NukeNews No. 7 - ENGLISH

************************************************************ *     NukeNews #7 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service      * ************************************************************ - 0. Preface - The "anti-nuclear action summer" with several international camps, gatherings and actions is over and was quite inspiring. Many people in the Nuclear Heritage Network focused the last weeks on the new NPP attempts in Eastern European countries or the struggle against uranium mining and NPP construction plans in Finland. In Lithuania the majority of people said "NO" in a referendum on nuclear power, while the government is not willing to follow this vote. During the last months two international action days had been organized by activists of our network: the Uranium Action Day in September and the European Action Day to force the Lithuanian government to make the voters' NO to nuclear power reality. On the one hand it was a pity that only a few groups joined the Uranium Action Day that had been prepared since the beginning of this year. On the other hand it was amazingly great that the European Action Day brought several actions to Lithuanian embassies although it had been announced only one week before. These mutual action days have potential! Enjoy reading about the anti-nuclear activities around the globe, and we hope you will appreciate the information activists provided in this newsletter for you! - Outline of the current NukeNews issue #7 - 0. Preface 1. Penly NPP: an "incident under control" hides a real accident 2. Petition for a re-Justification of the EURATOM Basic Safety Standards (BSS) Directive 96/29 3. International Sailing Trip made a stance at Oskarshamn NPP 4. Marking Nuclear Waste Disposal Facilities 5. Actions against nuclear weapons in Paris 6. Belarusian anti-nuclear campaigners rejected from entering the EU 7.  Uranium Action Day took place in five countries 8. New Russian nuclear power: "Risk for Europe" 9. Demonstration in 10 cities against EPR reactor and for the immediate closure of ageing NPPs 10. 03/09/2013: A human chain in Paris for nuclear phaseout 11. Netherlands: New reactor not necessary for production isotopes for medical uses 12. The end of Fennovoima NPP project 13. Fennovoimas nuclear power project in Pyhäjoki 14. Chernobyl Day: 138 actions in France against nuclear risk! 15. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - A Regulatory Farce 16. Uranium approval a threat to Western Australia 17. Fuel, fire, fungus, footprints…acting on our sentiments post Walktjurra Walkabout 18. The European Court of Human Rights puts an End to the Slovenian Nuclear Referendum Proposal Story 19. Sonne+Freiheit-Prize 2012 goes to.....Irmgard Schmied (Lower    Austria) and Jiri Dvorak (Southern Bohemia) 20. Nuclear transport blockaded in Münster for 8 hours 21. Sizewell Chernobyl anniversary camp and demo 22. Nuclear renaissance. What nuclear renaissance? 23. Demonstrators in Russia insisted on righting pervasive nuclear defects 24. Nuke-free utility on the Czech market and elswhere 25. USA: The Rush to Restart San Onofre 26. Toxic spill at Talvivaara mine: Finland's biggest chemical catastrophe in history 27. Czech Republic wants to financially support electricity from NPPs 28. Upcoming events 29. About NukeNews - 1. Penly NPP: an "incident under control" hides a real accident - On the 5th April 2012, at a reactor of the Penly NPP (Normandy), a fire started on a pump of the primary coolant circuit. A few hours after, a significant leak happened on the primary coolant circuit. EDF presented this as a mere incident. However, some EDF internal documents bring a proof that what happened could be considered as a real accident. What happened in Penly was seriously minimized. Read our analysis (in French) on http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/Accident-a-la-centrale-de-Penly. - 2. Petition for a re-Justification of the EURATOM Basic Safety Standards (BSS) Directive 96/29 - The idea is to flood the European Parliament with Petitions to require the European Commission to order a re-Justification of all Practices involving exposure of the public to radioactive contamination. The petition is based on the fact that the EURATOM BSS Directive has a clause that states that if new and important evidence appears that the Directive is not protecting citizens then there has to be a re-examination and re-Justification of the regulatory limits. This is European Law and is therefore also Member State law. The template petition, together with explanations and a list of the main scientific evidence required to show that re-Justification is necessary can be found on and downloaded from the website http://www.nuclearjustice.org. - 3. International Sailing Trip made a stance at Oskarshamn NPP - Friday, August 31, an international anti-nuclear group made a stance against the Swedish plans to construct new atomic power plants. A sailing boat headed to the atomic power station in Oskarshamn/Sweden spreading the word on their sails: "Energy Turn NOW!". Decorated with anti-nuclear symbols the activist boat took position in the bay opposite to the nuclear facility. Oskarshamn is also the site of a temporary repository for high level atomic waste. Oskarshamn NPP is polluting the