NukeNews No. 5 - ENGLISH

************************************************************ *     NukeNews #5 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service      * ************************************************************ - 0. Preface - Welcome to the 5th issue of the NukeNews! This is the biggest edition we had ever since we started the multilingual newsletter system in summer 2011. After a call for help with translation we sent out a month ago some new translators joined the NukeNews team. However, we still urgently need translation support in future into Russian, Finnish and French. If you can help or know people who could, please connect us! This issue gives an impression of activities and atomic topics of anti-nuclear activists connected through the Nuclear Heritage Network in many regions of the world. We are happy to cover in future even more of your activities and project - just send us your news by August 12 - the deadline for the 6th NukeNews. - Outline of the current NukeNews issue #5 - 0. Preface 1. 2010 Castor blockade activists charged - solidarity wanted 2. Deadline to apply for participation in the Anti-nuclear Sailing Trip 3. UK: The big six energy bash 4. France: Hunger strike to protest against nukes 5. June 30th in Manchester: A Campaign Planning Day for Activists 6. FIN: Stop Sokli! Save Santa´s home 7. University Controlled by Nuclear Industry 8. Dumping on Traditional Owners: the ugly face of Australian racism 9. 1978 atomic accident at Jülich experimental reactor 10. Australian uranium fuelled the Fukushima disaster 11. Walkatjurra Walkabout - Walking for Country 12. Reclaim Hinkley - Mass Act of Civil disobedience 13. Dutch Royal Family goes nuclear 14. France: Camp against High Voltage Power Lines 22-24 June 15. Nuclear power is not a good business anymore 16. Special report: Management of spent fuel and radioactive waste 17. UK: No to Keekle Head nuclear low level landfill dump 18. Rock Solid? - High level nuclear waste in Cumbria 19. When the water flows - a graphic novel 20. 101 Uses for a Nuclear Power Station - Use No 39 Uplifting the Land with Radioactive Gases 21. Rosatom continues dangerous experiments at nuclear power stations 22. Lithuania's agreement with Hitachi criticized 23. Stop Kola Nuclear Power Plant! 24. Petition against state guaranteed prices for nuclear power 25. Lessons from Fukushima tour in the Czech Republic 26. BBC documentary: Inside the Meltdown 27. Temelín 3+4 - EIA-process with more than 22.000 objections from Austria 28. Austria: Federal government wants to get the country nuclear free 29. Public money needed to make construction of NPP financially feasible? 30. International Committée on Nuclear Justice 31. Participation in Visaginas NPP project bad for Eesti Energia and Latvenergo 32. Anti-nuclear summer camp and gathering in Germany 33. Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) 34. Upcoming events 35. About NukeNews - 1. 2010 Castor blockade activists charged - solidarity wanted - The 2010 Castor transport from La Hague (F) to Gorleben (D) was one of the most expensive shipments of atomic waste in history and gathered more creative resistance than ever. One of the successful actions was the lock-on blockade on the Castor tracks in Dalle. Three activists had locked themselves to the tracks and delayed the transport for some three hours. In March criminal cases had been filed against them. The activists are now faced with high costs for the lawsuits and lawyers. Your donations and solidarity are needed! http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Castor_2010_-_Dalle_lock-on_blockade - 2. Deadline to apply for participation in the Anti-nuclear Sailing Trip - As the capacities of the sailing boat are limited, we ask activists and interested people being willing to join the anti-nuclear sailing trip from Stockholm to Greifswald (August 26 - September 9) to apply for participation until June 24. Around July 1, we will inform who can participate on the boat. We want to make sure that a balanced number of people from different countries can join the action as well as a well balanced gender composition. At the same time with the boat trip we will have a bike tour on land. People can bicycle all the time if they like, and it is a good possibility to join the tour even if the boat is crowded already. There will be possibilities to switch between boat and bike. The preliminary schedule and more information is available now: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Anti-nuclear_Sailing_Trip_across_the_Baltic_Sea - 3. UK: The big six energy bash - Kick Nuclear and friends, dressed up as Nuclear Grim Reapers and Liquidators, joined hundreds of environmental and social justice activists at The Big Six Energy Bash in central London, targeting EDF and the other energy fat cat corporations at the UK Energy Summit. The action, led by the Climate Justice Collective targeted the UK Energy Summit, taking place at the Grange Hotel St Paul's in the City of London, to highlight the role of the major energy companies in creating fuel poverty, exacerbating climate change and suppressing clean, affordable and democratic alternatives to the existing profit-orientated, corporate-controlled