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*     NukeNews #19 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service      *
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Outline of the current NukeNews issue #19
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0.  Preface
1.  Nuclear giant Areva goes to war against a citizen
2.  South Australia's uranium Royal Commission fails public interest
    test
3.  Intergovernmental commission supported long-term operation of
    Krsko NPP
4.  Czech Republic: The National Action Plan is so optimistic that it
    is inviable
5.  Independent public opinion surveys show resistance of Czech people
    against nuclear energy grows stronger
6.  26th of April appeal
7.  France: CRIIRAD stands up against the European Commission
XX. Upcoming events
YY. About NukeNews


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1.  Nuclear giant Areva goes to war against a citizen
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The French nuclear giant AREVA, partly State-owned, puts up a
libelling claim against CANSE (Southeastern anti-nuclear
coordination), a French informal action group. CANSE has
e-published an article that points out AREVA as endangering the
neighbours’ life and safety next to the nuclear facilities in
Marcoule, Cadarache and Tricastin, all of them are located along the
Rhone river valley as well as other ones in Niger (uranium mine) and
until Fukushima (with an Areva Mox-crammed reactor).

Whereas the whole informal action group has signed this e-item, AREVA
has not made all of them but only one among its members to be
interviewed under caution by a Paris examining magistrate (10th of
June 2015). It is obvious then that AREVA wants its opponents to shut
up when suiting them one by one at a time and quite running them short
of money (court and lawyers' fees). Next to the mass demonstrations
for free speech against the CHARLIE HEBDO’s slaughter, this claim
cannot possibly be successful. As, beyond free speech, this is the
worldwide public health which is at stake.

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


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2.  South Australia's uranium Royal Commission fails public interest
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The current terms of reference for the Royal Commission into South
Australia’s nuclear industry sadly appear to put a higher weighting on
industry promotion than public interest. There is to be no review of
SA’s atomic test legacy or flawed clean up attempts from earlier
uranium mines. Disappointingly, the impacts and experience of current
uranium mining is ignored lest it reflect poorly on industry expansion 
plans and key areas of very real public concern including health
impacts, emergency capacity, implications for SA’s precious water
resources and the potential for severe reputational and market damage
to the important food, wine, fishing and tourism industries are
missing.

http://www.acfonline.org.au/news-media/acf-opinion/south-australias-uranium-royal-commission-fails-public-interest-test


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3.  Intergovernmental commission supported long-term operation of
    Krsko NPP
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In the second half of July the Intergovernmental Commission for
monitoring the implementation of the intergovernmental agreement
assessed the last five years operation and business of Krško Nuclear
Power Plant to be very good, supported the prolongation of operating
period and gave its consent for the construction of a dry storage for
spent nuclear fuel at the NPP site.

After completion of administrative proceedings, when the Slovenian
administration for nuclear safety approved amendments of the final
safety report and the technical specifications in connection with the
prolongation of operation period of Krško NPP from 40 to 60 years, the
Intergovernmental Commisson in accordance with the contract supported
the decision of shareholders for prolongation life-time NPP Krško
until 2043.

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Intergovernmental_commission_supported_long-term_operation_of_Krsko_NPP


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4.  Czech Republic: The National Action Plan is so optimistic that it
    is inviable
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Three months before June when the politicians voted for approval of
the National Action Plan for the Development of Nuclear Energy (NAP
JE) in the Czech Republic, associations Calla and Friends of the Earth
Czech Republic distributed a fact sheet "Overly expensive nuclear
plans" among members of Chamber of Deputies and Senate in order to
provide them with the information needed so that they could decide
responsibly about the future national energy strategy. However,
instead of responsible decision-making that would take into account
the development of nuclear energy and renewable energy in Europe and
the world, the decision to build four new reactors (two at Dukovany
and two at Temelin) was postponed till next government in 2025 but 32
billion for the preparation of this plan have been approved already.
The following text will try to describe briefly the most important
facts to which current politicians as a whole did not respond
according to our expectations.

