NukeNews No. 25 - ENGLISH

************************************************************ *    NukeNews #25 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service      * ************************************************************ -- 0. Preface -- This will be a short NukeNews issue - the anti-nuclear summer activities are in full swing! In this release we have some news, reports and announcements of upcoming actions. Have a great anti-nuclear summer! -- Outline of the current NukeNews issue #25 -- 0. Preface 1. Good news from South Africa 2. Challenges the anti-nuclear movement is facing in Sweden 3. Public hearing on the National Radioactive Waste Management Programme 4. Czech government has approved a new Raw Material Policy - it opens the way for uranium mining 5. The two faces of German Minister of Environment Barbara Hendricks 6. International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp will start soon 7. Neckar Castor: protests against first Castor transport by ship 8. UK: Windscale in October 9. UK: The DRS Open Day Protest 10. Saint Petersburg: Floating NPP 11. Chain Reaction Tihange short report 12. Upcoming events 13. About NukeNews -- 1. Good news from South Africa -- Definitely good news came from South Africa where a high court ruled that the inter-governmental agreement with Russian Rosatom is anti-constitutional. That doesn't mean everything is over as the government is free to sign another deal if it likes. But it is still a major blow to Rosatom. Earlier (last year) Vietnam announced it will not build Russian reactors. We see deals are getting canceled even if Russians back their deals with some money. Learn more: http://echo.msk.ru/blog/ecodefense/1970580-echo/ -- 2. Challenges the anti-nuclear movement is facing in Sweden -- There are two major challenges the anti-nuclear movement is facing in Sweden right now, other than the numerous aspects of the ongoing struggle: 1) the so-called "main hearing" in the environmental court ("Miljödomstolen" in Swedish) dealing with the Swedish nuclear industry's application to build a spent fuel repository (the KBS-3 application), currently scheduled to take five weeks in September- October 2017, and 2) the Sunday March 4, 2018 non-binding referendum in the municipality of Östhammar on siting of a spent fuel repository at Forsmark, where the Swedish nuclear industry has applied to build their KBS-3 facility. Read the complete article: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Challenges_the_anti-nuclear_movement_is_facing_in_Sweden -- 3. Public hearing on the National Radioactive Waste Management Programme -- The Czech Strategic Environmental Assessment process of the update of the National Programme on Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management has entered its final stage. Read the complete article: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Public_hearing_on_the_National_Radioactive_Waste_Management_Programme -- 4. Czech government has approved a new Raw Material Policy - it opens the way for uranium mining -- Although the parts related to the Brzkov uranium mining proposal were exempt from the new Czech Raw Material Policy after a public hearing in February 2017, the policy still causes concern for locals in Brzkov and other uranium sites regarding uranium mining in the future. Read the complete article: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Czech_government_has_approved_a_new_Raw_Material_Policy_%E2%80%93_it_opens_the_way_for_uranium_mining -- 5. The two faces of German Minister of Environment Barbara Hendricks -- The German Minister of Environment Barbara Hendricks (SPD) mentioned during the last two years several times, that the Belgian nuclear power plants Tihange 2 and Doel 3 are dangerous. In media she complained about many small fissures in the nuclear reactor containment, many critical incidents and slack Belgian nuclear controllership. Hendricks also requested the Belgian government to close Tihange 2. But she still permits nuclear fuel exports from Germany to Belgian to fuel the dangerous reactors! Read the complete article: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/The_two_faces_of_German_Minister_of_Environment_Barbara_Hendricks -- 6. International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp will start soon -- On 17th of July the already announced summer camp will begin in Döbeln, Germany. Some 60 participants registered from 18 countries, we will have a number of interesting presentations, lectures, workshops and some excursions. If you would like to spontaneously participate, please let us know via email to "summercamp AT nuclear-heritage DOT net" or via camp mobile phone +49 1578 9165215. More details: http://camp2017.nuclear-heritage.net -- 7. Neckar Castor: protests against first Castor transport by ship -- On 28th of June