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June 21, (Pal Telegraph) - Doug Rokke earned his B.S. in Physics at
Western Illinois University followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics
and technology education at the University of Illinois. His military
career has spanned 4 decades to include combat duty during the Vietnam
War and Gulf War 1.
That would have taken the dangerous cargo through the densely populated Ruhr and Rhineland areas – if the police information is correct.
Anti-nuclear activists say they can only speculate what’s to be done with the uranium waste in France.
They expect it will be processed into uranium oxide in the Pierrelatte nuclear centre to make it easier to store. Construction of an interim storage for uranium oxide has been approved. Activists say it could be decades before the waste is returned to Germany.
Very close to Pierrelatte are four pressurised water reactors at Tricastin, where uranium was found in ground water last summer.
The train from Gronau was held up by two hours because a female French activist who lives in Germany, 27-year-old CĂ©cile Lecomte, had abseiled over the tracks from a road overpass. She and other climbers have made such a name for themselves in disrupting nuclear transports that police now always have climbing specialists along on the trains to take the protesters down.
In January last year Lecomte held up a train for nearly seven hours by abseiling over its rote. This most recent climbing action was her third in one and a half years on this non-electrified section of railway.
The protest a day after the Chernobyl anniversary got some public attention from a demonstration at MĂĽnster central station and near the abseiling overpass.
“The aim is to reveal the secret atomic transports from the Gronau uranium enrichment plant and to draw people’s attention to the policy of Urenco,” she writes. (
http://de.indymedia .org/2009/ 04/248604. shtml) “Urenco does not inform people about these transports and the dangers connected with them. On the contrary, people only get to hear about them when atomic power opponents manage to expose the departure of atomic transports by days of precise observation. It was first thought [the most recent] consignment was going to Russia.”
Lecomte writes that she means her action to be a signal against atomic policy in general and expansion of the Gronau enrichment plant in particular.
“Radioactivity knows no borders. What kind of an end to atomic power is it if Gronau is expanded, thereby supporting the construction of new nuclear plants - such as the EPR in Flamanville, France – by supplying the product to power stations all over the globe.
“The waste is carted right across Europe in secret transports. That is no solution to the nuclear waste problem. On the contrary, the population is exposed to ever more dangers, the environment is polluted ever more.
“Atomic installations need to be switched off immediately,” Lecomte writes.
Pictures of the abseiling at
http://www.anti- atom-aktuell. de/fotos/ 2009-04-27_ uranzugstopp- haeger/. More about Lecomte’s climbing protests at http://www.eichhoer nchen.ouvaton. org/deutsch/ anti-atom/ Luftakrobatik- Atomtransporte. html .
