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************************************************************ * NukeNews n° 11 - Service d'information antinucléaire * ************************************************************ SORRY! Not all parts of this newsletter have been translated into French, 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 French! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Allemagne : la "détention extérieure" de militants anti-Castor est jugée illégale 2. Les rejets d'effluents dus au démantèlement nucléaire nuisent à la santé publique 3. Taking Action to Ban the Bomb in Livermore 4. Fennovoima's Image Washing, Manipulating Public Opinion & more 5. The radioactive risks of fracking 6. CASE PYHÄJOKI: Artist reflections on nuclear impact 7. Talvivaara aims on keeping activists out of the area 8. Latest developments in the Fennovoima NPP new build project 9. Summer-Mini-Camp 2014 in the South of the Czech Republic 10. Collision entre un cargo contenant de l'uranium et un voilier dans la mer Baltique 11. Network office launched 12. Canada : des déchets nucléaires liquides de haut niveau pourraient traverser la péninsule du Niagara 13. RU : La durée de vie de la Centrale de Hartlepool est prolongée de 5 ans 14. La Finlande ne devrait pas importer la mauvaise technologie nucléaire russe ni sa médiocre culture de la sûreté 15. La centrale nucléaire de Hinlkley Point est la plus chère du monde 16. Save Santa Mountain from Mining 17. UK: Opposing the Hinkley Deal 18. Radiation Free Lakeland: NEW website 19. Déraillement d'un train de transport nucléaire à Barrow, comté de Cumbrie 20. Final repositories in Scandinavia: report indicates threats shown in seismology and palaeoseismology 21. Dumping Low Level Radioactive Waste in Landfill 22. Campagne "Non à l'aide publique au nucléaire !" 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. Des militants bloquent un transport d'uranium dans le sud de la France 27. Dites NON ! au projet d'extraction d'uranium au Nunavut 28. L'avenir de la Centrale de Visaginas est "incertain", les hommes politiques ignorant la décision du référendum 29. Update on repression against environmental groups in Russia 30. Decisions move closer in the UK 31. Upcoming events 32. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Allemagne : la "détention extérieure" de militants anti-Castor est jugée illégale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- En août 2013, la Cour du District de Lüneburg a jugé illégale la détention dite "extérieure" de quelque 1300 militants anti-Castor, retenus prisonniers en plein air à Harlingen en novembre 2011. Ces derniers avaient été contraints d'abandonner leur sit-in, organisé au cours de l'action WiderSetzen ("s'opposer" en allemand) et bloquant la voie ferrée, suite à l'évacuation violente des rails par la police. La Cour a considéré que la police aurait d'abord dû prononcer un avis d'expulsion des manifestants en leur laissant la possibilité d'évacuer la zone. Et même après cela, les forces de l'ordre auraient dû procéder à une décision judiciaire immédiatement après chaque arrestation - ce qui n'a été le cas que pour 21 des 1300 personnes arrêtées. Les militants envisagent maintenant de réclamer des compensations pour cette arrestation illégale. En 2010 et 2011, près de 3000 manifestants arrêtés dans les mêmes circonstances au cours de blocus anti-Castor pourraient être concernés par ce jugement. Pour en savoir plus : 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. Les rejets d'effluents dus au démantèlement nucléaire nuisent à la santé publique ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Le démantèlement de la Centrale nucléaire de Hinkley Point A a débuté en 2006 avec l'installation d'ouvertures d'aération au coeur même des deux réacteurs Magnox vidés de leur combustible alors qu'ils auraient dû rester scellés durant les 80 années de décroissance de la radioactivité qui sont prévues par la loi . Ce travail de démantèlement engendre aussi des émissions qui proviennent des piscines de refroidissement et des bassins de stockage des boues usagées et qui sont rejetées dans l'atmosphère. Depuis le début du démantèlement, tous les problèmes de santé de la population ont augmenté, notamment les morts brutales dues à des défaillances cardiovasculaires, le nombre de cancers et des décès qui y sont liés, la mortalité infantile et périnatale ainsi que les mutations génétiques héréditaires. