Nuclear Baltic Map

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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.

Texts

general issues

1. radioactive contamination of the Baltic Sea
   • impacts of atomic bombs tests, Chernobyl accident, Sellafield, NPPs
   • 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
     • depleted uranium waste transports, uranium transports, radioactive waste transports, fuel element transports
     • Rostock harbour as a transition point for nuclear materials
     • nuclear harbour in St. Petersburg and its extension
       • 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)
   • increase of risks through new uranium mining plans, new NPP developments around the sea + repository plans beneath the sea
2. Åland in the shadow of nuclear power - (not enough)
3. impacts of the radioactivity in the Baltic Sea to Denmark?
   • no nuclear facilities but most of the impacts...
4. the (not only Baltic Sea-related) impacts of Chernobyl - (T has Russian text?)
   • short text about the Chernobyl disaster
5. Uranium Mining around the Baltic Sea => Uranium in Sweden
   • history of uranium mining in Sweden and Finland
   • current run for uranium in Sweden and Finland
   • risks of uranium mining for concerned communities and environment

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

NPPs

1. Simo (Finland) - (text from is there, needs revising)
   • Possible site for new NPP planned by e.on-Fennovoima
2. Pyhäjoki (Finland) - (nothing)
   • Possible site for new NPP planned by EON-Fennovoima
3. Olkiluoto NPP (Finland) - (nothing)
   • existing reactors, new additional reactor under construction (OL-3) and planned (OL-4)
4. FiR 1 Research Reactor (Otaniemi/Espoo, Finland) (some kind of draft added by imota)
5. Loviisa (Finland) - (not enough)
   • existing reactors
6. Ruotsinpyhtää NPP (Finland)
   • potential Fennovoima site next to Loviisa - failed because of strong resistance of the public in Loviisa
7. Leningrad NPP (St. Petersburg, Russia)
   • existing reactors, new additional reactors under construction and planned
8. Research reactor PIK in Gatchina, at Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Science (added to list by imota)
9. Salaspils Research Reactor (Latvia)
   • being decommissioned
10. Pāvilostas NPP (Latvia)
11. Ostrovets NPP (Belarus) - (promised by T in Russian)
    • new reactor planned / under construction
12. Ignalina NPP (Lithuania) - (promised by L)
    • closed NPP
13. Visaginas NPP (Lithuania) - (promised by L)
    • new NPP planned
14. Baltic NPP (Kaliningrad, Russia)
    • new NPP planned / under construction
15. Jezioro Żarnowieckie NPP (Poland)
    • old NPP project cancelled, new NPP planned
16. National Center for Nuclear Research, Swierk - Poland
    • Polish Research Reactors AGATA, ANNA, EWA, MARIA
17. research reactor MARYLA, krakow - poland
    • unloaded and dismanteled
18. Greifswald NPP (Germany)
    • decommissioned NPP
19. SUR Research Reactor Kiel (Germany)
    • Siemens reactor for educational issues
20. Risö Research Reactor (Denmark)
    • decommissioned reactor
21. Barsebäck NPP (Sweden)
    • closed NPP
22. Oskarshamn NPP (Sweden)
    • existing NPP, new reactors planned
    • same location as the Clab repository.
23. Studsvik Research Reactor
    • decommissioned
24. Stockholm Research Reactor
    • decommissioned
25. Marviken NPP (Sweden)
    • abandoned reactor project
26. Forsmark NPP (Sweden)
    • existing NPP, new reactors planned
27. Ringhals NPP (Sweden) (added by imota)
28. Ågestaverket NPP (Sweden)
    • NPP closed in 1974
29. Norwegian research reactors at Kjeller and Halden (added to list by imota)

Repositories

1. Onkalo (Finland)
   • final repository for HAW from Olkiluoto and Loviisa on the Olkiluoto NPP site
2. Olkiluoto VLJ Repository (Finland)
   • final repository for LMAW at the Olkiluoto NPP site
3. final repository at the Loviisa NPP site
   • for LMAW, and possible also for radioactive waste from decommissioning Loviisa and Olkiluoto NPP
4. Estonian Repository
   • In Estonia, near the town of Sillamäe on the shore of the Gulf of Finland there is a large waste depository. In Estonia, near the town of Sillamäe on the shore of the Gulf of Finland there is a large (50 hectares) waste depository. The total radioactive waste amount there is 12 million tons and of that amount about half originates from the enrichment of uranium. An international project for the restoration of the area was completed in 2008.
5. Radons (Latvia) - (nearly done)
   • closed repository? No
6. Lithuanian repositories (two sites) - (promised by Li)
7. National Radioactive Waste Repository, Rozan (Poland)
8. ZLN Lubmin (Germany)
   • interim storage at the Greifswald NPP site
9. Danish final disposal attempts (Denmark)
10. Clab repository (Sweden)
    • central Swedish interim repository for spent fuel elements (HAW) on the Oskarshamn NPP site
11. final disposal site for LMAW at the Oskarshamn NPP site (Sweden)
12. SFR Repository (Sweden)
    • final repository for LMAW from Swedish reactors, located on the Forsmark NPP site. Located in the bedrock under the Baltic Sea.
13. Forsmark HAW repository (Sweden)
    • proposed site for final disposal of HAW (spent fuel), to be built next to the SFR Repository, but not connected with it.

Uranium mining

1. Ranua (Finland) - (nothing)
2. Tervola uranium site (Finland)
3. Ylitornio uranium site (Rovaniemi, Finland)
4. Sokli mining site (Finland)
5. Talvivaara mining site (Finland)
6. Häggån (Sweden)
7. Nianfors (Sweden) - (maybe take article that's already there?)
8. Miningsites in Lower Silesia (Poland)

Other sites

1. (Outokumpu Tornio Works (steel factory) (Finland))
2. Kokkola (uranium extraction facility) (Finland)
3. Harjavalta (Talvivaara uranium extraction facility) (Finland)
4. Soznovyj Bor (waste burning & processing facilities) (Russia)
   • also site of Leningrad NPP
   • didn't find any information about waste burning + processing facilities there... --Falk 08:06, 11 December 2010 (CET)
   • 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).
5. RWMP – Radioactive Waste Manegment Plant, Svierk (Poland)
6. ZAW Lubmin (dissemination) (Germnay)
7. Roskilde Experimental Site (Denmark)
8. Ranstad Uranium Ore Processing Facility
9. Studsvik Nuclear Complex (Sweden) (draft added -imota)
   • e.g. several conditioning factories for radioactive materials
   • Previously site of several research reactors, the last ones shut down in 2005, some still awaiting deconstruction.
10. Västerås Fuel Elements Factory (Sweden)
11. 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
   • 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.
2. 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:

Links to background information

(websites are mostly in finnish & swedish)

• 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)