's agreement to underwrite the £16bn Hinkley Point nuclear power station could prove to be "economically insane" and hugely costly to consumers, saying, "Having considered the known terms of the deal, we are flabbergasted that the UK government has committed future generations of consumers to the costs that will flow from this deal." Learn more: http://www.nonucleartrains.org.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. Save Santa Mountain from Mining ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finnish activists started a new online campaign against the Sokli mine plans in Eastern Finland by the Russian border. Sokli basically is supposed to exploit Finland's richest phosphate resource, which contains relatively high concentrations of radioactive minerals. The mine is located in the upper area of Nuorttijoki river system. Close to the planned mining area lies the Törmäoja and Yli-Nuortti rivers, and the glades of Ainijärvi, which are all part of the Natura 2000 network. Sokli is located between the Urho Kekkonen National Park and the Värriö Nature Park near Korvatunturi, the "home of Santa Claus". The area further includes the famous Tuntsa wilderness and three Natura Network locations. The Korvatunturi fell is best known as the home of Father Christmas (or Joulupukki in Finnish). According to Finnish Folklore, this land is the location of Father Christmas’ secret workshop, where toys, trinkets and gifts are made and eventually wrapped by gnomes. Responsible is the Yara International company with the Norwegian state as the largest shareholder. The phosphorus ores in Sokli contain ten times the amount of radioactive material in uranium, thorium, radium of normal levels. In the niobium ores, the levels are even 200-fold. Yara intends to mine phosphorus 4-10 tons per year and to use this phosphorus to make fertilizers. There are concerns about the radioactivity levels of fertilizers. The prospective Sokli mine area will be between 4000-6000 hectares (40-60 km2). Learn more: http://savesantamountain.com/2013/11/08/a-natural-disaster-being-prepared-in-eastern-lapland/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. UK: Opposing the Hinkley Deal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In Bridgwater (the nearest town to the site intended for Hinkley C), South-West Against Nuclear (SWAN) organised a local demonstration against the deal the very same day it was announced by David Cameron, 21st October. The protest involved dumping a pile of animal dung outside the EDF shop in Bridgwater and hanging a banner over the shop saying "NO MORE BULLSXXT - EDF TAKE OUR £££ AND DUMP WASTE ON US!" A man in cow costume addressed shoppers while supporters emptied shopping bags of dung onto a plastic sheet, blocking the shop's entrance. A placard in Chinese was stuck into the pile. Two Chinese state companies have signed letters of intent to invest in the project and it has been reported that it is "expected" they will invest 30-40% between them. Protestors cleaned the pavement around the pile and at the end of the demo removed the dung for organic recycling. Police however later confiscated the dung and placed it in their van, saying that they believed it might be used to commit criminal damage. Watch the video on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8ZyDuhaAUng ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18. Radiation Free Lakeland: NEW website ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuclear is a Living Nightmare! Radioactive contamination of air, sea and groundwater. Nuclear "energy" needs chemicals and fossil fuel power plants during and decades after any electricity production. Radiation causes cancers and other diseases. Nuclear causes a snowball of blight now, and for generations after us. http://wildar4.wix.com/radiation-free-land ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19. Nuclear Train Derailment - Barrow, Cumbria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 18th 2013: According to the nuclear industry the flasks were empty and on their way to Sellafield when two wheels left the track on 16th September. Flasks on their way to Sellafield are most often full of spent fuel being sent to Sellafield to be reprocessed making the wastes even more dangerous. These flasks had gone on a long journey having sailed from Japan to Barrow and back again with Highly Active Waste who knows how many times. The Highly Active Waste (a result of reprocessing spent fuel to make MOX which nobody wants) is presumably going to be stuffed into the containers and then trundled back along the tracks it has already derailed from, to be shipped from Barrow across the Pacific, through the Panama Canal and to Japan where it will be met with huge protest. http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/high-level-wastes-japan-and-derailed-trains/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20. Final repositories in Scandinavia: report indicates threats shown in seismology and