NukeNews No. 12 - CZECH

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*      Nuke News 12 - Informace z oblasti antiatomu        *
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SORRY! Not all parts of this newsletter have been translated into
Czech, as we didn't have enough translation support. Please help us
to change this! Tell us if you can help with translation of the
NukeNews into Czech!

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0.  Předmluva
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Ačkoli vyšlo poslední vydání Nuke News kvůli většímu zpoždění teprve
před měsícem, sešlo se nám opět dost zpráv na nové vydání našeho
newsletteru (vydání č. 12). Tentokrát je to kratší vydání...

Jedna ze zajímavých zpráv Vás informuje o tom, proč se německé
anti-atomové hnutí rozhodlo, že nakonec nevyužije svou šanci, vyslat
do „komise pro konečné úložiště“ dva ze svých zástupců. V tomto
aktuálním vydání najdete také kritiku spolupráce sdružení WWF s ruským
jaderným koncernem Rosatom, dále informace o snaze o nalezení
konečného úložiště jaderných odpadů v blízkosti St.Petersburgu, nebo
oficiální data ohledně úrovně radioaktivního zatížení v oblasti
plánování stavby nového jaderného reaktoru v lokalitě slovenské
jaderné elektrárny Krško a informace o odporu proti této politice.

Pokud pro nás máte informace pro další vydání Nuke News, pošlete nám
prosím Vaše příspěvky do jarního vydání Nuke News do 30.března 2014.


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Obsah aktuálního vydání NukeNews #12
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0.  Předmluva
1.  Hnutí  za likvidaci jaderných zbraní
2.  Jaderný projekt Fennovoimy se smršťuje
3.  Hinkley Point: Evropská komise zahájila posouzení britských
    opatření pro podporu jaderné energetiky
4.  Walkatjura Walkabout – pochod za zemi
5.  Radioactive Grave One Kilometer From The Baltic Sea And 40 km From
    St. Petersburg
6.  Concrete - it depends on what you make of it!
7.  Germany: Two empty seats - environmental movement does not take
    part at repository commission
8.  Rosatom practises greenwashing - with the help of "environmental"
    organisations (RNEI) and WWF Russia
9.  Big announcements of new reactor in Slovenia, prolonging of
    life-time of old reactor and safety issues
10. The Preparations for Construction of a Second NPP Reactor in
    Slovenia in Difficulty
11. Exhibition: The history of harassment of the no nukes movement
    Part 2
12. Rosatom recognizes high levels of pollution in the Beloyarsk NPP
    area
13. Film project Nuclear Lies - successful crowd funding
14. Further language versions of the NukeNews newsletter
15. Upcoming events
16. About NukeNews


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1.  Hnutí  za likvidaci jaderných zbraní
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Vzpomínáte si na Hirošimu a Nagasaki? Někdo z Vás možná četl letáček
"I can" nebo "Jaderné zbraně", možná někdo z Vás dokonce podpořil
hladovku a blokádu v Büchelu... A doufám, že hodně z Vás si udělalo
čas a vzpomnělo si na to, co se stalo v roce 1945 v Hirošimě a
Nagasaki a jakému nebezpečí jsme i dnes stále vystaveni. Chtěla jsem
se k této hladovce před Spolkovým kancléřstvím přidat, stejně jako
jsem to udělal v minulém roce v Paříži (letos bylo více než 60
hladovkářů). Bohužel  jsem na začátek akce přijela dříve a důsledkem
toho jsem zůstala zablokována 3 hodiny někde mezi Braniborskou bránou
a Spolkovým kancléřství, takže jsem to nakonec vzdala a šla navštívit
přítele....

Celý článek najdete na:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Report:_Anti-Nuke_actions_in_Berlin_and_B%C3%BCchel


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2.  Jaderný projekt Fennovoimy se smršťuje
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Projekt jaderné elektrárny společnosti Fennovoima se potýká s velkými
problémy, protože dalších 15 majitelů podílů odstoupilo – někteří
zcela, někteří z části. Velké překvapení pro všechny zúčastněné ale
bylo, že mezi nimi bylo několik velkých průmyslových koncernů. Nyní je
ve finských rukou pouze 50,28% podílů – zbytek je na prodej.

