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1988. The first unit of the plant (KKNPP 1) started commercial
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operation on June 30th 2014, says IAEA statistics. That is not true.
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operator of the plant expects commercial operation in 2015. In
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Rosatom has used substandard and falsified components.
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Detailed Kudankulam NPP backgrounds:
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http://www.dianuke.org/the-koodankulam-white-elephant-a-non-functioning-reactor-after-one-year-of-grid-connection-vindicates-the-movement/
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http://www.countercurrents.org/vtp221114.htm
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http://vixra.org/pdf/1410.0208v1.pdf
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http://vixra.org/pdf/1306.0062v1.pdf
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   

Revision as of 18:01, 8 December 2014


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*     NukeNews #16 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service      *
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Outline of the current NukeNews issue #16
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0.  Preface
1.  Ecodefense: new court hearings
2.  Czech government wants to mine uranium in Brzkov from 2022
3.  EJOLT reports: Unveilling uranium and nuclear power myths
4.  Statement on accident in Zaporizhye NPP, Ukraine
5.  Gathering against uranium transports
6.  Accident at Tihange NPP in Belgium
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23. First Rosatom Nuclear Power Plant in India has serious problems
24. Upcoming events
25. About NukeNews


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1.  Ecodefense: new court hearings
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On December 5, 2014, another court hearing will take place in
Ecodefense's legal action against a 6,000 EUR fine based on the
"foreign agent" law. Ecodefense argues the fine is illegal because the
organization is no foreign agent. However, obviously the government
has another opinion, and there is hardly a chance for Ecodefense to
change that. Thus, Ecodefense assumes the fine will be enforced. For
this case, the organization announced to refuse to pay the money.
Representatives of the environmental group assume that the Ministry of
Justice will state this as the reason for closing the organization
down.

Additionally, the Ministry of Justice started another case against
Ecodefense already on November 19, 2014 as the organization refused to
report its activities under the „foreign agent“ law. Ecodefense will
probably be faced with an additional fine of 7,000-8,000 EUR. The
dates of the trial haven't been released yet, but it could happen at
any point in December. It is important to remember that Ecodefense has
been persecuted particularly because of its successful campaign
against the proposed Baltic NPP near Kaliningrad. For many years,
Ecodefense has been an important cooperation partner of the German
anti-nuclear movement in Russia. For instance, the transports of
uranium waste from the Gronau uranium enrichment facility to Russia
had been stopped together.

Learn more:
http://russlandantirep.blogsport.de/english/ecodefense-english/


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2.  Czech government wants to mine uranium in Brzkov from 2022
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Since June 2014, the association "Our Future Without Uranium" (NBBU)
of Brzkov is trying to make the Regional Authority of the Vysočina
Region and ministerial officials understand the absurdity of opening
uranium mine in Brzkov and to persuade them to take appropriate
measures to prevent mining. According to the latest information, the
Czech government still wants to mine and the Regional Authority
continues to support this intention, too. On the other hand, the
opposition councillors support dialogue with NBBU and local
municipalities.

Members of NBBU have had a busy spring, summer and autumn. At first -
they founded their association at the beginning of June. By this they
have taken a responsible role of defender of their rights and their
home. Subsequently they held a first debate (co-organized by Calla),
where they introduced their petition "NO URANIUM MINING IN THE
VYSOČINA REGION" which was addressed to the Prime Minister Sobotka
(1,700 signatories by mid-October), they signed the "Memorandum for a
Future Without Uranium" together with four local authorities,
organized the "March Against Uranium" in September and the photo
exhibition "Faces of Uranium" (in cooperation with Calla) ongoing
till the end of October. During the October excursion in the chemical
treatment plant in Dolní Rožínka they established a direct contact
with the leadership of the division GEAM of DIAMO, state enterprise,
which was authorized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO) to
produce study on the feasibility of opening uranium deposit in
Brzkov-Horní Věžnice.

Read the complete article:
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Czech_government_wants_to_mine_uranium_in_Brzkov_from_2022


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3.  EJOLT reports: Unveilling uranium and nuclear power myths
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Two new reports expose various various myths used to hide the real
impacts of uranium mining and to push for a nuclear renaissance in
Europe. An international team of scientists and activists working for
the global EJOLT project on environmental justice measured real-life
impacts.

The first report discusses uranium mining, unveilling the impacts of
the nuclear industry; the second report covers expanded nuclear power
capacity in Europe, the impact of uranium mining and alternatives.

Reports available here:
http://www.ejolt.org/2014/11/unveiling-uranium-nuclear-power-myths/


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4.  Statement on accident in Zaporizhye NPP, Ukraine
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The incident at Zaporizhye nuclear power plant, where power
transformers were dysfunctional on November 28th, is considered to be
routine by the Ukrainian nuclear industry. The same unit had been
stopped by the automatic safety system in June 2014, following a pump
dysfunction. Zaporizhye is one of 15 Ukrainian reactors, 12 of which
were supposed to be closed over this decade facing the end of the
design lifetime. The Ukrainian government, however, prefers to keep
the units in operation as there is no plan for decommissioning and
ideas for the capacity replacement as nuclear produces almost half of
countries electricity.

The current conflict with Russia has exposed problems of the nuclear
sector. Ukraine heavily relies on Russia in nuclear fuel (which is
very difficult to replace by other producer), spare parts and
technical documentation opening space for a conflict similar to the
'natural gas wars' the countries have for years now. The recent
accident has also demonstrated another problem that nuclear causes to
the energy sector - concentration of the generating capacities. The
incident, that stopped one 1,000 MW unit, has disturbed the balance in
the energy sector leading to rolling blackouts, as the country is
hungry of gas and coal to compensate lost generating capacities.