energy system. Read more: http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/content/nuclear-grim-reapers-and-liquidators-join-big-six-energy-bash - 4. France: Hunger strike to protest against nukes - Demand that the new President, the new government and parliamentary candidates in France enter into negotiation of a Convention to eliminate all nuclear weapons. This issue is on the international agenda, it must be put to the French people: "Do you agree that France is participating with other States concerned to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons under mutual control and strict and effective international measures?" For the referendum that will allow us to decide it democratically, Jean-Marie Matagne, 68, president of ACDN, entered into a hunger strike 15 May, 2012. The French people has never been consulted on the issue of nuclear weapons, weapons of crimes against humanity in his name and built with subsidies - 300 billion euros, and this continues. Find out more: http://www.acdn.net - 5. June 30th in Manchester: A Campaign Planning Day for Activists - This meeting has been organised to learn about the success of campaigns in other countries, and of many environmental campaigns here in the UK, and how they can be sustained. We want to build on the most effective ways of campaigning and draw upon the skills and understandings of ‘Occupy’ and ‘Plane Stupid’ and other groups. This is a planning meeting for a future campaigners’ event later in the year designed to strengthen the movement, in a similar way to the Yokahama conference in February 2012 brought thousands of activists together in Japan. https://we.riseup.net/assets/95874/Nuclear%20campaigners%2030th%20June%20flyer_pdf.pdf - 6. FIN: Stop Sokli! Save Santa´s home - Enabled by the poor and old-fashioned Finnish Mining Law companies have attacked the virgin and uniquely beautiful Finnish nature, wherever the bedrock happens to contain uranium. Now even Santa Claus is disturbed by Yara´s plans for the nearby Sokli phosphorus and uranium mine. Please send polite letters of concern about the Sokli mine and in general about the effect of the attack of uranium mining companies to Finland`s nature and tourism. President Sauli Niinistö: presidentti@tpk.fi Prime Minister Katainen: jyrki.katainen@eduskunta.fi MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen: sirpa.pietikainen@europarl.europa.eu Finland map: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Image:Uranium_industry_in_Finland_2012-02_-_Laplands_People_Against_Uranium_Power.jpg Read the whole story: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/A_nature_catastrophy_is_being_prepared_in_Eastern_Lapland - 7. University Controlled by Nuclear Industry - The University of Saskatchewan in Canada is being taken over by Cameco and its nuclear sycophants in the provincial government. The government allocated $30 million to start a nuclear research centre at the university yet they’ve starved other programs. Language programs have been cut and the sociology department is under-funded to the point that some students will not be able to graduate on schedule. Historian D’Arcy Hande explains the situation in an excellent article in Briarpatch Magazine. http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/follow-the-yellowcake-road - 8. Dumping on Traditional Owners: the ugly face of Australian racism - The nuclear industry has been responsible for some of the crudest racism in Australia's history. This racism dates from the British nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s but it can still be seen today. A toxic trade-off of basic services for a radioactive waste dump has been part of this story from the start. Governments have systematically stripped back resources for remote Aboriginal communities, placing increased pressure on them to accept projects like the radioactive waste dump. The situation is scarcely any better than it was in the 1950s when the British were exploding nuclear bombs on Aboriginal land. Read the whole story: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3919296.html - 9. 1978 atomic accident at Jülich experimental reactor - In 1978 there was a heavy atomic accident in the experimental nuclear reactor in Jülich, West Germany. The most radioactively contaminated former atomic facility in Germany has to be disposed of. The plans for this are absurd. 152 CASTOR containers with the old atomic fuel elements are supposed to be transported to Ahaus, North Germany without actual need. Jülich is place of location in research and development for URENCO, enrichment of uranium and production of nuclear fuel elements worldwide. But resistance is rising! An information event on the topic will take place June 28, 2012 at 7.30 PM at ALTE FEUERWACHE, Melchiorstr. 