palaeoseismology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This summer, the Swedish scientist Nils-Axel Mörner published a report "Patterns in seismology and palaeoseismology, and their application in long-term hazard assessments - the Swedish case in view of nuclear waste management" showing evidence for a massive understatement of the tectonic threats to final repositories in Scandinavia: earthquakes, tsunamis and other events appeared much more frequently and in higher extend in the past than considered by the studies of the nuclear industry. The report opens general questions about the suitability of the Scandinavian rock formations for the long-term storage of dangerous material. It should affect the discussion on Onkalo in Finland and on the supposed Forsmark repository for spent fuel. "Seismic events are recorded by instruments, historical notes and observational criteria in geology and archaeology. Those records form a pattern of events. From these patterns, we may assess the future seismic hazard. (...) The nuclear industries in Sweden and Finland claim that the high-level nuclear waste can be buried in the bedrock under full safety for, at least, 100 000 yr. It seems hard, if on the whole possible, to make such assessments from the short periods of pattern recognition in seismology (< 100 yr) and palaeoseismology (some 13 000 yr). All assessments seem to become meaningless, maybe even misleading. In this situation, we must restrict ourselves from making too optimistic an assessment." Read the report: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Patterns_in_seismology_and_palaeoseismology,_and_their_application_in_long-term_hazard_assessments_-_the_Swedish_case_in_view_of_nuclear_waste_management ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21. Dumping Low Level Radioactive Waste in Landfill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Following vigorous campaigning by Radiation Free Lakeland Tim Farron MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria has said there is "Powerful Evidence" to scrap the deregulation which allows low level radioactive waste into landfill. The UK government has signed up to the Euratom Treaty which describes in detail a plan to turn Lillyhall landfill site into a Radioactive Waste Repository with a "controlled release of radioactivity to groundwaters." http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/tim-farron-mp-powerful-evidence-to-pull-the-plug-on-radioactive-fly-tipping/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 22. Campaign "No to State aid for nuclear!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The petition against state aid for nuclear was launched in September on the website http://www.my-voice.eu! A huge success with over 20 000 signatures - we need to continue mobilising all over Europe until April 2014. This decision on the new state aid regime is in the hands of the EU Commission alone - it requires only a simple majority and is no obliged to involve the member states (Council) or the European Parliament to decide the state aid guidelines. It is therefore vital to mobilise Europe's citizens. Our chances aren't too bad as trouble with the pronuclear crusade is causing the next delay in the EU Commission. There will be no decision taken before April 2014 - this means, more time for more protest! Join and spread the petition NOW. Please think about what you and your organization/network/group can do. Join and spread the petition NOW in your personal & organization's mailings, newsletters, facebook etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23. NO Geological Dumping of High Level Nuclear Waste! The Wrong Answer? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOWING Nirex and the ending of the "Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely" process with Cumbria County Council's no vote, any new consultation regarding geological dumping should not include Cumbria. Instead the 84 members of the County Council have been airbrushed out of this new "democratic" process alongside the hundreds of members of the parish councils, the overwhelming majority of whom have said no repeatedly. The UK government want to deal with the few patsys on the Executive of Allerdale and Copeland Borough Councils who said yes while airbrushing away the majority who said NO! http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/is-new-consultation-needed-the-big-debate/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 24. CASE PYHÄJOKI in retrospect: With joy and love ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "CASE PYHÄJOKI - Artistic reflections on nuclear influence" was a trans-disciplinary expedition and production workshop in Pyhäjoki, Northern Finland from 1.