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Taking Action to Ban the Bomb in Livermore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 200+ activists gathered at the gates of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 68 years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Livermore Lab, located in California’s San Francisco Bay Area is one of two locations that design every nuclear warhead in the U.S. arsenal. The August 6 rally featured amazing speakers, including acclaimed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka, author Cecile Pineda, poet Pete Yamamoto, and Tri-Valley CAREs’ Loulena Miles. The theme this year was "Unfinished Business and Our Most Urgent Responsibility; Banning the Bomb at the Livermore Lab and Globally." The rally was sponsored by dozens of peace and justice groups. Participants marched from the northwest corner of the Livermore Lab to the West Gate where 31 people were arrested for participating in nonviolent direct action. More information at http://www.trivalleycares.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Fennovoima's Image Washing, Manipulating Public Opinion & more ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fennovoima signs adorn public works in Pyhäjoki, like the fence of a sports field near the town's high school. The name of the corporation is split in two in this sign. The colors chosen slowly make one think of a clean sky blue and verdant earth green. The minimalist, sans serif, ultra-clean logo contributes to the branding narrative. These qualities together help to subtly reinforce a deceptive and cynical picture of the false ecological story of nuclear power: its advocates claim it is "green" because it does not produce carbon emissions in the generation of energy. Fennovoima's waste is far more deadly, and is a threat to the entire planet in ways that localized carbon emissions are not. This is classic green washing part of a broader strategy to help mask the reality of the true costs of making energy in this way. Read the complete story: http://casepyhajoki.info/english-fennovoimas-image-washing-manipulating-public-opinion-normalizing-their-presence/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. The radioactive risks of fracking ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fracking is not only bad for climate as it is connected to releasing big amounts of carbon dioxide, and a threat to health and environment because of the toxid liquids used to flush out the shale gas, but also a risk due to the radon gas that might be released with it. Public Health England, formerly the Health Protection Agency, is preparing a report identifying potential public health concerns in connection to fracking - showing also the risks of radioactive emissions. PHE is evaluating the potential risks of radon gas pumped into people's houses as part of the shale gas stream. Radon is considered the second-largest cause of lung cancer in the UK. An US report has confirmed the concerns connected to Radon and natural gas coming from the shale mixing and traveling together to the customers. Additionally, the Norwegian environmental consultancy Det Norske Veritas identified radioactive waste contamination as a problem with fracking. Learn more: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/136661 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. CASE PYHÄJOKI: Artist reflections on nuclear impact ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A unique gathering took place August 1-11, 2013 in the village of Pyhäjoki - the region selected by Fennovoima for a new nuclear power plant in Finnland. Fennovoima was originally initiated by the German atomic player EON, but they gave up the project - maybe a result of campaigning against the new NPP locally and internationally. Unfortunately, a new player seems to take over the field (and EON's shares): the Russian atomic giant Rosatom. To raise awareness on the issue, and to look at the issue from a different point of view, the art project "CASE PYHÄJOKI - Artistic reflections on nuclear influence" was started - a transdisciplinary artistic expedition, production workshop and presentation events in Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia. Great material has been produced there, many lectures and excursions are documented in film and text. Have a look at: http://casepyhajoki.info/en/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Talvivaara aims on keeping activists out of the area ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As reported in August, Talvivaara mining company asked the Ministry of Interior for assistance in deporting activists visiting the area without authorization. It is the same company responsible for several environmental accidents in their facilities, particularly the huge spill in November 2012 considered the biggest Finnish chemical disaster in history. In spring the Vaasa Adminstrative Court had annihilated permissions for exceptional operations that were illegally granted to them by local authorities. Several breaches of rules and laws by the mining company had been first made public by concerned citizens and activists. Instead of issuing serious legal consequences for an operator permanently polluting the environment showing their irresponsibility and criminal attitude in breaking