first Castor shipment on Neckar river from Obrigheim NPP to Neckarwestheim NPP took place - activists organized vigils, rallies and protest actions, for instance an abseil action from a bridge across Neckar river stopped the transport for a while. It was the first time that filled Castor casks were transported by ship. In total 342 high level radioactive spent fuel elements are supposed to be moved to an interim site at Neckarwestheim NPP. They will be assembled to 15 Castor casks, and in one transport three of them will be shipped. The 2nd transport could start during the International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp in Döbeln - organizers with the alliance "Bündnis Neckar castorfrei" expect it to take place at the latest during the week of 24th of July (after the camp), but it might actually happen earlier. Background information in English: https://www.neckar-castorfrei.de/home/english Review on protests against this first Neckar Castor: https://neckar-castorfrei.de/informiert-sein/news-berichte/209-rueckblick -- 8. UK: Windscale in October -- The Windscale fire took place on October 10th 1957. Close Capenhurst Campaign will be joining with Radiation Free Lakeland and other groups in the Working Alliance with a series of events to mark the 60th anniversary of the fire. Learn more: http://close-capenhurst.org.uk/?p=745 -- 9. UK: The DRS Open Day Protest -- DRS (Direct Rail Services) will be holding their annual open day at their Kingmoor depot in Carlisle, on Saturday 22nd July 2017. We will be at holding another protest leafleting session on the day from 10.30 to 14.30. This event is being organised by Close Capenhurst Campaign in cooperation with Radiation Free Lakeland as a part of Working Alliance. All of which is being organised by just a few activists. See: http://close-capenhurst.org.uk/?p=745 -- 10. Saint Petersburg: Floating NPP -- In the center of St. Petersburg at the "Baltic Plant", two kilometers from St. Isaac's Cathedral Rosatom is going to launch an atomic reactor - to "test" the floating nuclear station "Akademik Lomonosov", which is done for Chukotka. The inhabitants of St. Petersburg were not informed. Activists anarchists and ecologist movement took out actions in order to convey information to the citizens. Meanwhile, the Norwegian government expressed concern about the transportation of a floating nuclear reactor from St. Petersburg to Murmansk. More information: https://www.facebook.com/%D0%9D%D0%95%D0%A2-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B9-%D0%90%D0%AD%D0%A1-%D0%B2-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5-655651194625314/ -- 11. Chain Reaction Tihange short report -- On 25th of June the tri-national 90 km Human Chain Reaction took place from Tihange via Lüttich and Maastrich to Aachen. With this action about 50,000 people together hand in hand with the initiators from Belgium, Netherlands and Germany demanded the immediate closure of the nuclear reactors Tihange 2 and Doel 3. Learn more: https://www.chain-reaction-tihange.eu/de/ -- 12. Upcoming events -- Feel free to send us your local and international events for the large upcoming events collection on Nuclear Heritage Network website, and for this extract in the NukeNews! http://upcoming.nuclear-heritage.net 13/07/17-23/07/17: Anti-nuclear bike tour from Bure (F) via Chooz (F) and Tihange (B) to Maastricht (NL) 17/07/17-23/07/17: International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp 2017 in                   Döbeln (D) 22/07/17:         DRS Open Day Protest in Carlisle (UK) after 24/07/17:   2nd Neckar Castor transport (D) 28/07/17-29/07/17: e-Ventschau benefit open-air for Fukushima and Chernobyl victims in Ventschau (D) 31/07/17-06/08/17: War Starts Here Camp close by the Gefechts-Übungs- Zentrum Altmark (GÜZ) in Potzehne in Colbitz- Letzlinger-Heide (D) 07/08/17-16/08/17: Internationalistic Anti Nuclear Summer Camp and Free Flow Festival in Gedelitz (D) 11/08/17-13/08/17: Festival Les Bure'lesques in Bure (F) 02/11/17-04/11/17: Antinuclear World Social Forum 2017 in Paris (F) 06/11/17-17/11/17: World Climate Summit and protests in Bonn (D) https://lehalagedudebat.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/halage-2017-13-au-23-juilet/ http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Anti-nuclear_summer_camp_2017 http://close-capenhurst.org.uk/?p=745 http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2017 http://e-ventschau.de http://www.war-starts-here.camp http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Internationalistic_Anti_Nuclear_Summer_Camp_and_Free_Flow_Festival http://burestop.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article790 http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Antinuclear_World_Social_Forum_2017 -- 13. 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