3, Köln (Cologne), Germany. German website and contact: antiatomplenumkoeln at gmx.de http://antiatomplenum.blogsport.de/ - 10. Australian uranium fuelled the Fukushima disaster - Australian uranium was used in the Fukushima reactors. The mining companies won't acknowledge that fact - instead they hide behind bogus claims of 'commercial confidentiality' and 'security'. But the truth is out. The Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office acknowledged in October that: "We can confirm that Australian obligated nuclear material was at the Fukushima Daiichi site and in each of the reactors - maybe five out of six, or it could have been all of them". Read the whole story: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australian-uranium-fuelled-the-fukushima-disaster - 11. Walkatjurra Walkabout - Walking for Country - This walkabout is a celebration of Wangkatja country, a testament to the strength of the community who have fought to stop uranium mining at Yeelirrie for over forty years, and a chance to come together to continue share our commitment to a sustainable future without nuclear. It is a chance to reconnect with the land, and to revive the tradition of walking for country. more info at http://walkingforcountry.com - 12. Reclaim Hinkley - Mass Act of Civil disobedience - International Callout: On Monday October 8th we invite you join us in an act of mass civil disobedience as we trespass on the development site of the proposed Hinkley C. Learn more: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Reclaim_Hinkley_-_Mass_Act_of_Civil_Disobedience - 13. Dutch Royal Family goes nuclear - On June 7 Willem-Alexander, the to-be King of the Netherlands, and eldest son of current Queen Beatrix, will open a new production facility of the Urenco uranium enrichment plant in Almelo, Netherlands. Dutch anti-nuclear groups will start a letter-writing campaign to urge Willem-Alexander not to do so. On several occasions he has openly declared himself reluctant to the further use of nuclear energy and a great supporter of renewables (sun and wind explicitly). Its therefor a shame that he will now be involved in a clear pro-nuclear propaganda activity. contact: wiseamster at antenna.nl - 14. France: Camp against High Voltage Power Lines 22-24 June - Since December 2011, the pylon construction sites have started and with them the violence of the state and RTE (forced signatures, destruction work employed legally or not, etc.). Given this situation, many individuals have decided that the time has come to do direct action to try and stop this "steamroller". They are calling on each and everyone of you out there to participate with the means that you deem appropriate, to interfere with the progression of the sites. The reasons we are forced into these practices is that popular opposition to this project has, since the project has begun, been met only with contempt and arrogance on the part of the state and RTE. Everyone will understand that there was nothing to expect from these institutions. It is only by organising ourselves with our ways that we can curb the omnipotence of the state. Call out in French: http://valognesstopcastor.noblogs.org/1087 - 15. Nuclear power is not a good business anymore - Recent news show nuclear power is not a good business anymore. After Fukushima accident, more projects have been cancelled around the world, but Finland seems to go on with new nuclear plants. The Fennovoima project may have problems in financing, experts say. The biggest shareholder, E.On (34%) has already stepped aside from all nuclear projects and says it will concentrate on renewables. Small investors might have problems if the construction starts. Plant prices have risen about 100% from the beginning of the project. Making profit with new nuclear means electicity prices must rise. Read the whole story: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Nuclear_power_is_not_a_good_business_anymore - 16. Special report: Management of spent fuel and radioactive waste - Since the beginning of nuclear power the claim is that there will be a solution for nuclear waste soon. But as the authors of "Management of spent fuel and radioactive waste. State of affair, a worldwide overview" describe, non of the 34 countries with spent fuel (reprocessed or not) from nuclear power reactors have a final disposal facility, be it in deep geological formations or (near) surface. A very large majority of those countries are not even close. Some postpone the need for final disposal by long term interim storage of up to 100 years; and other countries use (the future option of) reprocessing as an alibi for postponing that decision. Read the whole story: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Special_report:_Management_of_spent_fuel_and_radioactive_waste - 17. UK: No to Keekle Head nuclear low level landfill dump - Cumbrian Councillor Brenda Grey said it was “wrong to open up new sites and contaminate new ground. All nuclear sites should keep their own waste on site. We should lobby government to have the law changed back so it (Low Level Nuclear Waste) cannot go into landfill” Read more: http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/cumbria-county-council-unaminuous-no-to-nuke-landfill-in-keekle-head/ http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/nuclear-dump-bid-firm-set-to-appeal-cumbria-council-s-refusal-1.951825?referrerPath=news - 18. Rock Solid? - High level nuclear waste in Cumbria - Turkeys don't vote for Christmas but this is what West Cumbria may be about to do. A trap has been set deliberately in London to make Cumbria, Copeland and Allerdale councils overturn the Nirex Inquiry findings by arguing exactly the opposite of what they said at the inquiry more than fifteen years ago. There will be no turning back: if they want to pull out in the future, they will have to find new evidence to justify another U-turn. A lecture by Dr. Helen Wallace on this topic is part of the series of events alongside the exhibition 'Rock Solid?' Expo at Kendal Museum. Read more: http://www.kendalmuseum.org.uk/news-12-01-23-rock-solid.php http://virtual-lancaster.