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************************************************************ * NukeNews #13 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service * ************************************************************ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Outline of the current NukeNews issue #13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface 1. UK: NDA consultation on nuclear waste dump fails to talk to potentially affected communities 2. Anti-nuclear rally during COP19 meeting in Warsaw 3. Resistance to the Polish NPP construction plans 4. Pro-nuclear propaganda bus in Poland 5. A Poland-overseas media scandal XX. Upcoming events YY. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. UK: NDA consultation on nuclear waste dump fails to talk to potentially affected communities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stop Hinkley slammed the 22nd of January Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's (NDA) consultation on Storage and Disposal plans for Intermediate Level Waste & Nuclear Fuel Element Debris. So far the NDA have chosen to talk only to a very limited group of stakeholders via nuclear power station based site stakeholder groups. The public haven't been involved at a stage where all the options are on the table and they can influence the decisions about the waste. Stop Hinkley would like to encourage the public to reject the NDA proposals on the grounds that they have failed to fully involve the public at the appropriate time. "The NDA need to go back to the drawing board about how they involve the public in consultations about hazardous radiological and chemical wastes produced here in the UK." Support the petition against Hinkley C NPP: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_Nuclear_Insanity_NOW_Ban_Construction_of_Hinkley_C_Nuclear_Power_Station/?fPKymab&pv=6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Anti-nuclear rally during COP19 meeting in Warsaw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 16th November, on the 8th day of the UN climate talks (COP19) in Warsaw an anti-nuclear demonstration was held. 40 activists from Poland and around the world (Russia, South Africa, Ireland, Germany, Austria, UK, Belgium, and other countries) stood with banners, costumes and signs at the entrance to the venue of the climate negotiations. It was a strong signal to delegates and media entering the National Stadium and capital's citizens that nuclear power is not a solution to the climate crisis. Get an impression: http://www.flickr.com/photos/push_europe http://youtu.be/ZD1SywPxz8gs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Resistance to the Polish NPP construction plans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A citizens group from the Mielno gmina (state smallest administrative district), home to the Gaski village as an official candidate siting of a first NPP, have sued the permit on the siting of a NPP in Gaski issued by the head (Voivode) of the Western Pomerania Region (Wojewoda Zachodniopomorski). The permit was sustained by the Voivode but the citizens want to file a complaint to the Poland's Constitutional Court. Furthermore, a delegation of citizens from the Mielno presented, at the Gmina Hall Council's meeting, a document covering the potential negative impact of a possible building and operating of an NPP in their region. Also, in past months, Mielno turned out in local opinion polls to be in favour of the renewables development (instead of nuclear power). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Pro-nuclear propaganda bus in Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In late November, promoters of nuclear power (a pro-nuclear students' foundation, under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Economy, sponsored by the biggest nuclear players, both Polish and global, including AREVA, EDF, Hitachi, PGE), again this year, drove a so called 'The Atomic Coach', performing an 'information' tour along the coastline of the Northern Poland's regions. They stopped at several towns and villages including the candidate sites for the first NPP and had meetings with school youth at schools to significantly augment the attendance rates at their events. Apart from bringing up usual pro-nuclear myths and arguments in their speeches, they showed simple physical experiments, most often completely unrelated to NPPs directly and some of them even unrelated to the fission phenomena (maybe luckily...). Last year the nuclear opponents from the local committee 'Nie dla atomu w Lubiatowie' ('No to the atomic power in Lubiatowo') were sometimes denied access to the meetings and were verbally assaulted by the pro-nuclear citizens: http://www.niedlaatomuwlubiatowie.pl/atomowy-autobus-1.html http://www.niedlaatomuwlubiatowie.pl/atomowy-autobus-2013.html Official website of the pro-nuclear organizers: http://www.atomowyautobus.pl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. A Poland-overseas media scandal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The head of the Polish state nuclear agency (PAA) claimed in an interview in a magazine published by the Polish embassy in Tokyo that "Poland wants to implement the nuclear power even should it entail a Fukushima-like event". Currently the PAA spokeswoman denies the wording and investigates whether there might have been some mistakes in the interview's translation from Japanese... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XX. Upcoming events ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- YY. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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