Baltic Sea with radioactive particles in their waste waters and cooling waters released to the Baltic Sea. The atomic power plant also has a negative impact on the ecosystem of the sea close to the site. Activists recognized incredibly warmed up water in the bay close to Oskarshamn NPP. This badly affects the fauna and flora of the Baltic Sea. Besides that permanent pollution of the sea with radioactivity and heat, the temporary storage for high level radioactive waste on site puts a big risk of radioactive releases to the Baltic Sea region. Learn more about the anti-nuclear sailing trip: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Anti-nuclear_Sailing_Trip_across_the_Baltic_Sea - 4. Marking Nuclear Waste Disposal Facilities - An issue that has long been on the radioactive waste management agenda is the means of marking a waste repository site, such that future generations will be able to comprehend its purpose and risks. Research into long lasting information carriers is being done, but how do 'future people' know there is a message inside, or even, where do we put it so 'future people' will find it before people start digging? And then the more principal questions, will such a warning not attract people to start digging? Or do we have to forget repositories ever existed? But how? That is the subject of this article. Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Marking_Nuclear_Waste_Disposal_Facilities - 5. Actions against nuclear weapons in Paris - As one of the possible follow-up activities besides the Olkiluoto Blockade in Finland and the anti-nuclear sailing trip from Sweden to Germany, we promoted a fasting action against nuclear weapons in Paris at the last international network gathering in Döbeln (D). The action days took place from August 6-9, 2012 (Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days) at the Eiffel Tower. Participants of the network gathering joined this event and wrote a personal report for us. Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Fasting_for_peace_in_Paris_August_6-9,_2012 - 6. Belarusian anti-nuclear campaigners rejected from entering the EU - On 26 September the Belarusian antinuclear campaigners Mikalai Ulasevich and Tatsiana Novikava were not allowed to enter Lithuania on the reason of status of non-grata persons who might endanger the public order or the national security of Lithuania or other EU member states. They actually wanted to join the conference "Lithuania – Belarus: Nuclear Energy Neighborhood" held in the Lithuanian Parliament. They were officially invited to share their views on the problems of NPP construction and public participation in decision-making on nuclear energy in Belarus and Lithuania. Learn more and sign a petition to allow them entering the EU again: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Lift_persona_nongrata_status_for_Belarusian_antinuclear_ativists_applied_by_Lithuania - 7. Uranium Action Day took place in five countries - For the second time, anti-uranium campaigners had called out for an international "Uranium Action Day". It took place on September 29, 2012 with activities in Döbeln, Duisburg, Essen, Frankfurt, Gronau (Germany), Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, Murmansk (Russia) and in several places in Hungary, Netherlands and Mongolia. It's possible that there were even more actions that haven't been covered on the action day's webpage yet. In 2008, when the Uranium Action Day was called out for the first time, the number of involved countries and cities was even higher. The Uranium Action Day was intended to face the uranium industry with protests by organizing public events particularly in front of their headquarters or agencies. Spreading the word of the threats of uranium mining and processing and to connect atomic power plants with the uranium fuel for the public awareness was another goal. Learn more: http://uranium-action-day.info - 8. New Russian nuclear power: "Risk for Europe" - Oleg Bodrov and his lawyer, Andrey Talevlin, have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights after being denied access to a Russian court about the unlawful extension of operation permit for a Chernobyl-type nuclear reactor. Oleg Bodrov was recently interviewed by the French publication Journal D´Alsace about the reason for this appeal, during a visit in Strasbourg, seat of the European Court. One of the Chernobyl-type reactors at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, 40 km west of St Petersburg in Russia, was unlawfully given permission by the Russian regulator to continue operation beyond the lifetime-design time limit. The permission was given without a proper environmental impact assessment – EIA – or real public participation in the decision making process. This is contrary to Russian law. Bodrov was denied the right to try the case in a Russian court. As a private citizen he did not have the right to access to the court system. The Russian court also said the decision was made by the proper authority, and so all necessary safety concerns and environmental concerns were taken care of. The only possibility of having the decision about the life-time extension tried in a court was then an appeal to the European Court. Read the full story: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/New_Russian_nuclear_power:_Risk_for_Europe - 9. Demonstration in 10 cities against EPR reactor and for the immediate closure of ageing NPPs - On October 13th demonstrations took place in ten cities to demand the end of the EPR project and its high-voltage line and the closure of ageing NPPs. In Laval (near Brittany), about 4000 people invaded the center of the city. In Lyon, there was a simulation of a decontamination of "nuclear refugees" fleeing after an accident, followed by a 1000-people human chain. In Strasbourg, the crowd designed a huge "STOP" with umbrellas, visible from the top of the cathedral to demand the immediate closure of Fessenheim NPP, the oldest in France. In Metz, many people from Luxemburg and Saarland joined the demonstration to protest against the risks related to Cattenom NPP... You can find pictures and reports on this page: http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/Comptes-rendus-des-manifestations - 10. 03/09/2013: A human chain in Paris for nuclear phaseout - On the 11th March 2012, a human chain gathered 60,000 people in the Rhône Valley, in solidarity with Japanese people and to demand a nuclear phaseout in France. In 2013, there will be a new human chain in Paris, with the ambition of circling the places were decisions are made concerning nuclear power. We expect many people from France and other countries, and any support or help provided will be welcome. More information on http://chainehumaine.org - 11. Netherlands: New reactor not necessary for production isotopes for medical uses - In 2010 Laka Foundation published a ground breaking report on production of medical radioactive isotopes without a nuclear reactor. The Netherlands is planning a new research reactor mainly for the purpose of medical isotope production. Laka is now working on a new research report which will focus on developments in the commercial market for medical isotope production, based on a forecast of technological developments and shifts in supply chains. Purpose of this report is to show there is no 'business-case' for the Pallas reactor (which has to be funded privately). Laka is one of the very few organizations in the Netherlands working on this issue (and against the plans for the new Pallas reactor for that matter). You can find the 2010 report and the new report at: http://www.laka.org/medical_isotopes.html - 12. The end of Fennovoima NPP project - As predicted earlier this year, the Fennovoima project might end due to economic reasons. http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_power_is_not_a_good_business_anymore Since this, several small shareholders have left the project, but the last nail in the coffin was an announcement from E.On to leave it as well. There are now about 40% shares for sale, but no buyer in sight. More shareholders are leaving, so all signs show this is the end of the project to build a 7th reactor in Finland. Read the full story: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/The_end_of_Fennovoima_NPP_project%3F - 13. Fennovoimas nuclear power project in Pyhäjoki - In July 2010 the Finnish parliament granted Fennovoima a decision-in- principle for its plans to build a new nuclear power plant, but the company has not been able to apply for a construction license from the Finnish government yet. An attempt to construct a new reactor in Pyhäjoki, on Hanhikivi peninsula, a mainly untouched area with many endangered natural habitat types, is one of the most arrogant ones in the whole of Europe. Hanhikivi is an important nesting area for almost twenty endangered bird species, especially significant resting area for migrating arctic birds. If the nuclear power project is realized, the area will dramatically change to an industrial area. Learn more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Pyh%C3%A4joki - 14. Chernobyl Day: 138 actions in France against nuclear risk! - While the Fukushima catastrophe has just begun, the Chernobyl accident is far from over. Since the French government has drawn no lesson from these tragedies, the French antinuclear network "Sortir du nucléaire" made a call for actions, from the 26th to the 29th April 2012. In this timespan, 138 antinuclear actions took place everywhere in France, like for example human chains in big cities. Have an overlook on all the actions (in France and abroad) on http://www.chernobyl-day.org. - 15. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - A Regulatory Farce - Canadians are not being protected from the nuclear industry by their nuclear regulator. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is the "lapdog" of the nuclear industry, not its "watchdog." The CNSC is the most corrupt regulatory body in Canada. Read more: http://forum.stopthehogs.