Nuclear leaks in France and Germany
Early Tuesday morning a technical problem caused 30 cubic metres of uranium-contaminated water to leak from the Tricastin nuclear plant near the city of Avignon in southern France. An old potash mine in north Germany containing nuclear waste is flooding with brine at a rate of 12 cubic metres a day, casting further doubt on the safe keeping of nuclear leftovers for a million years.
Early Tuesday morning a technical problem caused 30 cubic metres of uranium-contaminated water to leak from the Tricastin nuclear plant near the city of Avignon in southern France.
Residents in the area were told not to drink water or eat fish from three rivers and three ponds on Wednesday despite tests showing the leak was not as serious as previously thought.
The nuke is located some 50 kilometres from Avignon, which is currently hosting a major summer theatre festival.
The full story at
http://www.france24.com/en/20080709-france-nuclear-spillage-tricastin-plant&navi=FRANCE
An old potash mine in north Germany containing nuclear waste is flooding with brine at a rate of 12 cubic metres a day, casting further doubt on the safe keeping of nuclear leftovers for a million years.
The German public television system has just aired a report on brine running into the Asse II pit near the northern city of Braunschweig and what this means to the quest to find a permanent nuclear waste storage. It is in German at
http://www.wdr.de/themen/global/webmedia/webtv/getwebtvextrakt.phtml?p=400&b=036&ex=5.
It is an excellent report that I highly recommend to other broadcasters to air and to print media to source from.
In circulation about this issue is a report by the IPS news agency which contains a factual mistake. The sentence "Two other sites, Gorleben and Morsleben, are also abandoned rock salt mines" is wrong.
The Gorleben pit was especially dug for storing nuclear waste, it is not an "abandoned" former salt-producing mine. I have pointed this out to IPS and asked them to correct it.
I greatly admire IPS and its approach to news, but have seen them get the German nuclear waste story wrong several times. I used to live near Gorleben.
My story on the brine leak: http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/nuclear-worries-increase-german-waste-dump-mine-floods
One thing we in Australia must be very awake about is that as options in Europe and elsewhere run out, the idea of dumping it in our Northern Territory becomes ever more attractive.
One group of Aborigines have already said they would accept an offer of 12 million Australian dollars to allow nuclear waste into their area.
Residents in the area were told not to drink water or eat fish from three rivers and three ponds on Wednesday despite tests showing the leak was not as serious as previously thought.
The nuke is located some 50 kilometres from Avignon, which is currently hosting a major summer theatre festival.
The full story at
http://www.france24.com/en/20080709-france-nuclear-spillage-tricastin-plant&navi=FRANCE An old potash mine in north Germany containing nuclear waste is flooding with brine at a rate of 12 cubic metres a day, casting further doubt on the safe keeping of nuclear leftovers for a million years.
The German public television system has just aired a report on brine running into the Asse II pit near the northern city of Braunschweig and what this means to the quest to find a permanent nuclear waste storage. It is in German at
http://www.wdr.de/themen/global/webmedia/webtv/getwebtvextrakt.phtml?p=400&b=036&ex=5. It is an excellent report that I highly recommend to other broadcasters to air and to print media to source from.
In circulation about this issue is a report by the IPS news agency which contains a factual mistake. The sentence "Two other sites, Gorleben and Morsleben, are also abandoned rock salt mines" is wrong.
The Gorleben pit was especially dug for storing nuclear waste, it is not an "abandoned" former salt-producing mine. I have pointed this out to IPS and asked them to correct it.
I greatly admire IPS and its approach to news, but have seen them get the German nuclear waste story wrong several times. I used to live near Gorleben.
My story on the brine leak:
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/nuclear-worries-increase-german-waste-dump-mine-floods One thing we in Australia must be very awake about is that as options in Europe and elsewhere run out, the idea of dumping it in our Northern Territory becomes ever more attractive.
One group of Aborigines have already said they would accept an offer of 12 million Australian dollars to allow nuclear waste into their area.
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The information politics of the German and French gov't are about as respectable as was the Soviet whitewash in the wake of Chernobyl.
That would not be a problem if the Left would scandalize these incidents. But the Left is in deep-sleep mode it seems: the release of ?360 kilograms of uranium into the Rhone basin is being reported TWO DAYS past facto on de.indymedia in an English-language summary. The last two days had something of a bad dream - if you had told people what happened in Asse II and Tricastin, they simply would not believe you. I already started to doubt myself that it had really happened.
As regards the liquid released in Tricastin - half a liter would have a better-than-even chance of killing an adult human outright. Not from the radioactivity, but from the sheer amount of uranium contained (it's a heavy metal and toxic, even if it were not radioactive). If you'd survive the uranium poisoning, you'd die of radiatioin sickness later, so the point is rather moot - it only serves to show that something really REALLY went wrong there.
The apathy of the media and the lack of interest by the public is stunning beyond belief. I have never seen anything like this.
Schicht im Schacht
Am Sonntag den 13. Juli um 16 Uhr
nach dem Statusseminar Atommüll-/-Endlager, das am 12./13.Juli 2008 stattfindet trifft man sich in Gorleben.
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statt.
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