-11.8.2013. The sixth nuclear power plant (NPP) of the country is planned to be built in Pyhäjoki Hanhikivi cape. The participants created different types of engagements, prototype events and experiments, reaching from a large "thank you" sign for those who refuse to sell their land to the nuclear power company, to the design of a "power sports day"; including a local fairytale, a mural painting with local youth, a special karaoke playlist, a DIY geiger counter building workshop, and more. The more includes new and deepened friendships, collaborations and memories of good times and meetings with local people. People involved to the CASE PYHÄJOKI project will continue with follow-ups more the less connected to the issue of den proposed NPP in Pyhäjoki and to nuclear power in general. The project is documented on their blog, announcements of new activities will be announced there and if possible with the NukeNews, too. Read more reflections on backgrounds on the CASE PYHÄJOKI project: http://casepyhajoki.info/en/ilon-ja-rakkauden-kautta/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25. China Eyes Up Sellafield - while scrapping nuclear plans at home ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Imagine a world where the repressed Chinese people are marching in the streets opposing nuclear power - while the supposedly free British citizens are encouraged by government to meekly submit to yet another nuclear consultation aiming to bury hot nuclear wastes in leaky geology. Imagine a world where a repressive regime will take notice of public opinion and scrap plans for a nuclear development while a supposedly democratic government will try to bypass public opinion by dealing only with a few unrepresentative patsys in borough councils. Sounds mad? It is mad! And it is happening right now... http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/china-eyes-up-sellafield-while-scrapping-nuclear-plans-at-home/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 26. Activists block a uranium transport in the South of France ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 12th of September, about 30 activists from the collective Stop Uranium blocked a truck carrying uranium tetrafluorid near Narbonne, in the South of France. The blockade lasted for one hour. Radioactivity measures were made: a dose about 50 times the average radioactivity level could be measured one meter away from the truck. The truck was coming from Comurhex Malvési, a facility owned by Areva, where uranium is being transformed for the first time after it arrives in France. About one fourth of the uranium used in the world is processed there. The aim of the action was to highlight the dangers of the facility and the transports. 3 to 5 trucks are leaving the facility every day, carrying uranium tetrafluorid. See pictures of the blockade there: http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/blocage-camion-tetrafluorure ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 27. Say no! to an uranium mining project in Nunavut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Areva is coveting the underground of Nunavut, in the North of Canada, and expect to build a uranium mining there. Opening the way to uranium mining would threaten this territory, already made vulnerable by climate change. The consequences would be catastrophic for the Inuit, whose lifestyle, relying on hunting, requires a clean environment. We launched a petition (in English and French) to French ministers to demand them canceling this mining project: http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/Petition-nunavut-en ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 28. Visaginas NPP fate "undecided", As politicians ignore the decision of the referendum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite the results of the referendum in October 2012, where people voted against a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, politicians are still trying to push for the project. The Government of Lithuania, as announced in the media, will soon make the decision regarding the fate of Visaginas NPP. The plans to discuss the common position of three Baltic countries, regarding the project, have also been announced. So far, both Latvian and Estonian politicians were reluctant towards this project. Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Visaginas_NPP_fate_%22undecided%22,_as_politicians_ignore_the_decision_of_the_referendum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 29. Update on repression against environmental groups in Russia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Since Western media are not reporting that much anymore on repression against non-governmental groups in Russia (except for the case with jailed Greenpeace activists), I will put some update on this crackdown going on presently. Feel free to send around. Greenpeace case is getting a lot of coverage in Russia and governmental media broadcasts a lot of bullshit to make sure Russians hate environmental activists of all kinds. Ugly thing happened in the South of Russia, Krasnodar city, close to the site of 2014 Winter Olympic Games just few days ago. Local police together with FSB (exKGB) tryed to catch environmental activist Rudomakha. They came to the office of local political party threatening to storm