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2594#2594 - 16. Uranium approval a threat to Western Australia - The Western Australian Environment Minister has given an important, but not final, approval for WA’s first uranium proposal. Toro Energy’s proposed Wiluna uranium mine still requires federal approval, a number of other state approvals and also faces possible legal challenge over its risks and impacts. Uranium mining is different from mining other minerals and is opposed widely by environment, community and Indigenous groups, many public health bodies and trade unions. Read more: http://toro.org.au/2012/10/11/national-ngos-public-health-environment-and-aboriginal-groups-say-no-to-toro/ - 17. Fuel, fire, fungus, footprints…acting on our sentiments post Walktjurra Walkabout - It has been well over a month now since the Walkatjurra Walkers arrived back in Perth, and many of us have since returned to our lives in cities and towns across Australia. Days in the city feel far removed from the red dirt, challenges, routine and reflective environment of the walk. Learn more: http://walkingforcountry.com/2012/11/01/923/ - 18. The European Court of Human Rights puts an End to the Slovenian Nuclear Referendum Proposal Story - On July 18th 1995 37 MPs of Slovene parliament filed in a law proposal for a national referendum to shut down the NPP Krsko. The prime minister of the time Janez Drnovsek called by phone the evening before routine adoption of the law in the parliament several MPs and urged them to withdraw their signatures and brought the proposal to downfall. In 1996 he also urged the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Ljubljana Ivan Svetlik and the minister of education Slavko Gaber to fire Leo Seserko from his post as university professor. They gave in and fired him from his post of university professor, as he was the one who inspired the proposal. The faculty issued at the same day an order that the professor returns from the post of a MP back to his post of professor, and another one annihilating the first one stating that he is fired from his post at the university. Seserko sued both the faculty and the university and finally lost in all court instances. The Slovene institutional court found no violation of constitutional rights. And the judge André Potocki, representing France at the European court for human rights in Strasbourg, decided that there was no violation of human rights. The Strasbourgh court also informed Seserko that his file at the court will be shredded within one years time. - 19. Sonne+Freiheit-Prize 2012 goes to.....Irmgard Schmied (Lower    Austria) and Jiri Dvorak (Southern Bohemia) - For the 7th time already the Austrian-Czech NGO "Sonne+Freiheit" awarded a prize for cross-border activism in the anti-nuke field, which often goes together with cultural and person-to-person aspects. This year Irmgard Schmied from Northern Austria, who among others had collected more than 3000 signatures against the NPP Dukovany just across the border in the Czech Republic was the awarded person on the Austrian side of the border. Her counterpart, Jiri Dvorak, former Czech mayor of the village Lodherov in Southern Bohemia received the Czech part of the prize, which consists among others of one share of Austrias largest wind energy company http://www.windkraft.at worth about 400 € each. Mr. Dvorak organized a successful village referendum against the planned building of a nuclear waste deposal facility under his village. In the meantime however the lobby seems to have succeeded in "buying loyality with millions". Both awarded will work together to prevent the nuclear lobby from destroying their homelands. The prize is being awarded always around the 5th of November, in remembrance of Austria´s referendum on November 5th 1978, when the public said "no" to the NPP Zwentendorf, which led to Austria having an article in it´s constitution of being a "NPP-free" country. Sonne+Freiheit organizes special language courses always in August and uses the so received donations to finance the prize in November. See more here: http://www.sonneundfreiheit.eu - 20. Nuclear transport blockaded in Münster for 8 hours - On May 7th an uranium transport shipped some 450 tons of uranium hexafluorid from the uranium enrichment facility in Gronau (D) to Pierrelatte in France. Close to Münster the train had to be stopped because of several climbing activists abseiling high above the tracks. Only eight hours later the area was cleared again and the train was able to continue its journey. Nuclear transports regularly cross the world to supply the atomic industry - mostly unnoticed. Action report: http://www.mzeise.net/sofa/news/aktuell.php?tsnews4=archiv&dots=424 - 21. Sizewell Chernobyl anniversary camp and demo - Buoyed by the success of running a full 50-seater coach from London to the Fukushima-anniversary demo against nuclear power at the Hinkley Point nuclear-power station in Somerset in March, London Region CND decided to run a similar coach to a similar demonstration at Sizewell, marking the anniversary of Chernobyl, in Suffolk on April 21st. This was the 4th annual demo held there to mark this anniversary. This time, 40 people joined the coach in London, which was not bad considering the threatening weather. (The previous April only 21 had joined a similar coach from London.) This number was made to seem all the more respectable when we found that only about 100 people were there for the demonstration, as against the over 1000 that turned up at Hinkley. The demonstration consisted of long speeches from the eminent or representative interspersed with music, a little singing, and a heavy rain shower, as against the burning sunshine of the previous year, and ended with a symbolic blockade of the entrance to the power station. This year it was a standing blockade - the ground was too cold and wet to invite sitting! Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Sizewell_Chernobyl_anniversary_camp_and_demo - 22. Nuclear renaissance. What nuclear renaissance? - The Financial Times (FT) reported in April that the parliamentary Energy Select Committee is to invite executives from big energy companies to a meeting, "amid concerns that Britain's 'nuclear renaissance' is under threat." No wonder: the UK government is committed to plans for new nuclear power stations at eight sites, each with one or two reactors. However German power companies E-ON and RWE, the intended builders at two of these sites - at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire - had announced that they were selling their Horizon joint venture to build nuclear reactors in Britain, in part because of financial difficulties caused by Germany's retreat from atomic power after the Fukushima disaster. It has been suggested that Russian energy company Russcom (Chernobyl!), two Japanese energy companies (Fukushima!), and the Chinese State Nuclear Power Corporation might be interested, but Tim Yeo, Conservative chair of the energy select committee is reported by the Financial Times as saying that it was "ominous" that no buyer had come forward to buy Horizon. Read the full story: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_renaissance._What_nuclear_renaissance%3F - 23. Demonstrators in Russia insisted on righting pervasive nuclear defects - Activists across Russia used the 26th anniversary of the disaster at Chernobyl to spotlight ongoing problems in the country's ailing nuclear industry - many of which demonstrators say could lead to a Chernobyl two as government and industry officials persistently ignore the lessons of Fukushima. In Moscow, activists gathered outside the headquarters of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, demanding that dangerous high-power reactor experiments at Murmansk’s Kola Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) cease, and that Chernobyl-style RBMK 1000 reactors, 11 of which still function in Russia, have to be taken off the grid. Read the full story: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Demonstrators_in_Russia_insisted_on_righting_pervasive_nuclear_defects - 24. Nuke-free utility on the Czech market and elswhere - Czech households and companies now have the chance to change their utility and with nano-energies.com there is a new player on the market, who is not involved in the nuke business. This new company uses mainly biogas- and photovoltaik technologies. Similar companies exist for example in Germany, Austria, France or Belgium, The Netherlands or Spain. Such companies are for Anti-nuke activists in so called "Nuclear states" a welcome alternative in the process of communicating with an often not well informed public. - 25. USA: The Rush to Restart San Onofre - The San Onofre nuclear facility is less than 50 miles from Los Angeles and San Diego where over 8 million people reside. The 2,200 megawatt reactors have been closed since late January 2012 due to the failure of brand new $670 million steam generators. The primary owner, Southern California Edison (SCE) submitted its plan on October 1st to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to open Unit 2, saying it plans to make a similar submission next summer for unit 3. In a whirlwind of action, the NRC ruled against Friends of the Earth’s (FOE) petition to hold adjudicatory hearings over the agency’s collusion with SCE when it rubber stamped permission to replace the old steam generators. In a classic move, the ploy here is to investigate the critical issues brought up in the FOE petition, but not hold up operation of San Onofre for several years while the adjudicatory process takes place. Learn more: http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/2012/11/109-nrc-public-meeting-on-san-onofre/ - 26. Toxic spill at Talvivaara mine: Finland's biggest chemical catastrophe in history - A major environmental catastrophe took place in Eastern Finland in November, when the Talvivaara nickel and uranium mine experienced a spill from a waste water ponds. Leaks in the dams allowed hundreds of thousands cubic meters of toxic waters including high levels of heavy metals like uranium to escape the pond. For ten days between 3,000 and 5,000 cubic meters of the poisonous liquid was released to the surrounding areas per hour. The radiation protection authority STUK was reported to have found uranium concentrations of up to 350 microgrammes per liter in water samples. Other pollutants in nearby waterways are at levels that may cause the death of fish and affect plants and bottom-dwelling organisms, Finnish authorities stated. Greenpeace called it "Finland's biggest chemical catastrophe in history", while the Minister of Environment spoke about a "serious environmental crime". The Talvivaara operator was extracting hundreds of tons of uranium per year without a permission. 2011 the Canadian uranium mining company Cameco signed a contract to build an uranium extraction facility at Talvivaara of a capacity of even 350 tons uranium per year. As a response to the spill, about 1,000 people protested in Helsinki on November 14. 