Po odstoupení firmy E.On Fennovoima změnila výrobce reaktoru: Rosatom
nyní nabízí jeden reaktor o výkonu 1.200 MW, který je ve srovnání s
původními plány (reaktor 1.600 MW) o 25% menší. Po odstoupení E.ONu v
roce 2012 jsou teď na prodej i další podíly v celkovém objemu 16%,
dosud se však nenašli noví kupci.

Celý článek najdete na:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Fennovoima_shrinking


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3.  Hinkley Point: Evropská komise zahájila posouzení britských
    opatření pro podporu jaderné energetiky
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Evropská komise začala s neodkladným šetřením, které má za pkol
zjistit, zda plány Velké Británie na stavbu a provoz nové jaderné
elektrárny Hinkley Point v Somersetu odpovídají předpisům Evropské
unie ohledné státních finančních podpor. Především má Evropská komise
pochybnosti o tom, že by projekt trpěl skutečným selháním trhu.
Šetření Evropské komise davá třetím stranám možnost, opatření Velké
Británie komentovat.

Celá tisková zpráva je k nalezení na:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1277_en.htm?locale=en
 

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4.  Walkatjura Walkabout – pochod za zemi
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Walkatjura Walkabout je pochod za zemi Wangkatja, dokladem síly
společenství, bojující již 40 let za zastavení těžby uranu v
Yeelirrii. A zároveň tento pochop představuje možnost, jak se setkat a
sdílet naše vystupování za trvale udržitelnou a bezjadernou
budoucnost. Je také příležitostí, jak se navzájem propojit a tradičním
pochodem za svou zemi. Pochod Walkatjurra Walkabout probíhá zcela bez
alkoholu a bez drog.

Pochod Walkatjurra Walkabout proběhne ve dnech 23.dubna až 26.května
2014, a budeme rádi, když se ho zúčastníte i Vy. "Cílem našeho pochodu
za zemi je opětovné propojení lidí se zemí. Walkatjurrs Walkabout je
poutí přes zemi Wangkatja a bude probíhat v duchu našich předků, tak
abychom jako nynější správci ochraňovali svou zemi, její zvyky,
kulturu a tradice pro nové generace. Zveme všechny lidi, z jakéhokoli
konce světa, aby přijel a zúčastnil se spolu s námi této tradiční
poutě s jasným poselstvím, že chceme zachovat zdravé životní prostředí
v našich zemích pro budoucí generace."
(Kado Muir, tradiční majitel půdy v Yelierii)

Walkatjurra Walkabout v roce 2013 byl velkým úspěchem a posiluje naše
společné úsilí o ochranu země a o zastavení těžby uranu. Pomozte nám
zachovat tuto formu tlaku, aby další uranové zásoby mohly nadále
zůstat pod zemí. 

Další informace:
http://walkingforcountry.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=50a102f587619317ca5451762&id=18853bdc20&e=bcdd27812a


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5.  Radioactive Grave One Kilometer From The Baltic Sea And 40 km From
    St. Petersburg
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On Friday, December 27 at 3 PM, in the administration building
of Sosnovy Bor, public hearings on the preliminary EIA materials on
"Point of disposal of radioactive waste" (PDRW) were held. Burial
is proposed in clay at a depth of 50 m, between two water
horizons. It is approximately 3 km from the residential area (village
Rakopezhi ), 1 km from the Baltic Sea and 5 km from the pine forest.

A discussion on this project has been on-going for more than two
years. Independent experts, nuclear scientists, representatives of
public organizations of Sosnovy Bor, as well as the Legislative
Assembly of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, representing the
Communist Party, Just Russia, Yabloko party, has come out with harsh
criticism of the project.