the anyway weak regulations for environment protection from mining activities, now those people pointing on these issues are intended to be punished stricter. The Ministry already indicated to help Talvivaara mine when changing the Police Act Regulations in autumn. It seems authorities are saying: "Don't stop pollution of huge environments, but fine those who talk about it!" Source: http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa.shtml/2013/08/1791177/talvivaara-pyytaa-ministeriolta-apua-aktivistien-karkottamiseksi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Latest developments in the Fennovoima NPP new build project ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fennovoima has chosen Russian state owned company Rosatom as the reactor provider for their nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki Hanhikivi Cape in Finland. The negotiations to have Rosatom as one of the biggest investors in the project have been started. Rosatom would be the owner of 1/3 of the shares, replacing German E-On which previously left the project. Other 1/3 of the shares are owned by small energy companies all over Finland and the rest by Finnish industry. The energy companies are municipality owned and the political decision making to continue the nuclear power plant project is at hand at the moment in different municipalities. They need to decide by the end of October 2013 if they want to continue investing in the nuclear power plant. Rosatom wasn't listed as the nuclear power plant builder and the actual plant is different than in the original decision in principle of the Finnish government. This is why Fennovoima needs to provide new survey about the environmental affects and safety of the plant for the Ministry for Employment and Economy in the coming spring 2014. Sources: http://www.hs.fi/talous/Fennovoima+luottaa+omistajiinsa/a1382040393873 http://www.hs.fi/talous/Fennovoima+toimitti+Stukille+voimalan+turvaselvitykset/a1381481389020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Summer-Mini-Camp 2014 in the South of the Czech Republic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As somebody, who has particitpated already in several activities of the Nuclear Heritage Network I value especially the nukenews and know, that it is not an easy thing to have something like this going without big money. For some you, who would like to see this info-network still improved (for examply by doing some translations) and personal contacts among us intensified, I´d like to offer organizing something like a work- and get-to-know-the-country-and-each-other-camp near the town of Kaplice in the South of the Czech Republic, very close to the Austrian border. For around 5- max. 10 people I could offer some simple accomodation and partly supply of nurishment. Transport to at least Prague or Linz would have to be organized by yourself, with the rest I´d try my best to help. Time: about a week in July or August 2014. People intersted please write to: b.riep@eduhi.at until around March 2014 (www.slunceasvoboda.eu respectively www.sonneundfreiheit.eu) The inviting NGO has some experience and know-how in cross border cooperation with also interests reaching beyond anti-nuclear activism, attempting to integrate elements of culture and renewable energy aspects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Collision entre un cargo contenant de l'uranium et un voilier dans la mer Baltique ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Le 18 octobre 2013, près de l'île de Rügen (Allemagne), le cargo russe "Mikhail Lomonosov" est entré en collision avec un voilier. Ce cargo est connu pour transporter des matières radioactives pour la "North Shipping Company", et, d'après les médias, il s'avère qu'il a transporté à la fois de l'hexafluorure d'uranium et du dioxyde d'uranium. Le voilier a subi de sérieux dommages, tandis que les conséquences sur le cargo sont encore tenues secrètes. Quant à l'hexafluorure d'uranium, sa présence est d'autant plus inquiétante qu'au contact de l'eau il produit de l'acide hydrofluorique mortel. D'après ce qu'ont découvert des responsables anti-nucléaires, ces matières radioactives auraient normalement dû être transportées par camion depuis Hamburg jusqu'à l'installation d'enrichissement de l'uranium de Gronau. Infos mises à jour sur : 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 : des déchets nucléaires liquides de haut niveau pourraient traverser la péninsule du Niagara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D'après un rapport effectué pour le comité de planification du Conseil régional au mois de novembre, de l'uranium liquide hautement enrichi provenant du réacteur de recherche canadien de Chalk River pourrait être transporté par camions à travers le Niagara afin d'être traité en Caroline du Sud. Ces déchets pourraient arriver à tout moment entre 2013 et 2018 - période durant