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rock-solid-expo-set-to-challenge.html - 19. When the water flows - a graphic novel - This graphic novel tells the story of retired Lakeland farmers, Tom, Ellen and collie dog ‘Blue.’ A government quango called ‘Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely’ sets out with careful orchestration to seduce Tom and Ellen with promises of unlimited money and persuasive reassurances in return for ‘volunteering’ their homeland as a nuclear sacrifice zone. http://wildartbooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/when-the-water-flows/ - 20. 101 Uses for a Nuclear Power Station - Use No 39 Uplifting the Land with Radioactive Gases - The government quango 'Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely' are promoting Cumbria/The Lake District as the national geological dump for nuclear wastes. Professor Stuart Haszeldine has said: "Emplacement of hot wastes will force rock to expand, with the strong probability that new fractures will be created. The fractures can allow radioactive gas to rapidly leak to the surface. Land users and housing at the land surface will be uplifted." http://101-uses-for-a-nuclear-power-station.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/use-no-39-uplifting-land-with.html - 21. Rosatom continues dangerous experiments at nuclear power stations - During antinuclear rallies at Chernobyl day in Russia activists demanded to stop the experiments and shut down 11 Chernobyl-tupe reactors. Antinuclear rallies took place in Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk and other places in Russia. Activists demanded to stop the most dangerous "experiments" of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. These are: - operation of 11 extremly dangerous Chernobyl-type reactors RBMK-1000 - lifetime extension of 18 reactors, including 7 Chernobyl-type RBMK-1000 - increasing of thermal capacity of VVER reactors - construction of new experimental type reactors VVER-1200 and SVBR-100 Acitvists demanded to cancel these experiments and to relocate governmental efforts and money to support renewable energy. - 22. Lithuania's agreement with Hitachi criticized - Visaginas nuclear power plant (NPP) project would not be profitable. This is one of the reasons, why Lithuanian Green Party urges the Parliament not to approve the Concession Agreement with Japanese company Hitachi. The reasons were set out in Lithuanian Green Party's statement, prepared in cooperation with Lithuanian Energy Consultants Association and Green Policy Institute. Read more: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Lithuania%27s_agreement_with_Hitachi_criticized - 23. Stop Kola Nuclear Power Plant! - Nature and Youth (Young Friends of the Earth Norway) and one of our sister organizations in Russia, Priroda i Molodezh, have since February this year had an ongoing petition for the closure of an old and dangerous nuclear power plant in the North-West of Russia. Three out of the four reactors at Kola NPP are operating beyond the 30-year recomended lifetime, which makes it even more risky not to shut it down. If you also want to support our campaign and learn more about Kola NPP, visit to our website (www.stopkolanpp.com) and sign the petition. Please make sure to share the link on facebook and/or twitter as well to make even more people aware of Kola NPP. More information: http://www.stopkolanpp.com http://www.pim.org.ru - 24. Petition against state guaranteed prices for nuclear power - Upper Austrian regional environment minister Rudi Anschober (Greens) started a petition aiming at not letting the EU start financing the nuclear lobby by supporting a state financed minimum price level for the in NPP produced electricity, as was proposed by nuke hardliner states like Great Britain and the Czech Republic. This petition can be signed on-line also from abroad. See here: http://openpetition.de/petition/online/nein-zur-subvention-von-atomstrom - 25. Lessons from Fukushima tour in the Czech Republic - Jan Beránek from Greenpeace International undertook an information tour in the Czech Republic, where he gave first-hand insights, in what he had heard and seen in Japan, having visited this country, which has now, after having been target of nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to cope with another nuclear disaster after the meltdown in Fukushima. People have been left dying in hospitals, evacuations were made into regions more affected by radioactive fall outs than were the people´s homes, simply because of special wind conditions, that had not been calculated. There is a complete booklet about the "Lessons from Fukushima" available in English with an abstract planned in