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************************************************************ * Nuke News č.15 – informace z oblasti antiatomu * ************************************************************ 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Úvod ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Obsah aktuálního vydání NukeNews #15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Úvod 1. Join the campaign Bure365! 2. Ukraine: Updates on Khmelnitsky NPP new reactor construction plans 3. Výstava „Tváře uranu“ v Polné od 24.9.2014 4. Pochod proti uranu v Brzkově 7.9.2014 5. Campaigning for independent radiation monitoring in the North West 6. UK: Stop Moorside – Petition 7. UK: Not So Brief Encounter - Nuclear Trains at Carnforth 8. Estonian energy company about investing in Visaginas NPP: "No, thanks" 9. Russia: International campaign to support Russian Anti-Nuke-Movement 10. Czech Republic-Slowakia-Hungary: New developments 11. Europe: Japanese expert in Europe informing about Fukushima 12. New World Nuclear Industries Status Report online 13. Updates on Polish NPP construction 14. Canada: OPG says Darlington risks are contained 15. On the Yellowcake Trail 16. Smolensk Russian nuclear industry lies in official documents 17. Contract for Polish NPP construction 18. News from hearings in Russia XX. Upcoming events YY. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Join the campaign Bure365! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The campaign Bure365 was launched in June 2014 in order to oppose "Cigéo", this highly radioactive waste deposit project supposed to be built in the small village of Bure (East of France). Antinuclear groups from France and all over Europe are invited to join this campaign over and to organize as many actions as possible. All kinds of solidarity actions are welcome: civil disobedience, actions in public, direct actions, legal actions... Read the call: http://nocigeo.noblogs.org/post/category/translation-en/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Ukraine: Updates on Khmelnitsky NPP new reactor construction plans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good news: Officials say that the Ukraine is no longer going to cooperate with Russia in construction of new units at Khmelnitskiy NPP. Bad news: They are still considering options for construction of new reactors, but with involvement of another partner. Moreover, in early September a Ukrainian PM said the government should decide about the possible site and partner till the end of the year. There are also talks about partial (up to 40%) privatization of Energoatom, which is completely new, because previously they were talking mostly about corporation (first step to privatization). They think privatization will help to involve private investments in projects. Another way of fund involvement, they say, is an agreement of electricity export to EU. Among possible technical partners so far they mentioned Czech companies. But here are still big uncertainty and a lack of information. Anyway, they say that the existing infrastructure at Khmelnitskiy NPP site is not possible to be used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Výstava „Tváře uranu“ v Polné od 24.9.2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Od 24. září do 31. října 2014 bude v průchodu "Knihkupectví Kuba a Pařízek" na Husově náměstí 44 v Polné instalována výstava fotografií "Tváře uranu" fotografa Václava Vašků. Výstava probíhá souběžně s projednáváním studie proveditelnosti otvírky ložiska Brzkov a Horní Věžnice, kterou státnímu podniku DiIAMO zadala vláda vypracovat do 30. září 2014. Vernisáž se uskuteční ve středu 24. září v 15 hodin a bude na ní přítomen i Václav Vašků. Další informace: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Photo_Exhibition_%22Faces_of_Uranium%22_in_Poln%C3%A1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Pochod proti uranu v Brzkově 7.9.2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pochodu proti plánované těžbě uranu se zúčastnilo kolem 200 lidí s dětmi, převážně místních, ale i z okolních vesnic a měst dorazili účastníci. Pochod zorganizoval spolek "Naše budoucnost bez uranu", který vyjadřuje nesouhlas obyvatel Brzkova se záměrem vlády obnovit zdejší těžbu uranu, která by byla v rozporu s platnou surovinovou politikou ČR z roku 1999. Během dne podepisovali občané petici brzkovského spolku "NE těžba uranu na Vysočině" (kolem 1200 podpisů od července) adresovanou premiérovi Sobotkovi. Další informace: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/March_against_uranium_in_Brzkov ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Campaigning for independent radiation monitoring in the North West ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Radiation Free Lakeland are lobbying for independent radiation monitoring in the North West. This used to be carried out by Radiation Monitoring in Lancashire – RADMIL - which was disbanded a few years ago due to council cuts. http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/independent-radiation-monitoring-in-nw-what/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. UK: Stop Moorside – Petition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A petition has been set up to STOP MOORSIDE, described by the industry as "the biggest nuclear development in Europe". Despite having no solution to the problem of nuclear waste our government is hell bent on trashing a large swathe of Cumbria in order to build new nuclear reactors. To quote Michael Meacher MP: "We need new nuclear like we need a hole in the head!"... Please sign the petition and share widely. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-moorside-biggest-nuclear-development-in-europe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. UK: Not So Brief Encounter - Nuclear Trains at Carnforth ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trains pulling containers of highly-radioactive nuclear fuel rods ("Nuclear Trains") regularly go through Carnforth. These waste trains carrying spent fuel are operated by DRS, [Direct Rail Services owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) which transports this highly radioactive waste through some of most highly populated area in the UK. http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/not-so-brief-encounter-nuclear-trains-at-carnforth/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Estonian energy company about investing in Visaginas NPP: "No, thanks" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lithuania and "Hitachi, Ltd." are preparing a plan to establish an interim project company to move forward Visaginas NPP project. However, it seems the project does not have many chances, since it cannot be implemented without regional partners – Estonia and Latvia. Estonia is especially reluctant towards investing in the new power plant. Sandor Liive from "Eesti Energia" said that cheap nuclear energy does not exist anymore, and if Lithuanians would approach Estonia with the offer to invest in Visaginas NPP now (quote from August 2014), the answer will be "No". Read more: http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Estonian_energy_company_about_investing_in_Visaginas_NPP:_%22No,_thanks%22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Russia: International campaign to support Russian Anti-Nuke-Movement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- That Russia has a specific understanding of what is in the national interest and what not, is nothing new. But discriminating against Anti-nuke-activists especially from the NGO Ecodefense reached a level, which demands an international outcry. Below you find a broad platform to do so - in many languages. Please support our friends in Russia, it will help the Anti-Nuke-Movement as a whole: http://www.dianuke.org/international-appeal-in-solidarity-with-russian-anti-nuke-group-ecodefense-declared-foreign-agent/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Czech Republic-Slowakia-Hungary: New developments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On the on hand the plans to build two more units in the Southern Czech Temelín NPP were cancelled - due to economical arguments. But there are still attempts to extend Temelín NPP - and also at Dukovany NPP, the second atomic power station in the Czech Republic - for at least one more block each. On the other hand the Czech state dominated power-utility CEZ seems to be planning taking over large parts of the Slovak SE utility currently owned by the Italian company ENEL, which is trying to get rid of some possibly not so profitable investments outside Italy. The result could be a new push in Slovakia as well as in the Czech Republic to invest in further NPPs with own resources. Or maybe also with Russian help, which seems the case especially in Hungary, where the whole foreign political strategy of former dissident Viktor Orban seems to increasingly become a simple copy of Vladimir Putin's Russian drive for new land, no matter where and of course with a strong interest in more Russian nuclear technology and generally a still greater energy-dependency of other countries on Russia. But there were also already rumours about Chinese support in the respective countries, which is definitively the case with Romania. See more: http://spravy.pravda.sk/ekonomika/clanok/328081-stratove-mochovce-zavisi-to-aj-od-kupca/ http://hungarianwatch.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/rosatom/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Europe: Japanese expert in Europe informing about Fukushima ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Kazuhiuko Kobayashi from Japan, who spent many years in Germany, is known to be a fierce critic of the nuclear lobby. This autumn he is again visiting Europe to talk about the current situation around Fukushima and the plans of the Japanese Nuclear Lobby. He is visiting Germany, Poland, Austria, Turkey and Slovenia and besides informing the public he also supports, with the donations received, a children's project in Japan. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfbEPCNgnY http://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/04/fukushima-medical-university-hospital-cover-up-an-interview-with-kazihiko-kobayashi/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. New World Nuclear Industries Status Report online ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the best addresses with information concerning the worldwide developments around the nuclear industry has been released again with the WISR 2014 edition - thanks to the work of mainly Mycle Schneider and Antony P. Froggatt. You find this current and also older copies here: http://www.worldnuclearreport.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. Updates on Polish NPP construction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drilling works of the dunes in Lubiatowo - one of the NPPs candidate siting at Weherowo, Pomerania - by Worley Parsons under the complex siting and environmental studies have been - thanks to local opponents supported by GP - successfully postponed for past week and months. There are some chances for the consortium to miss the deadline with finishing of the EIA report by January 2015. This should be submitted to public consultations soon after that, maybe during Spring 2015. The so called environmental decision has been expected by them for late 2016. The final siting decision is scheduled at the moment for the turn of 2017 and 2018. The biggest problem remains - of course - still the "model of financing". PGE has managed to gain four "partner-shareholders" among Polish state-owned companies (energy and copper mining): ENEA, KGHM Polska Miedź and TAURON Polska Energia. The adequate agreement among them should still be approved by the UOKiK, the state public watchdog for consumers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Canada: OPG says Darlington risks are contained ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuclear project costs in Ontario and elsewhere have been notorious for escalating. Since the turn of the century, the overhauls of both OPG’s Pickering A nuclear station and Bruce Power’s Bruce A nuclear station blew far past their original cost estimates. http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/08/18/opg_says_darlington_risks_are_contained.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. On the Yellowcake Trail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada's uranium history. Elliot Lake, Ontario was once the "Uranium Capital" of the world. Within 20 years of operation, more than 30 dams built to contain uranium tailings failed, dumping nuclear waste and chemical toxins into the Serpent River watershed which flows into Lake Huron. By 1996 when the mine finally closed, over 170,000,000 tonnes of radioactive tailings were left behind. http://www.uranium-network.org/images/Canada/Yellowcake%20Series%20WS%2020092010.