laquelle l'accord américain est en vigueur - mais le rapport indique qu'aucun "avertissement spécial" ne sera donné lorsque les déchets circuleront, ce pour des raisons de sécurité. Le rapport provenant du département de planification régionale indique que ce sera la première fois que les autorités canadiennes essaient de transporter par camions de l'uranium hautement enrichi sous forme de solution liquide. Source : http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2013/11/06/nuclear-waste-could-pass-through-niagara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. RU : La durée de vie de la Centrale de Hartlepool est prolongée de 5 ans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Le 5 novembre 2013, la BBC a annoncé que la centrale nucléaire de Hartlepool restera ouverte durant cinq années supplémentaires. EDF Energy, propriétaire de la Centrale qui devait fermer en 2009, a confirmé qu'elle restera finalement opérationnelle jusqu'en 2024. L'ouverture au sein de la centrale d'un nouveau centre d'accueil des visiteurs a également été confirmée. A notre connaissance, il s'agit là de la première prolongation de la durée de vie d'une centrale nucléaire en Angleterre depuis celles de Hinkley B et de Hunterston B qui ont toutes deux été prolongées de 7 ans (jusqu'en 2023) en 2012. A l'origine, Hartlepool devait fermer en 2009. Il est intéressant de noter que Hartlepool n'a été prolongée que de 5 ans. En 2012, EDF avait annoncé que l'ensemble de ses Réacteurs Avancés refroidis au Gaz (RAG) seraient susceptibles d'être prolongés de 7 ans en 2016 (et que Sizewell B pourrait être prolongé de 20 ans, au moins jusqu'à 2034). Alors... Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-24824816 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. La Finlande ne devrait pas importer la mauvaise technologie nucléaire russe ni sa médiocre culture de la sûreté ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Le 3 septembre, l'opérateur nucléaire finlandais Fennovoima a annoncé publiquement son intention d'acheter un réacteur VVER-1200 (AES-2006) à la Compagnie Nucléaire Nationale russe "Rosatom". Cette opération coûterait environ 6,4 milliards d'euros et prévoirait le transfert de 34% de la propriété de Fennovoima à Rosatom. Les scandales de corruption de ces dernières années dans lesquels était impliquée Rosatom montrent clairement que l'on ne peut pas faire confiance à l'industrie nucléaire russe pour la fabrication d'équipements nucléaires de qualité. A titre d'exemple, en février 2012 une compagnie détenue par Rosatom a été accusée de vendre des équipements de mauvaise qualité à des centrales nucléaires, en Russie comme à l'extérieur du pays. D'après des experts russes, la technologie du VVER est loin d'être parfaite: "Si une fuite incontrôlable se déclare dans le circuit primaire d'un réacteur de type VVER, ou qu'une autre défaillance entraîne l'arrêt de la circulation d'eau dans le système de refroidissement, des dégâts pourraient se produire dans le coeur du réacteur, suivis du rejet massif de radiations qui en résulterait". "Il est vraiment choquant que Fennovoima ait décidé d'aider Rosatom à construire en Finlande et dans l'Union Européenne des réacteurs nucléaires conçus en Russie. C'est très risqué et inacceptable, et cela pourrait conduire à la répétition en Europe du désastre de Fukushima", a déclaré l'organisation russe "Ecodefense" dans un communiqué de presse. En savoir plus : http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/PR:Shoddy_nuclear_technology_and_poor_safety_culture_should_not_be_exported_from_Russia_to_Finland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. La centrale nucléaire de Hinlkley Point est la plus chère du monde ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D'après une analyse publiée par les investisseurs en fonds réputés de Liberium Capital, l'accord signé par le gouvernement britannique avec Electricité de France pour la construction d'une nouvelle centrale nucléaire, Hinkley C, dans le Somerset, ferait de celle-ci "la centrale la plus coûteuse" du monde, avec également la période de construction la plus longue. Cette analyse ajoute que l'accord du gouvernement pour souscrire à ce projet d'un montant de 16 milliards de livres pourrait s'avérer être une "folie économique" extrêmement coûteuse pour les consommateurs : "Ayant étudié les termes connus de cet accord, nous sommes sidérés que le gouvernement britannique oblige ainsi les consommateurs des générations futures à payer les coûts qui résulteront de ce contrat". Pour en savoir plus : 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. Déraillement d'un train de transport nucléaire à Barrow, comté de Cumbrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 septembre 2013 : d'après l'industrie nucléaire, au moment où le train a quitté les rails le 16 septembre, les fûts étaient vides et faisaient route vers