Slovak. see also: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/Campaign-reports/Nuclear-reports/Lessons-from-Fukushima/ - 26. BBC documentary: Inside the Meltdown - A year after the disaster of Fukushima (March 2011) the BBC film "Inside the meltdown" documents the drama, which will influence Japan still for decades to come, so drastically, that other similar films, made some years ago, might seem unreal. Reality, including the fact, that politicians are helpless facing such a tragedy, has left behind fiction by far. see here the whole film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBELPtVUCA - 27. Temelín 3+4 - EIA-process with more than 22.000 objections from Austria - The Czech Republic is planning to built another 2 reactor blocs at the NPP site of Temelín and possibly another one at the Moravian site of Dukovany. The technical documentation of the project is lacking some important details, including questions of reactor parameters. Still there are thousands of pages to be studied, and questions to be asked. Austrian NGOs collected within a very short period of time more than 22.000 signatures from people claiming their rights as citizens of a neighbour country. Since the whole EIA-process however seems to be on a vague basis, some NGOs might in the end think of boycotting the process fearing, that it will only be a public presentation of the new NPP-Project and hidden PR für the biggest utility of the country ČEZ. - 28. Austria: Federal government wants to get the country nuclear free - After consultations with NGOs (e.g. www.global2000.at/site/en) the Austrian federal government tries to get the country´s power system nuke free by a mixture of incentives and transparency. Austria does not have a nuclear reactor for producing electricity (after a referendum of 5.11.1978 they even have forbidden it in their constitution), but is nevertheless importing around 4 % of its electricity consumption coming from foreign NPPs. It is a government-encouraged voluntary attempt to bring the rest of nuclear power out of the country´s power system, since it would probably not be possibly to simply forbid nuclear power as commodity as such. It remains to be seen, if this approach will work. Austrian economics minister Reinhold Mitterlehner (Concervatives) puts much hope also into the continued change of the German energetic system, away from NPPs towards renewables. more here: http://www.oekonews.at/index.php?mdoc_id=1069876 - 29. Public money needed to make construction of NPP financially feasible? - The controversial Temelín NPP respectively company ČEZ (mainly state owned) are awaiting the first bids for constructing the planned blocs 3+4. There seem to be three interested firms, among them Russian Atomstrojexport/OKB Gidropress, French Areva and American Westinghouse, who all offer possibilities for Czech companies to take part. Technical details of the planned reactors are not yet specified, which underlines other uncertainties of the project. Since the stock price of electricity is - as result of the worldwide financial+economical crises with around 50 € per MWh instead of the necessary at least 60 € too low, ČEZ is trying to find willing co-investors and even suggested, a guaranteed price system for nuclear power, where the state would take over any financial losses - similar to the system used in the introduction phase of the renewable energy sources. ČEZ director David Beneš used as argument also, that in England they reportedly have a similar system, where the state guarantees a minimum price for the produced nuclear power. Funny, if one of the most capitalistic countries in the world wants to kick out market dynamics from the nuke business, isn´t it? see also: http://www.praguepost.com/business/12706-temelin-nuclear-tender-deadline-looms.html - 30. International Committée on Nuclear Justice - International Committée on Nuclear Justice (ICNJ), with scientific secretary Pr Chris Busby, are starting Nuclear Justice process opening up the issue of the EURATOM Basic Safety Standards Directive reassessment focusing on the Radiation Risk model used by the governments all over the world. The currently used ICRP model is the cause to the tragical underestimation of the risks in Japan, Fukushima. The European Commission and the Member State Competent Authorities by law have to re-open the issue of EURATOM Justification if there is new evidence that their original justification was faulty. Since 1996, the European Committée on Radiation Risk (ECRR) has published 2 much more reliable risk models that are now recommended by eminent radiation experts all over the world. It is about time to challenge the Radiation Risk models of ICRP and ECRR to get a pan European scrutiny. For any questions or help email Ditta Rietuma bsr@euradcom.org - 31. Participation in Visaginas NPP project bad for Eesti Energia and Latvenergo - Credit rating agency “Moody's Investors Service” have issued a report stating that Estonia's and Latvia's participation in Visaginas NPP project might negatively affect both countries' energy companies' credit ratings. More information: http://www.bne.eu/story3584/Lithuanias_slow_slow_quick_quick_slow_nuclear_foxtrot - 32. Anti-nuclear summer camp