Picket at Urenco Almelo Plant.

Press release on the actions against the visit of NIS-participants to Urenco Almelo.

Almelo, Netherlands.  March 25th  2014.

Ten protesters, five OSCE-observers, fifteen press people and  five police officers. That was the crowd present at the protest against the delegation of the Nuclear Industry Summit  that visited Urenco in the context of the contribution the industrial sector was able to deliver to nuclear security. A big joke, according to the organisers belonging to “Enschede voor Vrede”, since especially Urenco contributed heavily to nuclear insecurity.
Not only was the fuel used in the nuclear plant of Fukushima delivered by Urenco, through the espionage activities of Abdul Qadeer Khan Urenco is also at the very base of the nuclear arms programs of Pakistan, Iran and North Korea.

Currently the Dutch government is considering to sell its share in Urenco, but facing the very limited number of nuclear entrepreneurs visiting Urenco today, the interest in Urenco is low. According to “Enschede voor Vrede” it is also better to close the whole company.

A delegation of “Enschede voor Vrede” also took part in the picketline that was organized Monday morning March 24 against the Nuclear Industry Summit that in turn was organizes in the former Amsterdam stock exchange building by Urenco and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs that should monitor the security of Urencos nuclear activities. This Amsterdam picketline was formed by about 60 antinuclear activists. After this picketline, some of the participants, including the delegation from Enschede, went to a demonstration against the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague where they were arrested already after a 200 meters march and held in custody for about six hours.

In Almelo the mass protest even got the honour of being the first demonstration to which a very recently developed security system has been applied. Whether this system functioned well or not is unknown to the organizers. They have informed the OSCE observers about this.

An open letter to the staff and management of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

Fukushima Day – March 11th 2014

An open letter to the staff and management of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

We are here to mark Fukushima day, and to register our concerns about the nukiller industry.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation’s mission statement of aims include:-
‘in securing nuclear safety and security in the UK and influencing global safety and security standards.’

– Yet there in no such thing as a safe atomic reactor.

The continuing disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima clearly illustrate just how dangerous these plants can be.

– It is no use working to make the reactors safe, while there is no safe way to deal with the long lasting radioactive which they produce.

– Rising see levels which will endanger & engulf the plants within the next 35 – 50 years.

That is many years before plants like Bradwell, Sizewell, Heysham, & Dungeness have been decommissioned. The resent storms around the coasts of Britain cleanly illustrate just what will happen in the very near future.

We urge you all to consider these long term issues and work to change their aims of the Office for Nuclear Regulation to become that of safely closing down all nukiller plants.