Sellafield. Les fûts transportés vers Sellafield sont le plus souvent remplis de combustible usagé envoyé là-bas pour y être retraités, ce qui rend les déchets encore plus dangereux. Ces fûts avaient fait un long voyage, ayant été transportés (qui sait combien de fois ?) par bateau depuis le Japon jusqu'à Barrow et inversement, remplis de déchets à Haute Activité. Les déchets radioactifs à Haute Activité (résultat du retraitement du combustible usagé pour la fabrication du MOX dont personne ne veut) continueront vraisemblablement à être chargés dans les conteneurs puis acheminés sur les voies où le déraillement a eu lieu, afin d'être transportés par bateau depuis Barrow jusqu'au Japon, où ils seront accueillis par un grand mouvement de protestation après avoir navigué sur l'Océan Pacifique et traversé le canal de Panama. En savoir plus : 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. Campagne "Non à l'aide publique au nucléaire !" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- La pétition contre l'aide publique au nucléaire a été lancée en septembre sur le site http://www.my-voice.eu ! C'est un énorme succès: + de 20 000 signatures ont été récoltées. Nous devons continuer à nous mobiliser à travers toute l'Europe jusqu'en avril 2014. Cette décision au sujet du nouveau régime des aides d'Etat est entre les mains de la Commission européenne seule, qui n'a besoin que d'une majorité simple et n'est pas tenue de consulter les Etats membres (le Conseil) ni le Parlement européen pour décider des lignes directrices des aides publiques. Il est donc essentiel de mobiliser les citoyens européens. Nos chances ne sont pas nulles car les problèmes causés par la croisade pronucléaire vont entraîner des retards de la Commission européenne. Aucune décision ne sera prise avant avril 2014 - ce qui nous laisse plus de temps pour davantage de protestation ! Signez et faites signer cette pétition MAINTENANT ! Merci de penser à ce que vous et votre organisation/réseau/groupe pouvez faire. Signez et diffusez cette pétition MAINTENANT dans vos messages personnels et associatifs, vos newsletters, sur 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. Des militants bloquent un transport d'uranium dans le sud de la France ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Le 12 septembre, une trentaine de militants du collectif Stop uranium ont bloqué un camion transportant du tétrafluorure d'uranium près de Narbonne, dans le sud de la France. Le blocage a duré une heure. Des mesures de la radioactivité ont été effectuées, et une dose presque 50 fois supérieure au taux moyen de radioactivité a pu être mesurée à un mètre du camion. Le camion venait de la centrale de Comurhex Malvési, qui appartient à Areva et dans laquelle l'uranium est transformé une première fois après son arrivée en France. Près d'un quart de l'uranium utilisé dans le monde y est traité. Cette action visait à alerter sur les dangers que représentent cette installation et ces transports. Chaque jour, entre 3 et 5 camions quittent cette usine chargés de tétrafluorure d'uranium. Vous pouvez voir des photos du blocage sur : http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/blocage-camion-tetrafluorure ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 27. Dites NON ! au projet d'extraction d'uranium au Nunavut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Areva convoite le sous-sol du Nunavut, dans le Nord du Canada, et espère y implanter des mines d'extraction d'uranium. Ce projet d'ouverture de mines d'uranium menace ce territoire, déjà fragilisé par le changement climatique. Les conséquences seraient catastrophiques pour les Inuits, dont le mode de vie, basé sur la chasse, nécessite un environnement propre. Nous avons lancé une pétition (en anglais et en français) destinée aux ministres français, leur demandant d'annuler ce projet : http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/Petition-nunavut-en ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 28. L'avenir de la Centrale de Visaginas est "incertain", les hommes politiques ignorant la décision du référendum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Malgré les résultats du référendum d'octobre 2012 montrant l'opposition de la population à l'installation d'une nouvelle centrale nucléaire en Lituanie, les hommes politiques font toujours pression pour mettre en place ce projet. D'après l'annonce faite par les médias, le gouvernement lituanien prendra bientôt une décision concernant l'avenir de l'installation nucléaire de Visaginas. Il a également été annoncé que des discussions seront organisées pour mettre en place une position commune aux trois pays baltes à ce sujet. Jusqu'à présent, les hommes politiques de la Lettonie comme de l'Estonie étaient réticents à ce projet. Plus d'infos sur : 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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