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Czech_Republic:_The_National_Action_Plan_is_so_optimistic_that_it_is_inviable


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5.  Independent public opinion surveys show resistance of Czech people
    against nuclear energy grows stronger
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Three public opinion surveys on nuclear energy were conducted this
year by these companies: Focus Marketing & Social Research (at the
request of the Friends of the Earth Czech Republic), the CVVM and the
online Centre for Analysis and Empirical Studies (SANEP). In the
following text, we will remind ourselves of their results and the
relationship the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) of the Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic have with the National Action Plan
for the Development of Nuclear Energy which was adopted in June.

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


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6.  26th of April appeal
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It is time that individuals of our time, those that are enlightened
and conscious of the imminence of a new nuclear disaster, both a civil
and military one, have the courage to stand up !!

The year 2016 should be the year of awareness of the population. The
11th of March 2016 will be the day of commemoration, 5 years after
the beginning of the Fukushima disaster, and the 26th of April, 30
years after the beginning of the Chernobyl disaster. Everywhere in
the world, those dates will be celebrated in commemoration. It is not
acceptable that the nuclear lobby should decide what to think, what
to spread, what to say and what to write.

From today onwards, we : artists, journalists,teachers,
photographers, musicians, actors, librarians, street artists,
scientists, dancers, researchers, documentary film makers, circus
artists, poets, cinema or theatre managers, festival organisers,
politicians, activists and concerned citizens, will start working to
enable the insurrection of consciences against the contaminated
future. We will produce, come up with or welcome public readings,
seminars, academic seminars, shows, conferences, exhibitions,
screenings, dances, carnivals...!

Read more:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/26th_of_April_appeal


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7.  France: CRIIRAD stands up against the European Commission
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The European Commission is aiming at taking back the MPL (Maximum
Permitted Levels of contamination in our food in the wake of a nuclear
accident) adopted in 1987-1990 under the pressure of the French
pressure group. Those levels set up unacceptable potential risks. As
regard to the French territory proper this legal contamination could
induce tens of thousands of cancers possibly hundreds of thousands in
the worst situation (without taking into account others non cancerous
pathologies and transmitted genetic damages). The consumers will not
have any means to sort out non contaminated food from contaminated
one.

The CRIIRAD (Commission for Independent Research and Information on
Radioactivity) set up in 1986 in the aftermath of the Chernobyl
accident, stands up against the European Commission. A petition to
sign up before September 30 2015 see:
http://criirad-protegeonsnotrealimentation.wesign.it/en


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


09/09/15-11/09/15: World Nuclear Symposium 2015 in London (UK)
09/09/15 10 AM:    trial against activists' 2012 protests at Lingen
                   nuclear fuel fabrication plant at Local Court in
                   Lingen (D)
after 12/09/15:    decentralized atomic transport actions nationwide
                   on the route of the first recognized shipment of
                   uranium ore concentrate from Hamburg harbour (D)
19/09/15 11 AM:    nuclear waste conference at Volkshochschule,
                   Wilhelmshöher Allee 19-21, in Kassel (D)
03/10/15 2 PM:     annual Internationales Aktionsbündnis gegen
                   Cattenom mass rally against Cattenom NPP at Place
                   Saint-Louis in Metz (F)
05/10/15-16/10/15: International Uranium Film Festival in
                   Florianopolis (BR)
23/10/15:          nuclear waste law symposium (D)
25/04/16-01/05/16: European Action Weeks For A Future After Chernobyl
                   And Fukushima
09/05/16-13/05/16: pro-nuclear 14th Congress of the International
                   Radiation Protection Association: "Practising
                   Radiation Protection: Sharing the Experience and
                   New Challenges" at International Convention Centre,
                   in Cape Town (South Africa)
01/09/16-30/11/16: main hearing on the Environmental Court on SKB's
                   application to build KBS3 final nuclear waste
                   repository at District Court in Nacka (S)
2017:              (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


http://www.wna-symposium.org/ehome/index.php?eventid=108035&
http://nirgendwo.info/lingen/
http://www.urantransport.de/aktionstage.html
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=273/
https://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/termine.html
http://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/European_Action_Weeks_For_A_Future_After_Chernobyl_And_Fukushima_2016
http://www.irpa2016capetown.org.za/
http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/kbshuvudforhandling-md
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2017


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