{"id":791,"date":"2017-10-12T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=791"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:27:36","slug":"countering-capenhurst-our-hex-and-export-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Countering Capenhurst – Our Hex and Export Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a special issue of Countering Capenhurst. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Finding out just what goes on at Capenhurst is very difficult to do, <\/b><\/span><\/span>and the same applies to all of the URENCO plants.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What follows is just a summary of what we have managed to find out about the plant of late, <\/b><\/span><\/span>and something about which countries URENCO has been trading with.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A question of Hex<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We continue to keep asking about just what is going on at Capenhurst, with questions such as:-<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How much depleted Uranium Hexafluoride is stored at Capenhurst?<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

&<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is the state of the Uranium Hex containers ?<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet there is an aspect of this which very few people have ever heard about. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a clue to it within the following\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/span>Review by HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Urenco (Capenhurst) Ltd\u2019s strategy for decommissioning its nuclear licensed site.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0‘UCL has an ongoing contract, up for renewal in 2007, with Technabexport of Russia, which takes ex UCL tails cylinders and re-enriches the material to low enrichment product and\/or pseudo natural. The product is sold on and the pseudo natural is re-fed or sold on. The operation of this contract is maintaining a steady state of net tails stocks on Capenhurst site.’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That’s something which URENCO has kept very quiet about.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Shipping information<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We recently came upon a German\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/span>BREMISCHE B\u00dcRGERSCHAFT <\/b><\/span><\/span>report which listed the movement of uranium through the port of Bremin.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This included uranium being sent from Urenco to Russia.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Two of the latest of these reports are <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Atomtransporte durch das Land Bremen seit dem 30. Juni 2014 <\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

&<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Atomtransporte durch das Land Bremen seit dem 30. Juni 2013<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The importance of these reports is that they give some clues as to just which companies and countries URENCO is traiding with.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s radioactive secret<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then we came upon the following report which was published in 2005,\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/span>and which has not been followed up on. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s radioactive secret.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

How EDF and European nuclear utilities are dumping <\/b><\/span><\/span>nuclear waste in the Russian Federation<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

‘ This report summarises the secretive attempts of the European nuclear industry to \u2018solve\u2019 one of their largest waste problems, by exporting and dumping tens of thousands of tonnes of uranium wastes in Siberia, in the Russian Federation.’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This last document is very worrying indeed.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Re-enrichment of West European Depleted Uranium Tails <\/i>in Russia<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The information contained in this document are very technical in nature.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So rather than give an analysis of what is in this document we will just give the following summary from this report.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

‘ Since 1996, depleted uranium tails from West European enrichers Urenco and Eurodif are being sent to Russia for re-enrichment. In Russia, the imported tails are, instead of natural uranium, fed into surplus enrichment cascades. The product obtained from re-enrichment is mostly natural-equivalent uranium plus some reactor-grade low-enriched uranium. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

These products are sent back to Urenco and Eurodif, while the secondary tails generated remain in Russia,where they are re-enriched further to obtain morenatural-equivalent uranium and\/or slightly enriched uranium. The latter is then used as blendstock for the downblending of surplus highly-enriched weapons-grade uranium into reactor-grade low-enriched <\/b><\/span><\/span>uranium. The ultimate tails left, still comprising at least two thirds of the amount imported, remain in Russia with unknown fate.’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

&<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

‘Details on the re-enrichment business, though it is currently taking place at large scale, are hardly obtainable. In Russia, all related information is confidential; and, the West-European enrichment companies involved, Urenco and Eurodif, are not very communicative, to put it politely. In its recent annual reports, Urenco not even discloses its annual production figure, nor the capacity break down for its facilities, not to speak about other data of interest, such as amount and assays of tails produced.’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We will continue to keep searching for more information on these contacts.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a special issue of Countering Capenhurst. Finding out just what goes on at Capenhurst is very difficult to do, and the same applies to all of the URENCO plants. What follows is just a summary of what we have managed to find out about the plant of late, and something about which countries … Continue reading Countering Capenhurst – Our Hex and Export Concerns<\/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":[6,10,29,39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-capenhurst-plant","category-about-urenco-as-a-company","category-countering-capenhurst","category-hex","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}