While many experts yearn for the need to restructure the energy sector
to cut consumption and start the development of renewable as the best
way for the energy independence, the European Union through the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Euroatom loans
financially support the programme to extend the lifetime of the
Soviet-built reactors. In this way Europe will get no more but higher
risk of major nuclear accident and further a dependence of the
Ukrainian energy sector on Russia.

National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU)


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5.  Gathering against uranium transports
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In early December a meeting of 50 anti-nuclear activists from France,
Russia, Netherlands and several regions in Germany met for an
international gathering on uranium transports. Focus was on an
exchange of experiences and networking across the borders to
strengthen the protests against the international shipments of the
upcoming months. A detailed final statement of the gathering is
available at http://www.sofa-ms.de


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6.  Accident at Tihange NPP in Belgium
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On November 30, 2014, a transformer burned at the Belgian Tihange 3
NPP at Meuse river, 65 km west of Aachen, Germany. The reactor had to
be shut down immediately. Towards media the operator trivialized the
incident claiming it to have been completely innocuous and for
industrial plants typical. To remember: the final closure of Krümmel
NPP in Germany also started with transformer problems, and 2009 the
German Lingen NPP had to be temporary  disconnected from the grid for
transformer issues, too. Unfortunately Tihange 3 came to operation
again already... We demand the immediate closure of the whole nuclear
complex in Tihange and of Doel NPP - no experiments with our safety!


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23. First Rosatom Nuclear Power Plant in India has serious problems
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Rosatom's unit Atomstroyexport has been building the Kudankulam plant
in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu under a contract signed in
1988. The first unit of the plant (KKNPP 1) started commercial
operation on June 30th 2014, says IAEA statistics. That is not true.
Commercial operation of KKNPP 1 was postponed nearly forty times. The
operator of the plant expects commercial operation in 2015. In
September 2014 the plant had to be shut down for more than seventy
days because of damaged turbine. The turbine is not the only problem.
Rosatom has used substandard and falsified components.

Detailed Kudankulam NPP backgrounds:
http://www.dianuke.org/the-koodankulam-white-elephant-a-non-functioning-reactor-after-one-year-of-grid-connection-vindicates-the-movement/
http://www.countercurrents.org/vtp221114.htm
http://vixra.org/pdf/1410.0208v1.pdf
http://www.countercurrents.org/kknp150614.pdf
http://vixra.org/pdf/1306.0062v1.pdf


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24. 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!


01/06/14-June '15: "Bure 365" - decentralized actions against nuclear
                    waste repository in Bure (F)
autumn/winter 2014:Jülich atomic research center's high level
                   radioactive waste exports to the USA & protests (D)
24/01/15 at 1 PM:  "Wrap Up Trident!" Mass Demo at TBC in London (UK)
01/02/15-04/02/15: Health Physics Society 48th Midyear Topical Meeting
                   in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA (USA)
21/03/15 at 11 AM: nuclear waste conference at Volkshochschule,
                   Wilhelmshöher Allee 19-21, in Kassel (D)
14/04/15-16/04/15: World Uranium Summit in Québec City (CDN)
25/04/15-01/05/15: European Action Weeks For A Future After Chernobyl
                   And Fukushima
12/05/15-15/05/15: "Innovation in the Third Millennium" nuclear
                   conference at Delta Winnipeg hotel, 350 St Mary Ave,
                   in Winnipeg, Manitoba (CDN)
22/05/15 at 2 PM:  cultural resistance party with citizens' initiative
                   & Kulturelle Landpartie organizers at atomic
                   facilities in Gorleben (D)
summer 2015:       Walk For A Nuclear Free Future from Nuclear Facility
                   Oakridge, TN to Hiroshima 2015 (USA & J)
12/07/15-16/07/15: Health Physics Society 60th Annual Meeting in
                   Indianapolis, Indiana (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)
10/10/15 at 11 AM: nuclear waste conference at Volkshochschule,
                   Wilhelmshöher Allee 19-21, in Kassel (D)
25/04/16-01/05/16: European Action Weeks For A Future After Chernobyl
                   And Fukushima


http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Bure_365
http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/de/programm/passau-2014
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Nuclear_Waste_Transport_to_Ahaus
http://berliner-energietisch.net/images/Flyer_HO_final.pdf
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Atomic_Threats_In_The_Baltic_Sea_Region/Working_meetings/Sixth_meeting
http://www.lagatom.de/?p=3809
http://atommuell-alarm.info/home/termine/
https://content.sierraclub.org/grassrootsnetwork/sites/content.sierraclub.org.activistnetwork/files/teams/documents/Nuclear%20Summit%20Nov%202014.pdf
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=189
http://vorort.bund.net/suedlicher-oberrhein/termine.php?year=2014&month=11
http://www.dienachtdiewissenschafft.de/themenfelder/alle-veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-details/title/80.html
http://www.energyconference.eu
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Atomic_Threats_In_The_Baltic_Sea_Region
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://hps.org/meetings/meeting41.html
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=273/
http://www.uranium2015.com
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/European_Action_Weeks_For_A_Future_After_Chernobyl_And_Fukushima_2015
http://crpa-acrp.org/conference/
http://www.bi-luechow-dannenberg.de/?page_id=9162
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Walk_For_A_Nuclear_Free_Future_2011-2015/Y-12_Nuclear_Facility_Oakridge-Hiroshima
http://hps.org/meetings/meeting37.html
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2015
http://www.nonuclear.se/en/kalender/kbshuvudforhandling2012
http://ag-schacht-konrad.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=273/
http://www.nuclear-heritage.net/index.php/European_Action_Weeks_For_A_Future_After_Chernobyl_And_Fukushima_2016 


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25. About NukeNews
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Network. It reflects 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. The newsletter aims to inform and
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