it because they thought activist is inside. But he left earlier. Police gave no explanations but local people think it is because of Olympics. Rudomakha spent a lot of time criticizing the destruction of local nature related to Olympics preparations. Fortunately, activist is still not arrested. Read the complete story: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Update_on_repression_against_environmental_groups_in_Russia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 30. Decisions move closer in the UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The announcement of a strike price despite a year of negotiations is claimed to be on the brink of agreement, with UK media speculating on a price of around 93 pounds per MWh more than twice the current market price - the condemned government are determined to feather the nests of big business by increasing fuel poverty through it's regressive energy policy. It looks like China general nuclear power group will be EDFs investment partners and if they achieve the kind of stakes they're aiming for (rumour has it they're looking for an almost equal stake) then the coalition government will succeed in giving the worlds most powerful authoritarian state partial control of the most dangerous technology on British soil, with not one iota of the concern that Thatcher expressed in her day wen she had her government block Kuwaiti investment in the UK energy market. Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Decisions_move_closer_in_the_UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 31. Upcoming events ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (just an extract, tell us your events for the next newsletter) more events: http://upcoming.nuclear-heritage.net Please feel invited to send us your local and international events for this website and the NukeNews! 24/10/13-23/03/14: exhibition "Langzeit und Endlager" at Museum zu Allerheiligen, Klosterstr. 16, in Schaffhausen (CH) 10/12/13 5.30 PM: Celebration of 30 years of accomplishment of Communities Against a Radioactive Environment and will debut a short documentary film about Tri-Valley CAREs at Livermore Public Library, Community Rooms A&B, 1188 S. Livermore Ave., in Livermore (USA) 12/12/13: Global Action Day Against Nuclear Power 2013 12/12/13 at 12 PM: MKG Seminar: SSM and Nuclear Waste Council - in the completion phase in Stockholm (S) 2014: Probably Castor transport of high level radioactive waste from Sellafield (UK) and of intermediate level radioactive waste from La Hague (F) to Gorleben (D) and protests 2014: Nuclear Waste Transport to Ahaus - current status: "postponed" (D) 06/02/14-07/02/14: Long-term Performance of Engineered Barrier Systems (PEBS) at BGR in Hannover (D) 08/03/14: Fukushima related actions in the Dreyeckland region (CH, D, F) 08/03/14: Fukushima rally in Jülich (D) 09/03/14 at 2 PM: human chain Fessenheim at vallée du Rhône (F) 09/03/14 at 2 PM: Fukushima disaster remembrance: international brigde actions in the Upper Rhine area (D) 08/04/14-10/04/14: Symposium on Recycling of metals arising from operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities at the Studsvik site outside Nyköping (S) 26/04/14: ecological festival "Für eine Zukunft nach Tschernobyl und Fukushima" (D) 29/04/14: European Anti Nuclear Forum in Prague (CZ) 03/05/14-08/05/14: Atomforum of the German nuclear industry in Frankfurt/Main (D) 11/05/14-15/05/14: European Nuclear Conference in Marseille (F) summer 2014: Walk For A Nuclear Free Future from Miami, FL to the Y-12 Nuclear Facility Oakridge, TN 2014 (USA) 22/08/14-24/08/14: solar festival in Peckwitz (D) 01/01/15-30/04/15: (estimated) main hearing on the Environmental Court on SKB's application to build KBS3 final nuclear waste repository at District Court in Nacka (S) http://www.allerheiligen.ch/images/PDF/Langzeit%20und%20Endlager_Flyer.pdf http://www.trivalleycares.org/new/party%20flyer-2.jpeg http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Global_Action_Day_Against_Nuclear_Power_2013 http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/mkg20131212stockholm http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2014 http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_Waste_Transport_to_Ahaus http://www.pebs-eu.de/PEBS/EN/Pebs-Final-Conference/PEBS_final_conference_node_en.html;jsessionid=EF1A95844F8E4E013BCB14F2A5E66F59.1_cid284#link4 http://wp.chainehumaine.eu/ http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/20140408-10studsvik http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/European_Anti_Nuclear_Forum_2014 http://www.euronuclear.org/events/enc/enc2014/index.htm http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Walk_For_A_Nuclear_Free_Future_2011-2015/Miami-Y12_Nuclear_Facility_Oakridge http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189 http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/kbshuvudforhandling2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 32. 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