{"id":217,"date":"2014-03-27T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=217"},"modified":"2014-03-27T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T16:08:05","slug":"lot-of-people-at-picket-line-at-urenco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Picket at Urenco Almelo Plant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><strong>Press release on the actions against the visit of NIS-participants to Urenco Almelo.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Almelo, Netherlands.\u00a0 March 25th\u00a0 2014. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten protesters, five OSCE-observers, fifteen press people and\u00a0 five police officers. That was <\/strong><strong>the crowd present at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ostermarsch-gronau.de\/24-und-25-maerz-proteste-gegen-die-nuklear-gipfel-in-den-haag-amsterdam-und-almelo\/\" target=\"_blank\">protest <\/a>against the delegation of the Nuclear Industry Summit\u00a0 that visited Urenco in the <\/strong><strong>context of the contribution the industrial sector was able to deliver to nuclear security. A big joke, according to the <\/strong><strong>organisers belonging to \u201cEnschede voor Vrede\u201d, since especially Urenco contributed heavily to nuclear insecurity. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Not only was the fuel used in the nuclear plant of Fukushima delivered by Urenco, through the espionage activities<\/strong> <strong>of Abdul Qadeer Khan Urenco is also at the very base of the nuclear arms programs of Pakistan, Iran and North<\/strong> <strong>Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently the Dutch government is considering to sell its share in Urenco, but facing the very limited number of<\/strong> <strong>nuclear entrepreneurs visiting Urenco today, the interest in Urenco is low. According to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.enschedevoorvrede.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enschede voor Vrede<\/a>\u201d it is<\/strong> <strong>also better to close the whole company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A delegation of \u201cEnschede voor Vrede\u201d also took part in the picketline that was organized Monday morning March<\/strong> <strong>24 against the Nuclear Industry Summit that in turn was organizes in the former Amsterdam stock exchange<\/strong> <strong>building by Urenco and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs that should monitor the security of Urencos nuclear<\/strong> <strong>activities. This Amsterdam picketline was formed by about 60 antinuclear activists. After this picketline, some of the<\/strong> <strong>participants, including the delegation from Enschede, went to a demonstration against the Nuclear Security Summit<\/strong> <strong>in The Hague where they were arrested already after a 200 meters march and held in custody for about six hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Almelo the mass protest even got the honour of being the first demonstration to which a very recently developed<\/strong> <strong>security system has been applied. Whether this system functioned well or not is unknown to the organizers. They have<\/strong> <strong>informed the OSCE observers about this.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release on the actions against the visit of NIS-participants to Urenco Almelo. Almelo, Netherlands.\u00a0 March 25th\u00a0 2014. Ten protesters, five OSCE-observers, fifteen press people and\u00a0 five police officers. That was the crowd present at the protest against the delegation of the Nuclear Industry Summit\u00a0 that visited Urenco in the context of the contribution the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picket at Urenco Almelo Plant.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almelo-protests","tag-almelo-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}