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German nuke waste sets off for France tonight
Diet Simon - 20.04.2004 12:00
Hamburg anti-nuclear activists say spent nuclear fuel rods will leave at least two power stations, UNTERWESER and GROHNDE, for processing in La Hague, France, today, Tuesday. It is also very likely that the decommissioned Stade plant will send away nuclear waste, reports Jürgen Fahrenkrug ( JFahrenkrug@gmx.de). More information in German at  http://www.x1000hamburg.de.
Germans' and neighbours' nukes.
“We haven’t obtained final verification because we will probably not be able to mount any action because we are making our final preparations for the bicycle demo on 24 April.
“If STADE does do a transport, there may be actions in the northern heath ( http://www.contratom.de).”
“Practice for Ahaus: Stop Castor to La Hague!” writes WigA at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/04/80554.shtml.
A consignment from Unterweser/Esensham is definite, WigA says. Following rail routes in northern Germany are named as likely: Unterweser (departure c. 7.3o p.m.) Oldenburg-Leer-Lingen-Rheine-Münster-Hamm-Recklinghausen-Oberhausen-Duisburg-Düsseldorf-Köln-Bonn-Koblenz-border.
Stade (departure see above): Hamburg-Maschen-Rotenburg/Wümme-Verden-Minden-Bielefeld-Hamm (then on as above).
Until summer 2003 these transports ran via Bremen-Osnabrück-Münster. But because there were always protest actions there, it was decided to take the “easier” deviation through eastern Westphalia.
Grohnde (departure see above): Altenbeken-Paderborn-Soest-Hamm (on as above).
All transports are coupled in Hamm.
In October 2003, however, an Unterweser consignment exceptionally ran via Rheine-Osnabrück directly to Grohnde and on from there via Kassel to the French border. So surprises can never be ruled out.
”As the Dresden-Ahaus motorway trucking approaches it has to be made clear that NO Castor transport will happen without resistance. There is still tim,e to think up spontaneous actions.”
A big resistance camp with actions and concerts will take place in Ahaus and Gronau from 29.4.-2.5..e-Mail:: wigatom@web.de ¦ Homepage:: http://www.wigatom.de ¦
There is unconfirmed information that the transport will reach the German-French border at 1.30 p.m. Wednesday.
In Münster, activists will hold a vigil against nuclear transports at the crossing of Alfred-Krupp-Weg/Roddestraße, directly by the tracks.
Greenpeace in Kaiserslautern reports that the rail route in their area is likely to be Kaiserslautern - Neunkirchen – Saarbrücken, but a change of route is still possible because of the strict secrecy kept by the authorities.
A bicycle action to encourage consumers to change over from nuclear to green electricity will be held near and in Hamburg on Saturday 24 April ( http://www.stromwechsel-jetzt.de).
It will run from the Krümmel nuke to the Altona district of Hamburg.
“It won’t be high-speed, so that everyone can join in,” say the organisers. Details at http://www.stromwechsel-jetzt.de/Aktion%202004/.
Greenpeace reiterates that German nuclear power stations have been shown by government-commissioned studies not to be safe from terrorist attack. They also argue that waste transportation helps keep the nuclear system going because it gives nuke operators “proof” of disposal.
Signatory lists for a resolution by the Kaiserslautern city council to stop transports can be requested at tel. 0170 / 67 38 634.
Meanwhile, the government of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia looks likely to start legal action in an administrative court to try to stop spent fuel rods being trucked 600 km from Dresden to Ahaus. State premier Peer Steinbrück said the chances of litigation in the constitutional court were practically zero. His cabinet will decided today whether to litigate.
Steinbrück accused the federal environment minister, Jürgen Trittin, of The Greens, of not having used his discretion in licensing the transportation of 18 Castor containers by truck. He said the Federal Radiation Protection Office (BfS) subordinate to Trittin could have insisted on rail transportation.
Railing is the minimum objective NRW will try to achieve by the action in the administrative court in Braunschweig.
Nuclear opponents protested last Sunday against the imminent transports in both Rossendorf, the site of a former experimental reactor, and Ahaus, site of an “interim” storage hall near the Dutch border.
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