Read the complete story:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Radioactive_Grave_In_One_Kilometer_From_The_Baltic_Sea_And_40_km_From_St._Petersburg


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6.  Concrete - it depends on what you make of it!
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The trial against four people, who blockaded the last castor transport
to Gorleben (D) in November 2011 and stopped the transport for 15
hours has been set. Instead of paying a fine of 1,100 EUR each, the
court suggested everyone donate 250 EUR to the union "Children of
Chernobyl". A hearing did not occur. The four activists fiXed
themselves beneath the railways in a construction of chains that
connected their arms into a big block of concrete.

http://blockcastor.wordpress.com/


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7.  Germany: Two empty seats - environmental movement does not take
    part at repository commission
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German environmental organizations and anti-nuclear initiatives have
decided not to participate in the commission of experts to search for
a repository. The process for the search for a repository is
non-transparent and seems set to focus on Gorleben, where already 1.8
billion EUR have been invested and infrastructure has been set up:
interim storage, spent fuel, pilot conditioning plant and police
barracks in the district town are available. There was no broad social
debate on the procedure and the criteria for the task of nuclear waste
storage before the adoption of the law. The concentration of the
repository search to highly radioactive waste restricts the view to
only about five percent of the damage caused by the nuclear power
plants waste. Furthermore, the financing of the search process through
a public fund, fed by the operators of nuclear power plants, is not
guaranteed. The site selection law allows expropriations and minimizes
currently existing legal sources of verification. Finally, the federal
states would be deprived of power, and with the Federal Office for
nuclear waste disposal a new super-agency will have far-reaching
powers.

http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/918909.zwei-stuehle-bleiben-vorerst-leer.html


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8.  Rosatom practises greenwashing - with the help of "environmental"
    organisations (RNEI) and WWF Russia
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The nuclear Mafia in Russia is getting support from environmental
organisations. This is "Russisch-Deutsches Büro für Umweltinformation"
(RNEI), branch of "Deutsch-Russischer Austausch". And this is Russian
WWF. Both offered some awards for a competition for best environmental
article/report among reporters of radio, TV and newspapers, declared
by Rosatom, the federal agency for nuclear energy in Russia.

http://www.kerstinrudek.de/rosatom-praktiziert-greenwashing


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9.  Big announcements of new reactor in Slovenia, prolonging of
    life-time of old reactor and safety issues
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2013 ended with a strong statement of the owner of Krško NPP, GEN
Energija, that a second block will be constructed in 15 years in
Krško. This statement has no legal basis, as the decision to build an
additional block in Krško has officially not been made so far.
Moreover, Slovenia clearly does not need an additional block, as the 
energy scenarios prepared for a new energy program in 2011 show that  
Slovenia can export electricity with no additional nuclear 
facilities. Apart from that, the planned site for construction in  
Krško is seismically risky. In 2013 Slovenia received a report on
seismic risks of Krško site from French IRSN, which warns that the
site has significant seismic risks. In order to discuss the report
with IRSN experts and highlight the need for public participation in  
nuclear debates, Focus organised an international conference (links
to the presentations are available at  
http://focus.si/index.php?node=25&id=1373).

Greenpeace Slovenia and Focus also sent several open letters to the
Slovenian Nuclear Safety Authority in relation to the damaged fuel  
rods in the existing reactor in Krško and raised attention of the  
Slovenian and Croatian media for the issue. While fixing the problems
with the reactor, the operator is in a process of obtaining a permit
to prolong the life-time of the reactor by 50% (by 2043, instead of
2023). So far, no open public debate has been held on the issue in
Slovenia.


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10. The Preparations for Construction of a Second NPP Reactor in
    Slovenia in Difficulty
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Though the majority of the Slovenian population have for many years
rejected the idea of construction of a second NPP reactor in Krško, a
previous national government founded a semi-private electric company
in public ownership GEN to promote and organize such a project and to
extend the life time of the first reactor for an additional twenty
years. Without a decision of the parliament the GEN started research
and administrative preparations and authorized the French institute
IRSN to conduct seismic studies about the reactor site.

But the IRSN's opinion on this matter is not favorable as expected by
the GEN. Acknowledging the fact that the feasibility of designing a
reactor against fault surface displacement is questionable, and
consistent with IAEA and NRC recommendations, IRSN believes that GEN
should consider revising its strategy for the Krško II project and
further examine the possibility of searching for an alternative site.