and gathering in Germany - You are invited to five days of workshops and presentations, skill-sharing and networking, excursions and public events in Döbeln, Middle Saxony. It will be a chance to meet activists and interested people from several regions across Europe to share experiences and ideas with each other and network for mutual projects and actions. Everyone is welcome to offer workshops or presentations on topics they are working with. Please feel invited to talk about your current struggles, upcoming campaigns and actions. The gathering also aims to share our skills together in the fields of action, campaigning, investigating etc. It would be wonderful if you have issues you want to bring up. Camp dates: July 30 - August 3, 2012 Learn more: http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/International_Anti-nuclear_Network_Meeting_in_D%C3%B6beln - 33. Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) - The construction of the NPP is completed and commissioning put on hold due to the anti-nuclear protests by the locals and PMANE (People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy is situated in Koodankulam in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu). An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20, 1988 by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two reactors. The project remained in limbo for a decade due to the political and economic upheaval in Russia after the post-1991 Soviet breakup. Since the plant was conceived in the mid-1980s, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy was opposing the plant for about 25 years. Construction eventually began in 1997. The cost was estimated to be US$ 3 billion in 2001. A small port became operational in Kudankulam in 2004. This port was established to receive barges carrying over sized light water reactor equipment from ships anchored at a distance of 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi). Until 2004 materials had to be brought in via road from the port of Tuticorin, risking damage during transportation. The protests have been intensified during the last months with mass protests and different activities including Gandhi-inspired fast-campaigns cumulating end of March 2012. After around 10 days of fasting the soul of the protests, Mr. S P Udayakumar stopped fasting, after his friends had begged him and the government had signalled some kind of compromise. Before however there was heavy discrimination against the activists, like charges of waging war against India, the observation of 77 foreign NGOs and the claim, that the local resistance would be financed from abroad. There was even one german citizen (Rainer Hermann Sonntag) expelled from the country as being behind the protests, which are however organized by thousands of locals closely cooperating with Mr. S P Udayakumar whose home had been raided by the police, after having interrupted his fast. The protest are surely not over yet and a globalization of the debate would be important right now! - 34. Upcoming events - (just an extract, tell us your events for the next newsletter) 14/08/11-13/08/12: Gorleben 365 blockade campaign (D) 2012:             Protests against the CASTOR transports from Jülich to Ahaus (D) 22/06/12-24/06/12: Camp against high voltage power lines for French NPPs (F) 22/06/12-24/06/12: Tour de Fessenheim (F) 28/06/12-14/07/12: 2nd International Uranium Film Festival for a                   global Nuclear-Free Future in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 23/07/12-29/07/12: Anti-nuclear Camp in Lubiatowo (PL) Summer 2012:      Walk for a Nuclear Free Future from Saskatchewan to                    Montreal (CA) 30/07/12-03/08/12: International Anti-nuclear Camp and Network Gathering in Döbeln (D) 06/08/12-13/08/12: Olkiluoto protest camp and blockade (FIN) 12/08/12-19/08/12: Lausitz Climate and Energy Camp in Jänschwalde (D) 20/08/12-14/09/12: WALKATJURRA WALKABOUT from Yeelirrie - Leonora (AUS) 26/08/12-09/09/12: Anti-nuclear Sailing Tour from Stockholm (SE) to                   Greifswald (D) 29/09/12:         International Action Day to shut down nuclear industry 19/10/12-23/10/12: Reclaim Hinkley - Mass Act of Civil Disobedience (UK) 09/12/12-12/12/12: European Nuclear Conference of the nuclear industry in Manchester (UK) http://www.gorleben365.de http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Nuclear_Waste_Transport_to_Ahaus http://valognesstopcastor.noblogs.org/1087 http://www.antiatomfreiburg.de/aktuelles.html#TdF http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org http://eyfa.org/activities/projects2/anti_nuclear_camp http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/NFF2011.htm http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/International_Anti-nuclear_Network_Meeting_in_D%C3%B6beln http://olkiluotoblockade.info http://www.lausitzcamp.info/ http://walkingforcountry.com/ http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Anti-nuclear_Sailing_Trip_across_the_Baltic_Sea http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Reclaim_Hinkley_-_Mass_Act_of_Civil_Disobedience http://www.euronuclear.org/events/enc/enc2012/index.htm - 35. 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