Nuclear Baltic Map

Shortcut to this page: http://NuclearBaltic.nuclear-heritage.net The Nuclear Baltic Map project is result of the Baltic Sea Infotour project.

See the preliminary map.

Nuclear Baltic Map Project
With the Baltic Sea Info Tour 2010 we focused on gathering information about nuclear issues around the Baltic Sea, images of these places and facilities, operators, critical groups, links and other resources to be used for the Nuclear Baltic Map. Now we will work on these materials to produce some brief introductions to these facilities and issues for the Atomic Threats Around the Baltic Sea book project.

general issues

 * 1) radioactive contamination of the Baltic Sea
 * 2) * impacts of atomic bombs tests, Chernobyl accident, Sellafield, NPPs
 * 3) * nuclear transports across the sea -> risks of accidents of the ships, collisions with other transports of hazardous materials; low level radiation (without accidents) increasing health risks
 * 4) ** depleted uranium waste transports, uranium transports, radioactive waste transports, fuel element transports
 * 5) ** Rostock harbour as a transition point for nuclear materials
 * 6) ** nuclear harbour in St. Petersburg and its extension
 * 7) *** Floating NPP Akademik Lomonosov is under assembly the Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg. It is scheduled to start operating in late 2012, after which it will be moved to Vilyuchinsk, in the Kamchatka region - probably will be sailing through the Baltic Sea? (added by imota)
 * 8) * increase of risks through new uranium mining plans, new NPP developments around the sea + repository plans beneath the sea
 * 9) Åland in the shadow of nuclear power - (not enough)
 * 10) impacts of the radioactivity in the Baltic Sea to Denmark?
 * 11) * no nuclear facilities but most of the impacts...
 * 12) the (not only Baltic Sea-related) impacts of Chernobyl - (T has Russian text?)
 * 13) * short text about the Chernobyl disaster
 * 14) Uranium Mining around the Baltic Sea => Uranium in Sweden
 * 15) * history of uranium mining in Sweden and Finland
 * 16) * current run for uranium in Sweden and Finland
 * 17) * risks of uranium mining for concerned communities and environment
 * 18) Nuclear transports across the Sea
 * 19) * e.g. in Sweden: transport of waste to Clab + SFR repositories by M/S "Sigyn"

Atomic situation and policy in Baltic Sea countries

 * 1) Finland
 * 2) Russia
 * 3) Estonia
 * 4) Latvia
 * 5) Belarus
 * 6) Lithuania
 * 7) Poland
 * 8) Germany
 * 9) Denmark
 * 10) Sweden
 * 11) Norway

Other sites

 * 1) (Outokumpu Tornio Works (steel factory) (Finland))
 * 2) OMG Kokkola Chemicals Oy (uranium extraction facility) (Finland)
 * 3) Harjavalta (Talvivaara uranium extraction facility)  (Finland)
 * 4) Soznovyj Bor (waste burning & processing facilities) (Russia)
 * 5) * also site of Leningrad NPP
 * 6) * didn't find any information about waste burning + processing facilities there... --Falk 08:06, 11 December 2010 (CET)
 * 7) * In the storages of the Leningrad nuclear power plant in Sosnovy Bor, there is spent fuel equivalent to about 5000 tons of uranium. Since there is no intention to reprocess it, it will probably stay there for a long time. In Sosnovy Bor, there is also a regional management centre for radioactive wastes. In the storages of the centre there is 60 000 m3 of radioactive waste. Its total activity is about 10 petabecquerels (PBq = 1015 Bq).
 * 8) RWMP – Radioactive Waste Manegment Plant, Svierk (Poland)
 * 9) ZAW Lubmin (dissemination) (Germnay)
 * 10) Roskilde Experimental Site (Denmark)
 * 11) Ranstad Uranium Ore Processing Facility
 * 12) * uranium extraction facility for local resources
 * 13) Studsvik Nuclear Complex (Sweden) (draft added -imota)
 * 14) * e.g. several conditioning factories for radioactive materials
 * 15) * Previously site of several research reactors, the last ones shut down in 2005, some still awaiting deconstruction.
 * 16) Västerås Fuel Elements Factory (Sweden)
 * 17) Sandviken Zirconium Alloy Tubing Facility

Appendix
Lists of:
 * 1) proposed sites for uranium mining, exploration etc. in Finland and Sweden (and more?) as well as former mining and exploration projects in the area
 * 2) *Source for Sweden: Pdf Report in swedish by Olof Holmstrand, of all prospecting applications and claims in Sweden as of December 2010, plus info about the active prospecting companies.
 * 3) Uranium deposits in the Baltic Sea region

Requirements for each facility page

 * a picture of the facility that we are allowed to use
 * infobox with technical information about the facility, for example:
 * Operator
 * Capacity
 * (How much radiation it sets free?)
 * when started to build, when will be ready, delays... (depending of facility)
 * How much a power plant produces
 * type of reactor
 * about exploration sites: Sizes
 * how much waste a reactor produces per year, information about the fuel
 * how many employees
 * number of people living around the facility
 * number of accidents
 * short text (1'500 characters max.)
 * contact details of critical groups working against this facility
 * group name, phone, email, website, postal address
 * links to operator and critical websites

Links to regional groups/organisations of possible interest
Finland:
 * http://nuclearfreefinland.org

Russia:
 * http://www.greenworld.org.ru/?q=ang_news
 * http://www.bellona.org/subjects/Nuclear_Russia

Estonia:

Latvia:

Lithuania:

Poland:

Belarus(?):

Germany:

Denmark:

Sweden:
 * http://www.nejtilluranbrytning.nu

Links to background information
(websites are mostly in finnish & swedish)
 * http://www.nuclear-waste.eu
 * List of nuclear reactors (Wikipedia)
 * Finland 1.9.08: http://uraanitieto.tormunet.fi/ uraani_010908.jpg
 * North Carelia: http://uraanitieto.tormunet.fi/ YhteenvetoPK011208.jpg
 * general interesting info: http://uraanitieto.tormunet.fi/
 * Northern Finland Uranium-prospecting sites: http://www.uraanivoima.com/
 * nuclear waste transports on the Baltic Sea: http://yle.fi/mot/kj070514/kasikirjoitus.htm
 * Earlier Finnish Uranium-mines: http://www.gsf.fi/aineistot/kaivosteollisuus/Uraanikaivokset.htm
 * Pyhäjoki:
 * http://www.hanhikivi.net/
 * http://www.prohanhikivi.net/
 * Swedish Uranium-sites: http://nejtilluranbrytning.nu
 * Poland: plan to build new NPPs to reduce CO² emissions & never finished NPP 60 km west from Gdansk (German TV report)
 * Germany/Denmark: planned Fehmarn Belt Bridge effects water interchange of the Baltic Sea website from NABU (several languages)