It is unlikely that a new NPP  could be built anywhere else in
Slovenia in light of past public opinion pools. Now the GEN has
excluded the IRSN from further participation on the research of the
site, trying to find another institute that would be willing to
confirm that the existing site is appropriate.

Leo Šešerko


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11. Exhibition: The history of harassment of the no nukes movement
    Part 2
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This is the second exhibition about the history of harassment of the
no-nukes movement. There were 1,200 visitors for the first exhibition
held in August 2013. The purpose of this exhibition is to study the
history of harassment to avoid repeating them again. Lately, there
have been cyber-attacks against no-nukes movement websites. This
exhibition in Sinjuku public gallery in Tokyo will include a session
about how to deal with new technologies.

18.1.2014 13:00-18:00
19.1.2014 10:00-16:00

http://www.cnic.jp/5527


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12. Rosatom recognizes high levels of pollution in the Beloyarsk NPP
    area
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In context of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) process for the
construction of a 5th reactor at Beloyarsk NPP close to Yekaterinburg,
a BN-1200 Fast Breeder reactor, files disclosed Rosatom's knowledge of
high radioactive contamination in the area: annual 90,000-100,000 tons
of radioactive discharges into water, including cesium-137, enter the
biological cycle in the river, fish, soil and water. The report states
that the cesium-137 concentration in certain well water is more than
ten times higher than the so-called "level of intervention" by the
Russian "Radiation Safety Standards" (NRB-99), and the activities of
cesium-137, strontium-90 and cobalt-60 in other wells are close to the
levels of intervention.

Learn more:
http://www.bellona.ru/articles_ru/articles_2013/plutonium-v-bolote


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13. Film project Nuclear Lies - successful crowd funding
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The young film maker Praved Krishnapilla from the South of India, a
region which is directly affected by the NPP in Koodankulam, is
working on a 60-minutes film to portray the shameful methods and lies
of the nuclear lobby in his country and around the world. Within only
a few weeks and a lot of committed work by different - mainly Austrian
- activists (Praved has been living in Vienna since 1999), it seems
clear that the necessary money (more than 20.000 €) for this project
has been successfully collected. Very helpful in that process was the
internet platform http://www.startnext.de/en/nuclear-lies. Initial 
support for this project came also from the grand dame of the Austrian 
Green Movement Feda Meissner-Blau.

More about the film: http://vimeo.com/75948886


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14. Further language versions of the NukeNews newsletter
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As in newsletter #11 already mentioned, the Czech-Austrian NGO
"Sonne+Freiheit" plans a mini camp probably in the second half of
August 2014 in the South of the Czech Republic with the aim of further
improving the work with and around the NukeNews newsletter. Anybody
interested in joining, please contact by the end of March 2014:
"b.riepl at eduhi.at"

It is probable that with the help of the Upper Austrian regional
government - beginning with 2014 - there will also be versions of the
NukeNews in Slovene, Croat and Polish.


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15. Upcoming events
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(just an extract, tell us your events for the next newsletter)
more events: http://upcoming.nuclear-heritage.net

Please feel free to send us your local and international events for
this website and the NukeNews!


