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Anti-nuclear-protest in Muenster against Urenco
SOFA Muenster - 04.02.2007 22:19
Yesterday more than 400 people demonstrated in Muenster for the immediate shut-down of all nuclear installations worldwide. They focussed especially on the uranium enrichment plants of Urenco Ltd. in Gronau and Almelo and demanded their shutdown and the immediate stop of all uranium transports. Only last Wednesday night a uranium train with about 1000 t of depleted uranium went from Gronau through Muenster-Hengelo-Almelo-Deventer-Utrecht to Rotterdam.
These transport go three to four times per year and are bound for Russia. At the móment the ship from Rotterdam is sailing for St Petersburg where the uranium waste will be loaded onto trains and shipped to the Ural mountains and Siberia.
The second focus of the demonstration was Ahaus (15 km southeast of Enschede) where the owners revealed new plans to store more radioactive waste in light weight storage hall. The anti-nuclear-initiatives called for strong resistance against any new transports of radioactive waste to Ahaus (or to any other site).
The only safe solution for the nuclear problem is to shut down all nuclear installations immediately - worldwide.
The initiatives announced that they will step up their campaign to stop all uranium transports from and to Gronau, including those through the Netherlands. Each transport is one to much!!
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| Read more about: europa natuur, dier en mens | | supplements | | Hundreds demonstrate in Münster | Anonymous - 05.02.2007 08:10
More than 400 nuclear opponents have demonstrated in the west German city of Münster against a nearby nuclear waste dump at Ahaus and secret transports of depleted uranium from a nearby enrichment plant at Gronau.
The operators of the Ahaus prefab concrete hall where spent fuel is kept have applied for its broader use. The hall is owned by the nuclear power industry.
The safety conditions for the expansion were inadequate, said Matthias Eickhoff, spokesman for the Münsterland Action Alliance Against Nuclear Installations.
He said the public were inadequately informed about the plans.
The operating company has applied for a permit to store weakly and medium radioactive material in the hall as well as highly active waste from nuclear reactors.
Eickhoff said an expanded usage permit could also bring to Ahaus weakly irradiated parts of decommissioned power stations and medium-radioactive waste from fuel rods of German power stations after processing in La Hague, France.
But there were no safe storage places, he said. It was planned that weakly radioactive material would be stored without containers.
“Some atomic waste is to be stored unpackaged,” said Eickhoff.
The nuclear opponents turned with whistles and placards against inadequate information of people.
"We fear that this is going to be made a final dump,” said a woman from Ahaus. Nothing was being revealed about just what was to be stored, nor where the material could originate.
The protest was also directed against regular transports of uranium right through North-Rhine Westphalia, the most densely populated state.
Eickhoff said the transports to supply Germany’s only enrichment plant at Gronau were being kept totally secret and were dangerous.
"If one wants to credibly get out of atomic energy one has to first get out of uranium, enrichment.”
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