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************************************************************ * NukeNews #16 - Anti-Nuclear Information Service * ************************************************************ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Preface ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Outline of the current NukeNews issue #16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Upcoming events 25. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ecodefense: new court hearings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Czech government wants to mine uranium in Brzkov from 2022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. EJOLT reports: Unveilling uranium and nuclear power myths ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Statement on accident in Zaporizhye NPP, Ukraine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Gathering against uranium transports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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! 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25. About NukeNews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NukeNews is a multilingual newsletter system of the Nuclear Heritage 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 update as well activists as the interested audience. Your contributions to the NukeNews are welcome! Send them via email to "news AT NukeNews DOT nuclear-heritage DOT net". The text should be very brief and in English. Please don't make it longer than one paragraph. We need a concise headline for your article, and you can add a link to a webpage providing more information. Deadline for the 17th issue of the NukeNews is 1st of March, 2015. Spread the word and learn more about the NukeNews: http://NukeNews.Nuclear-Heritage.NET