24/10/13-23/03/14: exhibition "Langzeit und Endlager" at Museum zu
                   Allerheiligen, Klosterstr. 16, in Schaffhausen (CH)
2014:              Nuclear Waste Transport to Ahaus - current status:
                   "postponed" (D)
01/02/14 at 11 AM: regional conference "AKW Grohnde abschalten" at
                   Gemeindehaus in Salzgitter-Bleckenstedt (D)
06/02/14-07/02/14: Long-term Performance of Engineered Barrier Systems
                   (PEBS) at BGR in Hannover (D)
08/02/14 at 11 AM: nuclear waste conference at Volkshochschule,
                   Wilhelmshöher Allee 19-21, in Kassel (D)
09/02/14 at 11 AM: federal anti-nuclear conference for global
                   networking at Volkshochschule, Wilhelmshöher Allee
                   19-21, in Kassel (D)
10/02/14-12/02/14: International Uranium Film Festival in Washington
                   DC (USA)
03/03/14 at 10 AM: Waste Management (WM) 2014 Conference in Phoenix
                   (USA)
08/03/14:          Fukushima related actions in the Dreyeckland
                   region (CH, D, F)
08/03/14:          Fukushima rally in Jülich (D)
09/03/14 at 2 PM:  human chain Fessenheim at vallée du Rhône (F)
09/03/14 at 2 PM:  Fukushima disaster remembrance: international
                   brigde actions in the Upper Rhine area (D)
18/03/2014:        Easter march to the uranium enrichment facility in
                   Gronau (D)
08/04/14-10/04/14: Symposium on Recycling of metals arising from
                   operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities
                   at the Studsvik site outside Nyköping (S)
23/04/14-26/05/14: Walkatjurra Walkabout - Walking for Country 2014;
                   pilgrimage across Wangkatja country (AUS) 
26/04/14:          ecological festival "Für eine Zukunft nach
                   Tschernobyl und Fukushima" (D)
29/04/14:          European Anti Nuclear Forum in Prague (CZ)
03/05/14-08/05/14: Atomforum of the German nuclear industry in
                   Frankfurt/Main (D)
11/05/14-15/05/14: European Nuclear Conference in Marseille (F)
summer 2014:       Walk For A Nuclear Free Future from Miami, FL to
                   the Y-12 Nuclear Facility Oakridge, TN 2014 (USA)
04/08/14-08/08/14: Nuclear Heritage Network gathering near Kiel (D)
09/08/14-16/08/14: International Anti-nuclear Camp near Kiel (D)
20/08/14-24/08/14: Anti-nuclear mini camp near Kaplice (CZ)
22/08/14-24/08/14: solar festival in Peckwitz (D)
21/09/14-25/09/14: Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology 2014 International
                   Conference in Freiberg (D)
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
01/09/15-30/11/15: (estimated) main hearing on the Environmental Court
                   on SKB's application to build KBS3 final nuclear
                   waste repository at District Court in Nacka (S)


http://www.allerheiligen.ch/images/PDF/Langzeit%20und%20Endlager_Flyer.pdf
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_Waste_Transport_to_Ahaus
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189
http://www.pebs-eu.de/PEBS/EN/Pebs-Final-Conference/PEBS_final_conference_node_en.html;jsessionid=EF1A95844F8E4E013BCB14F2A5E66F59.1_cid284#link4
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=66&Itemid=278
http://www.kerstinrudek.de/bundesweite-anti-atom-konferenz-f%C3%BCr-globale-vernetzung/
http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/
http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/phoenix20140302-06
http://wp.chainehumaine.eu/
http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/20140408-10studsvik
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Walkatjurra_Walkabout_%E2%80%93_Walking_for_Country_2014
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/European_Anti_Nuclear_Forum_2014
http://www.euronuclear.org/events/enc/enc2014/index.htm
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Walk_For_A_Nuclear_Free_Future_2011-2015/Miami-Y12_Nuclear_Facility_Oakridge
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_Heritage_Network_gathering_2014
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/International_Anti-nuclear_Camp_near_Kiel
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Anti-nuclear_mini_camp_in_the_Czech_Republic
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189
http://tu-freiberg.de/umh-vii-2014
http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2014
http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/kbshuvudforhandling2012


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16. About NukeNews
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The NukeNews are a multilingual newsletter system of the Nuclear
Heritage Network and are supposed to reflect the activities, topics
and struggles of anti-nuclear activists connected through this
international community. The messages are written and translated by
activists, additionally to their usual anti-nuclear activities. No
one is paid for that work, as we want to provide resources like this
information system to the anti-nuclear struggle as independent as
possible. The newsletter aims to inform and update as well activists
as the interested audience.

Your contributions to the next issue of the NukeNews are welcome.
Send them via email to "news AT NukeNews.nuclear-heritage.net". It
should be brief information in English of not more than one paragraph,
including a concise headline and an optional link to a webpage
providing more information. Deadline for the 13th issue of the
NukeNews will be 30th of March, 2014.

Spread the word and learn more about the NukeNews:
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