17,000 signatures demanding Talvivaara to be closed were handed over to the Minister of Environment. Learn more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Talvivaara_mine:_environmental_disaster_in_Finland - 27. Czech Republic wants to financially support electricity from NPPs - The Ministery for Industry has prepared the draft of a new National Energy-Conception, where on the one hand, it is planned to completely stop state support for clean renewable energy sources while at the same time taxpayer's money will be expected to pay for a scheme discussed also in Great Britain, called "contracts for difference". That would guarantee a certain price-level of electricity from the newly planned nuclear reactors in Temelín and Dukovany. Only this way will it be possible to make sure their survival in a market based environment. Costs for building new nuclear reactors are rising year by year, unlike facilities used for producing electricity from renewable energy sources. And because selling large amounts of electricity abroad is supposed to continue, there is the risk, that those exports will be paid for by the domestic consumers. According to the financial calculations of "CandolePartners" that would cost almost 680 million € a year for the Czech public. An average family (yearly electricity consumtion of about 4 500 kWh) would so have to pay about 57 € more, which means about 10 %, than so far. In Great Britain, where a similar form of state support is being discussed, experts from the City Bank came up with numbers, according which such a public financed support of nuclear energy would cost the British households about 200 extra pounds a year (256 €). Nuclear energy is already today greatly privileged through a reduced liability in the case of nuclear accidents. According to the institute for insurance at the University of Leipzig, electricity from NPPs would cost at least 0,14 €/kWh, if those hidden privileges were done away with. The claim of the Industry-Minister, that the financial support for nucelar energy is only a reaction to the market deformations caused by the support of renewable energy sources, is an excellent manipulation. Exactly the opposite is true. The support for renewable energies is supposed to make up for their disadvantage compared with other energy-sources, which are not charged for damaging the environment or for their responsibility for nuclear damage. Edvard Sequens, Calla (http://www.calla.cz) - 28. Upcoming events - (just an extract, tell us your events for the next newsletter) more events: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Upcoming_events 26/11/12:         trial against activists who 2010 blockaded in Dalle a Castor transport to Gorleben in Celle (D) 27/11/12:         seminar "A deeper disposal? - Two projects to raise                    awareness of deep boreholes as an alternative" in                    Stockholm and Östhammar (S) 28/11/12:         National Day of action around Toro Energy's AGM at                    Crown Plaza Hotel, 16 Hindmarsh sq, in Adelaide (AUS) 29/11/12:         seminar "Ethics of radiation protection" in                    Stockholm (S) 03/12/12:         trial against an activist who 2010 blockaded a                    Castor transport to the Lubmin repository in                    Potsdam (D) 04/12/12:         final presentation on the Gorleben inquiry commission in Platenlaase (D) 04/12/12-05/12/12: European Roundtable "Aarhus Convention                   implementation in the context of Nuclear Safety" in                    Brussels (B) 05/12/12:         seminar "What's happening in copper corrosion                    issue?" in Stockholm and Östhammar (S) 09/12/12-12/12/12: European Nuclear Conference of the nuclear industry in Manchester (UK) 2013:             Protests against the CASTOR transports from Jülich to Ahaus (D) 09/03/13:         human chain to encircle the nuclear decision makers in Paris (F) 29/03/13-07/04/13: Radioactive Exposure Tour from Melbourne to Adelaide (AUS) summer 2013:      Walk For A Nuclear Free Future from Minnesota to                    Buffalo (USA) 14/10/13-16/10/13: European Commission EURADWASTE '13 conference in                   Vilnius (LT) 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 http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Castor_2010_-_Dalle_lock-on_blockade http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/mkg_oss20121127 http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/radiation_ethics20121129stockholm http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Castor_Transport_to_Lubmin http://castor.de/php/termine/termine.php http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/brussels20121204-5 http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/mkg_oss20121205 http://www.euronuclear.org/events/enc/enc2012/index.htm http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Nuclear_Waste_Transport_to_Ahaus http://chainehumaine.org/ http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/radtour http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Walk_For_A_Nuclear_Free_Future_2011-2015/Minnesota-Buffalo http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/euratom-fission/fisa-euradwaste-2013_en.html http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2014 - 29. 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