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. Smolensk Russian nuclear industry lies in official documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In the course of public hearings on equipping the new Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) with the experimental VVER-TOI reactor, the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom continues to perpetuate the illusion of environmental safety and the economic feasibility of building the new station by continually referring to non-existent prohibitions to alternatives and dreams of "safe" radioactive waste. Learn more: http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2014-09-russian-nuke-industry-lies-official-documents-build-new-reactors-smolensk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. Contract for Polish NPP construction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The special purpose vehicle company of the PGE conglomerate to build the first NPP in Poland, PGE EJ1, on 12 September signed a contract as a result of a tender with the AMEC Nuclear UK Ltd corporation for carrying out the tasks of the so called owner's engineer. The contract amounts to a record on the PGE's nuclear spending list so far high level of PLN 1,3 bn (ca. EUR 300m). The media report it as a net amount, so at least VAT taxes might be to be added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18. News from hearings in Russia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearly 30 questions posed to a roundtable discussion held in the middle of October on boosting the engineered power capacity of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant's No 1 reactor by Bellona remained unanswered by the meeting's adjournment, raising stark concerns over whether Rosenergoatom, Russia's nuclear utility, knows what it's getting itself into. Details: http://bellona.org/news/russian-human-rights-issues/access-to-information/2014-10-silence-greets-questions-posed-bellona-public-hearing-kalinin-nuclear-reactor-experiment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! 03/08/14 1.30 PM: Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance rally at uranium enrichment facility in Gronau (D) 04/08/14-08/08/14: Nuclear Heritage Network gathering near Kiel (D) 09/08/14: Actions against nuclear weapons at AWE Aldermaston & AWE Burghfield (UK) 09/08/14-16/08/14: International Anti-nuclear Camp near Kiel (D) 16/08/14-24/08/14: Lausitzcamp on energy topics & against open pit coal mining in the Lausitz region (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) 30/08/14: anti nuke bloc NATO SUMMIT in Newport (UK) 30/08/14 at 11 AM: nuclear waste conference at Volkshochschule, Wilhelmshöher Allee 19-21, in Kassel (D) 04/09/14-17/09/14: Energiewende Festival in Rubigen near Bern (CH) 08/09/14: nuclear waste commission meeting at Bundestag in Berlin (D 13/09/14-17/09/14: "AFRIRPA 04" - The Fourth Regional African Congress of International Radiation Protection Association in Rabat (MA) 14/09/14-18/09/14: 2014 conference of American Nuclear Society's Radiation Protection & Shielding Division in Knoxville, TN (USA) 15/09/14-17/09/14: OECD/NEA: Constructing Memory - An International Conference and Debate on the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory of Radioactive Waste across Generations in Verdun (F) 21/09/14-25/09/14: Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology 2014 International Conference in Freiberg (D) 22/09/14-28/09/14: next working meeting of the Atomic Baltic project in Döbeln (D) 28/09/14-01/10/14: International Radon Symposium in Charleston, South Carolina (USA) 29/09/14-03/10/14: International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin (D) 23/10/14-26/10/14: "Remembering for a common future" international partnership conference in Krzyzowa (PL) 27/10/14-31/10/14: Radiobioassay & Radiochemical Measurements Conference in Knoxville, TN (USA) 29/11/14-30/11/14: uranium symposium in Niamey (RN) 01/12/14-05/12/14: International Conference on Occupational Radiation Protection: Enhancing the Protection of Workers - Gaps, Challenges and Developments in Vienna (A) 01/02/15-04/02/15: Health Physics Society 48th Midyear Topical Meeting in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA (USA) 2015: 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://castor.de/php/termine/termine.php http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_Heritage_Network_gathering_2014 http://www.cnduk.org/get-involved/events/item/1815-wool-against-weapons 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 https://www.facebook.com/events/535370296568820/ http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189 http://www.energiewendefestival.ch http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189 http://afrirpa04.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/AFRIRPA04-First-Announcement1.pdf http://www.rpsd2014.org http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/oecd-nea20140915-17verdun http://tu-freiberg.de/umh-vii-2014 http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Atomic_Threats_In_The_Baltic_Sea_Region/Working_meetings/Fifth_meeting http://internationalradonsymposium.org http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org http://www.rrmc.co http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189 http://www-pub.iaea.org/iaeameetings/46139/orpconf2014 http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2014 http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/kbshuvudforhandling-md ---------------------------------------------------------------------- YY. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NukeNews is a multilingual newsletter of the Nuclear Heritage Network to reflect the activities, topics and struggles of anti-nuclear activists. The articles 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. 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 15th issue of the NukeNews will be 14th of September, 2014. Spread the word and learn more about the NukeNews: http://NukeNews.Nuclear-Heritage.NET