Gorleben Castor Resistance in Germany 2011
 Art action: soft toys' rally at the 2010 Castor transport |
 Sit-in blockade in front of the main gate of the interim repository in Gorleben 2010 |
 Abseiling action of climbing activists from a 70 meters high bridge above the Castor tracks in 2010 |
 Street theatre: "Pirates of the Atomia" in the Castor ralley 2008 |
 Information event with international guests at the 2008 Castor transport |
 Police tank clearing barricades during the Castor days in the Wendland region |
 Clowns disturbing police at the Castor transport |
 Sit-in blockade on the tracks by Harlingen in 2008 |
A big number and high variety of actions is expected for November 23-28, 2011, due to the 13th transport of high level active atomic waste (the so-called Castor transport) from the reprocessing unit (plutonium factory) La Hague in France to the temporary repository in Gorleben, Germany. In 11 Castor containters the shipment contains the radioactivity of 44 Fukushima disasters, Greenpeace says[1]. Police announced 19,000 officers to "protect" the transport[2]. To the mass demonstration on November 26 in Dannenberg about 200 coaches[3] from all over Germany will bring protesters to the region[2].
The shipment started already November 14th on special trucks at the La Hague "usine d'extraction de plutonium" (the original title of the facility) to the loading station in Valognes to be put onto railways. There it is now supposed to leave on November 23th around 2 PM. In Forbach/Saarbrücken, Straßburg/Kehl or Lauterbourg/Wörth the transport will cross the French-German border. After several hundreds of kilometers on public railway tracks across France and Germany, behind the city of Lüneburg the train will take railway tracks that are only used for the nuclear transport during these days. Due to this fact, this section of some 40 kilometers of tracks was in the focus of a big number of direct actions against the Castor transport in the past. In Dannenberg, the final destination of the nuclear train, the containers will be put from the tracks onto trucks to be transported some additional 20 kilometers on the roads to the repository in Gorleben.
The French operator of the La Hague atomic facility Areva and the French railway company SNCF have decided to start the Castor transport one day earlier than supposed at the French loading station in Valognes. The reason is the big mobilization in France to blockade the transport at the very beginning on November 24th. The protest in France and in the Wendland is prepared and able to flexible react on the changed schedule.[4]
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important information: about | how to get there | accommodation | food | meeting point | what to bring | schedule | legal advice | information | contacts
- see also: Castor resistance 2010 and 2008 and a short history of the Castor transports to Gorleben on this website
Disputes about falsified radiation measurements are questioning the future usage of the Gorleben repository. First a Lower Saxony's authority detected radiation levels being so high that the legal annual limits would be exceeded if more Castor containers would be stored there. The operator tried to save the day commissioning other experts to make new calculations to show there would not be any problem. The results were as expected: everything fine. But: the expert is wellknown since decades for the pro-nuclear studies they produce. As of October 26, several environmental organizations published expertises showing that the calculations are wrong. And, even mor, they proofed that the published radiation data was falsified since several years. Gorleben actually had no licence for accepting Castor containers since some years already. As the politicians seem to want the radioactive shipment to happen, it will be interesting how many new lies and breaches of law they will produce until November 23, when the transport is supposed to start.[1] Read more on the radiation measurements scandal
The shipments incl
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.contratom.de/2011/10/26/grenzwertuberschreitung-im-zwischenlager-gorleben-greenpeace-entlarvt-rechenfehler/#more-4021 as at October 26, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.abendblatt.de/region/article2095916/19-000-Polizisten-schuetzen-Umweltschuetzer-simulieren.html as at November 18, 2011
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=295382203816935&id=263328013689021 as at November 21, 2011
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2011/11/19/castortransport-startet-bereits-am-mittwoch-um-1436-uhr-in-frankreich/ as at November 20, 2011
